Quotes About High

Poetry is enthusiasm with wings of fire; it is the angel of high thoughts, that inspires us with the power of sacrifice.

Men in high levels of government seldom surf.

If you aim for only wealth, beauty, fame, & power, you aim too low. Humility, gentleness, gratitude, & service is aiming high.

People love high ideals, but they got to be about 33-percent plausible.

Success is very much like a drug: it makes you feel good; you don't know what you are missing until you experience it; once you experience it, you want more; and in your attempts to recapture that first high, you will have to resort to ever bigger "doses." And if success is like a drug, some drugs are like success: a cocaine high, I am told, very much resembles the rush of success.

By this point, I hope you're moving your lips to this familiar mantra: because risk is high, prices are low. And because prices are low, future returns are high. So

Establishing and maintaining an unconventional investment profile requires acceptance of uncomfortably idiosyncratic portfolios, which frequently appear downright imprudent in the eyes of conventional wisdom. Unless institutions maintain contrarian positions through difficult times, the resulting damage of buying high and selling low imposes severe financial and reputational costs on the institution.

We might say, then, that money introduced a democratization of desire. Insofar as everyone wanted money, everyone, high and low, was pursuing the same promiscuous substance. But even more: increasingly, they did not just want money. They needed it. This was a profound change.

The only feasible reason I can discover is a depraved appetite, giving an extraordinary craving for meat which we call "high." They are said to bury a dead body for a couple of days in the soil in a forest, and in that time, owing to the climate, it soon becomes putrid enough for the strongest stomachs.

The glory of God shines, indeed, in all creatures on high and below, but never more brightly than in the cross.

God is gone up on high with a triumphant noise.

Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth.

That we should feed and nourish our souls with high notions of GOD; which would yield us great joy in being devoted to Him.

All of us can meet God's high expectations.

So is Hope Changed for Despair-one laid upon the shelf, We take the other. Under heaven's high cope Fortune is god-all you endure and do Depends on circumstance as much as you.

From that high mount of God whence light and shade Spring both, the face of brightest heaven had changed To grateful twilight.

But it's true, kingdoms and crowns, a God who came down to find you. It's true, angels on high sing through the night, Alleluia.

Better have failed in the high aim, as I, Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed As, God be thanked! I do not.

When God wounds from on high he will follow with the remedy.

If God wanted us to get high, he'd have created plants that became psychoactive when eaten or smoked.

Good enough never is. Set your standards so high that even the flaws are considered excellent.

It was a high speech of Seneca that "The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired."

There's not much high and low culture any more: there's just mingling streams of art and what matters is whether it's good art or bad art.

We know that advanced economies with stable governments that borrow in their own currency are capable of running up very high levels of debt without crisis.