Quotes About Elevation

I think that when you die, you continue to progress. You continue to grow in kind of an elevated state, but I don't think you sit there and wallow around and play the harp.

In calling someone a bad guy, I reassure myself that I'm good. I elevate myself. I call it the 'Star Wars morality'. And unfortunately, it underpins most of the stories we tell.

In the updraft, the particulate glitz is beside itself.

P58) It is curious how, with his stark Darwinian outlook, his elevation of war to the central place in human history, and his racism, as well as his fixation on "great leaders," Churchill's worldview resembled that of his antagonist, Hitler.

Nature is sanative, refining, elevating. How cunningly she hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses, and violets, and morning dew! Every inch of the mountains is scarred by unimaginable convulsions, yet the new day is purple with the bloom of youth and love.

The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down aspires and not despairs.

In March 1973 the government appointed a new chief justice of the Supreme Court. In the past, once a chief justice retired, the most senior member of the bench took his place. This time, Justice A. N. Ray was elevated while three colleagues were ahead of him. The choice was politically motivated, a manifestation of the government's increasing desire to control the judiciary.

Just like music, sports elevates us to new levels of achievment.

I get excited when the ball goes up in the air. I try to always get up there... I get a buzz out of it.

We go up just into space - space is most commonly accepted to be 100 kilometres above the earth's surface, and we go up just beyond that to about 350,000 ft.

Anyone wanting to reach the summit must lift his spirits to its heights

The gull sees farthest who flies highest

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Cuanto más nos iluminamos, menos se puede esperar que nadie, en ninguna parte, viva a nuestra altura

Vivimos a ras de suelo, en lo llano, y sin embargo aspiramos a elevarnos [...] Algunos se elevan por medio del arte, otros con la religión; la mayoría, con el amor. Pero al elevarnos también podemos caer en picado [...] Cada historia de amor es en potencia una historia de aflicción. Si no al principio, más tarde. Si no para uno, para el otro. A veces para ambos

But aeronautics purged the sin of height, otherwise known as the sin of getting above yourself.

The higher the hair, the closer to God.

All the arts, which have a tendency to raise man in the scale of being, have a certain common band of union, and are connected, if I may be allowed to say so, by blood-relationship with one another.

Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt.

Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine.

What a vile and abject thing is man if he do not raise himself above humanity.

When a man gets power, even his chickens and dogs rise to heaven.

In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity, of the heights to which he is raised, of the surpassing worth of his own humanity, and of the meaning of his existence.

Only passions can raise a man above the level of the animal.