Quotes About Stature

As the bishop was rather short of stature, he could not reach it. Madame Magloire, said he, fetch me a chair. My greatness [grandeur] does not reach as far as that shelf.

The chance emergence of the was nothing. Remember this. But its persistence and patient accumulation of stature were everything. Only by relentless effort did it establish its right to exist.

I can tell when men are threatened by my height.

A Crow is known wherever he is met by his beautiful white dress, and his tall and elegant figure; the greater part of the men being six feet high.

The taboos that constitute a man's intellectual stature, often sedimented experiences and unarticulated insights, always operate against inner impulses that he has learned to condemn, but which are so strong that only an unquestioning and unquestioned authority can hold them in check.

For he was big, and I don't care what you say, for every inch a man grows over five foot five, his brain diminishes proportionately. All my life I have had a prejudice against overgrown louts.

Confucius says: 'Many seek happiness higher than man; others beneath him. But happiness is the same height as man.' That is true. So there must be a happiness to suit every man's stature.

Tall people are naturally confident. History has proven this - Alexander the Great, Wilt Chamberlain, Gisele.

eccentric" being a word, Lila Mae notes dryly, that white people use to describe crazy white people of stature)

Of course women cared about stature, too, but they learned early to surrender any idea that life was a series of fair exchanges.

No alcanzabas el uno sesenta de estatura y con tu voz estentórea, tu seguridad, tu paso marcial opacabas a gente que te sacaba veinte centímetros. Yo era de esos que te rebasaban por una cabeza y aun así te recuerdo mucho más alto que yo. Si le preguntaras a quien te conoció cuál era tu estatura, con seguridad te situarían arriba del uno ochenta. Es extraño cómo una personalidad como la tuya puede cambiar el sentido de las proporciones.

Mrs. Ewing was a short woman who accepted the obligation borne by so many short women to make up in vivacity what they lack in number of inches from the ground.

Like other women who sought equality, the amount of trouble I cause is inversely proportional to my physical size.

I'm big and a lot of the stars are smaller so if you're big and mean looking, you play bad guys. After Blade Runner, I was the meanest guy in Hollywood.

It always impresses me when a person of small stature has command.

You'll never see the president carry his own luggage, and why? Because even though we know he has luggage, it would reduce his stature if he was too much like us. We need to think of our leaders as being above us, even though they must still relate to us.

Obviously, not the biggest guy in stature. Straight-line speed wasn't my forte either. But I play very fast because I know the game. I take proper angles and know all my assignments.

Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms.

I didn't have a mother; I had a mama. I measure other women by the stature of my mama.

Much of the conventional analysis of India's stature in the world relies on the all-too-familiar economic assumptions. But we are famously a land of paradoxes, and one of those paradoxes is that so many speak about India as a great power of the 21st century when we are not yet able to feed, educate and employ all our people.

If Lincoln is among history's truly great men, he didn't achieve that stature until his final three years. This was when his long-held antipathy to slavery cohered into a dedicated hostility that gave larger purpose to the Civil War and also confirmed the logic of Lincoln's destiny.

The women of my generation and my daughter's generation, they were very active in moving along the social change that would result in equal citizenship stature for men and women.

To be awarded with an honour of the stature of a Padma Bhushan, which is deemed as one of the three highest civilian awards in our country, is just gratifying.

People looking down, looking down, don't think a guy like my stature can be an All-Star. And every night I try to step out there and prove them otherwise.