Height Quotations | Page 6

And of that dozen, 115 Savannah Road is by far the most imposing, with its size, mansard roof, three stories of height and a unique tower.

The goal was to have no regrets. I regret not focusing, giving her the height she needs. But I don't think we should be upset about anything. I didn't think we'd make it this far.

The Coast Guard is the one who sets the height of the bridge. The Coast Guard's decision is very important to us.

God blessed me with a lot of heart and no height, and I’ll take that any day,

If youre serious about what youre doing, youve got to keep your head and follow your instinct. Maybe you wont reach the same dizzy heights as others, but you will get something back.

Too often we forget that the great men of faith reached the heights they did only by going through the depths.

I was by birth a gentleman, living neither in any considerable height nor yet in obscurity.

And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.

Now I am steel-set: I follow the call to the clear radiance and glow of the heights.

It's very kind of 'Wuthering Heights' where my parents' house is, moors and deserted. It's very wild and mystic.

The legislation was unlikely ever to have become law, because the Republican leadership in the House would have been reluctant to let it go to a vote. But as a symbol the proposed legislation was very unhelpful. The threat of high and sweeping tariffs against our third largest trading partner was the height of irresponsibility.

I'm afraid of heights. Not unreasonably, but rationally afraid of heights. I think everyone is.

The cable industry has risen to new heights in their apparent willingness and ability to gouge the American consumer. Cable rates [have] increased an unbelievable five-and-a-half times faster than inflation.

Praise to the Holiest in the height, And in the depth be praise; In all His words most wonderful, Most sure in all His ways.

...the only difference between a young person at the height of their exuberance and a very old person who is frail and physically wasted is time.

Overcoming fear doesn't have to be skydiving, if you're afraid of heights. Overcoming fear is an everyday thing. We do it all day long.

A true Vor, Miles told himself severely, does not bury his face in his liegewoman's breasts and cry--even if he is at a convenient height for it.

Once I had asked God for one or two extra inches in height, but instead he made me as tall as the sky, so high that I could not measure myself.

Sometimes the only way is jumping; hope you’re not afraid of heights.

No, I'm at full height, I'm in the studio, I can actually catch actors by the eye, it's fantastic.

I grew up in Jackson Heights, Queens, with no money. I was taught not to take anything for granted. If you are too busy being a diva or a freak, then you are not enjoying it.

Those who can soar to the highest heights can also plunge to the deepest depths and the natures which enjoy most keenly are those which also suffer most sharply.

there is no ascent to the heights without prior descent into darkness, no new life without some form of death.

I'm not afraid of heights, but the idea of falling from them, well, that I'm afraid of.

Those who would judge us merely by the heights we have achieved would do well to remember the depths from which we started.

No one can usurp the heights... But those to whom the miseries of the world Are misery, and will not let them rest.

In Jesus, God wills to be true God not only in the height but also in the depth - in the depth of human creatureliness, sinfulness and mortality.

We are known in a depth of darkness through which we ourselves do not even dare to look. And at the same time, we are seen in a height of a fullness which surpasses our highest vision.

When love is not at its height, it always creates a mess.

Invariably something happens at a U.S. Open where the golf course gets out of control one day, they have one pin that's out of control. It always seems to happen. But they've gotten better about the height of the rough.

Keep on pushing the boundaries and reaching for higher heights.

He is truly great that is little in himself, and that maketh no account of any height of honors.

He is truly great that is great in charity. He is truly great that is little in himself, and maketh no account of any height of honor. And he is truly learned that doeth the will of God, and forsaketh his own will.

Our Saviour would love at no less rate than death; and from the supereminent height of glory, stooped and debased Himself to the sufferance of the extremest of indignities, and sunk himself to the bottom of abjectness, to exalt our condition to the contrary extreme.

What I lack in height, I make up for in wicked good hearing.

Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights.

A single God - touch From God's Compassion - Height Can transform man's unimaginable And countless weaknesses Into God's own infinite,Immortal and omnipotent Power.

I think Oprah who is the height of aspiration and inspiration recognizes something in me that is germane.

The body sprang At once to the height, and stayed; but the soul,-no!

Other heights in other lives, God willing.

Sometimes it felt like her life was a series of falls from ever-greater heights.

Your ecstasy is a movement towards the height and your meditation is a movement towards the depth. And once you have both, your life becomes a celebration.

To annihilate the world by annihilation of oneself is the deluded height of desperate egoism.

To me, lawyering is the height of service - and being involved in this profession is a gift.

Impossible desires are the height of unreason.

You're afraid of heights,'I say. 'How do you survive in the Dauntless compound?' 'I ignore my fear,' he (Four) says. 'When I make decisions, I pretend it doesn't exist.

There we will, I pray, remain and learn and grow until the time when we will rise together to the ultimate heights, changing in appearance but never in devotion, sharing the transcendent glory of our love through all eternity.

It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures.

When I was 22, I thought I couldn't wear heels because of my height.

A soft and sheltered Christianity, afraid to be lean and lone, unwilling to face the storms and brave the heights, will end up fat and foul in the cages of conformity.

Without great mountains we cannot reach great heights.

I am, and forever will be, devastated by the gift of Audrey Hepburn before my camera. I cannot lift her to greater heights. She is already there. I can only record. I cannot interpret her. There is no going further than who she is. She has achieved in herself her ultimate portrait.

My mum, a strange creature from the time when pickles on toothpicks were still the height of sophistication.

"Then we are living in a place abandoned by God," I said, disheartened. "Have you found any places where God would have felt at home?" William asked me, looking down from his great height.

Every good thought, every good word, every good emotion, and every act of kindness, is lifting the vibration of your being to new heights. And as you begin to raise your vibration, a new life and a new world will reveal itself to you.

On the heights, all paths are paved with daggers. -Old Seanchan saying

The little boy nodded at the peony and the peony seemed to nod back. The little boy was neat, clean and pretty. The peony was unchaste, dishevelled as peonies must be, and at the height of its beauty.(...) Every hour is filled with such moments, big with significance for someone.

It is almost a general rule that nations do not decline gradually. Instead they fall abruptly from their greatest heights.

It's very atmospheric. It's not a building that is a severe statement in the skyline. We need the height; otherwise, the building almost disappears because it is so slender.

Heights of the spirit can only be climbed by passing through the portals of humility.

Don't point your finger to the heights your children should go. Start climbing and they will follow.

He who cultivates that quiet, unobtrusive ecstasy of inner joyousness can scale any heights and be a leader in his field, no matter what that field is.

We will not leave the Golan Heights, not even in exchange for a peace treaty. We will be ready for a limited compromise and it does not have to be in territorial terms.

My height is an advantage, if I want to use it.

When you livin' this high you can't be afraid of heights.

When women are at the height of their beauty power and exercise it, we call it marriage. When men are at the height of their success power and exercise it, we call it a mid-life crisis.

I'm terrible at heights. I hate it. I'm glad I'm only 5'7".

From the height from which the great look down on the world all the rest of mankind seem equal.

Dawn came and matters were worse for it. Because now, emerging from the darkness, I could see, what before I had only felt, the great curtains of rain crashing down on me from towering heights and the waves that threw a path over me and trod me underfoot one after another.

The height of your success is determined by the depth of your belief.

Healing proceeds from the depths to the heights.

The height of foolishness is to discard an opportunity without full investigation

...The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity ... the ability to express the utmost with the minimum. It is the halfway cultivation that leads to ornamentation...

Capitalism has been called a system of greed—yet it is the system that raised the standard of living of its poorest citizens to heights no collectivist system has ever begun to equal, and no tribal gang can conceive of.

Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance

The height of stupidity is most clearly demonstrated by the individual who ridicules something he knows nothing about.

What in me is dark, Illumine, what is low raise and support, That to the height of this great argument I may assert eternal Providence, And justify the ways of God to men

I really hate heights. I always like to live on the first floor.

Many seek happiness higher than men; others beneath him. But happiness is the same height as man.

There is no reason at all for any of our citizens to seek redress through violence, ... It will be the height of folly for anyone to seek to provoke the patience of a people who have elected, against their own deep emotions, to forgive and reconcile.

After being on 'Oprah' for a couple of months, I got my first royalty check for $1,478,392.17. I will never forget it. At the height of my career, I made $3.3 million. Unbelievable. From welfare in the projects to $3.3 million.

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be led by the nose

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways./ I love thee to the depth and breadth and height / My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight / For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.

If I have seen a little further, it is because of the height limit and absence of overhead wires.

As soon as we climb higher than those who had at one time admired us, we appear to them as though we have sunken and fallen down:for, in any event, they had at one time supposed that they were with us (even if it were through us) on the heights.

Whoever is related to me in the height of his aspirations will experience veritable ecstasies of learning; for I come from heights that no bird ever reached in its flight, I know abysses into which no foot ever strayed.

Beautiful things only grow to a certain height, and then they fail and fade off.

You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.

Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.

Those who look for filth, can find it at the height of noon.

On the heights it is warmer than those in the valley imagine.

Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful--but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away.

After being on 'Oprah' for a couple of months, I got my first royalty check for $1,478,392.17. I will never forget it. At the height of my career, I made $3.3 million. Unbelievable. From welfare in the projects to $3.3 million.

It is in meeting the great tests that mankind can most successfully rise to great heights. Out of danger and restless insecurity comes the force that pushes mankind to newer and loftier conquests.

Happiness makes up in height what it lacks in length

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom when he can no longer be led by the nose.

What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of tough-mindedness but has at the same time sunk to the passionless depths of hard-heartedness?

A man does not measure its height in moments of comfort, but in terms of change and controversy