Quotes with high-rise

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  • William Golding Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind.
    William Golding
    British writer (1911 - 1993)
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  • Bud Grant Some of the most innovative things in football I see at high school games. It's not the play - it's when you run it. The right time.
    Bud Grant
    American football coach and player (1927 - )
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  • Lois McMaster Bujold Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart.
    Lois McMaster Bujold
    American speculative fiction writer
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  • Carol Berg Some reviewers call my stories dark - and yes, there is violence and angst, and the stakes are high - but I like to think that the endings are satisfying and hopeful.
    Carol Berg
    American writer of fantasy novels (1948 - )
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  • William Shakespeare Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Bob Beauprez Something very significant appears to be happening in America. There is a dramatic shift in voter affinity toward the GOP, and it may prove to be the mountain-too-high for Barack Obama's campaign.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Carey Mulligan Sometimes it's so weird just to do an interview. This morning I was back in my parents' house, with my brother, and we went for a jog together, then had breakfast as a family. And a couple of hours later I'm wearing high heels and a dress and makeup, and talking about my job.
    Carey Mulligan
    English actress (1985 - )
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  • Machiavelli States that rise quickly, just as all the other things of nature that are born and grow rapidly, cannot have roots and ramifications; the first bad weather kills them.
    Machiavelli
    Florentine state philosopher (1469 - 1527)
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  • George S. Patton Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
    George S. Patton
    American Army General during World War II (1885 - 1945)
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  • David Hare Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.
    David Hare
    British Playwright, Director (1947 - )
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  • Bob Thaves Sure he [Fred Astaire] was great, but don't forget that Ginger Rogers did everything he did,... backwards and in high heels.
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  • Camilla Lackberg Swedish taxes are high, and we don't get as much as we used to for them. And our schools aren't so good.
    Camilla Lackberg
    Swedish author (1974 - )
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  • Mother Teresa Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative of the dignity of my high vocation, and its many responsibilities. Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience.
    Mother Teresa
    Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary (1910 - 1997)
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  • Barry Lam Taiwan must find its own way. We have been emphasizing too much the manufacturing business. We have to become more high-tech, more innovative, and provide more value. We can't always insist on the value of low-cost production. We have to invest more in R&D to get high-value business.
    Barry Lam
    Taiwanese billionaire businessman (1949 - )
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  • Uta Hagen Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity; easy vulnerability; high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting - intensely); a vivid imagination as well as a grip on reality; the desire to communicate one's own experience and sensations, to make one's self heard and seen.
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  • John Burroughs Temperament lies behind mood; behind will, lies the fate of character. Then behind both, the influence of family the tyranny of culture; and finally the power of climate and environment; and we are free, only to the extent we rise above these.
    John Burroughs
    American writer (1837 - 1921)
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  • Aldous Huxley Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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  • Amelia Barr That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.
    Amelia Barr
    British novelist and teacher (1831 - 1919)
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  • Beth Broderick The average actor might only be able to book six to eight guest star jobs a year - that would be high. So when you start doing the math, you can't live on that in Los Angeles.
    Beth Broderick
    American actress (1959 - )
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  • Aristotle The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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