Quotes with high-rises

Quotes 241 till 260 of 429.

  • Barbara Kingsolver My morning begins with trying not to get up before the sun rises. But when I do, it's because my head is too full of words, and I just need to get to my desk and start dumping them into a file. I always wake with sentences pouring into my head.
    Barbara Kingsolver
    American novelist, essayist and poet (1955 - )
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  • Brad Sherman My positions on gun safety have remained consistent over the years, and have been on my website for years. Whether I'm in a tough re-election race, an easy re-election race, or if it isn't an election year, whether there's a high-profile tragedy in the news or otherwise, my position remains unchanged and on my website.
    Brad Sherman
    American politician (1954 - )
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  • Barbara Park My senior year of high school, I was voted 'Wittiest.' So, several years later, I decided to try my hand at writing humor to see if I could be witty enough to make some money.
    Barbara Park
    American author of children's books (1947 - 2013)
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  • P. J. O'Rourke Newsmen believe that news is a tacitly acknowledged fourth branch of the federal system. This is why most news about government sounds as if it were federally mandated - serious, bulky and blandly worthwhile, like a high-fiber diet set in type.
    P. J. O'Rourke
    American journalist (1947 - )
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  • Charlotte Saunders Cushman No artist work is so high, so noble, so grand, so enduring, so important for all time, as the making of character is a child.
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  • William Blake No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • William Blake No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.
    William Blake
    English poet (1757 - 1827)
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  • Ben Bernanke No economy can succeed without a high-quality workforce, particularly in an age of globalization and technical change.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Oliver Cromwell No man rises so high as he knows not whither he goes.
    Oliver Cromwell
    Parliamentarian General, Lord Protector of England (1599 - 1658)
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  • Woodrow Wilson No man that does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Avi Arad No one bothered reading the books and understanding - and again, I'm not being high-falutin' about it - but I think our books are great literature with great metaphors of real life dealing with fears and hopes.
    Avi Arad
    Israeli-American businessman (1948 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson No one has a prosperity so high and firm that two or three words can't dishearten it.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Publilius Syrus No one reaches a high position without daring.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Bryan Robson Nobody is that thick-skinned that it doesn't hurt you. Still, you always know what happens in football. I have got used to criticism, I suppose, having been high profile with England and Man U.
    Bryan Robson
    English football manager and player (1957 - )
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon None are more unjust in their judgments of others than those who have a high opinion of themselves.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • John Milton Nor aught availed him now to have built in heaven high towers; nor did he scrape by all his engines, but was headlong sent with his industrious crew to build in hell.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Bruce Forsyth Not working is bad for you. It is my drug, it gives me a high; most performers will tell you that. And there is nothing like the high that an audience gives you.
    Bruce Forsyth
    British presenter, actor, comedian, singer, dancer and screenwriter (1928 - 2017)
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