Quotes with high-spirited

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  • Charles Horton Cooley A cat cares for you only as a source of food, security and a place in the sun. Her high selfsufficiency is her charme.
    Life and the student (1927)
    Charles Horton Cooley
    American sociologist (1864 - 1929)
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  • Marcel Proust A cathedral, a wave of storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Arnold Bennett A cause may be inconvenient, but it's magnificent. It's like champagne or high heels, and one must be prepared to suffer for it.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Anzia Yezierska A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.
    Anzia Yezierska
    Jewish-American novelist (1880 - 1970)
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  • Barbra Streisand A man who graduated high in his class at Yale Law School and made partnership in a top law firm would be celebrated. A man who invested wisely would be admired, but a woman who accomplishes this is treated with suspicion.
    Barbra Streisand
    American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker (1942 - )
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  • Arthur Baer A newspaper is a circulating library with high blood pressure.
    Arthur Baer
    American journalist and humorist (1886 - 1969)
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  • Boris Yeltsin A politician must have some scruples, a certain decency; he cannot smear himself in the mud for the sake of a high ideal.
    Boris Yeltsin
    Russian politician (1931 - 2007)
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  • James Fenimore Cooper A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it.
    James Fenimore Cooper
    American writer (1789 - 1851)
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  • Andrew Coyle Bradley A Shakespearean tragedy as so far considered may be called a story of exceptional calamity leading to the death of a man in high estate. But it is clearly much more than this, and we have now to regard it from another side.
    Andrew Coyle Bradley
    American lawyer (1844 - 1902)
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  • Eileen Caddy A soul without a high aim is like a ship without a rudder.
    Eileen Caddy
    Scottisch spiritual teacher (1917 - 2006)
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  • Thomas Jefferson A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Lao-Tzu A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel Acceptance is appreciation, and the high value of appreciation is such that to appreciate appreciation seems to be the fundamental prerequisite for survival. Mankind will not die for lack of information; it may perish for lack of appreciation.
    Who Is Man? (1965)
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Adolf Galland According to Goering and the Luftwaffe High Command, they were supposed to be the fighter elite.
    Adolf Galland
    German Luftwaffe general (1912 - 1996)
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  • Katharine Hepburn Acting is the most minor of gifts and not a very high-class way to earn a living. After all, Shirley Temple could do it at the age of four.
    Katharine Hepburn
    American Actress, Writer (1907 - 2003)
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  • Calvin Coolidge Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Casey Affleck After high school, I drove out to L.A. with a friend of mine who had just graduated also, and I started auditioning. I got an agent, but it was all 'Saved By the Bell' auditions.
    Casey Affleck
    American actor and director (1975 - )
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  • Tom Stoppard Age is a high price to pay for maturity.
    Tom Stoppard
    Czech Playwright (1937 - )
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  • Charles J. Fillmore All causes are essentially mental, and whosoever comes into daily contact with a high order of thinking must take on some of it.
    Charles J. Fillmore
    American linguist and Professor of Linguistics (1929 - 2014)
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  • John Wooden All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.
    John Wooden
    American basketball player and head coach (1910 - 2010)
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