Quotes with higher-ups

Quotes 81 till 100 of 200.

  • B. B. King Jazz is the big brother of the blues. If a guy's playing blues like we play, he's in high school. When he starts playing jazz it's like going on to college, to a school of higher learning.
    B. B. King
    American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer (1925 - 2015)
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  • A. Philip Randolph Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.
    A. Philip Randolph
    American labor unionist and civil rights activist (1889 - 1979)
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  • Augustus William Hare Knowledge partakes of infinity; it widens with our capacities: the higher we mount in it, the vaster and more magnificent are the prospects it stretches out before us.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Abraham Lincoln Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other rights.
    Works of Abraham Lincoln (2010 edition)
    Abraham Lincoln
    American statesman (1809 - 1865)
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  • Elbert Hubbard Laughter is higher than all pain.
    Elbert Hubbard
    American writer and publisher (1856 - 1915)
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  • Lord Acton Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
    Lord Acton
    British historian (1834 - 1902)
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  • Samuel Johnson Life affords no higher pleasure than that of surmounting difficulties, passing from one step of success to another, forming new wishes and seeing them gratified.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Albert J. Nock Life has obliged him to remember so much useful knowledge that he has lost not only his history, but his whole original cargo of useless knowledge; history, languages, literatures, the higher mathematics, or what you will - are all gone.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Judith Viorst Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.
    Judith Viorst
    American writer and journalist (1931 - )
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  • Herbert Kaufman Makers of empire, they have fought for bigger things than crowns and higher seats than thrones.
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  • Ralph Ransom Man was created as a being who should constantly keep improving, a being who on reaching one goal sets a higher one.
    Ralph Ransom
    American art painter
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Alfred Lord Tennyson Men may rise on stepping-stones of their dead selves to higher things.
    Alfred Lord Tennyson
    English poet (1809 - 1892)
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  • Luigi Pirandello Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.
    Luigi Pirandello
    Italian poet, playwright and Nobel laureate in literature (1934) (1867 - 1936)
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  • Peter Nivio Zarlenga No authority is higher than reality.
    Peter Nivio Zarlenga
    American businessman, founder of Blockbuster Videos
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  • Barbara Corcoran No loan is free. The costs are in your loan somewhere, maybe rolled into the amount to be refinanced or even coming at a higher interest rate.
    Barbara Corcoran
    American businesswoman, investor, speaker and consultant (1949 - )
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  • William S. Gilbert No one can have a higher opinion of him than I have; and I think he's a dirty little beast.
    William S. Gilbert
    English dramatist, poet and illustrator (1836 - 1911)
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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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  • Carl Hiaasen Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.
    Carl Hiaasen
    American writer, author and journalist (1953 - )
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  • Aurelius Clemens Prudentius Nothing is higher than the love of truth.
    Aurelius Clemens Prudentius
    Roman Christian poet
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