Above Quotes

Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant.

There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning.

The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself, to express what you have to. As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail. You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all.

If you have a crisis, whether on a ship or wherever, there are heroes who rise above it.

When I think of vision, I have in mind the ability to see above and beyond the majority.

We continually say things to support an opinion, which we have given, that in reality we don't above half mean.

Design must reflect the practical and aesthetic in business but above all... good design must primarily serve people.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans' natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology.

Honeymoon lasts not nowadays above a fortnight.

The students that, like the wild animal being prepared for its tricks in the circus called "life", expects only training as sketched above, will be severely disappointed: by his standards he will learn next to nothing.

It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions.

The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

In the vanity of self-consciousness one feels at a long remove above the ordinary love and trustfulness of a simple and pure heart.

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.

In a high school, the norms act to hold down the achievements of those who are above average, so that the school's demands will be at a level easily maintained by the majority.

I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency.

In the early centuries of Islam, the great schools of Islamic jurisprudence were built upon the above principles. Basic to all their legal systems they developed the doctrine that liberty is the fundamental basis of law.

Digital imaging allows both groups to rise above the limitations of mess and clutter and mechanics, and apply our talents to creating images limited only by our imaginations.

I must work hard to make my singing above reproach; there must be no faults which hard work would take care of.

No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical.

The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women.

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

The World Cup tournament overall and, naturally, the new stadiums at its heart, are the ideal platform to portray Germany as a positive and exceptional location, and above all of course, as a highly capable economic location.

There has to be evil so that good can prove its purity above it.

Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.

There were shots of Kong pulling at my clothes, but only in horizontal and never from above. Never from above.

The divine is not something high above us. It is in heaven, it is in earth, it is inside us.

We decline the claim to power by parties which want to own their followers body and soul, and which want to put themselves over and above the whole nation.

If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument.