Above Quotes

I'm getting a wrinkle above my eyebrow because I just can't stop lifting it, and I love that you know.

I didn't have a very starry school career, I was medium to above average, nothing special.

A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses.

Human nature is above all things lazy.

The way of a man's heart will be foreshadowed by what goodness lies in him - coming from above, and from around; but a way foreshadowed is not a way made.

We all love the environment, but we have placed creatures above people. A rat is a rat.

I had to spend countless hours, above and beyond the basic time, to try and perfect the fundamentals.

Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible. It rises far above what words can mean or the intelligence define. Its domain is the imponderable and impalpable land of the unconscious.

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he is himself spiritually the underdog.

When you do a movie in the studio system, there's a committee. A committee of six or seven people you answer to. There's two or three producers, a studio executive and one or two people above that studio executive.

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

If you don't want to have to kill or capture every bad guy in the country, you have to reintegrate those who are willing to be reconciled and become part of the solution instead of a continued part of the problem. And then, above all, the resources.

These critics organize and practice in my case a sort of obsessive personality cult which philosophers should know how to question and above all, to moderate.

When you're in the muck you can only see muck. If you somehow manage to float above it, you still see the muck but you see it from a different perspective. And you see other things too. That's the consolation of philosophy.

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends.

China has not established the rule of law and if there is a power above the law there is no social justice. Everybody can be subjected to harm. I'm just a citizen: my life is equal in value to any other. But I'm thankful that when I lost my freedom so many people shared feelings and put such touching effort into helping me.

We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.

Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.

Spring was moving in the air above and in the earth below and around him, penetrating even his dark and lowly little house with its spirit of divine discontent and longing.

No one is above the game or the rules that govern it. Respect for the game and the people who participate in it will not be compromised.

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Strictly speaking, every citizen above a certain level of income is guilty of some offense.

I have never been in any country where they did not do something better than we do it, think some thoughts better than we think, catch some inspiration from heights above our own.

This above all; to thine own self be true.

Popular culture - above all rock 'n' roll, with its African-American R & B roots - did far more to radicalize us than did any feminist leader.

In our society leaving baby with Daddy is just one step above leaving the kids to be raised by wolves or apes.

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.

What concerns me, is the general social tendency to enforce a level, above which nothing rises and stands out.

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life.