Above Quotes

God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.

I think, above all, the characters in my novels feel universal to the readers.

I often lay on that bench looking up into the tree, past the trunk and up into the branches. It was particularly fine at night with the stars above the tree.

Transnational, gigantic industrial companies no longer operate within political systems, but rather above them.

The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water.

I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days.

John Paul II, above all, managed to contain the huge mass of frustration, of hate that had accumulated in that region, in favour of a peaceful transition. This was, without doubt, something that changed European history.

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.

Sometimes you see how humanity can rise above any kind of cultural ills and hate that a person's capacity to love and communicate and forgive can be bigger than anything else.

Above all, what socialist, without flushing with shame, maintains he is not a revolutionary? We say: none!.

The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality.

It's when ordinary people rise above the expectations and seize the opportunity that milestones truly are reached.

When you challenge other people's ideas of who or how you should be, they may try to diminish and disgrace you. It can happen in small ways in hidden places, or in big ways on a world stage. You can spend a lifetime resenting the tests, angry about the slights and the injustices. Or, you can rise above it.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

The task is to investigate speech sounds in relation to the meanings with which they are invested, i.e., sounds viewed as signifiers, and above all to throw light on the structure of the relation between sounds and meaning.

The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.

I do not think athletes should get a free pass. I don't think we should train our children and future athletes to believe that they are above the law and morality.

Above all, it is not decency or goodness of gentleness that impresses the Middle East, but strength.

A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius.

Above all, in comedy, and again and again since classical times, passages can be found in which the level of representation is interrupted by references to the spectators or to the fictive nature of the play.

I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.

The wealth of the country, its capital, its credit, must be saved from the predatory poor as well as the predatory rich, but above all from the predatory politician.

If you are charged with this responsibility of enhancing interrogations, or using soldiers to enhance interrogations to find Saddam, and you're above the law for all practical purposes, you might try some unusual techniques. Now we know that, in fact, they did.

The fact that the Lord can work and act even with insufficient means consoles me, and above all I entrust myself to your prayers.

Liberalism, above all, means emancipation - emancipation from one's fears, his inadequacies, from prejudice, from discrimination, from poverty.

The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in recent years is that above the head of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is a concrete display of the Ten Commandments.

I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master.

My mother had a horrific life. At fourteen, she was in the Nazi concentration camps. Her sense about life now is, every day above ground is a good day.