Heights Quotes

Warfare has been marvelously developed. It will soon be impossible to raise it to further heights.

We travel to learn; and 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.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.

Keep your feet on the ground and your thoughts at lofty heights.

Let there be great enthusiasm for the plan throughout the entire republic that will overcome all obstacles. Let us join together to realize the Five Year Plan and bring our economy and our own living standards to previously unknown heights.

Set your heights more than what you see around you, see beyond.

The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of heights of human welfare and prosperity.

Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.

Let's face it; by and large math is not easy, but that's what makes it so rewarding when you conquer a problem, and reach new heights of understanding.

And, I may add, from what totally unexpected sources come many of those who from the comparatively modest beginning in the chorus rise to the heights of really great achievement in the theatrical profession.

I am uncomfortable with heights, I'm scared of the dark and I am scared of big crowds.

And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny.

In several sections, both natural in the banks of the Mississippi and its numerous arms, and where artificial canals had been cut, I observed erect stumps of trees, with their roots attached, buried in strata at different heights, one over the other.

Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought.

I absolutely adored Wuthering Heights and fell in love with Heathcliff as most girls do.

From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.

A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths.

I believe in myself as I look forward to graduating from Hamilton Heights High School in 1991.

Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night.

The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

And that will increasingly dawn on people. The demand for controlling the commanding heights will grow.

There is no top. There are always further heights to reach.

Now people all across America are starting to believe in America again. We are coming back, back to the heights of greatness, back to America's proud role as a temple of justice and a champion of peace.

You see, as Americans we're not defined by class, and we will never be told our place. What makes our nation exceptional is that anyone, from any background, can climb the highest of heights.

Highest of heights, I climb this mountain and feel one with the rock and grit and solitude echoing back at me.

You seek the heights of manhood when you seek the depths of God.

I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on.

Well, I like to think that my illness has prevented me from rising to any number of dizzy heights.