Higher Quotes

Sure I should have been at the Fifa workshop for example, but I had personal reasons for not being there and looking back saying that it was a mistake for me not being there I would take the same decision because the personal situation has higher priority than a workshop.

What the Democrats don't seem to understand is that higher taxes mean fewer American jobs and less American production.

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.

I believe we should appeal to people at the higher levels.

Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher.

I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.

I think that there's something extremely beautiful about the Olympic ideal and its motto - 'Swifter, higher, stronger' - it's such a beautiful motto, and it celebrates everything which is the antithesis of death and dissolution and entropy.

When you put on the suits, when you pretend you're honest and you're robbing at a far higher level, these guys deserve to... well, to be in my novels, and I have special fates reserved for them.

I don't know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we've been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about.

There is trust in there being a Spirit who loves me and wants me to have love in my life. I trust in this higher power, it is what keeps me moving forward no matter what happens.

I just get the same stuff as I did before, but the price tag is much higher.

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.

Whether we like it or not, men have more of the offices, more of the higher jobs, more of the seats in Congress. Men need to re-examine what their power is. We need to understand how to use it.

I rank myself no higher in the scheme of things than a policeman - whose utility would disappear if there were no criminals.

Democrats are fighting for a new direction that includes protecting Social Security as well as making healthcare affordable, bringing down the high cost of gasoline, and making higher education more accessible for all Americans.

So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning.

You know, it's been proven that 35 to 40 hours a year with one-on-one attention, a student can get one grade level higher.

I don't think success has changed us as people at all. We are the same lunatics that we were when this band first got going. We never see ourselves as being on a higher level than our fans.

Today, there are more Americans working than ever before in the history of our Nation, and the average wage of those workers is higher than it has ever been in the history of our Nation.

Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.

After Watergate, which happened when I was in college, I became increasingly inspired by journalism as a way to change the world. It sounds corny, but to wake the public up, to serve a higher cause.

There is no priority higher than the prevention of terrorism.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

The higher Greek poetry did not make up fictitious plots; its business was to express the heroic saga, the myths.

The College Access and Opportunity Act addresses the important need to make higher education more affordable and easier to access for low and middle-income students.

Meanwhile, parents, students and teachers all report higher satisfaction with charter schools. People like them. They cost less money. They raise the academic achievement of poor kids. Go ahead, get a little enthused.

I don't know that I can give a definitive answer to that, I can only say that if we create the right climate those who are producing those products will have the opportunity to move into a higher value product if changes are needed if we get this right.

Once you get over the first hill, there is always a new, higher one lurking, of course.

The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.