Highest Quotes

To make the public sentiment, on the side of all that is just and true and noble, is the highest use of life.

The humblest occupation has in it materials of discipline for the highest heaven.

According to the American Heart Association, the prevalence of hypertension in African Americans in the United States is among the highest in the world.

Friendship, like credit, is highest when it is not used.

Film is the most expensive, highest risk industry in the world.

In days when the public safety is imminently threatened, and the fate of a nation may hang upon a single act, we owe frank speech, above all other men, to him who is highest in authority. I shall speak to you as man to man.

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

'No Child Left Behind' requires states and school districts to ensure that all students are learning and are reaching their highest potential. Special education students should not be left out of these accountability mechanisms.

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

From a very early period of my life I have derived the highest enjoyment from listening to music, especially to melody, which is to me the most pleasing form of composition.

The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain.

The highest pay cheque my mother ever received funded the building of a nursery school in Shepherd's Bush - the school cost well over three times the money she donated to the making of the film 'The Palestinian.' Unsurprisingly this always goes unmentioned in the press.

I consider tragedy the highest form of art.

My youth passed at the time of the country's reconstruction from the ruins and ashes of the war in which my nation never bowed to the enemy paying the highest price in the struggle.

Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.

The Nobel Prize, so long regarded in our science as the highest reward a man's work can earn, must bring to its recipient a most solemn sense of his debt to his fellow scientists and those of the past.

Fortune's wheel never stands still the highest point is therefore the most perilous.

There is a hugely underserved population out there... those who are the least capable of paying pay the highest.

I don't know if proud is the right word, but I am somebody who does not, on the whole, have the highest regard for my own stuff in that when I look all I get to see are the flaws.

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.

I live 50 miles from London and we've got some of the highest levels of teenage and childhood poverty in the country. It's disgusting. Just because it's a rural area, it gets forgotten.

I know that I and my office acted with the highest integrity as an independent inspector general should act.

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

The highest of the world's mountains, it seems, has to make but a single gesture of magnificence to be the lord of all, vast in unchallenged and isolated supremacy.

The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.

Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.

I don't want people losing respect for me as a player. I want to go out in every game and perform to the highest level. I have no retirement plans. I've had a lot of injuries but I want to continue playing.

Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences of men.

I've been really at the highest levels of American political life.