Height famous quotes

Over all, there are now more people under “correctional supervision” in America-more than six million-than were in the Gulag Archipelago under Stalin at its height.
-- Adam Gopnik

#America #People #Height

We cannot hope to scale great moral heights by ignoring petty obligations.
-- Agnes Repplier

#Height #Moral #Scales

My favorite part of my appearance is my height. I'm five foot one and I feel feminine being small.
-- Alanna Ubach

#Feet #Height #Appearance

Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance
-- Albert Einstein

#Ignorance #Character #Height

The soul, in its longing to grow, will push us toward crisis points, bringing about a situation that will force us to leave behind the old toys and the worn-out ways of operating. Our soul brings us these crises to remind us that we don’t have to remain stuck in the land of the hunters and the hunted. We are called to draw ourselves up to our full height and confidence, even when terrified at the prospect of the unknown.
-- Alberto Villoldo

#Land #Soul #Height

Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness: it depends on the force of the current, the height and strength of the barrier. The unchecked stream flows smoothly down its appointed channels into a calm well being.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Passion #Feelings #Height

I have the power of my height. Growing up, it was a total drawback. There was nothing good about it at all.
-- Allison Janney

#Growing Up #Growing #Height

I can tell when men are threatened by my height.
-- Allison Janney

#Men #Height

A lot of people have something to say about 'Wuthering Heights,' but nobody quite nails it.
-- Andrea Arnold

#People #Nails #Height

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

#Height

Thus I was able to make pioneering measurements of the height and physical scale of plasma clouds in the ionosphere and also to estimate wind speeds in this region.
-- Antony Hewish

#Clouds #Wind #Height

Love from within, be determined and let your self-confidence take you to heights you never experienced before
-- Arsi Nami

#Self Confidence #Self #Height

I first got involved in theater in 1968, at the height of a social tumult. I was a poet.
-- August Wilson

#Height #Firsts #Poet

In a mist the heights can for the most part see each other; but the valleys cannot.
-- Augustus William Hare

#Inspirational #Valleys #Height

Capitalism has been called a system of greed—yet it is the system that raised the standard of living of its poorest citizens to heights no collectivist system has ever begun to equal, and no tribal gang can conceive of.
-- Ayn Rand

#Greed #Citizens #Height

The height of foolishness is to discard an opportunity without full investigation
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Opportunity #Height #Investigation

My height can be a problem. A lot of directors and photographers are sometimes not happy because I'm pretty tall and especially if I work with short actors the difference can be pretty massive.
-- Bill Skarsgard

#Differences #Height #Directors

I don't like heights. This is why I stopped growing at fifth grade.
-- Billy Crystal

#Growing #Height #Fifth Grade

All things must come to pass as one, so hope should never die. There is no height or bloody might that a freeman can’t defy. There is no source or foreign force can break one man who knows that his free will no thing can kill … and from that, freedom grows.
-- Bobby Sands

#Men #Might #Height

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

#Dark #Crowds #Height

One forgets the fear of heights when one cannot fall
-- C.E. Murphy

#Fall #Height #Forget

I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.
-- Caitlin Flanagan

#Height #Influence #Reader

Reaching the height of 6 ft. 5 in.; I never expected to be that tall. I just shot up.
-- Calvin Harris

#Height #Reaching #Shots

There are times when the utmost daring is the height of wisdom.
-- Carl von Clausewitz

#Height #Daring

Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
-- Cato the Elder

#Stupidity #Height #Sometimes

Julie Dryfus and I were both afraid of heights and in one scene, I had to be quite high up and I was rather terrified, but Julie was very kind, encouraging me and we got through that together.
-- Chiaki Kuriyama

#Together #Height #Kind

To be honest, after all the crap that happened with 'Summer Heights High,' I was like, 'I'm not going to write anything controversial or edgy ever again; I just can't handle the blame.'
-- Chris Lilley

#Summer #Writing #Height

I was sure 'Summer Heights High' would be a cult ABC thing; I had no idea it would be such a big hit.
-- Chris Lilley

#Summer #Ideas #Height

The measure of a Christian is not in the height of his grasp but in the depth of his love
-- Clarence Jordan

#Christian #Depth #Height

If heaven had a height, you would be that tall
-- Common

#Heaven #Would Be #Height

Is life worth living? Aye, with the best of us, Heights of us, depths of us- Life is the test of us!
-- Corinne Roosevelt Robinson

#Happiness #Depth #Height

I'd never been a tall guy, and the girls I'd dated had all been my height--teenaged girls grow faster than guys, which is a cruel trick of nature.
-- Cory Doctorow

#Girl #Guy #Height

I love going for a swim. Growing up in England, anywhere with a pool seems like the height of glamour to me.
-- Damian Lewis

#Growing Up #Swim #Height

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.
-- Danica McKellar

#Math #Understanding #Height

I used to be self conscious about my height, but then I thought, ***** that, I'm Harry Potter.
-- Daniel Radcliffe

#Self Esteem #Potters #Height

I fear that to fall in love with you is to fall from a great and gruesome height.
-- Dar Williams

#Falling In Love #Love You #Height

My mom used to take me down to the Jersey Shore when I was 7, 8, 9 years old. I can remember being down in that area - Belmar, Seaside Heights, Asbury Park and all those places that I went back and revisited.
-- David Cassidy

#Mom #Years #Height

Undoubtedly the Afghans must be, by our standards, the best-looking people in the world. They have everything; height, proportions, carriage, features and complexion.
-- Dervla Murphy

#People #World #Height

When we speak of the Path we mean much more than a course of study. The Path is a way of life and on it the whole being must co-operate if the heights are to be won.
-- Dion Fortune

#Mean #Height #Way

A man of over thirty might be held to be at the height of his powers, but not necessarily of his wisdom.
-- Dorothy Dunnett

#Men #Might #Height

The biggest issue about the height factor is the bias that the NFL has about it,
-- Doug Flutie

#Nfl #Issues #Height

I certainly did feel inferior. Because of class. Because of strength. Because of height. I guess if I'd been able to hit somebody in the nose, I wouldn't have been a comic.
-- Dudley Moore

#Class #Noses #Height

The interior of Mexico consists of a mass of volcanic rocks, thrust up to a great height above the sea-level.
-- Edward Burnett Tylor

#Rocks #Sea #Height

To take my work seriously would be the height of folly.
-- Edward Gorey

#Would Be #Height #Folly

The height of success is when you break your business, that is what I say! Just when you think things are really, really going well, that's the time to change.
-- Edward Zander

#Thinking #Height #Break

You seek the heights of manhood when you seek the depths of God.
-- Edwin Louis Cole

#Depth #Literature #Height

You know you've completely descended into madness when the matter of shampoo has ascended to philosophical heights.
-- Elizabeth Wurtzel

#Philosophical #Height #Matter

I love heights. I love speed. Im on the verge of being a pyromaniac. Maybe my phobia is boredom.
-- Erin Wasson

#Boredom #Height #Speed

When I went to Brooklyn in 1948 Jackie Robinson was at the height of his brilliant career.
-- Ernie Harwell

#Careers #Brooklyn #Height

Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.
-- Eugenio Montale

#Creative #Height #Comedy

What has changed is that when I photographed, most people that I photographed didn't have the right of refusal on their work. It would take a Marilyn Monroe at her height to be able to dictate that.
-- Eve Arnold

#People #Height #Able

Have good associates or don't associate at all. Be careful in the selection of your friends. If in the presence of certain persons you are lifted to nobler heights, you are in good company. But if your friends or associates encourage base thoughts, then you had best leave them.
-- Ezra Taft Benson

#Friendship #Height #Good Company

For I am the size of what I see / not my height's size.
-- Fernando Pessoa

#Height #Size

Maybe it's only those who've made such chaos of their lives who can understand the heights and depths of God's mercy.
-- Francine Rivers

#Depth #Height #Chaos

A good scientist values criticism almost higher than friendship: no, in science criticism is the height and measure of friendship.
-- Francis Crick

#Criticism #Height #Scientist

The height of all philosophy is to know thyself; and the end of this knowledge is to know God.
-- Francis Quarles

#Philosophy #Height #Know Thyself

The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

#Work #Height #Able

Let us not disdain glory too much; nothing is finer, except virtue. The height of happiness would be to unite both in this life.
-- François-René de Chateaubriand

#Would Be #Height #Too Much

You are not judged by the height you have risen, but from the depth you have climbed.
-- Frederick Douglass

#Justice #Depth #Height

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

#Warfare #Height #Impossible

Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use.
-- Gamaliel Bailey

#Men #Use #Height

Sometimes the only way is jumping; hope you’re not afraid of heights.
-- Gavin DeGraw

#Jumping #Height #Way

Be free all worthy spirits, and stretch yourselves, for greatness and for height.
-- George Chapman

#Inspirational #Greatness #Height

Has no one ever told you that it is the height of impropriety to kiss any gentleman, unless you have the intention of accompanying him immediately to the altar?
-- Georgette Heyer

#Kissing #Gentleman #Height

The high-heeled shoe is a marvellously contradictory item; it brings a woman to a man's height but makes sure she cannot keep up with him.
-- Germaine Greer

#Men #Shoes #Height

Your truth should be so pure that if lifts a person's soul to the heights.
-- Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#Inspirational #Soul #Height

I had placed my stick on the table, as I do every evening. It had been specially made to suit my height, to enable me to walk without too much difficulty. As I was standing up, a customer called to me: 'Monsieur, don't forget your pencil.' It was very unkind, but most funny.
-- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

#Sticks #Tables #Height

Every man is in some sort a failure to himself. No one ever reaches the heights to which he aspires.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#Failure #Men #Height

A raised weight can produce work, but in doing so it must necessarily sink from its height, and, when it has fallen as deep as it can fall, its gravity remains as before, but it can no longer do work.
-- Hermann von Helmholtz

#Fall #Weight #Height

To get a traveling salesman drunk is the height of impossibility.
-- Honore de Balzac

#Drunk #Height #Salesman

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

#Education #Inspire #Height

Now intelligence seemed quantifiable. You could measure someone's actual or potential height, and now, it seemed, you could also measure someone's actual or potential intelligence. We had one dimension of mental ability along which we could array everyone... The whole concept has to be challenged; in fact, it has to be replaced.
-- Howard Gardner

#Height #Facts #Dimensions

Here I found myself in my early 20s, at the height of my career, up against something I was totally powerless against. I had enemies I had never heard of because of this. I certainly didn't have needles hanging out of my arms, nor did I smoke anything.
-- Irene Cara

#Careers #Enemy #Height

If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
-- Irvin D. Yalom

#Tragedy #Looks #Height

And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.
-- Irving Langmuir

#Literature #Height

At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded.
-- Irwin Shaw

#Literature #Height #Periods

Memories are the height of poetry only when they are memories of happiness. When they graze wounds over which scars have formed they become an aching pain.
-- Ivan Goncharov

#Pain #Memories #Height

You think I'm a fool?" demanded Harry. "No, I think you're like James," said Lupin, "who would have regarded it as the height of dishonor to mistrust his friends.
-- J. K. Rowling

#Thinking #Height #Fool

I was then at the height of my two-facedness: that is, outside I seemed one way, inside I was another; outside false, inside true.
-- Jamaica Kincaid

#Two #Height #Way

No matter what heights you achieve, even if you're Brad Pitt, the slide is coming, sure as death and taxes.
-- James Caan

#Height #Matter #Slides

I have a problem with heights in general - and climbing!
-- Jamie Bell

#Climbing #Height #Problem

I'm still pretty terrified of heights.
-- Jamie Bell

#Height #Stills

There is no top. There are always further heights to reach.
-- Jascha Heifetz

#Business #Height

Bigotry and judgment are the height of insecurity.
-- Jasmine Guy

#Insecurity #Racist #Height

To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.
-- Jean Genet

#Height #Taste #Harmony

I find it actually the height of romance to legally bind yourself to someone because you're really taking care of someone, and letting them take care of you. I actually have no cynicism about that.
-- Jen Kirkman

#Romance #Care #Height

If I find a good pair of jeans, I'll buy two, and get them hemmed to my height, and then I'll end up wearing those two for everything.
-- Jenna Ushkowitz

#Jeans #Two #Height

I love chess, but it's the height of decadence.
-- Jennifer Shahade

#Chess #Height #Decadence

Well, I really don't like heights. I don't get on the top deck of a double-decker because that's a bit high for me. I always feel that I'm going to hurl myself off, so heights are a problem.
-- Jenny Eclair

#Height #Problem #Wells

Americans enjoy uniformity in a way that the British don't; they wanted everybody of a sort of nice chorus line height and here I was, this person who was a good three inches taller than anyone else on the end of the line.
-- Jeremy Irons

#Nice #Lines #Height

Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates strong in the forties, revolutionizing art and abstraction and reaching incredible heights by the early fifties, and then tailing off.
-- Jerry Saltz

#Art #Strong #Height

To pay out millions upon millions of dollars in bonuses for incomplete work, poor performance, and unacceptable products is the height of government waste and mismanagement.
-- Jim Gibbons

#Government #Pay #Height

It's very kind of 'Wuthering Heights' where my parents' house is, moors and deserted. It's very wild and mystic.
-- Joanne Froggatt

#House #Parent #Height

Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.
-- Jodi Picoult

#Fall #Eggs #Height

I'm afraid of heights. Not unreasonably, but rationally afraid of heights. I think everyone is.
-- Joe Rogan

#Thinking #Height

No, I'm at full height, I'm in the studio, I can actually catch actors by the eye, it's fantastic.
-- John Leeson

#Eye #Actors #Height

I think a moment of critical energy has suddenly emerged. But moments like this come and go unless we seize them at their height.
-- Jonathan Kozol

#Thinking #Energy #Height

In a liberal scientific society, to claim that you are above error is the height of irresponsibility.
-- Jonathan Rauch

#Errors #Atheism #Height

If youre serious about what youre doing, youve got to keep your head and follow your instinct. Maybe you wont reach the same dizzy heights as others, but you will get something back.
-- Jonny Lee Miller

#Height #Dizzy #Serious

The difference between the ground and the heights you achieve.
-- Juanita M. Kreps

#Differences #Achievement #Height