All Quotes

The higher the unemployment rate, the more leverage I have to 'encourage' you to 'do what it takes' to keep your job. And so you work even more hours, pushing unemployment up and wages down. And that, my friends, is one of the little tricks that keeps you poor and me rich.
‐‐ Nick Hanauer

The higher the voice the smaller the intellect.
‐‐ Ernest Newman

The higher up I went, the less happy I was.
‐‐ Dave Chappelle

The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style.
‐‐ Fred Astaire

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.
‐‐ Marcus Tullius Cicero

The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.
‐‐ Tony Robbins

The higher your profile becomes, the more aware you are that people out there might hate you.
‐‐ Graham Norton

The higher your profile, the more people want you.
‐‐ Peter Capaldi

The higher your station, the less your liberty.
‐‐ Sallust

The highest activity a human being can attain is learning for understanding, because to understand is to be free.
‐‐ Baruch Spinoza

The highest admiration I have for my colleagues is not for someone in a studio in New York but for somebody on the ground in places that they've gone to fight to tell the story.
‐‐ Charlie Rose

The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.
‐‐ Soren Kierkegaard

The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
‐‐ Abraham Lincoln

The highest calling of leadership is to challenge the status quo and unlock the potential of others. We need a leader who will lead the resurgence of this great nation and unlock its potential once again.
‐‐ Carly Fiorina

The highest compliment I can give a science fiction book is that it's 'plausibly surreal' - it manages to feel like a relentless extrapolation from today even as it overwhelms with unexpected consequences of that extrapolation.
‐‐ Jamais Cascio

The highest compliment I could ever receive about my kids - and I can say that this does happen frequently - is when the in-flight crew say to me, 'Your children are wonderful. They are so well-behaved.' Every time I am told that, I could weep.
‐‐ Kate Winslet

The highest compliment one can give a writer is not to say that one wholeheartedly agrees with his observations, but that he provoked - really, forced - difficult thinking about consequential matters and internal questioning of one's own assumptions, often without quick or clear resolution.
‐‐ Glenn Greenwald

The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.
‐‐ Lafcadio Hearn

The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.
‐‐ Simone Weil

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

The highest form of vanity is love of fame.
‐‐ George Santayana

The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.
‐‐ Billy Graham

The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplacable being.
‐‐ Tom Robbins

The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.
‐‐ John Quincy Adams

The highest grossing films have great, moral messages - not dirty, base themes, so we're trying to get producers to make more of the uplifting movies.
‐‐ Morgan Brittany

The highest heels I do are six-inch heels - but mostly only dancers can wear them, since they are used to being on point in ballet shoes.
‐‐ Christian Louboutin

The highest Hindu intellectual training was based on the practice of yoga, and produced, as its fruit, those marvellous philosophical systems, the six Darshanas and the Brahma Sutras, which are still the delight of scholars and the inspiration of occultists and mystics.
‐‐ Annie Besant

The highest ideals are human intelligence, creativity and love. Respect these above all.
‐‐ Penn Jillette

The highest-income Americans don't need tax-free health insurance, mortgage interest deductions or deferred taxation on retirement funds.
‐‐ Steven Rattner

The highest levels of fame in the entertainment business are geared toward keeping the artist disconnected, disinterested and continuing to make product and not developing any sort of 'normal life.'
‐‐ Rob Lowe

The highest levels of performance come to people who are centered, intuitive, creative, and reflective - people who know to see a problem as an opportunity.
‐‐ Deepak Chopra

The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.
‐‐ Thomas Aquinas

The highest of distinctions is service to others.
‐‐ King George VI

The highest of highs is to have a new routine that you're just breaking in and that's working, and that's - you're one step removed doing a situation comedy because you have a live audience there.
‐‐ Bob Newhart

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.
‐‐ George Leigh Mallory

The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.
‐‐ George McGovern

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.
‐‐ Joely Richardson

The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
‐‐ Ed Gillespie

The highest point of philosophy is to be both wise and simple; this is the angelic life.
‐‐ John Chrysostom

The highest political buzz word is not liberty, equality, fraternity or solidarity; it is service.
‐‐ Arthur Hugh Clough

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

The highest praise is when a kid says, 'This book feels so real; this could have happened at my school.'
‐‐ Andrew Clements

The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.
‐‐ Norman Mailer

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.
‐‐ Albert Schweitzer

The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.
‐‐ Thomas Babington Macaulay

The highest purpose is to have no purpose at all. This puts one in accord with nature, in her manner of operation.
‐‐ John Cage

The highest qualities of character... must be earned.
‐‐ Lyman Abbott

The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not.
‐‐ Plato

The highest result of education is tolerance.
‐‐ Helen Keller

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.
‐‐ Ralph Waldo Emerson