Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. — Robert Frost
If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are? — Unknown
Einstein was a giant. His head was in the clouds, but his feet were on the ground. But those of us who are not that tall have to choose! — Richard P. Feynman
The height of human desire is what wins, whether it’s on Normandy Beach or in Ohio Stadium. — Woody Hayes
At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities. — Jean Houston
From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us. — Napoleon Bonaparte
God blessed me with a lot of heart and no height, and I'll take that any day. — Nate Robinson
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. — Seneca The Elder
Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance — Albert Einstein
My downfall raises me to infinite heights. — Napoleon Bonaparte
The depth of your struggle determines the height of your success. — R. Kelly
Height Image Quotes
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness. — Seneca
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment. — Novalis
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
There is no top. There are always further heights to reach. — Jascha Heifetz
Small Height Quotes
The little boy nodded at the peony and the peony seemed to nod back. The little boy was neat, clean and pretty. The peony was unchaste, dishevelled as peonies must be, and at the height of its beauty.(...) Every hour is filled with such moments, big with significance for someone. — Robertson Davies
The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is. — Phillips Brooks
The most stupendous scenery ceases to be sublime when it becomes distinct, or in other words limited, and the imagination is no longer encouraged to exaggerate it. The actual height and breadth of a mountain or a waterfall are always ridiculously small; they are the imagined only that content us. — Henry David Thoreau
We rise to great heights by a winding staircase of small steps. — Francis Bacon
Our human awareness is so powerful that even if we tap only a small part of it we can accomplish more that we ever thought possible. Using our complete potential, we can soar to the height where our accomplishments have great and lasting value for both ourselves and for future generations. — Tarthang Tulku
My favorite part of my appearance is my height. I'm five foot one and I feel feminine being small. — Alanna Ubach
Senator Douglas was very small, not over four and a half feet height, and there was a noticeable disproportion between the long trunk of his body and his short legs. His chest was broad and indicated great strength of lungs. — Henry Villard
The second and third generation effect of immigration accounts for only a small portion of the height shortfall between Americans and northern Europeans. Besides the slowdown in American heights began in the 1950s, well before large-scale immigration into the country. — Richard H. Steckel
Every lawyer, no matter whom they represent, is trying to help someone, whether it's a person, a corporation, a government entity, or a small or big business. To me, lawyering is the height of service - and being involved in this profession is a gift. — Sonia Sotomayor
You must not be afraid of small bits of silence. To use it well is the height of confidence and skill for a comedian. It increases the tension in a good way and adds contrast like a curveball complements the fastball of a good pitcher. — Franklyn Ajaye
Tall men come down to my height when I hit 'em in the body. — Jack Dempsey
Reaching the height of 6 ft. 5 in.; I never expected to be that tall. I just shot up. — Calvin Harris
When the war broke out I decided I would be very patriotic. Standing my full height. I presented myself to the Wacs and the to the Waves. And I was rejected - I was an inch too tall. — Julia Child
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
The famous statue of Christ the Redeemer that overlooks Rio de Janeiro is only 130 feet tall. McGuinty's eco-idols [Wind Turbines] will be three times that height, but will serve the same imposing purpose. — Ezra Levant
I guess my height has hurt me as much as it's helped me. In comedy people don't mind casting tall women next to shorter men. It adds to the humour. — Allison Janney
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
Once I had asked God for one or two extra inches in height, but instead, he made me as tall as the sky, so high that I could not measure myself... By giving me this height to reach people, he has also given me great responsibilities. — Malala Yousafzai
Five-foot-8 is a perfectly normal height for a woman - it's slightly but not at all unusually tall and certainly shouldn't be causing you any torment. — Mallory Ortberg
Wuthering Heights Quotes
Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic. — Johnny Depp
What I've tended to do is to use my own experiences to get into someone else's mind, like in Wuthering Heights. — Kate Bush
I absolutely adored Wuthering Heights and fell in love with Heathcliff as most girls do. — Margaret Forster
Heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of the heath on the top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke sobbing for joy. — Emily Bronte
This is it--what all the hoopla is about, what Wuthering Heights is about--it all boils down to this feeling rushing through me in this moment with Joe as our mouths refuse to part. Who knew all this time I was one kiss away from being Cathy and Juliet and Elizabeth Bennet and Lady Chatterley!? — Jandy Nelson
Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights" was extremely important to me. — Alice Hoffman
I'm glad nobody has asked me to adapt 'Wuthering Heights' because I think I would make a mess of it. Everybody makes a mess of it. I think the Bronte Sisters are mad. — Andrew Davies
It's very kind of 'Wuthering Heights' where my parents' house is, moors and deserted. It's very wild and mystic. — Joanne Froggatt
A lot of people have something to say about 'Wuthering Heights,' but nobody quite nails it. — Andrea Arnold
That's exactly how I want you to feel. When you finish this book, I want you to be filled with curiosity. I want you to say, “I have to find out what happens next,” and then I want you to head to your nearest library or bookstore to pick up a copy of Wuthering Heights. — Clare B. Dunkle
Mountain Height Quotes
When Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night, And set the stars of glory there. — Joseph Rodman Drake
Mountains have the power to call us into their realms and there, left forever, are our friends whose great souls were longing for the heights. Do not forget the mountaineers who have not returned from the summits. — Anatoli Boukreev
Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace, The soul that knows it not, knows no release, From little things; Knows not the livid loneliness of fear Nor mountain heights where bitter joy can hear The sound of wings. — Amelia Earhart
When one drives away the negligent through vigilance, he climbs the heights of wisdom, and can see the suffering masses. Serene, you look upon the lost like one that stands on a mountain sees those that stand upon the plain. — Buddha
Bears, dragons, tempestuous on mountain and river, Startle the forest and make the heights tremble. Clouds darken beneath the darkness of rain, streams pale with a pallor of mist. The gods of Thunder and Lightning Shatter the whole range. — Li Bai
All in the dark we grope along, And if we go amiss We learn at least which path is wrong, And there is gain in this. We do not always win the race By only running right; We have to tread the mountain's base Before we reach its height. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
O that our souls could scale a height like this, A mighty mountain swept o'er by the bleak Keen winds of heaven; and, standing on that peak Above the blinding clouds of prejudice, Would we could see all truly as it is; The calm eternal truth would keep us meek. — Robinson Jeffers
When he utilizes combined energy, his fighting men become, as it were, like rolling logs or stones... The energy developed by good fighting men is as the momentum of a round stone rolled down a mountain thousands of feet in height. — Sun Tzu
In the mountain, stillness surges up to explore its own height In the lake, movement stands still to contemplate its own depth. — Rabindranath Tagore
Greater Heights Quotes
You begin to fly when you let go of self-limiting beliefs and allow your mind and aspirations to rise to greater heights. — Brian Tracy
It is only by presenting those portions of the race in my pictures, in the light and backround of their true state, that we can raise our people to greater heights. — Oscar Micheaux
When I paint, I never think of selling. People simply fail to understand that we paint in order to experiment and to develop ourselves as we strive for greater heights. — Edvard Munch
I am, and forever will be, devastated by the gift of Audrey Hepburn before my camera. I cannot lift her to greater heights. She is already there. I can only record. I cannot interpret her. There is no going further than who she is. She has achieved in herself her ultimate portrait. — Richard Avedon
Just as a diamond can only be polished by another diamond, it is only through genuine, all-out engagement with others that people can polish their character, and help each other to reach greater heights. — Daisaku Ikeda
There's no secret on how to attain a greater height, just keep climbing the ladder, don't look at the dreadful distance, lock up that negative thoughts today, and fulfil your dreams. — Michael Bassey
Moderation is caused by the fear of exciting the envy and contempt which those merit who are intoxicated with their good fortune; it is a vain display of our strength of mind, and in short the moderation of men at their greatest height is only a desire to appear greater than their fortune. — Francois de la Rochefoucauld
I will not doubt, though sorrows fall like rain, And troubles swarm like bees about a hive; I shall believe the heights for which I strive Are only reached by anguish and by pain; And though I groan and tremble with my crosses, I yet shall see, through my severest losses, The greater gain. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Many girls prepare their whole lives for this one moment. For me, I see Miss USA as an opportunity to reach new and greater heights in the future. — Katherine Webb
When businesses go through hard times, through down markets, what do they do is they challenge every basic assumption of how they operate. They innovate. They create disruption for a while that leads them to even greater heights when the economy turns around. — Jeb Bush
Length Quotes
Remember that you will never reach a higher standard than you yourself set. Then set your mark high, and step by step, even though it be by painful effort, by self-denial and sacrifice, ascend the whole length of the ladder of progress. — Ellen G. White
Width of life is more important than length of life. — Avicenna
The sari's radiance, vigor and variety, produced by a single straight length of cloth, should give us in the West pause and make us think twice about the zipper, the dart and the shoulder pad. — Naveen Patnaik
I [prefer] a short life with width to a narrow one with length. — Avicenna
We are of such value to God that He came to live among us... and to guide us home. He will go to any length to seek us, even to being lifted high upon the cross to draw us back to Himself. We can only respond by loving God for His love. — St. Catherine of Siena
For me there is only the traveling on paths that have heart, on any path that may have heart, and the only worthwhile challenge is to traverse its full length--and there I travel looking, looking breathlessly. — Carlos Castaneda
Depth of friendship does not depend on length of acquaintance. — Rabindranath Tagore
The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them... Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will. — Michel de Montaigne
Drama is life with the dull bits left out. There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. I believe in putting the horror in the minds of the audience, and not necessarily on the screen. The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder. — Alfred Hitchcock
When in doubt, observe and ask questions. When certain, observe at length and ask many more questions. — George S. Patton
Plenty of white space and generous line spacing,and don't make the type size too miserly. Then you will be assured of a product fit for a king. — Giambattista Bodoni
Don't let anyone tell you that standardized tests are not accurate measures. The truth of the matter is they offer a remarkably precise method for gauging the size of the houses near the school where the test was administered. — Alfie Kohn
The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them. If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough. — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness. — Kanye West
The size of your success is measured by the strength of your desire; the size of your dream; and how you handle disappointment along the way. — Robert Kiyosaki
I'd much rather eat pasta and drink wine than be a size 0. — Sophia Loren
There is not one standard definition of beauty or one perfect size. — Ashley Graham
Width Quotes
The total subject of mathematics is clearly too broad for any of us. I do not think that any mathematician since Gauss has covered it uniformly and fully; even Hilbert did not and all of us are of considerably lesser width quite apart from the question of depth than Hilbert. — John Von Neumann
I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well. — Diane Ackerman
Never underestimate the power of wide-grip pull-ups to develop width and size. — Ronnie Coleman
Shoulder width is an absolute requirement for displaying the V taper that will make or break your physique. — Dorian Yates
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth. — H. L. Mencken
Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash. — Jay McInerney
People who believe the earth was created 6000 years ago, when it's actually 4.5 billion years old, should also believe the width of North America is 8 yards. That is the scale of the error. — Richard Dawkins
And can it be that in a world so full and busy the loss of one creature makes a void so wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth of eternity can fill it up! — Charles Dickens
But more impressive than the facts and figures as to height, width, age, etc., are the entrancing beauty and tranquility that pervade the forest, the feelings of peace, awe and reverence that it inspires. — George Macdonald
If one stretches out the DNA contained in the nucleus of a human cell, one obtains a two-yard-long thread that is only ten atoms wide. This thread is a billion times longer than its own width. Relatively speaking, it is as if your little finger stretched from Paris to Los Angeles. — Jeremy Narby
Tall Quotes
I don't care if you're black, white, straight, bisexual, gay, lesbian, short, tall, fat, skinny, rich or poor. If you're nice to me, I'll be nice to you. Simple as that. — Eminem
When you sit down to design something, it can be anything, a car, a toaster, a house, a tall building or a shoe, what you draw or what you design is really a culmination of everything that you've seen and done in your life previous to that point. — Tinker Hatfield
My selective memory of what drinking was like told me that standing at the bar in a pub, on a summer's evening with a long, tall glass of lager and lime was heaven, and I chose not to remember the nights on which I had sat with a bottle of vodka, a gram of coke and a shotgun, contemplating suicide. — Eric Clapton
No one has done more to prevent conflict - no one has made a greater sacrifice for the cause for Peace - than you, America's proud missile submarine family. You stand tall among our heroes of the Cold War. — Colin Powell
Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier. — Mae West
Tall, thin, curvy, short – whatever you are, you are beautiful. — Demi Lovato
You won't find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains. — Hunter S. Thompson
I was a mischievous child. I was also on the tall side. — Akira Toriyama
For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall. — Eric Clapton
I think laughter may be a form of courage. As humans we sometimes stand tall and look into the sun and laugh, and I think we are never more brave than when we do that. — Linda Ellerbee
Depth Quotes
And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. — Kahlil Gibran
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Don't love deeply, till you make sure that the other part loves you with the same depth, because the depth of your love today, is the depth of your wound tomorrow. — Nizar Qabbani
The fact that grief takes so long to resolve is not a sign of inadequacy, but betokens depth of soul. — Donald Woods Winnicott
Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet. — African Proverbs
Don't just show kindness in passing or to be courteous. Show it in depth, show it with passion, and expect nothing in return. Kindness is not just about being nice; it's about recognizing another human being who deserves care and respect. — Colin Powell
No thank you to all the bustas, cowards, and FAKE HOMIES who showed me the depths of jealousy, envy and greed. — Tupac Shakur
The truth is always an abyss. One must — as in a swimming pool — dare to dive from the quivering springboard of trivial everyday experience and sink into the depths, in order to later rise again — laughing and fighting for breath — to the now doubly illuminated surface of things. — Franz Kafka
I don't ask for the sights in front of me to change, only the depth of my seeing. — Mary Oliver
Men have such a good opinion of themselves, of their mental superiority and intellectual depth; they believe themselves so skilled in discerning the true from the false, the path of safety from those of error, that they should be forbidden as much as possible the perusal of philosophic writings. — Al-Ghazali
Distance Quotes
Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance. — Isaac Newton
Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do. — Jean Piaget
The distance between the actual developmental level as determined by independent problem solving and the level of potential development as determined through problem solving under adult guidance or in collaboration with more capable peers — Lev S. Vygotsky
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done. — Alan Turing
Typography must be as beautiful as a forest, not like the concrete jungle of the tenements It gives distance between the trees, the room to breathe and allow for life. — Adrian Frutiger
You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having. — Frank Lloyd Wright
I'd rather die tomorrow than live a hundred years without knowing you. — Pocahontas
If you decide on your direction, God will give you the energy for the distance. — T. B. Joshua
The past is no more; the future not yet. Nothing exists except the here and now. Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at our hands. — Bruce Lee
You must realize that if you are going to reach the heights you have been called to reach, you may elicit some criticism from those who are jealous, petty or angry because they were left behind. — T. D. Jakes
The only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work hard for them. — Michelle Obama
No other country in the world imprisons so many of its racial or ethnic minorities. The United States imprisons a larger percentage of its black population than South Africa did at the height of apartheid — Michelle Alexander
The height of stupidity is most clearly demonstrated by the individual who ridicules something he knows nothing about. — Albert Einstein
Our liberty will not be secured at the sword's point... We must secure it by making ourselves worthy of it. And when the people reaches that height, God will provide a weapon, the idols will be shattered, tyranny will crumble like a house of cards, and liberty will shine out like the first dawn. — Jose Rizal
Without the burden of afflictions it is impossible to reach the height of Grace. The gift of Grace increases as the struggle increases. — Rose of Lima
Be like a solid tower whose brave height remains unmoved by all the winds that blow; the man who lets his thoughts be turned aside by one thing or another, will lose sight of his true goal, his mind sapped of its strength. — Dante Alighieri
It is the height of stupidity to claim that men who for a thousand years have had the power to berate us, to fleece us and to oppress us with impunity, will now agree, with good grace, to be our equals. — Jean-Paul Marat
Either you allow Holy Scriptures to change you, or you will normally try to use it to change--and clobber--other people. It is the height of idolatry to use the supposed Word of God so that my small self can be in control and be right. But I am afraid this has been more the norm than the exception in the use of the Bible. — Richard Rohr
I cannot help wondering sometimes what I might have become and might have done if I had lived in a country which had not circumscribed and handicapped me on account of my race, that had allowed me to reach any height I was able to attain. — Mary Church Terrell
Physically, I’m not tough. I may think tough. I would say I’m kinda tough and calloused inside. I could use a foot more in height and fifty more pounds and fifteen years off my age and then God help all you bastards. — Humphrey Bogart
I, God, am in your midst. Whoever knows me can never fall. Not in the heights, nor in the depths, nor in the breadths. For I am love, which the vast expanses of evil can never still. — Hildegard of Bingen
When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights. — John Frusciante
The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats. — Aldous Huxley
No one expects to attain to the height of learning, or arts, or power, or wealth, or military glory, without vigorous resolution, strenuous diligence, and steady perseverance. Yet we expect to be Christians without labour, study, or inquiry. — William Wilberforce
Is it conceivable that a newly emancipated people can soar to the heights of liberty, and, unlike Icarus, neither have its wings melt nor fall into an abyss? Such a marvel is inconceivable and without precedent. There is no reasonable probability to bolster our hopes. — Simon Bolivar
I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War. — Larry David
The lotus' stem is as long as the depth of water,
So men's height is just as great as their inner strength. — Thiruvalluvar
It is in fact the height of selfishness to merely consume what others create and to retreat into a shell of limited goals and immediate pleasures. — Robert Greene
Types really don't matter. I have been accused of preferring blondes. But I have known some mighty attractive redheads, brunettes, and yes, women with grey hair. Age, height, weight haven't anything to do with glamour. — Clark Gable
Sadness gives depth. Happiness gives height. Sadness gives roots. Happiness gives branches. Happiness is like a tree going into the sky, and sadness is like the roots going down into the womb of the earth. Both are needed, and the higher a tree goes, the deeper it goes, simultaneously. In fact, it is always in proportion. That’s its balance. — Osho [Chandra Mohan Jain]
When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment; a pair of lovers are sufficient to themselves — Sigmund Freud
People make mistakes all the time. We learn and grow. If theres patience and love, and you care for people, you can work them through it, and they can find their greatest heights. — Pete Carroll
Love is like a roller coaster. It can take you to the highest, most spectacular heights or drop you to bottom in seconds. However, even with the risks, love is undoubtedly worth it in the end. — Sheila Jackson Lee
It's very atmospheric. It's not a building that is a severe statement in the skyline. We need the height; otherwise, the building almost disappears because it is so slender. — Santiago Calatrava
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
The only true riches are those that make us rich in virtue. Therefore, if you want to be rich, beloved, love true riches. If you aspire to the heights of real honor, strive to reach the kingdom of Heaven. If you value rank and renown, hasten to be enrolled in the heavenly court of the Angels. — Pope Gregory I
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