Highest Quotes

Marriage is not simply a romantic union between two people; it's also a political and economic contract of the highest order.

I suppose we make kids the repository of our highest ideals because children are powerless. In that way we can have ideals and ignore them at the same time.

The tragedian will always be a limited tragedian if he has not learned how to laugh. The comedian who cannot weep will never touch the highest levels of mirth.

True poetry, like the religious prompting itself, springs from the emotional side of a man's complex nature, and is ever in harmony with his highest intuitions and aspirations.

I would take anything I love and throw it off the highest cliff you ever saw and not wait to hear it bounce.

Today the United States has the highest prison population in the world, over 2.1 million people. ... We lock people up at a rate that is seven to ten times that of any other democracy.

I base jumped off one of the highest buildings in the world.

It’s very hard to be an innovator at the highest level in any discipline. For some chefs it’s merely about combining ingredients, but that’s something you can do with your eyes closed.

... justice is mercy's highest self.

The highest skill is the true judgment of values.

On certain occasions, the eyes of the mind can supply the want of the most powerful telescopes, and lead to astronomical discoveries of the highest importance.

Recognize your highest calling as early as possible in life.

Recognize your highest calling as early in life as possible. Proactively and creatively persist, day in and day out. Leave an enduring legacy.

Let the will embrace the highest ideals freely and with infinite strength, but let action first take hold of what lies closest.

It's not easy when you come in as the highest-paid player and you're 14.

From the highest state of mind you have a window whereby you could perhaps move beyond all states of mind, to enlightenment.

I teach meditation and the pathway to enlightenment because I know that there are other people who, like i did a long time ago and continue to, want to climb that mountain to the highest light.

Samadhi is the highest octave spiritual light. Not the best, but the highest octave.

Some of the highest vibratory places one can visit have become very expensive. They are the domains of the rich. The rich figured out a long time ago that certain neighborhoods have more power.

What you focus on you become. So always focus on that which is highest, brightest, happiest and most noble of all things, enlightenment.

The highest type of meditation is done in silence. In silence there are no mantras. Mantras are not essential, but they can be very helpful.

Real wisdom does not occur here in this physical universe. Real wisdom is something that you have to move into the planes of the highest light to experience.

My favorite cause is the enlightenment of others. I think that is the best place to put money. You get the highest yield in terms of karma on your money.

Love is the highest of all qualities we can experience.

To make the essence of man visible in the exposure is the highest art of photography.

If you have hitherto believed that life was one of the highest value and now see yourselves disappointed, do you at once have to reduce it to the lowest possible price?

The highest type of free men should be sought where the highest resistance is constantly overcome: five steps from tyranny, close to the threshold of the danger of servitude.

You highest men whom I have ever seen! This is my suspicion about you and my secret laughter: I guess that you would call my superman--a devil!

But by my love and hope I beseech you: do not throw away the hero in your soul! Hold holy your highest hope!

He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and tragic realities.

Man has not the right to turn aside and heed not what is happening in the world around him, and this I maintain on moral grounds of the highest order.

It is a silly question to ask a prostitute why she does it ... These are the highest-paid 'professional' women in America.

The human mind has claimed for water one of its highest values-the value of purity.

Sexually,Woman is Nature's contrivance for perpetuating its highest achievement.

A man's behaviour may be quite harmless and even beneficial, when he ismorally behaving like a scoundrel. And he may do great harm when he is morally acting on the highest principles.

Curt Gowdy was a pioneer in our business and set the highest standards for everyone. His many contributions to ABC as host of 'American Sportsman' and other ABC Sports programs are indelible .

A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills.

... we are most of us brought up in the notion that the highest motive for not doing a wrong is something irrespective of the beings who would suffer the wrong.

Prabhupada's definitely affected the world in an absolute way. What he was giving us was the highest literature, the highest knowledge. I mean there just isn't anything higher.

Bargaining is a repulsive habit; compromise is one of the highest human virtues - the difference between the two being that the first is practised on the Continent, the latter in Great Britain.

I love the feeling of being on the hunt - the feeling that the story is refusing to be solved in some lesser way and is insisting that you see it on its highest terms.

If you want to explore a political idea in the highest possible way, you embody it in the personal, because that's something that no one can deny.

I remember reading The Bluest Eye when I was a young parent, and something opened in me. That's the highest aspiration.

A lot of times in the rhetoric, people forget the facts. And the facts are that thousands of small businesses-Hispanically owned or otherwise-pay taxes at the highest marginal rate.

I remember my mum saying to me, 'You can give up the violin - when you've done Grade 8.' Which is the highest grade, and the most unfair target ever. So I did all the grades, just to annoy her.

The highest use of the Web is getting the information and identifying the places and the possibility of being together physically.

I come from the highest class of all. I am a third-generation celebrity.

Tim Curley and Gary Schultz operate at the highest levels of honesty, integrity and compassion.

I used to climb mountains a lot; I decided to go to Pakistan to climb K2, the world's second-highest mountain. I didn't get quite to the top.

How poetic you are," she said. "I've a notion that poetry is the highest form of self-deception.