Higher Quotes

Excelsior, higher and higher, but only step by step.

I think achieving a higher fiscal stability is also a very important condition for restoring an environment which is conducive to growth.

Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.

Man was created as a being who should constantly keep improving, a being who on reaching one goal sets a higher one.

Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

I rank myself no higher in the scheme of things than a policeman - whose utility would disappear if there were no criminals.

The higher your station, the less your liberty.

Once you get over the first hill, there is always a new, higher one lurking, of course.

The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.

Cuts in carbon emissions would mean significantly higher electricity prices. We think the American consumer would prefer not to be skinned by Obama's EPA.

Keep up the old standards, and day by day raise them higher.

Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.

The New Testament persistently presses us upward, toward higher motives for being good.

No authority is higher than reality.

There is no priority higher than the prevention of terrorism.

Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.

It must be awfully frustrating to get a small raise at work and then have it all eaten by a higher cost of commuting.

I don't expect to get a standing ovation from businessmen when I call for higher wages.

I want to make as much of a contribution as I can, to Harvard, to higher education and hopefully, to education around the world.

I think I used to be lower maintenance. I think I'm slowly becoming higher maintenance.

Profits in business always depend on the rate of interest: the higher the interest, the higher the rate of profit required.

They appear to have had a higher voter turnout in Iraq than we did in our recent federal elections, and we didn't have terrorists threatening to kill our families if we voted.

We fought no better, perhaps, than they. We exhibited, perhaps, no higher individual qualities.

Life has a higher end, than to be amused.

I would have done higher than that... I would have set it higher.

The higher up I went, the less happy I was.

I train my muscles, and I do a lot of stretching, and try to kick higher. But for me, practicing kung-fu is a way to relax myself.

The atoms become like a moth, seeking out the region of higher laser intensity.

I just get the same stuff as I did before, but the price tag is much higher.

It was time to raise the bar higher, or lower if you're doing limbo.

The higher the moral tone, the more suspect the speaker.

There are fully forty towers, which are lofty and well built, the largest of which has fifty steps leading to its main body, and is higher than the tower of the principal tower of the church at Seville.

Swifter, higher, stronger.

The higher the building the lower the morals.

If we know what that set point is, we can predict fairly accurately when you will be in flow, and it will be when your challenges are higher than average and skills are higher than average.

Contrary to the norm, as my technique improved my voice became higher.

Babies have much higher levels of stress in childcare.

The higher one climbs the lonelier one is.

It was always understood that plants and animals, though completely contrasted in their higher representatives, approached each other very closely in their lower and simpler forms. But they were believed not to blend.

Historically, America has answered to a higher authority.

I had higher math SATs than in English - yet I became an English major in college.

The possible ranks higher than the actual.

It is one of the glories of America that we move to higher levels of awareness.

Girls have got balls. They're just a little higher up that's all.

The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.

In terms of having high hopes that the level of consciousness will get higher and higher, yeah.

The one thing we can do is invest in the quality of education, especially higher education.

Education, particularly higher education, will take Africa into the mainstream of globalization.

The breeding programs for the bulls have improved significantly. The bulls are at a much higher caliber.

In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity.

I have found, unfortunately, that if I take on too many projects at one time, there is a higher probability of those projects sucking.

The amount of information that can be stored by the ultimate laptop, 10 to the 31st bits, is much higher than the 10 to the 10th bits stored on current laptops.

The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes.

And on the war, I think my numbers would be a lot higher if I were out there beating the drum for this war. In fact, I don't think it, I know it. But I can't be for the war.

I land a higher percentage of punches than any boxer in boxing.

Because of technological limits, there is a certain amount of food that we can produce per acre. If we were to have intensive greenhouse agriculture, we could have much higher production.

We see portability in electronics being a continuing requirement, higher functionality, better battery life, requiring lower power for the actual electronics.

I joined Facebook purely so I could play online Scrabble. You have eight tiles instead of seven, so you tend to have higher scores. I'm somewhere between 400 and 500.

They don't want to be reminded that there is an authority higher than the authority of the state.

The recognition factor is so much higher when I'm a redhead, so when I'm a blonde I can pass under the radar a lot more easily.

I know of no higher fortitude than stubborness in the face of overwhelming odds.

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

Believe me, I understand that most higher rate taxpayers are not the super-rich.

You can never be upset with the people who forced you into your dream or up higher.

But as soon as we got that higher speed access to the home there?s going to be a tremendous crunch on the backbones for a much higher speed bandwidth. People really ought to be planning for that.

Nothing is higher than the love of truth.

Brooks Robinson belongs in a higher league.

I think the bar is higher these days in terms of audience expectations of authenticity.

There is a higher law than the Constitution.

The higher the classification of secrecy, the quicker you will report it.

Angels are spirits, flames of fire; they are higher than man, they have wider connections.

We stand on our songs and we stand on the songs that we wrote for other people. That gives us a higher platform.

When a writer dies you get a higher standard of obituary.