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«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»
«Tall men come down to my height when I hit 'em in the body.»
«I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for him and gaucheries for me»
Author: Jane Rule
(Critic, Novelist)
| About:
Being a Woman,
Men
| Keywords:
height, outraged, the Graces
«I don't want to be called 'the greatest' or 'one of the greatest'; let other guys claim to be the best. I just want to be known as a clown because to me that's the height of my profession. It means you can do everything-sing, dance, and above all, make people laugh.»
«Our sun is one of 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living things in that enormous immensity.»
Author: Werner von Braun
| About:
Existence,
Living,
Universe
| Keywords:
billion, billions, enormous, galaxies, galaxy, height, immensity, populate, populated by, populating, presumption, presumptions, the Galaxy
«Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.»
«If there be light, then there is darkness; if cold, heat; if height, depth; if solid, fluid; if hard, soft; if rough, smooth; if calm, tempest; if prosperity, adversity; if life, death.»
Author: Pythagoras
| Keywords:
calm, depth, fluid, fluids, heat, height, prosperity, rough, smooth, soft, solid, tempest, tempests, The Tempest
«That love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance. Not a bandage for dirty sores. But they don't know it. Those who speak of love most promiscuously are the ones who've never felt it. They make some sort of feeble stew out of sympathy, compassion, comtempt, and general indiference, and they call it love. Once you've felt what it means to love as you and I know it - the total passion for the total height - you are unable of anything else.»
«If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
| Keywords:
ecstasy, height, hermit, hermits, relinquish, relinquished, relinquishing
«I failed to make the chess team because of my height.»
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