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The interior of Mexico consists of a mass of volcanic rocks, thrust up to a great height above the sea-level. - Edward Burnett Tylor Quotes
To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself. - Sophy Burnham Quotes
The height of cleverness is to be able to conceal it. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach. - Elizabeth Barrett Browning Quotes
No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you. - Muhammad Ali Jinnah Quotes
When I went to Brooklyn in 1948 Jackie Robinson was at the height of his brilliant career. - Ernie Harwell Quotes
Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine. - Friedrich Von Schlegel Quotes
I first got to know Charles in the late seventies when I wrote an article and then a book about him and I think at the time he came across as quite appealing, it was probably the height of his popularity. - Anthony Holden Quotes
At the height of the McCarthy period, writers were being hounded. - Irwin Shaw Quotes
All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations. - Billy Bragg Quotes
Strangely, Dantes Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries. - Eugenio Montale Quotes
Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity. - Cato The Elder Quotes
One of the Life Saving men snapped the camera for us, taking a picture just as the machine had reached the end of the track and had risen to a height of about two feet. - Orville Wright Quotes
When the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret were growing up, that was at its height and the War cemented that with photographs of the Royal Family having breakfast together and so on, by pinning their reputation so firmly on that particular issue. - Anthony Holden Quotes
Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid. - Thomas Carlyle Quotes
Politicians, no matter who they are, shouldnt be able to manipulate the public on a single issue and then call an election at the height of support - thats a little bit of a manipulation of democracy. - Jim Bolger Quotes
To pay out millions upon millions of dollars in bonuses for incomplete work, poor performance, and unacceptable products is the height of government waste and mismanagement. - Jim Gibbons Quotes
The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule. - Miguel De Unamuno Quotes
I did Star 80, which was a magnificent experience as well, but still, I was at the height of my career at the beginning. Then I had to jump down the ladder and climb back up again, which I didnt understand. That was very hard. - Mariel Hemingway Quotes
I couldnt 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 Quotes
Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a mans stature as to his happiness. - Laurence Sterne Quotes
Here I found myself in my early 20s, at the height of my career, up against something I was totally powerless against. I had enemies I had never heard of because of this. I certainly didnt have needles hanging out of my arms, nor did I smoke anything. - Irene Cara Quotes
When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. It needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable. - Mark Haddon Quotes
Its the height of folly to want to be the only wise one. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld Quotes
The height of the pulleys from the ground was twelve yards, and consequently, when the weights had descended through that distance, they had to be wound up again in order to renew the motion of the paddle. - James Prescott Joule Quotes
Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance. - Kate Adie Quotes
Censorship is the height of vanity. - Martha Graham Quotes
At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities. - Jean Houston Quotes
Thus I was able to make pioneering measurements of the height and physical scale of plasma clouds in the ionosphere and also to estimate wind speeds in this region. - Antony Hewish Quotes
To take my work seriously would be the height of folly. - Edward Gorey Quotes
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