Height Quotes

All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.
Casey Stengel

Everyone, Line, According

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
Robert Frost

Happiness, Makes, Lacks

Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.
Barack Obama

Power, Simple, Made

Bigotry and judgment are the height of insecurity.
Jasmine Guy

Insecurity, Judgment

I failed to make the chess team because of my height.
Woody Allen

Team, Chess, Failed

There is no such thing as a little country. The greatness of a people is no more determined by their numbers than the greatness of a man is by his height.
Victor Hugo

Country, Greatness, Determined

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

Nature, Yourself, True

Whatever fortune has raised to a height, she has raised only to cast it down.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Down, Whatever, She

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
Thomas Carlyle

Action, Solid, Depth

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The prevalence of suicide, without doubt, is a test of height in civilization; it means that the population is winding up its nervous and intellectual system to the utmost point of tension and that sometimes it snaps.
Havelock Ellis

Doubt, Sometimes, Means

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
Pliny the Elder

Live, Darkness, Reach

What I find most disturbing about Valentine's Day is, look, I get that you have to have a holiday of love, but in the height of flu season, it makes no sense.
Lewis Black

Love, Find, Sense

No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Women, Nation, Rise

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.
Gamaliel Bailey

Men, Respect, Sun

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
Dag Hammarskjold

Until, Top, Mountain

At the height of laughter, the universe is flung into a kaleidoscope of new possibilities.
Jean Houston

Laughter, Universe, Flung

You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.
Stephen Fry

Yourself, Reason, Six

To attempt the destruction of our passions is the height of folly. What a noble aim is that of the zealot who tortures himself like a madman in order to desire nothing, love nothing, feel nothing, and who, if he succeeded, would end up a complete monster!
Denis Diderot

Love, End, Nothing

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
Adlai E. Stevenson

Wisdom, Another, Often

If a man lets all of my dogs sleep in the bed with us, then that is the most romantic thing. You must love my dogs in order to love me. A man who is nice to my animals and doesn't shoo them away - well, that's the height of romance.
Salma Hayek

Love, Romantic, Nice

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 man's stature as to his happiness.
Laurence Sterne

Happiness, Within, Soon

A lot of times I blend in a little bit easier because I'm not like a basketball player who's going to stand out because of his height.
Tiger Woods

Basketball, Times, Stand

Tall men come down to my height when I hit 'em in the body.
Jack Dempsey

Men, Down, Body

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Love, Soul, Reach

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.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Life, Art, Science

If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it.
Jean Cocteau

Lives, State, Comfort

Your waist size should not be more than half your height.
Mehmet Oz

Half, Size, Waist

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

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Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
Novalis

Learning, Enjoyment

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