#above

If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I still hung on to an idea that had been set deep in me by all my schooling so far: I was a bright boy and I ought to make something out of myself... something else that would be a cut or two above my humble origins. ↗

— Wendell Berry

#been #boy #bright #cut #deep

We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay, who will attack an owl ten times its size to drive it off its territory. But above all of them ranked the chickadee because of its indomitable spirit. ↗

— Tom Brown, Jr.

#attack #be patient #because #cleverness #courage

John Paul II, above all, managed to contain the huge mass of frustration, of hate that had accumulated in that region, in favour of a peaceful transition. This was, without doubt, something that changed European history. ↗

— Rocco Buttiglione

#changed #contain #doubt #european #favour

As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail. ↗

— John Cassavetes

#artist #dare #fail #feel #i

Not surprisingly, some of the super-rich declined to join the Patriotic Millionaires when the Agenda Project reached out to them. At least two airily dismissed the Bush tax cuts for millionaires and above - which will cost well over $700 billion over the coming decade - as small potatoes. ↗

— Joe Conason

#agenda #billion #bush #bush tax cuts #coming

The angel of mercy, the child of love, together had flown to the realms above. ↗

— Fanny Crosby

#angel #child #flown #had #love

The wise are above books. ↗

— Samuel Daniel

#books #wise

Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond. ↗

— Hal David

#create #emotion #i #others #respond

What concerns me, is the general social tendency to enforce a level, above which nothing rises and stands out. ↗

— Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#concerns #enforce #general #level #me

Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience. ↗

— Carl Clinton Van Doren

#actual #brought #curious #experience #facts