#above

There is but one pride pardonable; that of being above doing a base or dishonorable action. ↗

— Samuel Richardson

#action #base #being #dishonorable #doing

One can become enthusiastic over anything. For a time I was delighted with bomb throwing. It gave me a tremendous pleasure to bomb those fellows from above. ↗

— Manfred von Richthofen

#anything #become #bomb #delighted #enthusiastic

I'm severely overrated. I'm just above a hack. ↗

— Chris Rock

#hack #i #just #overrated #severely

Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant. ↗

— Julia Roberts

#after #comes #dictionary #just #republican

Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation. ↗

— J. M. Roberts

#authority #cannons #everywhere #further #greatest

We will fight evil, but we will do it from above 15,000 feet. ↗

— Pat Roberts

#evil #feet #fight #will

Above anything else, I hate to lose. ↗

— Jackie Robinson

#anything #else #hate #i #lose

But egoism is more than this. It is the realization by the individual that he is above all institutions and all formulas; that they exist only so far as he chooses to make them his own by accepting them. ↗

— John Buchanan Robinson

#accepting #chooses #egoism #exist #far

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. ↗

— J. R. R. Tolkien

#cheer #food #gold #more #song

I would cap the amount of federal government can spend at 20 percent of the economy. Bring it back to 20 percent or lower. And say, we are not going to spend above that level. Democrats, they want to raise your taxes and spend more and more and turn us into an economy which is no longer driven by the private sector. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#amount #back #bring #cap #democrats