#above

May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs? ↗

— Charles Dickens

#being #below #common #common people #complaint

The students that, like the wild animal being prepared for its tricks in the circus called "life", expects only training as sketched above, will be severely disappointed: by his standards he will learn next to nothing. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#animal #being #being prepared #called #circus

Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#amusing #long #never #ones #stories

The thing about fashion - it's like ducks going quack, quack quack. It's being dictated from above, and it just makes me want to rebel against it. ↗

— Sara Blakely

#above #against #being #dictated #ducks

Speaking as a Democrat, all my life battling for what I conceived to be Democracy, and what I conceived to be right, I am yet an American above Democracy. ↗

— Richard Parks Bland

#am #american #battling #conceived #democracy

The interior of Mexico consists of a mass of volcanic rocks, thrust up to a great height above the sea-level. ↗

— Edward Burnett Tylor

#consists #great #height #interior #mass

Well, you have the public not wanting any new spending, you have the Republicans not wanting any new taxes, you have the Democrats not wanting any new spending cuts, you have the markets not wanting any new borrowing, and you have the economists wanting all of the above. And that leads to paralysis. ↗

— Michael Bloomberg

#any #borrowing #cuts #democrats #economists

The demands of the present must stand above the political habits of the past. ↗

— Matt Blunt

#demands #habits #must #past #political

When you are older you will understand how precious little things, seemingly of no value in themselves, can be loved and prized above all price when they convey the love and thoughtfulness of a good heart. ↗

— Edwin Booth

#convey #good #good heart #heart #how

The sky hides the night behind it, and shelters the people beneath from the horror that lies above. ↗

— Paul Bowles

#behind #beneath #hides #horror #lies