#above

There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves. ↗

— Robert Quillen

#act #every #glimpses #heaven #ourselves

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

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

The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#anxiety #beneath #constantly #english #englishman

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so. ↗

— Georges Bernanos

#fine #fine thing #must #order #pride

Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above. ↗

— Edmund Waller

#agree #angels #could #dispute #forbear

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#am #atrocity #between #cause #disaster

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#above #freedom #freedom of speech #itself #life