#above

After the horse dance was over, it seemed that I was above the ground and did not touch it when I walked. ↗

— Black Elk

#after #dance #did #ground #horse

No architect troubled to design houses that suited people who were to live in them, because that would have meant building a whole range of different houses. It was far cheaper and, above all, timesaving to make them identical. ↗

— Michael Ende

#above #architect #because #building #cheaper

I had to spend countless hours, above and beyond the basic time, to try and perfect the fundamentals. ↗

— Julius Erving

#basic #beyond #countless #fundamentals #had

I love good sense above all, perhaps because I have none. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#because #good #good sense #i #i love

In 1790 we had less than eight hundred thousand slaves. Under our mild and humane administration of the system they have increased above four millions. ↗

— Robert Toombs

#administration #eight #four #had #humane

Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness. ↗

— Leon Trotsky

#baseness #before #cannot #cynicism #easy

It is our job above all in politics to tackle the big issues and to explain them, and have the honesty to say to people, 'There are no easy solutions here.' ↗

— Malcolm Turnbull

#big #easy #explain #here #honesty

I have argued above that we cannot prevent the Singularity, that its coming is an inevitable consequence of the humans' natural competitiveness and the possibilities inherent in technology. ↗

— Vernor Vinge

#argued #cannot #coming #competitiveness #consequence

As a songwriter, I was influenced by David Bowie - a great writer. A class above everybody in so many ways. Lennon and McCartney, of course. Class stuff. David Cousins was my favorite lyricist. ↗

— Rick Wakeman

#bowie #class #course #cousins #david

Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it.there. ↗

— Barbara Walters

#actual #astronauts #before #beyond #clouds