#above

I am confident that this legislature will rise above partisan bickering, especially after the public promises its members made last fall, and that it will demonstrate a high capacity for civil service. ↗

— Charles Edison

#after #am #bickering #capacity #civil

Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane. ↗

— Eddie Vedder

#above #became #betrayed #commerce #dear

The descent to the infernal regions is easy enough, but to retrace one's steps, and reach the air above, there's the rub. ↗

— Virgil

#air #descent #easy #enough #infernal

It's only when you're flying above it that you realize how incredible the Earth really is. ↗

— Philippe Perrin

#earth #flying #how #incredible #only

I was up above it. Now, I'm down in it. ↗

— Trent Reznor

#down #i #now #up

There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning. ↗

— Pat Riley

#always #attitude #beyond #champion #everybody

Suddenly life has new meaning to me, there's beauty up above and things we never take notice of, you wake up suddenly you're in love. ↗

— Billy Ocean

#beauty #life #love #me #meaning

Cursed be he above all others Who's enslaved by love of money. Money takes the place of brothers, Money takes the place of parents, Money brings us war and slaughter. ↗

— Anacreon

#brings #brothers #cursed #enslaved #love

So, what I say to people is that politics has got to be about principle and values above all. Of course, there are times when you have to make accommodations. ↗

— Chris Patten

#above #accommodations #course #got #i

Mediocrity is now, as formerly, dangerous, commonly fatal, to the poet; but among even the successful writers of prose, those who rise sensibly above it are the very rarest exceptions. ↗

— William E. Gladstone

#among #commonly #dangerous #even #exceptions