#above

There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#daily #destiny #easily #imagination #level

That's what my Dad always told me, on the ballot, they should always have a third choice, like none of the above, then if enough people picked that, they'd have to get new candidates. ↗

— Meg White

#always #ballot #candidates #choice #dad

Somehow I kept my head above water. I relied on the discipline, character, and strength that I had started to develop as that little girl in her first swimming pool. ↗

— Esther Williams

#character #develop #discipline #first #girl

Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you. ↗

— Walter Winchell

#always #below #beside #never #you

I would like above any other place to go to Hartford. I want to face the conservatism there centered and compel it into decency. ↗

— Victoria Woodhull

#any #centered #compel #conservatism #decency

I installed a skylight in my apartment... the people who live above me are furious! ↗

— Steven Wright

#apartment #furious #i #installed #live

It is hard to see Judge Roberts as a judicial activist who would place ideological purity or a particular agenda above or ahead the need for thoughtful legal reasoning. ↗

— Ron Wyden

#activist #agenda #ahead #hard #ideological

Generally speaking, if people are prepared to stick their heads above the power pit, like Zinn says, and absorb what's going on around them, it makes them think. ↗

— Thom Yorke

#absorb #around #generally #going #heads

I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master. ↗

— Brigham Young

#i #instead #law #live #make

There is in fact no such thing as art for art's sake, art that stands above classes, art that is detached from or independent of politics. Proletarian literature and art are part of the whole proletarian revolutionary cause. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#art #cause #classes #detached #fact