#high

The essence of optimism is that it takes no account of the present, but it is a source of inspiration, of vitality and hope where others have resigned; it enables a man to hold his head high, to claim the future for himself and not to abandon it to his enemy. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#account #claim #enables #enemy #essence

The higher one climbs the lonelier one is. ↗

— Mary Barnett Gilson

#higher #lonelier

It's always an enormous pressure when you do a sequel. The demands are so high, and it's expensive. ↗

— Jan de Bont

#demands #enormous #enormous pressure #expensive #high

Summer ends, and Autumn comes, and he who would have it otherwise would have high tide always and a full moon every night. ↗

— Hal Borland

#autumn #comes #ends #every #every night

When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#even #highest #honorable #place #rank

The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#eyes #highest #like #occupy #place

The more we reduce ourselves to machines in the lower things, the more force we shall set free to use in the higher. ↗

— Anna C. Brackett

#free #higher #lower #machines #more

In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained. ↗

— James H. Breasted

#any #anywhere #ascent #attained #carries

Performing live is the greatest high in the world. That's why I do what I do. ↗

— Toni Braxton

#high #i #i do #live #performing

Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school. ↗

— Beau Bridges

#guitar #high #high school #i #school