#high

They told me that the hotels had maybe two rooms set up for people with disabilities, but if they got there too late, and didn't get one of these rooms, they couldn't take a shower. The room wasn't hooked up for them, or maybe the sink was too high. ↗

— Gregory Hines

#get #got #had #high #hooked

Notwithstanding this high Ecclesiastical authority, he who dared accept truth only because it could be proved, or proved to be good, and disregard authority, was commonly stigmatized as an infidel. ↗

— Ethan A. Hitchcock

#authority #because #commonly #could #dared

For the standard of Christian life was to be strained to a higher pitch; more fasting was required, and more careful separation from the manners and enjoyments of the world; celibacy and martyrdom had great value set upon them, and second marriages were prohibited. ↗

— Robert Rainy

#celibacy #christian #christian life #enjoyments #fasting

Sure I should have been at the Fifa workshop for example, but I had personal reasons for not being there and looking back saying that it was a mistake for me not being there I would take the same decision because the personal situation has higher priority than a workshop. ↗

— Jurgen Klinsmann

#because #been #being #being there #decision

The highest of the world's mountains, it seems, has to make but a single gesture of magnificence to be the lord of all, vast in unchallenged and isolated supremacy. ↗

— George Leigh Mallory

#highest #isolated #lord #magnificence #make

Only under conditions of revolutionary crises do you have the highest level of self-organization; this is the Soviet type of organization, which is to say, workers' councils, people's councils, call them what you want, popular committees. ↗

— Ernest Mandel

#committees #conditions #councils #crises #highest

The real danger of writing a great song when you're on something is that it might get you thinking that the only way to repeat that is by only writing when you're high. ↗

— Barry Mann

#get #great #high #might #only

With the parties at virtual parity and the ideological gulf between them never greater, the stakes of majority control of Congress are extremely high. ↗

— Thomas E. Mann

#congress #control #extremely #greater #gulf

There have been high crimes and misdemeanors, but they have been committed by the special prosecutor and the Congress, not the president. ↗

— Donella Meadows

#committed #congress #crimes #high #misdemeanors

I have young kids. The fiscal burden that will be imposed on them is going to depend primarily on whether we tackle this looming problem in our health care system - with rising costs that don't seem, by the way, to be necessarily associated with higher quality. That is the key burden that they will face. ↗

— Peter Orszag

#burden #care #costs #depend #face