#high

Europe and America must act together in the face of evil. It's high time for Americans and Europeans to restore that unity and be able to take actions collectively together. ↗

— Wesley Clark

#act #actions #america #collectively #europe

Flattery in courtship is the highest insolence, for whilst it pretends to bestow on you more than you deserve, it is watching an opportunity to take from you what you really have. ↗

— Sarah Fielding

#courtship #deserve #flattery #highest #insolence

American high school students trail teenagers from 14 European and Asian countries in reading, math and science. We're even trailing France. ↗

— Suzanne Fields

#asian #asian countries #countries #european #even

German businessmen are overwhelmed by the high cost of doing business. Inflexible rules, enforced by a burgeoning bureaucracy, discourage entrepreneurship. ↗

— Suzanne Fields

#burgeoning #business #businessmen #cost #discourage

Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character. ↗

— Henry Clay

#character #highly #honorable #men #prized

I think that there's something extremely beautiful about the Olympic ideal and its motto - 'Swifter, higher, stronger' - it's such a beautiful motto, and it celebrates everything which is the antithesis of death and dissolution and entropy. ↗

— Chris Cleave

#antithesis #beautiful #celebrates #death #dissolution

We are at last on the high lands of Mexico, the districts which at least three different races have chosen to settle in, neglecting the fertile country below. ↗

— Edward Burnett Tylor

#chosen #country #different #districts #fertile

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours. ↗

— Grover Cleveland

#ago #assigned #assumed #civilization #higher

It is better to be defeated standing for a high principle than to run by committing subterfuge. ↗

— Grover Cleveland

#committing #defeated #high #principle #run

This sense of power is the highest and best of pleasures when the belief on which it is founded is a true belief, and has been fairly earned by investigation. ↗

— William Kingdon Clifford

#belief #best #earned #fairly #founded