#higher

A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#corrupted #debate #get #goal #goals

You can become an even more excellent person by constantly setting higher and higher standards for yourself and then by doing everything possible to live up to those standards. ↗

— Brian Tracy

#constantly #doing #even #everything #excellent

We didn't have the lane ropes, we had to get up higher in the water to avoid the little waves. ↗

— Johnny Weissmuller

#get #had #higher #lane #little

In theater or movies you see either 'I'm religious' or 'I'm an atheist.' I've never seen too much discussion of 'I believe there's a higher power but I'm hesitant to reach out to him because I don't know if I'm worthy of his attention.' ↗

— Zach Braff

#attention #because #believe #discussion #either

At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of your life. ↗

— Robert Caro

#feel #higher #life #like #outside

They were often the first students in their family to go to college and the very idea of higher education was still foreign to them. They had to make a conscious and often difficult decision to come to college. ↗

— Michael N. Castle

#come #conscious #decision #difficult #education

Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused. But on a higher level. ↗

— Enrico Fermi

#am #before #came #confused #having

We fought no better, perhaps, than they. We exhibited, perhaps, no higher individual qualities. ↗

— Joshua Chamberlain

#exhibited #fought #higher #individual #perhaps

Once the brokerage house, rather than the bank, became the locus for American savings, that money would find its way into the stock market, because the broker was someone with a much higher tolerance for risk than the banker. ↗

— Ron Chernow

#bank #banker #became #because #broker

I sing in a higher register, and you haven't heard that on the radio in years. ↗

— Gary Cherone

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