#loft

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher. ↗

— Henry Van Dyke

#down #high #higher #lift #little

The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field. ↗

— Edmund Waller

#build #field #her #humble #lark

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself. ↗

— Havelock Ellis

#arts #beautiful #because #dancing #itself

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#every #every day #great #great work #hearing

The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#art #biggest #biggest problem #create #every

Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian. ↗

— Emma Goldman

#been #change #conditions #daring #every

I was thrust into a really lofty, enviable, but isolated position with 'Princess Diaries' in that I could carry a film before I really knew if I could act. ↗

— Anne Hathaway

#before #carry #could #diaries #enviable

Fame is the inheritance not of the dead, but of the living. It is we who look back with lofty pride to the great names of antiquity. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#back #dead #fame #great #inheritance

What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan. ↗

— Oliver Herford

#ambition #egg #electric #fan #i

The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain. ↗

— Horace

#fall #heavier #high #highest #highest mountain