#loft

Among these temples there is one which far surpasses all the rest, whose grandeur of architectural details no human tongue is able to describe; for within its precincts, surrounded by a lofty wall, there is room enough for a town of five hundred families. ↗

— Hernando Cortes

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What I am proposing this year are not lofty concepts far removed form the daily struggle so of ordinary Georgians. They are proposals that directly effect the lives of the people we serve. ↗

— Roy Barnes

#concepts #daily #directly #effect #far

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