#lofty

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

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

— Edmund Waller

#build #field #her #humble #lark

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

— Thornton Wilder

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

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

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

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#admire #appalling #assembly #easy #everything