#stature

We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

#actually #challenge #full #grow #know

One thing I have always been is too short. It's adorable when you're in junior high. After that, it's a pain in the ass for the rest of your life. ↗

— Elizabeth Berg

#humor #small #stature #humor

Men grow to the stature to which they are stretched when they are young. ↗

— Antony Jay

#men #stature #stretched #which #young

We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#because #bottom #generalized #intellectuals #international

Arnold Schwarzenegger's gubernatorial campaign raises a series of fascinating questions, the most perplexing of all being why an international star of his stature would ever want to run in the first place. ↗

— Michael Medved

#being #campaign #ever #fascinating #first