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I think that when people look at me, and they look at my height and my voice and my coloring, they automatically think, 'Tough.'
Let us not disdain glory too much; nothing is finer, except virtue. The height of happiness would be to unite both in this life.
She can tell you the height of the attacker from the trigonometry of the blood spatter, while I'm fuzzy on what trigonometry is.
The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
I think a moment of critical energy has suddenly emerged. But moments like this come and go unless we seize them at their height.
I hate roses. Don't you? It's all right if you can hide them in a cutting garden, but I think a rose garden is the height of ick.
I love my height because when I'm doing gymnastics, it really benefits the sport - and also, I think being short is kind of cute.
I was then at the height of my two-facedness: that is, outside I seemed one way, inside I was another; outside false, inside true.
A good scientist values criticism almost higher than friendship: no, in science criticism is the height and measure of friendship.
People are so phobic and crazed about this word 'commitment.' It's weird. Everyone has taken this word to a new height of morality.
If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.
I'm trying not to focus on the height of my opponent, just to play my tennis and to open the angles because it's the most important.
A lot of people judge you on your height, your wingspan, but it's really about the will and the determination that defines a person.
Many young people come to me and tell me that 'You inspire us with the way you perform, even if you are a girl with a short height.'
I can pull off anything; I have the height and the attitude. The only thing I can't wear is a leotard, but I can wear anything else.
Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.
When I started out in this business, dance was not at the height it is now. It was almost like, you're either a dancer or an actress.
The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function.
If I find a good pair of jeans, I'll buy two, and get them hemmed to my height, and then I'll end up wearing those two for everything.
A lot of times I blend in a little bit easier because I'm not like a basketball player who's going to stand out because of his height.
The policy of letting the free market determine the height of wage rates is the only reasonable and successful full-employment policy.
Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use.
You must acquire the best knowledge first, and without delay; it is the height of madness to learn what you will later have to unlearn.
Overcoming fear doesn't have to be skydiving, if you're afraid of heights. Overcoming fear is an everyday thing. We do it all day long.
At the height of his popularity in 1977, Cat Stevens converted to Islam and dedicated his life to educational and philanthropic causes.
Even at its height, 'The Daily Show' would do one great show a week, one pretty good show a week, and then two 'meh' ones. It was filler.
Wild Bill was a strange character. In person he was about six feet and one inch in height. He was a Plains-man in every sense of the word.
The high-heeled shoe is a marvellously contradictory item; it brings a woman to a man's height but makes sure she cannot keep up with him.
Nothing so casts down the manly mind from it's height as the fondling of women and those bodily contacts which belong to the married state.
Thou hidden love of God, whose height, Whose depth unfathomed no man knows, I see from far thy beauteous light, Only I sigh for thy repose.
With my height, I probably wouldn't be able to make money playing pingpong, but I would just have fun with it. The table is too low for me.
I know I've accomplished a great deal for a man of my height. It's been a blessing, and I thank God for the talent. I've always given 110%.
Every time I think you’ve reached the limits of arrogance, you show me new heights. Truly, your egotism is like the Universe—ever expanding.
Form your life humanly, and you have done enough: but you will never reach the height of art and the depth of science without something divine.
Once I had asked God for one or two extra inches in height, but instead he made me as tall as the sky, so high that I could not measure myself.
Jayne Anne Phillips . . . is at the height of her powers in Lark and Termite. . . . This is a major novel from one of America's finest writers.
I used to be super self-conscious about my height. I mean, going everywhere and someone just looking at you - you're never not in the spotlight.
Those who, relying upon themselves only, not looking for assistance to anyone besides themselves, it is they who will reach the top-most height.
I know there are a lot of tall, beautiful actresses like Uma Thurman and Nicole Kidman who are my height, but they're still half the size of me!
A true Vor, Miles told himself severely, does not bury his face in his liegewoman's breasts and cry--even if he is at a convenient height for it.
In Jesus, God wills to be true God not only in the height but also in the depth - in the depth of human creatureliness, sinfulness and mortality.
When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment; a pair of lovers are sufficient to themselves
I'd never been a tall guy, and the girls I'd dated had all been my height--teenaged girls grow faster than guys, which is a cruel trick of nature.
I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.
I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on.
I was told I would never make it because I'm too short. Well, I'm still too short. It doesn't matter what your height is, it's what's in your heart.
Five-foot-8 is a perfectly normal height for a woman - it's slightly but not at all unusually tall and certainly shouldn't be causing you any torment.
I think when you love music, you love a lot of it. Now when it comes to jazz, it's very much in the hyperions of height. You go exploring every night.
Let's face it; by and large math is not easy, but that's what makes it so rewarding when you conquer a problem, and reach new heights of understanding.
He who cultivates that quiet, unobtrusive ecstasy of inner joyousness can scale any heights and be a leader in his field, no matter what that field is.