High Minded Synonyms Quotes & Sayings

Imagine what our culture would be like if Americans sold ideas, words, and books with the same creativity we use to sell designer jeans, shampoo, and rock stars. Why, we might end up with people whos attention span for the printed word is longer than the time it takes to read a T-shirt. — Jim Trelease

Sam made me uncomfortable. I had a couple of different personas that pretty much worked across the board for everyone I had ever met, but none of them seemed right for him. He was painfully, annoyingly earnest, and how was I supposed to respond to that? — Maggie Stiefvater

Basketball is in my blood. It is my obligation to try. — Hakeem Olajuwon

One soft humid early spring morning driving a winding road across Mount Tamalpais, the 2,500-foot mountain just north of the Golden Gate Bridge, a bend reveals a sudden vision of San Francisco in shades of blue, a city in a dream, and I was filled with a tremendous yearning to live in that place of blue hills and blue buildings, though I do live there, I had just left there after breakfast. — Rebecca Solnit

He was not afraid. At every moment Nature signified by some laughing hint like that gold spot which went round the wall
there, there, there
her determination to show, by brandishing her plumes, shaking her tresses, flinging her mantle this way and that, beautifully, always beautifully, and standing close up to breathe through her hollowed hands Shakespeare's words, her meaning. — Virginia Woolf

Every step toward the elimination of profit is progress on the way toward social disintegration. — Ludwig Von Mises

It's not always to the benefit of the story to have it so preordained. — Daniel Woodrell

The talk that does not touch the world is called alaukik [that, which is beyond the world]. — Dada Bhagwan

Grover and Nico came back from their walk, and Grover helped me fix up my wounded arm.
"It's green!" Nico said with delight. — Rick Riordan

I make a point to never, ever point out my physical flaws ... this is advice I give to women as often as I can. People don't notice the things we see in ourselves that we hate, so why direct them to it? — Dita Von Teese

He who knows others is learned, but the wise one is the one who knows himself. Learning without wisdom is of no use. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

A lone surfer, barely floating above an empty ocean.
That's what it feels like in my soul."

--Kenna, Flame (Fireborn #1) — Mari Arden

Gratitude is the key to unlocking the door to abundance. — Debasish Mridha

One of the many divine qualities of the Bible is that it does not yield its secrets to the irreverent and the censorious. — J.I. Packer