Living At High Elevation Quotes & Sayings

I am totally convinced that most grown-ups have completely forgotten what is it like to be a child between the ages of five and then ... I can remember exactly what it was like. I am certain I can. — Roald Dahl

Back at home, after some prodding from Tereza, he admitted that he had been jealous watching her dance with a colleague of his. "You mean you were really jealous?" she asked him ten times or more, incredulously, as though someone had just informed her she had been awarded a Nobel Peace prize. Then she put her arm around his waist and began dancing across the room. The step she used was not the one she had shown off in the bar. It was more like a village polka, a wild romp that sent her legs flying in the air and her torso bounding all over the room, with Tomas in tow. Before long, unfortunately, she bagan to be jealous herself, and Tomas saw her jealously not as a Nobel Prize, but as a burden, a burden he would be saddled with until not long before his death. — Milan Kundera

I have many things I want out of life, but I'm practical. I know that I must wait to get what I want. — Jude Deveraux

You must know what you are capable of. — Zhang Yimou

People living godly will dwell on high. Meaning wealth, honour, prosperity, fame, elevation, joy etc. — Sunday Adelaja

To create is to resist; to resist is to create. — Stephane Hessel

I should have liked to get married, but over many decades I have lived essentially alone. I go to sleep when I'm tired, get up when I wake up, have my food prepared when I'm hungry. I can't bear the thought that I'd have to coincide, make an effort. — Felix Dennis

I'd start to explain with the outward sheepish and inner pride of the nerd. — Robert Lane Greene

Newspapers are being read all around. The point is not, of course, to glean new information, but rather to coax the mind out of its sleep-induced introspective temper. — Alain De Botton

Note, that yeast of good Beer, is better then that of Ale. — Kenelm Digby