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“It is in the compelling zest of high adventure and of victory, and in creative action, that man finds his supreme joys.”
— Antoine de Saint Exupery
“Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures-in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together.”
— Antoine de Saint Exupery
“What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.”
— Sigmund Freud
“Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. ”
— Abraham Lincoln
“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. ”
— Abraham Lincoln
“The lofty pine is oftenest shaken by the winds; High towers fall with a heavier crash; And the lightning strikes the highest mountain. ”
— Horace
“In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs. ”
— Karl Marx
“The man of genius is he and he alone who finds such joy in his art that he will work at it come hell or high water.”
— Stendhal
“A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy.”
— Aldous Huxley
“When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
“The safety of the people shall be the highest law.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
“The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk. ”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
“The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body.”
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers. ”
— Lord Byron
“Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people. ”
— Lord Byron
“I didn't leave bodybuilding until I felt that I had gone as far as I could go. It will be the same with my film career. When I feel the time is right, I will then consider public service. I feel that the highest honor comes from serving people and your country.”
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
“You know, nothing is more important than education, because nowhere are our stakes higher; our future depends on the quality of education of our children today.”
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
“Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.”
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
“Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.”
— Arthur Conan Doyle
“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.”
— Arthur Conan Doyle
“The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.”
— Sophocles
“The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.”
— Victor Hugo
“Alas! Alas! Life is full of disappointments; as one reaches one ridge there is always another and a higher one beyond which blocks the view.”
— Fridtjof Nansen
“Obviously, the highest type of efficiency is that which can utilize existing material to the best advantage. ”
— Jawaharlal Nehru
“The high-spirited man may indeed die, but he will not stoop to meanness. Fire, though it may be quenched, will not become cool. ”
— Ovid
“Envy aims very high. ”
— Ovid
“Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.”
— Ovid
“Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers. ”
— Ovid
“When you go off in the world and make your life, and you come back to your home town, and you find your old high-school friends driving in the same circles, doing the same things, that's what Hollywood's like. It's a little block, little town. It doesn't really grow or change.”
— Robert Rodriguez
“I like to keep my budgets at a certain price when I work for someone else, and even more so now that I'm working for myself, and use new technologies to deliver films that look like they have high production levels. ”
— Robert Rodriguez
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