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"We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them." »Abigail Adams
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"We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them." »Abigail Adams
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"Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in and the great ship, tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for something to happen I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding line, and no way of knowing how near the harbor was. 'Light Give me light' was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love shone on me in that very hour." »Helen Keller
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"When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere." »John Wyndham
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"Wide-sounding Zeus takes away half a man's worth on the day when slavery comes upon him." »Homer
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"There is an atmosphere of well-sounding oratory that likes to attach itself to dress clothes. Away with it" »Albert Einstein
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"At the risk of sounding ridiculous, a true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love." »Ernesto "Che" Guevara
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"The surest hindrance of success is to have too high a standard of refinement in our own minds, or too high an opinion of the judgment of the public. He who is determined not to be satisfied with anything short of perfection will never do anything to please himself or others." »Hazlitt
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"You will certainly not be able to take the lead in all things yourself, for to one man a god has given deeds of war, and to another the dance, to another lyre and song, and in another wide-sounding Zeus puts a good mind." »Homer
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"The journey to the cross began long before. As the echo of the crunching of the fruit was still sounding in the garden, Jesus was leaving for Calvary." »Max Lucado, "And the Angels were Silent the Final Week of Jesus"
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"High living and high thinking are poles apart." »B. J. Gupta
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"Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success." »T. T. Munger
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"High thoughts must have high language." »Aristophanes
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"History is a voice forever sounding across the centuries the laws of right and wrong. Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity." »James A. Forude
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"The best strategy to making money in the stock market is to buy an asset before it becomes too popular. You buy low and sell high, you do not buy high and hope you will sell higher. This is not an investment strategy it is speculation." »Med Jones
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"Commodities have shown a high correlation to inflation, especially in high inflation periods. In addition to diversification, the commodities asset class may also protect investment portfolios against an expected inflation or a declining local currency." »Med Jones
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"High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make." »Robert Francis Kennedy
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"What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living." »Doug Larson
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"Other people may not have high expectations of me, But I have high expectations for myself." »Shannon Miller
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"High expectations are the key to everything." »Sam Walton
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"There's a high pop-up behind second. Richardson has got it and he's under it." »Jerry Coleman
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"In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, they had better aim at something high." »Henry David Thoreau
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"In the long run, you hit only what you aim at: Therefore aim high." »Henry David Thoreau
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"I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity." »Tom Stoppard
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"God is like the sun at high noon, always giving all he has." »Arthur John Gossip
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"He who would leap high must take a long run." »Danish proverb
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"Standing on the earth and think to fly high." »Sandip Patel
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"No man is a man without high morals and ethics." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture." »Anatole France
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"Men in however high a station ought to fear the humble." »Phaedrus
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