People don't want to watch a sport where you see people fall down and somehow score above someone who goes clean.
The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
The successful man doesn't use others, other people use the successful man, for above all the success is of service.
I used to love stage above all, but that was when I was a single man. As I get older, the time commitment gets harder for theatre.
One of the things that's clear to me from interviews that I've read is that the more popular successful jazz musicians had audiences above and beyond the music community.
We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.
There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.
Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.
What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
Careers, children and homemaking all come above preserving your appearance. Self-preservation is at the bottom of the scale.
Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.
Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.
I've never really viewed myself as particularly talented. I've viewed myself as slightly above average in talent.
I've always wanted to live above my means because it inspired me to work harder.
Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.
Ivanov's fear was of a literary nature. That is, it was the fear that afflicts most citizens who, one fine (or dark) day, choose to make the practice of writing, and especially the practice of fiction writing, an integral part of their lives. Fear of...
My love, a person is better judged by how they treat their inferiors than their betters. That is the true measure of a man, or a woman. Think you that you are so far above Lata?" "If I am to be your wife then I shall be far above her and she had bett...
She had not heard him enter, and hardly realized his presence there. She was yawning, and he saw the red interior of her mouth as if it had been a snake's. She had stretched one arm so high above her coiled-up cable of hair that he could see its sati...
Millions call themselves by His name, it is true, and pay some token homage to Him, but a simple test will show how little He is really honored among them. Let the average man be put to the proof on the question of who or what is ABOVE, and his true ...
Under the ground seep the toxins of the population that lives above. If you have to, you will eat roots and earthworms. It is always night. Candles burn in lanterns made from tin cans. When it is nighttime up above, you can crawl out, but only for a ...
Writing keeps me at my desk, constantly trying to write a perfect sentence. It is a great privilege to make one’s living from writing sentences. The sentence is the greatest invention of civilization. To sit all day long assembling these extraordin...
