The car whispered up the slope and nosed quietly out above the trees. He was driving like a careful insult.
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
It was strange, this toxic little vein, strange to stand above it, looking down at night, in a dangerous neighborhood, as if they were in love and entitled to such adventures.
If my opinions are wrong, I must correct them—if they are above my station, I must endeavour to conceal them.
A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.
People trust their eyes above all else - but most people see what they wish to see, or what they believe they should see; not what is really there
[W]hen people are ashamed they hold aloof, above all from those nearest to them, and are unreserved with strangers
For her a day of pampering meant comic books, black liquorice, serious exercise, veggie curry and, above all, solitude.
Virtue is excellence, something uncommonly great and beautiful, which rises far above what is vulgar and ordinary.
I live there... Far above the song-filled clouds, where the dewdrops touch my skin so bare I live there.
As soon as one promises not to do something, it becomes the one thing above all others that one most wishes to do.
Never hesitate to let the one you love know how you feel. Align your minds, synchronise your hearts and above be fearless when dancing with their souls.
Miss Fairlie laughed with a ready good-humour, which broke out as brightly as if it had been part of the sunshine above us…
The sky above the island was the color of television, tuned to a dead channel—which is to say it was a bright, cheery blue.
The easiest thing in the world is to succeed. You can't help it if you follow the rules and play the game the best way you know how according to yourself, instead of according to the one next to you, or above you, or somewhere away from you.
The car doesn’t so much drive as float above the road, like we’re making our way to Sydney in a hovercraft.
If a man means to be hard, let him keep in his saddle and speak from that height, above the level of pleading eyes, and with the command of a distant horizon.
Twinkle, twinkle little bat How I wonder what you're at! Up above the world you fly, Like a tea-tray in the sky.
I vale friendship above every thing I care for my friends more then I do my own family sometimes
We must commit ourselves to an 'all of the above' energy approach, with a major focus on increasing domestic production and expanding alternatives fuels, while increasing efficiency and conservation standards.
The Ecuadorean and Latin American press is not like the European or North American press, which has some professional ethics. They are used to being above the law, to blackmail, to extort.
