Quotes of: High-maintenance Keyword

Maniacal suicide. —This is due to hallucinations or delirious conceptions. The patient kills himself to escape from an imaginary danger or disgrace, or to obey a mysterious order from on high, etc.

On Suicide: A Study in Sociology

A daughter,' Rowley scooped up the child and held her high. The baby blinked from sleep and crowed with him. 'Any fool can have a son,' he said. 'It takes a man to conceive a daughter.

The Serpent's Tale

Our days are numbered in the book of days, Most High," Gorgon murmurs as the garden comes once more into view. "That is what gives them sweetness and purpose.

The Sweet Far Thing

Keeping your face to the sunshine and your vibes positively high, Helps one in hard times use a smile to replace their sigh

Soul Vomit: Beating Down Domestic Violence

And so ends his rush from his greatest act of rebellion. He understands that no matter where he runs or how high he flies, he will always have to come home.

Sever

How often it is that we set ourselves in the high seat, judging others, not having read their book but merely having glimpsed the cover.

Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year

The tyrant is a child of Pride Who drinks from his sickening cup Recklessness and vanity, Until from his high crest headlong He plummets to the dust of hope.

Oedipus Rex

No passion is stronger in the breast of a man than the desire to make others believe as he believes. Nothing so cuts at the root of his happiness and fills him with rage as the sense that another rates low what he prizes high.

Orlando

Political skills are essential career competencies to get ahead and stay ahead.

The Politics of Promotion: How High-Achieving Women Get Ahead and Stay Ahead

Mike drank straight from the carton, wiped his mouth, and stared at her. "You've been acting freaky. Are you high? Can I have some if you are?

Pretty Little Liars

Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high with reasons why privacy should give way to national security, to law and order [...] and the like.

Points of Rebellion

A brick could be used as a cube. No it couldn’t. If you thought it could, you need to be punished. I’m going to recommend to the high school principal that you be forced to repeat geometry—with Mr. Blanket.


Rick Bet Blank

In business I play hardball, because softball is for high school girls. People don’t know I used to be a pitcher. I was full of water, until my ex wife poured it all out.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

Come Hell or High Water" usually depends on the kind of plug you use in the bath tub

And That’s Why I’m Single

I wear a glove to honor all the men who have given me a hand. And to think, out of all those men, they only had one hand. No wonder I never get any high-fives.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

If I grew an inch a day, in 365 days I’d be one year tall. I’d be over three basketball hoops high, but I’d still only be able to palm a Sunday once a year.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

In all four years of high school, not once did I make the football team. The other part of the story is that I never even tried out. Just raw talent, I guess.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

But I don't know how I'll ever get a college degree and rise in the world with no high school diploma and eyes like piss holes in the snow, as everyone tells me.

'Tis

Jumping to conclusions is efficient if the conclusions are likely to be correct and the costs of an occasional mistake acceptable. Jumping to conclusions is risky when the situation is unfamiliar, the stakes are high and there is no time to collect m...

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Teachers are wonderful beings who inspire the spirit and open the mind. Nobody at Padua High School fits that description.

Ten Things I Hate about You

They flew high above savanna grassland. The sky was the deep cornflower blue of a sunny late afternoon on Earth…exactly the color of a sunny late afternoon on Earth. Only there was no sun. Whatever was lighting this planet, it wasn’t a star.

Vertigo