The inaugural morning at Merston High was officially over. It was no longer a mysterious place in Melody's imagination, filled with endless possibilities and hooks on which to hang hopes for a better tomorrow. It was completely - boringly - normal. L...
From secrecy and deception in high places, come home, America. From military spending so wasteful that it weakens our nation, come home, America.
What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait.
You need fans in high places, I always tell people. I don't care how talented you are.
I'm not against high-tech medicine. It has a secure place in the diagnosis and treatment of serious disease.
Sandy’s was one of those places that made poor, white trash feel like high-class consumers. This was the kind of place you’d take your mistress to, but never your wife. Wives expected better. Mistresses were impressed by the blandness of the over...
I want the privilege of guiding the arrows of my children and giving them the exhortations that can shoot them into the high place.
So rather than face the bitter truth, China has placed severe restrictions on the Internet and enlisted America's high-tech companies as their Internet police.
The aims of these three groups are entirely irreconcilable. The aim of the High is to remain where they are. The aim of the Middle is to change places with the High. The aim of the Low, when they have an aim-for it is an abiding characteristic of the...
Believe me, young lady, when I tell you that there is no place for you in his world of ghosts and nightmares — no place for your fresh beauty or your unmarred dreams, no place for your wonderful hope. He can bring you nothing, because he has lost e...
I know exactly what it's like to stand on top of a tall building or in a high place and look down and go, 'Ohhhh my God.' I try to get into that place every time I write a scene like that. And definitely when I write the action scenes, I get overheat...
Myra Fleener: Leave him alone, all right? He's a real special kid and, and I have high hopes for him and... I think if he works really hard, he can get an academic scholarship to Wabash College and can get out of this place. Coach Norman Dale: Why, d...
If I must fall, may it be from a high place.
Our culture places a very high premium on self-expression, but is relatively disinterested in producing "selves" that are worth expressing.
The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places. (p 57)
Greatness is not manifested by unlimited pragmatism, which places such a high premium on the end justifying any means and any methods.
The dual effect of high growth creating higher income that's taxed by government at all levels, combined with lessening demands placed on government that occurs during economic prosperity, is a worthy objective.
I am not against all forms of high-tech medicine. Drugs and surgeries have a secure place in the treatment of serious health conditions. But modern American medicine treats almost every health condition as if it were an emergency.
We need to be aware of what we are capable of first and realize that if you place your dreams really really high, you do have the potential to get to that level.
Paris enjoys a high reputation for the style of its public edifices, and, while there is a very great deal to condemn, compared with other capitals, I think it is entitled to a distinguished place in this particular.
Sometimes a great wound or concussion of the head, especially which happens by falling headlong from an high place, brings a prejudice and weakness to the animal faculty, dulling the understanding.
