Quotes of: High-standards Keyword

Answers to Frequently Asked Questions: Yes. Yes. No. One time in high school. Three times in my twenties. Rocks no salt. Yes. Four. Never. And how dare you! I will take no further questions.

Seriously... I'm Kidding

Hate was the other side of love, wasn’t it? That’s what passion was like with her—to the highest of highs and the lowest of lows. We traveled to heaven and hell together. Earth wasn’t in the picture, and that was a problem.

Soulmates

Respect is not the equivalent to 'liking' a student or teacher; it is the ability to have a high regard for the role of another. In order to receive respect, we should demonstrate it first...

Memoirs of an Educarer: An Inspiration for Education

This isn't going to be pretty. Rules will be broken. Friendships will be tested. And huge risks will be taken. But they're small prices to pay for true love and freedom, right?

Monster High

...love is a chemical imbalance, too. That perilous highs and desperate lows and extravagant flurries of mood are not always symptoms of a broken mind, but signs of a beating heart.

Manic: A Memoir

If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly turn up very high on the list.

The Magician's Book: A Skeptic's Adventures in Narnia

Elrond,” Bruce said. “The Council of Elrond. From . It’s the meeting where they decide to destroy the One Ring.” “Jesus,” Annie said. “ of you got laid in high school, did you?

The Martian

In the course of time, Michael Strogoff reached a high station in the Empire. But it is not the history of his success, but the history of his trials, which deserves to be related.

Michael Strogoff

Come summer rain and winter snow, My love is there wherever you go; Over mountains high and oceans deep, My love will guide you awake or asleep.

Magelica's Voyage

As long as we don't get turned into something that looks more like high school, more like everybody else and less like us, I'll be okay.

Never Always Sometimes

So fine was the morning except for a streak of wind here and there that the sea and sky looked all one fabric, as if sails were stuck high up in the sky, or the clouds had dropped down into the sea.

To the Lighthouse

Sometimes I think high school is one long hazing activity: if you are tough enough to survive this, they'll let you become and adult. I hope it's worth it.

Speak

Fighting in the name of freedom has too high a price," Merlin sighed as he leaned into his mother's arms.

Sons of Avalon: Merlin's Prophecy

Winter is coming, warned the Stark words, and truly it had come to them with a vengeance. But it is high summer for House Lannister. So why am I so bloody cold?

A Storm of Swords

I'm going to see if Morris has a spare spine lying around you can borrow if you're scared to speak to that high-heeled, smug-ass bitch, Peabody.

Treachery in Death

I did not approve of your action—I was merely congratulating myself. What you mistook for clapping was merely me giving myself multiple high fives.

This Book Title is Invisible

I guess, like some guy once said, if triangles invented a god, the chances are high it would have three sides.

One of Us

Observe the behavior of your environment carefully for clues as to what is acceptable and rewarded.

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

We say God and the imagination are one . . . How high that highest candle lights the dark.

The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play

For I know that we laughers have a gross cousinship with the most high, and it is this contrast and perpetual quarrel which feeds a spring of merriment in the soul of a sane man.

The Path to Rome

Don't mind her. She keeps her nose so high in the air, she's liable to drown in a good rainstorm.

Prayers for Sale