(697 quotes found)
“Again the Ghost sped on, above the black and heaving sea -- on, on -- until, being far away, as he told Scrooge, from any shore, they lighted on a ship. They stood beside the helmsman at the wheel, the look-out in the bow, the officers who had the watch; dark, ghostly figures in their several stations; but every man among them hummed a Christmas tune, or had a Christmas thought, or spoke below his breath to his companion of some bygone Christmas Day, with homeward hopes belonging to it. And every man on board, waking or sleeping, good or bad, had had a kinder word for another on that day than on any day in the year; and had shared to some extent in its festivities; and had remembered those he cared for at a distance, and had known that they delighted to remember him.”
Charles Dickens
“I too must attempt a way by which I can raise myself above the ground, and soar triumphant through the lips of men.”
Virgil
“Some people wish above all to conform to the rules, I wish only to render what I can hear. There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law.”
Claude Debussy
“Rise above yourself.”
Thomas Leonard
“I don't feel I'm a step above anyone on this team. I'm just another link in the chain.”
Jeff Gordon
“Above the vulgar flight of common souls.”
Arthur Murphy
“Looking backward we could almost see, suspended with the most delicate equipoise above the flat little island, the ghostly shapes of those twin orbs of the Empire, the cricket ball and the blackball.”
Patrick Leigh Fermor
“There's not a lot of relief in sight. I would not be surprised to see the monthly deficit go above $60 billion by fall, and stay there.”
Nariman Behravesh
“I hear in the chamber above me / The patter of little feet.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.”
Franklin D. Roosevelt
