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“There's high, and there's high, and to get really high--I mean so high that you can walk on the water, that high-that's where I'm going'.”
George Harrison
“I've always believed the greater danger is not aiming too high, but too low, settling for a bogey rather than shooting for an eagle”
Peter Scott
“I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.”
Yousuf Karsh
“A high hope for a low heaven.”
William Shakespeare
“A strict observance of the written laws is doubtless one of the high virtues of a good citizen, but it is not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self-preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation.”
Thomas Jefferson
“For long you live and high you fly But only if you ride the tide And balanced on the biggest wave You race towards an early grave.”
Pink Floyd
“The High and the Mighty,”
John Wayne
“A cathedral, a wave of a storm, a dancer's leap, never turn out to be as high as we had hoped”
Marcel Proust
“The optimist pleasantly ponders how high his kite will fly; the pessimist woefully wonders how soon his kite will fall.”
William Arthur Ward
“When asked what I am most proud of, I stick out my chest, hold my head high and state proudly, 'I served in the United States Navy!'”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy