Heights Quotes

Don't let the noise of others' opinions

drown out your own inner voice.

I love her and that’s the beginning

and end of everything

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

Life is full of misery,

loneliness,

and suffering—and it’s all over much too soon.

Reality is wrong.

Dreams are for real.

Manners require time,

and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

The best of men will not serve long in the army without ambition.

To be prepared for war is

one of the most effective means of preserving peace.

He who molds the public sentiment...

makes statutes and decisions possible or impossible to make.

Preachers in pulpits talked about

what a great message is in the book.

No matter what you do,

somebody always imputes meaning into your books.

Don’t tell me what you value.

Show me your budget,

and I’ll tell you what you value.

Well,

you don't get to do things that other children get to do,

having friends and slumber parties and buddies.

There were none of that for me.

I didn't have friends when I was little.

My brothers were my friends.

Preaching is the expression of the moral sentiment

in application to the duties of life.

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.

The belief that the world is getting worse is wrong.

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality,

they are not certain,

and as far as they are certain,

they do not refer to reality.

Thanksgiving just gets me

all warm and tingly and

all kinds of wonderful inside.

War

An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy,

to accomplish our will.

Defeat is a state of mind;

no one is ever defeated until

defeat has been accepted as a reality.

Objective journalism is the first rough draft of history.