#above

We all love the environment, but we have placed creatures above people. A rat is a rat. ↗

— Sonny Bono

#creatures #environment #love #people #placed

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable. ↗

— Andre Breton

#affairs #because #despairing #desperate #everything

The time has come for all good men to rise above principle. ↗

— Huey Long

#come #good #good men #men #principle

In the shallow parts of many Swiss lakes, where there is a depth of no more than from 5 to 15 feet of water, ancient wooden piles are observed at the bottom sometimes worn down to the surface of the mud, sometimes projecting slightly above it. ↗

— Charles Lyell

#ancient #bottom #depth #down #feet

The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#above #both #complain #down #fact

Remember, I come from such an excessively overdone, red-carpet place called Hollywood. So I'm used to people blowing up their success in ways that are far above and beyond the truth. ↗

— Shirley MacLaine

#beyond #blowing #called #come #excessively

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves. ↗

— Lydia M. Child

#above #effort #lifts #made #others

Reagan was all about America, and you talked about it. Obama is, 'We are above that now. We're not just parochial, we're not just chauvinistic, we're not just provincial. We stand for something.' I mean, in a way, Obama's standing above the country, above - above the world. He's sort of God. He's going to bring all different sides together. ↗

— Chris Matthews

#above #america #bring #country #different

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here. ↗

— Golda Meir

#being #country #get #here #him

The city has to do what any citizen or family does, when you have a dream. You tighten your belt. You sacrifice some luxuries. Above all, you don't waste a dime. ↗

— Laura Miller

#any #belt #citizen #city #dime