#above

The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#anxiety #beneath #constantly #english #englishman

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so. ↗

— Georges Bernanos

#fine #fine thing #must #order #pride

Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above. ↗

— Edmund Waller

#agree #angels #could #dispute #forbear

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#am #atrocity #between #cause #disaster

October is the fallen leaf, but it is also a wider horizon more clearly seen. It is the distant hills once more in sight, and the enduring constellations above them once again. ↗

— Hal Borland

#again #also #clearly #constellations #distant

We who officially value freedom of speech above life itself seem to have nothing to talk about but the weather. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#above #freedom #freedom of speech #itself #life

Above all, film is a business... Independence is a really cool thing as you can be a bit more bold, and take a few more chances with what you do. ↗

— Mel Gibson

#bit #bold #business #chances #cool

The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station. ↗

— William Gibson

#color #dead #port #sky #station

How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens above? ↗