#above

In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy. ↗

— Brian Mulroney

#enemy #friends #madame #need #politics

A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses. ↗

— Robert Musil

#average #contemporaries #deep #fine #geniuses

It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality above idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their direction, and he awakens them. ↗

— Robert Musil

#actuality #along #always #average #awakens

Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. ↗

— George Jean Nathan

#above #arbitrary #estate #often #principles

The intelligence community, for the most part, has no accountability at all; to the Congress, to us the American people, and so they feel that they above the law. ↗

— Gloria Naylor

#accountability #american #american people #community #congress

To set the cause above renown. ↗

— Henry Newbolt

#cause #renown #set

When about fifteen I once made a great scandal by taking out my knife in prayer meeting and assaulting a young man who, while I was kneeling down during the prayer, stood above me and squeezed my neck. ↗

— Simon Newcomb

#above #assaulting #down #during #fifteen

Faith indeed tells what the senses do not tell, but not the contrary of what they see. It is above them and not contrary to them. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#above #contrary #indeed #see #senses

What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#beast #centuries #cudgel #irresistible #man

A great philosopher has stated that the worst evil of poverty is, that it makes folks ridiculous; by which, I hope, he only means that, as in the above case, it places them in incongruous positions. ↗

— James Payn

#case #evil #folks #great #hope