#above

We decline the claim to power by parties which want to own their followers body and soul, and which want to put themselves over and above the whole nation. ↗

— Franz von Papen

#body #claim #decline #followers #nation

Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders. ↗

— Ted Williams

#fifty #fifty percent #hitting #percent #shoulders

The wise are above books. ↗

— Samuel Daniel

#books #wise

Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond. ↗

— Hal David

#create #emotion #i #others #respond

Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me. ↗

— Bob Geldof

#does #else #me #music #still

This is ridiculous, I mean, wholly ridiculous. It never did any child any harm to have something that was a tiny bit above them anyway, and I claim that anyone who can follow Doctor Who can follow absolutely anything. ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#absolutely #any #anyone #anything #anyway

Today's preoccupation with physical theories of everything takes a wrong turn from the purpose of science - to question all things relentlessly. Modern physics has become like Swift's kingdom of Laputa, flying absurdly on an island above the earth and indifferent to what is beneath. ↗

— Robert Lanza

#absurdly #all things #become #beneath #earth

Finally, gentleman, from the considerations above mentioned, as I cannot consistently with my own honor, nor with utility to my country, considering the manner in which Business is transacted here, remain any longer in this chair, I now resign it. ↗

— Henry Laurens

#any #business #cannot #chair #considerations

Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever. ↗

— Nancy Lopez

#doubt #everything #everywhere #forever #judge

You know it's hard to hear what a bearded man is saying. He can't speak above a whisker. ↗

— Herman J. Mankiewicz

#bearded #hard #hear #know #man