#above

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

You have to stay one level above everyone else. ↗

— Jim Otto

#else #everyone #level #stay #you

Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots. ↗

— Barney Oliver

#army #expect #expense #great #i

If interstellar travel is as time- or energy- demanding as the above figures indicate, it is far from obvious what the motive for colonization might be. ↗

— Barney Oliver

#colonization #demanding #far #figures #indicate

Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood; all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other. ↗

— Albert Pike

#all things #born #bound #brotherhood #constitutes

Every true man, sir, who is a little above the level of the beasts and plants does not live for the sake of living, without knowing how to live; but he lives so as to give a meaning and a value of his own to life. ↗

— Luigi Pirandello

#beasts #does #every #give #his

The more English is heard in the world, the more gratifying it seems to speak French, and above all to know the culture of our country. They find a kind of French social grace in the language and culture. ↗

— Bernard Pivot

#country #culture #english #find #french

For an object under the eye will appear very different from the same object placed above it; in an inclosed space, very different from the same in an open space. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#appear #different #eye #object #open

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit. ↗

— Alexander Pope

#certain #far #majesty #simplicity #which

The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort. ↗

— Colin Powell

#average #average people #competition #effort #healthiest