#elevated

When men take pleasure in feeling their minds elevated with strong drink, and so indulge their appetite as to disorder their understandings, neglect their duty as members of a family or civil society, and cast off all regard to religion, their case is much to be pitied. ↗

— John Woolman

#case #cast #civil #civil society #disorder

I like that 'once upon a time' quality, where the telling of a tale has an elevated sense of story. There's a whimsical quality to it. Sometimes in fairy tales more things seem possible, even though often they're real world based. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#elevated #even #fairy #fairy tales #i

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs. ↗

— Thomas Wolfe

#arts #beliefs #culture #elevated #set

Last year, New York got $200 million. This year, we're going to give them $124 million under this particular program. But last year was an artificially elevated number to make up from the very low grant the year before. ↗

— Michael Chertoff

#before #elevated #give #going #got

Friendship is mutual blackmail elevated to the level of love. ↗

— Robin Morgan

#friendship #level #love #mutual

I love the first two X-Men movies because I thought that Bryan Singer did such a great job. He elevated that whole genre. He's a very talented director. ↗

— Famke Janssen

#bryan #did #director #elevated #first

A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art. ↗

— Mark Strand

#been #course #elevated #into #life

The principal or highest part of the mountain having changed its direction to east and west, I ascended it in such manner as to leave its most elevated ranges to the south and travelled north west over a very rough and broken country generally covered with snow. ↗

— William Henry Ashley

#broken #changed #country #covered #direction

The first stage I preformed on were the stairs to the hallway in the living room. There was a really nice platform, and when people were sitting in the living room, it was kind of an elevated platform and we would put on shows and skits. ↗

— Sean Astin

#first #hallway #i #kind #living

The man who is fond of books is usually a man of lofty thought, and of elevated opinions. ↗

— John Dawkins

#elevated #fond #lofty #man #opinions