#stature

Malice is of a low stature, but it hath very long arms. ↗

— George Savile

#hath #long #low #malice #stature

I think I have a superior brain and an inferior stature, if you really want to get brutal about it. ↗

— Paul Simon

#brain #brutal #get #i #i think

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness. ↗

— Laurence Sterne

#alas #contentment #grandeur #happiness #height

It always impresses me when a person of small stature has command. ↗

— Ned Beatty

#command #impresses #me #person #small

Space is the stature of God. ↗

— Joseph Joubert

#space #stature

Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#again #another #awakened #does #farther

Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature. ↗

— Edna Ferber

#becoming #been #cut #even #fit

My character is somebody who is smaller in stature and yet who's strong, so to see the fighting situations between people who are not generally thought of being strong is in itself unusual and therefore interesting, I think. ↗

— Chiaki Kuriyama

#being strong #between #character #fighting #generally

Men grow to the stature to which they are stretched when they are young. ↗

— Antony Jay

#men #stature #stretched #which #young

We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#because #bottom #generalized #intellectuals #international