High quotes

“The most important element of a free society, where individual rights are held in the highest esteem, is the rejection of the initiation of violence.” Ron Paul

“If I hadn't been a woman, I'd be a drag queen for sure. I like all that flair and I'd be dressing up in them high heels and putting on the big hair. I'd be like Ru Paul.” Dolly Parton

“The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly.” Chuck Palahniuk

“In the richest country in the history of the world, this Obama economy has crushed the middle class. Family income has fallen by $4,000, but health insurance premiums are higher, food prices are higher, utility bills are higher, and gasoline prices have doubled. Today more Americans wake up in poverty than ever before.” Mitt Romney

“Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. But from the beginning, this nation trusted in God, not man. Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution.” Mitt Romney

“Today's misery is real unemployment, home foreclosures and bankruptcies. This is the Obama Misery Index and its at a record high. Its going to take more than new rhetoric to put Americans back to work - its going to take a new president.” Mitt Romney

“When it comes to the economy, my highest priority as President will be worrying about your job, not saving my own.” Mitt Romney

“Democrats want to use the slowdown as an excuse to do what their special interests are always begging for: higher taxes, bigger government and less trade with other nations.” Mitt Romney

“Julia progresses from cradle to grave, showing how government makes every good thing in her life possible. The weak economy, high unemployment, falling wages, rising gas prices, the national debt, the insolvency of entitlements - all these are fictionally assumed away in a cartoon that is produced by a president who wants us to forget about them.” Mitt Romney

“But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.” Ronald Reagan

“From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.” Ayn Rand

“How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?” Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.” Theodore Roosevelt

“The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body The more efficient your body, the better you feel and the more you will use your talent to produce outstanding results.” Tony Robbins

“When people hold you in high esteem, it's very delicate relationship. When they meet you they're putting all their chips up. It's make or break.” Henry Rollins

“I forged myself out of a vacuum. I crawl along the highway on hacked off stumps year after year. Some wonder how and why. I never do.” Henry Rollins

“A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.” Bill Gates

“In inner-city, low-income communities of color, there's such a high correlation in terms of educational quality and success.” Bill Gates

“Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.” Rene Descartes

“God exists, if only in the form of a meme with high survival value, or infective power, in the environment provided by human culture.” Richard Dawkins

“The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.” Charles Darwin

“False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.” Charles Darwin

“I do like men and I had, you know, a guy in high school that I wanted to marry desperately. He's the mayor of some small town in Texas. I could be the mayor's wife right now.” Ellen DeGeneres

“My dad is still Christian Scientist. My mom's not, and I'm not. But I believe in God, and that there's a higher power and an intelligence that's bigger than us and that we can rely on. It's not just us, thinking we are the ones in control of everything. That idea gives me support.” Ellen DeGeneres

“The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.” Bertrand Russell

“No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.” William Blake

“I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.” Rainer Maria Rilke

“Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.” Arthur Schopenhauer

“And so you touch this limit, something happens and you suddenly can go a little bit further. With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.” Ayrton Senna