Quotes on Highest

'West Wing' was huge. Like 'Hamilton,' it pulls back the curtain on how decision-making happens at the highest level, or at least how you hope it would be. The amount of information Aaron Sorkin packs into a scene gave me this courage to trust the audience to keep up.

No doubt we have to have bigger projects, bigger industries, basic industries, but it is a matter of the highest importance that we look to the common man, the weakest element in the society.

It has always seemed absurd to suppose that a god would choose for his companions, during all eternity, the dear souls whose highest and only ambition is to obey.

The highest forms of understanding we can achieve are laughter and human compassion.

No one hath seen beauty in its highest lustre who hath never seen it in distress.

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work be humble or disgusting? Will it not rather be elevating as a ladder, the means by which we are translated?

The highest education is that which does not merely give us information but makes our life in harmony with all existence.

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to human welfare.

The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.

If the whole responsibility is thrown upon our own shoulders, we shall be at our highest and best; when we have nobody to grope towards, no devil to lay our blame upon, no Personal God to carry our burdens, when we are alone responsible, then we shall rise to our highest and best. I am responsible for my fate, I am the bringer of good unto myself, I am the bringer of evil.

I have DECIDED to love. If you are seeking the highest good, I think you can find it through love. GOD is love.

The highest revelation is that God is in every man.

Stillness is our most intense mode of action. It is in our moments of deep quiet that is born every idea, emotion, and drive which we eventually honor with the name of action. We reach highest in meditation, and farthest in prayer. In stillness every human being is great.

Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God.

We fear our highest possibility. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.

Oh, to live even for a day in the full light of freedom, to breathe the free air of simplicity! Isn't that the highest purity?

The help which tends to make us spiritually strong is the highest help, next to it comes intellectual help and after that comes physical help.

In this culture, God is not the highest entity; mukti or liberation is the highest goal. We are willing to use God as a stepping stone, if needed.

...because with us what is highest must be at the service of others.

It is the highest of earthly honors to be descended from the great and good. They alone cry out against a noble ancestry who have none of their own.