Sentences with phrase «higher things»

I had not realized before how high things are stacked against the prosecution in criminal cases.

That whole 70's mini and thigh high thing.

I like to go chase waterfalls and jump off high things.

At the end of the day it's something that we've been threatened with, and it's a pretty high thing to consider.

The attitude in our sprinters has improved and we all want to achieve higher things on the world stage, so I think that's why it's brought it forward.

American artist George Condo (b. 1957) has enjoyed rare success as a 1980s East Village painter who rose to higher things in life.

Summoned to testify in 2008, he presented himself as a maligned titan too busy with higher things to worry about such grubby little matters.

So both fine arts music and great books education are left in the dust, but with vague aspirations for higher things... er, better make that avant things, left festering in the soul.

This is the sign of a noble heart — to aim at high things, measuring one's effort, not by one's own strength, but by the strength of one's nature, and to envisage enterprises beyond the accomplishment even of those equipped with heroic courage.»

For the Greeks, the concept of economics (oikos) represented things that were pre-political — matters of necessity to be mastered so that men could pursue higher things, political questions.

That's also the final judgement on the film: it's very possibly an improvement on fact that achieves that higher thing called truth out of a keenly sensitive portrait of a fascinating man who was as schizophrenic as his creations.

He quickly progressed to higher things such as communicating with visiting foreign diplomats and aid agency officials, travelling to meet Taliban commanders and meeting with Pakistani officials.

Voracious yet welcoming (the color is aggressive, yet you can sit at a table and give yourself over to it), somehow upending and grounding all at once (largely because of a red carpet / red wall relationship), high and low by making low things high (lamps and an oversized God's eye), and high things low (painting), it is exhilaration embodied.

The cheeky frisson in Warhol of applying dollar values to a realm traditionally thought to be concerned with higher things is not shocking any more.

It is here, where the moral bonds of voluntary attachment have not yet been stretched beyond the breaking point, that true moral discourse can be maintained, especially, as Michael W. McConnell says, «over the highest things - matters of ultimate truth and value.»

The reason people are addicted to drugs is because there's sort of a deficit of happiness, a deficit of community, a deficit of connection — I recognize now that the thing that I was chasing after in my years of addiction was probably some sort of sense of communal connection or a connection to a higher thing.»

Protecting your family and yourself is the highest thing you can offer to God.

Humans are becoming mechanical themselves, in a soulless Utopia where all individuality ends, and that believes in nothing but itself: «While Astrobe is the highest thing there can be nothing higher.

The power of the feminine generates respect that can grow, even to a form of veneration, which draws a man out of himself and inspires him to higher things.

These days one can feel twinges of guilt about insisting — especially in church, where one's thoughts are supposed to be on higher things than wanting to throttle the preacher — that the use of language is important.

Oh, but you are not wholly wanting in being understood, for even if you yourself may have done nothing to deserve it, you shall be bidden to the highest thing of all, and to the Most High Himself.

It may be dispensed with without losing the highest thing of all.

Do you wish for all others what you wish for yourself, or do you desire the highest thing of all for you and yours, or do you desire that that which you and yours desire shall be the highest thing of all?

You wish to instruct the youth, but you do not have the heart to take him into your confidence, because you have a secret of your own, because you are a traitor who deceived youth as to what was the highest thing of all by your secret, and deceived yourself as to what was the highest thing of all — by your secret!

Do we really intend to do and be all of the high things we profess to believe in?

It reminds me also of Peter Nagel's new book «Mind and Cosmos», heresy to some biologists and philosophers, and discussed this weekend in the National Post, where he brings in «consciousness», which seems to be the highest thing, yet completely ignored.

He chose what he conceived to be the highest thing in the universe, creativity, and made it the ultimate principle in the nature of things.

It is a different perception, one that Paul talks about when he says, «If then you have co-risen with Christ, seek the higher things, where Christ now is enthroned at the right hand of God.

Yes, for the same reason that a temple - robber is the most contemptible of criminals, so it is with this highly painted clever one who cunningly wills the highest thing of all without willing it in truth.

Like our founder, Richard John Neuhaus, we believe that public life is ultimately shaped by culture and religion — our ideas about the first and highest things — rather than clever soundbites or wonky white papers.

If the generation would only concern itself about its task, which is the highest thing it can do, it can not grow weary, for the task is always sufficient for a human life.

In a devotional sense, earnestness: to listen in order to act, this is the highest thing of all, and, God be praised, every man is capable of it if he so wills.

In this case the devotional speaker is admired for his art, his eloquence, while that decision of which each man is capable, and that which it may be well to note, is the highest thing of all, is completely ignored.

In a contemptuous and frivolous fashion, busyness thinks that to be eloquent is the highest thing of all and that the task of the listener is to pass judgment on whether the speaker has this gift.

Do not set your mind on high things, but associate with the humble.

To me the highest thing is Beauty (Tipharet) and when I experience God it is an experience of beauty.