A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths.
Like flats of today, terraces of houses gained a certain anonymity from identical facades following identical floor plans and heights.
Ethiopia shall once more arise from the ashes of material ruin to the heights of temporal glory.
The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.
A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.
From the U.S. point of view, negotiations are, in effect, a way for Israel to continue its policies of systematically taking over whatever it wants in the West Bank, maintaining the brutal siege on Gaza, separating Gaza from the West Bank and, of course, occupying the Syrian Golan heights, all with full U.S. support.
Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.
I was sure 'Summer Heights High' would be a cult ABC thing; I had no idea it would be such a big hit.
From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
As a chief executive determined to lead Hong Kong to new heights, I am keenly aware of the immense responsibilities on my shoulders.
Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.
Surely there is grandeur in knowing that in the realm of thought, at least, you are without a chain; that you have the right to explore all heights and depth; that there are no walls nor fences, nor prohibited places, nor sacred corners in all the vast expanse of thought.
Willem de Kooning is generally credited for coming out of the painterly gates strong in the forties, revolutionizing art and abstraction and reaching incredible heights by the early fifties, and then tailing off.
'Eclipse' is a concept piece, and its concept centers on 36 large light bulbs strung from above in a geometrical pattern and at different heights, some of them at times down below the dancers' chest level.
Heights make my feet tingle; not sure if that is a phobia, but it isn't the greatest feeling.
It is a rough road that leads to the heights of greatness.
I don't like spiders at all, but I love heights.
I want to be high-profile with the average Angeleno. I want to be out there holding office hours on a curb in Boyle Heights.
The Golan Heights is an area in the north of the State of Israel that has no part in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The Caribbean is not an idyll, not to its natives. They draw their working strength from it organically, like trees, like the sea almond or the spice laurel of the heights.
