She saw the myriad gods, and beyond God his own ineffable eternity; she saw that there were ranges of life beyond our present life, ranges of mind beyond our present mind and above these she saw the splendors of the spirit.
Sri Aurobindo

The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.
Vladimir Nabokov

I often lay on that bench looking up into the tree, past the trunk and up into the branches. It was particularly fine at night with the stars above the tree.
Georgia O'Keeffe

Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
Donald Knuth

Well, you have the public not wanting any new spending, you have the Republicans not wanting any new taxes, you have the Democrats not wanting any new spending cuts, you have the markets not wanting any new borrowing, and you have the economists wanting all of the above. And that leads to paralysis.
Michael Bloomberg

A particularly fine head on a man usually means that he is stupid; particularly deep philosophers are usually shallow thinkers; in literature, talents not much above the average are usually regarded by their contemporaries as geniuses.
Robert Musil

It will always be the same possibilities, in sum or on the average, that go on repeating themselves until a man comes along who does not value the actuality above idea. It is he who first gives the new possibilities their meaning, their direction, and he awakens them.
Robert Musil

Adoration is caring for God above all else.
Evelyn Underhill

Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
Walter Scott

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.
Eugene Ionesco

We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.
Antonin Artaud

It is the artist who realizes that there is a supreme force above him and works gladly away as a small apprentice under God's heaven.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irritates and bores me.
Anatole France

What people want, above all, is order.
Stephen Gardiner

What I perceive, is above all justice, where everyone has the same law.
Imran Khan

The thing that stood out above and beyond all the experiences was this relationship with the nine-month-old baby. On weekends, I'd be thinking about going back to set on Monday just to see the baby.
Vin Diesel

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
Washington Irving

The educator must above all understand how to wait; to reckon all effects in the light of the future, not of the present.
Ellen Key

The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station.
William Gibson

What for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel but the irresistible power of unarmed truth.
Boris Pasternak