Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
Thomas Carlyle

Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.
Dag Hammarskjold

Never respect men merely for their riches, but rather for their philanthropy; we do not value the sun for its height, but for its use.
Gamaliel Bailey

No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

No, I'm at full height, I'm in the studio, I can actually catch actors by the eye, it's fantastic.
John Leeson

Not that there weren't great shows, and not that there wasn't plenty of fine music played. It's just that the consistency and the height of where we could take it, with the help of the audience, was less, I felt, in the '90s.
Phil Lesh

One of the Life Saving men snapped the camera for us, taking a picture just as the machine had reached the end of the track and had risen to a height of about two feet.
Orville Wright

Our system is the height of absurdity, since we treat the culprit both as a child, so as to have the right to punish him, and as an adult, in order to deny him consolation.
Claude Levi-Strauss

Politicians, no matter who they are, shouldn't be able to manipulate the public on a single issue and then call an election at the height of support - that's a little bit of a manipulation of democracy.
Jim Bolger

Proportion is that agreeable harmony between the several parts of a building, which is the result of a just and regular agreement of them with each other; the height to the width, this to the length, and each of these to the whole.
Marcus V. Pollio

Senator Douglas was very small, not over four and a half feet height, and there was a noticeable disproportion between the long trunk of his body and his short legs. His chest was broad and indicated great strength of lungs.
Henry Villard

Strangely, Dante's Divine Comedy did not produce a prose of that creative height or it did so after centuries.
Eugenio Montale

Tall men come down to my height when I hit 'em in the body.
Jack Dempsey

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
Adlai E. Stevenson

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
Pliny the Elder

The greatest height of heroism to which an individual, like a people, can attain is to know how to face ridicule.
Miguel de Unamuno

The height of the pulleys from the ground was twelve yards, and consequently, when the weights had descended through that distance, they had to be wound up again in order to renew the motion of the paddle.
James Prescott Joule

The interior of Mexico consists of a mass of volcanic rocks, thrust up to a great height above the sea-level.
Edward Burnett Tylor

The lawyer has not reached the height of his vocation who does not find therein... scope for a peculiar but genuine artistic function.
Frederick Pollock

The one noticeable similarity with almost all serial killer victims is their short height and low weight.
Pat Brown