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high-minded
«I came over here (Hollywood) to act, but it turned out all I had to do was to be high-minded, long suffering, white-gloved and decorative»
«Contact with a high-minded woman is good for the life of any man»
Author: Henry Vincent
| About:
Men and Women
| Keywords:
contact, high-minded, high, high life, minded
«The problem is that once the untrained mind has made a formal commitment to a religious philosophy - and it does not matter whether that philosophy is generally reasonable and high-minded or utterly bizarre and irrational - the powers of reason are s»
Author: Steve Allen
(Actor, Comic, Composer, Writer)
| About:
Mind,
Philosophy,
Problems,
Reason
| Keywords:
bizarre, formal, high-minded, irrational, untrained
«Agriculture for an honorable and highminded man, is the best of all occupations or arts by which men procure the means of living»
Author: Xenophon
| About:
Art,
Living,
Meaning
| Keywords:
agriculture, best of all, high-minded, highminded, honorable, occupations, procure, procured, procures, procuring
«For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, / Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, / Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; / Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.»
Author: Bible
| Keywords:
accuser, accusers, blasphemer, blasphemers, boaster, boasters, denying, headier, heady, high-minded, highminded, incontinent, selves, traitors, turn away, unholy, unthankful
«Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy. (1 Timothy 6:17)»
Author: Bible
| About:
Wealth
| Keywords:
charge, high-minded, highminded, richly, rich in, timothy, uncertain
«God knows people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp following eunuchs of literature. They won't even whore. They're all virtuous and sterile. And how well meaning and high minded. But they're all camp followers.»
Author: Ernest Hemingway
| About:
Criticism,
Literature
| Keywords:
attitudes, camp, camped, camping, camp follower, critics, eunuchs, followers, following, high-minded, minded, professional, sterile, virtuous, well-meaning, whore
«The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower mind, the lower mind, feeling its fascination without understanding it, and being incapable of rising to it, drags it down to its level by degrading it.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
ages, all ages, conversion, conversions, Conversion of, danger, degrading, drags, fascination, fascinations, high-minded, high and low, high level, incapable, level, lower, lowering, lowers, offered, rising