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My daughter loves singing above all else. -- Vanessa Paradis
Adoration is caring for God above all else. -- Evelyn Underhill
What Ireland needs now above all else is peace. -- Albert Reynolds
That which the Fascists hate above all else, is intelligence. -- Miguel de Unamuno
I wanted above all else not to be like my mum. -- Julie Walters
Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me. -- Bob Geldof
No one can be a painter unless he cares for painting above all else. -- Edouard Manet
I'm an intellectual, but I've always had jobs that required physical labor above all else. -- Niall Matter
I like good stories above all else... and kickin' art really goes the final stretch to ensure a comic is good. -- Robert Kirkman
What our species needs, above all else, is a generally accepted ethical system that is compatible with the scientific knowledge we now possess. -- Derek Freeman
I no longer think that learning how to manage people, especially subordinates, is the most important for executives to learn. I am teaching above all else, how to manage oneself. -- Peter Drucker
We were sweet, lovely people who wanted to throw out all the staid institutions who placed money and wars above all else. When you're young you think that's how life works. -- Margot Kidder
I'm easy driving, But I'm not a person who loves living pleasantly above all else. I'm not that way at all. I might think I'm that, but I'm not really that. -- Ray Davies
That makes me think of the 2002 World Cup Final above all else. Nobody thought at the time that our team would get through to the Final against Brazil. We should remember that this summer. -- Angela Merkel
In the due exercise of your official power, in strictest accordance with law and the Constitution, you can deprive the enemy of that which, above all else, has given, and still gives him, aid and comfort. -- Robert Dale Owen
The one thing I seek above all else is understanding. Sometimes I'm so frustrated and I don't get it. But I'm lucky to have a good management team and people around me who explain things and answer my questions. -- Justin Guarini
Place principle above all else. -- Haile Selassie
Lolitas value independence and beauty above all else. -- Novala Takemoto
Success in the sport is, above all else, about enduring suffering. -- Chris McCormack
Strategy is, above all else, the search for above average returns. -- Gary Hamel
The human body is something that I truly love, above all else. -- Giorgio Armani
In Texas, two things are cherished above all else- football and gossip. -- Cora Carmack
I love poetry and my country above all else in the world, -- Fyodor Tyutchev
If there is one thing golf demands above all else, it is honesty. -- Jack Nicklaus
Society values cooperation over independence, obedience over individuality, and niceness above all else. -- Sue Grafton
Music is still above all else the thing that does it for me -- Bob Geldof
Men honor property above all else; it has the greatest power in human life. -- Euripides
Careerism: the self-centered philosophy of governing to win the next election above all else. -- Tom Coburn
Mostly, he taught me about friendship and selflessness and, above all else, unwavering loyalty. -- John Grogan
Anyone developing new products and new technology needs one characteristic above all else: hope. -- James Dyson
The word "hedonistic" to me means pleasure above all else. My pleasure above all else. -- Fred Melamed
Incestuous, homogeneous fiefdoms of self-proclaimed expertise are always rank-closing and mutually self-defending, above all else. -- Glenn Greenwald
I care about life and I have a record of fighting for people above all else. -- Wendy Davis
The only thing that powerful men feared above all else was a loss of that power. -- Tish Thawer
What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world. -- Franz Grillparzer
Deregulation has been, above all else, a means of reducing corporate business's accountability to the public. -- Herbert Schiller
Self is the great antichrist and anti-God in the world, that sets up itself above all else. -- Stephen Charnock
Those who seek peace above all else, they say, will always deceive to keep the water calm. -- Veronica Roth
God aims to look valuable in the world, and that happens when we treasure him above all else. -- John Piper
People need a parental divine love which will attend to them above all else, no matter what happens -- Masahisa Goi
Happiness is impossible for longer than 15 minutes. We are the descendants of creatures who, above all else, worried. -- Alain de Botton
Doggedness depends on emotional traits - enthusiasm and persistence in the face of setbacks - above all else. -- Daniel Goleman
Man is above all else mind, consciousness -- that is, he is a product of history, not of nature. -- Antonio Gramsci
I think above all else [The Social Network] is a love story. And something of a tragic one, I suppose. -- Andrew Garfield
Valuing knowledge above all else results in a lust for power, and that leads men into dark and empty places. -- Veronica Roth
She knew that he loved her above all else, more than anything in the world, but only for his own sake. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I am a Doctor, but above all else I consider myself an activist for peace, justice and care for all people. -- Patch Adams
I have a responsibility to the woman of today - to make her feel confident, modern and above all else beautiful. -- Carolina Herrera
People who always want to be happy and pursue it above all else are some of the most miserable people in the world. -- Henry Cloud
The man who loves his wife above all else on earth gains the freedom and power to pursue other noble, but lesser, loves. -- David Jeremiah
The child must come first above all else. And pace yourself every day. There is quite a lot you will have to give up. -- Iman Abdulmajid
To do good whenever one can, to love liberty above all else, never to deny the truth, even though it be before the throne. -- Ludwig van Beethoven
The theatre, like the fresco, is art fitted to its place. And therefore it is above all else the human art, the living art. -- Romain Rolland
The immigrant experience of all of us is what makes us Americans, because we value in our DNA liberty and opportunity above all else. -- Ted Cruz
Time is love, above all else. It is the most precious commodity in the world and should be lavished on those we care most about. -- Sydney J. Harris
I'm most proud of my work in the LGBTQ space. Feels like, above all else, that's something I want to do for the rest of my life. -- Troye Sivan
I think the sheer fact of women talking, being, paradoxical, inexplicable, flip, self-destructiv e but above all else public is the most revolutionary thing in the world. -- Chris Kraus
Books, the books that I loved above all else to spend my time with, were the great tools for understanding one's life and the lives of other people. -- Ellen Douglas
If you focus on near-term growth above all else, you miss the most important question you should be asking: will this business still be around a decade from now? -- Peter Thiel
I am essentially a painter of the kind of still life composition that communicates a sense of tranquillity and privacy, moods which I have always valued above all else. -- Giorgio Morandi
The human heart will seek to be known, understood, and connected with above all else. If you do not connect, the ones you care about will find someone who will. -- Henry Cloud
She is, above all else, tired; she wants more than anything to return to her bed and her book. The world, this world, feels suddenly stunned and stunted, far from everything. -- Michael Cunningham
I know that wine is, above all else, a blessing, a gift of nature, a joy as pure and elemental as the soil and vines and sunshine from which it springs. -- Robert Mondavi
Before anything else, above all else, beyond all else God love us. God loves us extravagantly, ridiculously, without limit or condition. God is in love with us... God yearns for us. -- Roberta Bondi
If there is one thing I long for above all else, it's that the years to come may see Christianity in this country able again to capture the imagination of our culture. -- Rowan Williams
What the artist must aim at above all else is this: to produce, by any process whatever, a work which by the life and humanity emanating from it communicates to the beholder . . . . -- Medardo Rosso
If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else.I know. An overwhelming passion for it.No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong. -- Anthony de Mello
That which interests me above all else is the calligraphy of a tree or the tiles of a roof, and I mean leaf by leaf, branch by branch, blade by blade of grass. -- Joan Miro
Ultimately, the reason why love and compassion bring the greatest happiness is simply that our nature cherishes them above all else. The need for love lies at the very foundation of human existence. -- Dalai Lama
You can't let doubt or fear or guilt eat away at you. You are good and you need to remember that above all else. Love is stronger than hatred, and you are made of love. -- Amanda Hocking
In [The New Poetry] I had attacked the British poets' nervous preference for gentility above all else, and their avoidance of the uncomfortable, destructive truths both of the inner life and of the present time. -- Al Alvarez
For some reason, I believed that I had above all else an obligation to protect everyone-- my teachers, my family-- from the knowledge of my cutting. What they did not know would not cause them pain. -- Caroline Kettlewell
What ranks above all else for economic and political reconstruction is a radical change of ideologies. Economic prosperity is not so much a material problem; it is, first of all, an intellectual, spiritual, and moral problem. -- Ludwig von Mises
Art gives its vision to beauty not always recognized. And it surrenders freely -- whatever power it possesses to every sincere soul that seeks it. But above all else--it presents us with the gift of ourselves. -- Aberjhani
Look for the [actor training] program that's right for you, above all else. It's really about your training and preparation. Once you arrive on the professional scene, the cream tends to rise, regardless of what school you attended. -- Rachel Hoffman
People who are obsessed with Jesus aren't consumed with their personal safety and comfort above all else. Obsessed people care more about God's kingdom coming to this earth than their own lives being shielded from pain or distress. -- Francis Chan
Practice the game the way you're going to play the game. Practice hard and play hard. Run hard and above all else, hustle every moment you're on the field where you are practicing or playing in a game. -- Pete Rose
I understand that government should live within its means, value the money it holds in trust from you the taxpayer, avoid waste and, above all else, observe the first maxim of good government: namely, do no avoidable harm. -- Tony Abbott
Most men, whether men or women, wish above all else to be comfortable, and thought is a pre-eminently uncomfortable process; it brings to the individual far more suffering than happiness in a semi-civilised world which still goes to war. -- Vera Brittain
The fingers on his flesh told him he was loved, that he had always been loved, and that the world was a place where above all else things that were good would find a way to burrow into you. -- Steven Galloway
If what you seek is Truth, there is one thing you must have above all else.â? â??I know. An overwhelming passion for it.â? â??No. An unremitting readiness to admit you may be wrong. -- Anthony de Mello
Since we astronomers are priests of the highest God in regard to the book of nature, it befits us to be thoughtful, not of the glory of our minds, but rather, above all else, of the glory of God. -- Johannes Kepler
Almsgiving above all else requires money, but even this shines with a brighter luster when the alms are given from our poverty. The widow who paid in the two mites was poorer than any human, but she outdid them all. -- Saint John Chrysostom
A living language is like a man suffering incessantly from small hemorrhages, and what it needs above all else is constant transactions of new blood from other tongues. The day the gates go up, that day it begins to die. -- H. L. Mencken
To explain away the mystery of a great painting - if such a feat were possible - would do irreparable harm... If there is no mystery, then there is no poetry, the quality I value above all else in art. -- Georges Braque
It has taken awhile, but I certainly do know it now ÂÂâ?? the most wonderful gift I had, the gift I finally learned to cherish above all else, was the gift of all those perfectly ordinary days. -- Katrina Kenison
What poetry does above all else is develop sensibility. And that's what makes poetry so dangerous. That's why poetry is so good at undermining governments and so bad at building them. There's nothing harder to organize than a group of poets. -- Sam Hamill
Search is the means through which we navigate the Web. If your business is not visible in search it is difficult for it to be found by your customers. Search, above all else, is marketing, and it is undergoing a massive change. -- David Amerland
Integrity is honesty carried through the fibres of the being and the whole mind, into thought as well as action so that the person is complete in honesty. That kind of integrity I put above all else as an essential to leadership. -- Pearl S. Buck
Every living being on earth loves life above all else. The smallest insect, whose life lasts only an instant, tries to escape from any danger in order to live a moment longer. And the desire to live is most developed in man. -- Hazrat Inayat Khan
No matter how much money you make or don't, how many friends you think you have or lack or how much you know you are loved - or not, we all cherish one thing above all else, the intrinsic need to connect -- Lisa Bloom
Reality is above all else a variable, and nobody is qualified to say that he or she knows exactly what it is. As a matter of fact, with a firm enough commitment, you can sometimes create a reality which did not exist before. -- Margaret Halsey
Perhaps our national ambition to standardize ourselves has behind it the notion that democracy means standardization. But standardization is the surest way to destroy the initiative, to denumb the creative impulse above all else essential to the vitality and growth of democratic ideals. -- Ida Tarbell
All the things I resent most about out-of-control government and the politicians who support it, grow it, or simply fail to deal with it, what angers me above all else is the knowledge that all of this waste and ruin is entirely preventable. -- Carly Fiorina
Memory exercised in a particular way is a natural gift of poetic genius. The poet above all else, is a person who never forgets certain sense impressions which he has experienced and which he can relive again as though with all their original freshness. -- Stephen Spender
I also believe in cigarettes, cholesterol, alcohol, carbon monoxide, masturbation, the Arts Council, nuclear weapons, the Daily Telegraph, and not properly labeling fatal poisons, but above all else, most of all, I believe in the one thing that can come out of people's mouths: vomit. -- Dennis Potter
I also believe in cigarettes, cholesterol, alcohol, carbon monoxide, masturbation, the Arts Council, nuclear weapons, the Daily Telegraph, and not properly labeling fatal poisons, but above all else, most of all, I believe in the one thing that can come out of people's mouths: vomit." -- Dennis Potter
For the amoral herd that fears boredom above all else, everything becomes entertainment. Sex and sport, politics and the arts are transformed into entertainment. ... Nothing is immune from the demand that boredom be relieved (but without personal involvement, for mass society is a spectator society). -- Merold Westphal
'Why do you think it is...', I asked Dr. Cook ... 'that brain surgery, above all else-even rocket science-gets singled out as the most challenging of human feats, the one demanding the utmost of human intelligence?' [Dr. Cook answered,] 'No margin for error.' -- Michael J. Fox
What you need, above all else, is a love for your subject, whatever it is. You've got to be so deeply in love with your subject that when curve balls are thrown, when hurdles are put in place, you've got the energy to overcome them. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Why do you think it is...', I asked Dr. Cook ... 'that brain surgery, above all else-even rocket science-gets singled out as the most challenging of human feats, the one demanding the utmost of human intelligence?' [Dr. Cook answered,] 'No margin for error.' -- Michael J. Fox
A thing chosen always as an end and never as a means we call absolutely final. Now happiness above all else appears to be absolutely final in this sense, since we always choose it for its own sake and never as a means to something else. -- Aristotle
Here's how I see obesity: as a symptom. The larger problem is over-consumption. In a society that identifies consumption with patriotism, valorizes 'growth' above all else and assigns status according to how much you consume, we compete with each other to see who can consume the most. -- Emily Levine
History is above all else an argument. It is an argument between different historians; and, perhaps, an argument between the past and the present, an argument between what actually happened, and what is going to happen next. Arguments are important; they create the possibility of changing things. -- John H. Arnold
My writing model is my mother, who is a writer as well. She always valued clarity and simplicity above all else. If someone doesn't understand what you're writing, then everything else you do is superfluous. Irrelevant. If any thoughtful, curious reader finds what I do impenetrable, I've failed. -- Malcolm Gladwell
It is hope in this wider sense which enabled my father to build, from scratch, one of India's largest modern enterprises. His was an undertaking powered by hard work, initiative, self-belief but, above all else, the capacity, as he would often say, "to dream with your eyes wide open". -- Anil Ambani
The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die. -- Pierre de Coubertin
Ferris: Are you going to be as impractical as that? Rearden: The evaluation of an action as practical, Dr. Ferris, depends on what it is that one wishes to practice. Ferris: Haven't you always placed your self-interest above all else? Rearden: That is what I am doing right now. -- Ayn Rand
I exist only because inside of me and above all else I am only and above all a Neapolitan. Naples exists inside of me, and always will. Fortunately for me there is this treasure that I have inside of me and, when I need it, then I pull it out. -- Sophia Loren
For as long as I can remember, I have been passionately intrigued by 'Africa,' by the word itself, by its flora and fauna, its topographical diversity and grandeur; but above all else, by the sheer variety of the colors of its people, from tan and sepia to jet and ebony. -- Henry Louis Gates
Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time. -- Thomas J. Watson
It was very much a cry for democratic control at that time. Above all, breaking the accomplished power of a few people to rule the lives of everybody else. -- Barbara Castle
Above all else, we need a reaffirmation of political commitment at the highest levels to reducing the dangers that arise both from existing nuclear weapons and from further proliferation. -- Kofi Annan
Certain people can keep a word tune, so to speak, and certain people cannot. And, above all, certain people can tell a story, and other people can't. They don't hear that point where something else has to come. -- James Salter
Twitter is incredibly useful. It's a great example of how the Internet is changing the way we engage with information and text. Above all else, this change in the nature of engagement is fascinating for me as a writer. -- Steven Hall
Above all else, be consistent. -- Stephen King
Above all else show the data. -- Edward Tufte
Above all else show the data. -- Edward Tufte
Above all else I am a dilettante in life. -- Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
Above all else, never think you're not good enough. -- Anthony Trollope

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