Stoops Quotes - Page 6

• My reason is not framed to bend or stoop: my knees are.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Atheism, Knees, Framed

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• For One in such a lofty position to stoop so low is a marvel that is staggering. What sublime humility and humble sublimeness, that the Lord of the Universe, the Divine Son of God, should stoop as to hide Himself under the appearance of bread for our salvation! Behold the humble way of God, my brothers. Therefore, do not hold yourselves to be anything of yourselves, so that you may be entirely acceptable to One Who gives Himself entirely to you.

  Francis of Assisi

  Brother, Humility, Humble

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• The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.

  Doug Larson

  Friendship, Cat, Animal

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• I will instruct my sorrows to be proud; for grief is proud, and makes his owner stoop.

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Sadness, Sorrow

  1596 Constance. KingJohn, act 2, sc.2, l.68-9.

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• We have suffered unnumbered ills and crimes in the name of the Law of the Land. Our men, women, and children have suffered not only the basic brutality of stoop labor, and the most obvious injustices of the system; they have also suffered the desperation of knowing that the system caters to the greed of callous men and not to our needs. Now we will suffer for the purpose of ending the poverty, the misery, and the injustice, with the hope that our children will not be exploited as we have been. They have imposed hungers on us, and now we hunger for justice.

  Cesar Chavez

  Children, Sacrifice, Men

  The Plan of Delano, 1965.

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• Apparently, union bosses are so distraught about declining enrollments they will stoop to exploiting illegal workers. There is no doubt that this would hurt American workers, who would suddenly face a flooded job market full of cheap foreign labor. It would depress the wages of the American workers and cost them jobs.

  Lamar S. Smith

  Depressing, Hurt, Jobs

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• An authentically empowered person is humble. This does not mean the false humility of one who stoops to be with those who are below him or her. It is the inclusiveness of one who responds to the beauty of each soul. ... It is the harmlessness of one who treasures, honours and reveres life in all its forms.

  Gary Zukav

  Mean, Humility, Humble

  Gary Zukav (1999). “The Seat of the Soul”, G K Hall & Company

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• When lovely woman stoops to folly and Paces about her room again, alone, She smooths her hair with automatic hand, And puts a record on the gramophone.

  T. S. Eliot

  Hair, Hands, Lovely

  The Waste Land l. 253 (1922)

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• You are young and have the world before you; stoop as you go through it, and you will miss many hard bumps.

  Cotton Mather

  Missing, Bumps, World

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• When one is the agent of order and civilisation in the universe, one doesn't stoop to negotiate. Especially with nonhumans.

  Ann Leckie

  Order, Agents, Civilisation

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• If we condone torture, we yield the moral high ground to our enemies and encourage anyone who hates us to stoop to using that subhuman level against us. We reap whatever we sow.

  Rick Warren

  Hate, Yield, Moral High Ground

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• I feel that America is like a child that grew up so strong and so fast and so tall that it became self-conscious about its size and started to stoop over so as not to offend anyone.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Strong, Children, Self

  "New again: Sylvester Stallone". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 2, 2015..

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• Jesus is humble, and His servants must not be proud; but Jesus was never mean or cowardly, nor must His servants be. There was no braver man than Christ. He could stoop to save a soul, but He would stoop to nothing by which His character might be compromised or truth and righteousness insulted. To preach the Gospel boldly is to deliver it as such a message ought to be delivered. Blush to preach of a dying Saviour? Apologize for talking about the Son of God condescending to be made man that He might redeem us from all iniquity? Never!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Humble, Character

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1990). “The Quotable Spurgeon”, Shaw

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• Nothing degrades a man do more than the allowed stoop so low as to hate someone

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Hate, Men, Lows

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• Crouchers move through a garden at a stoop: naming, gasping, horraying, admiring or coveting plants; Gapers saunter, smiling or sighing at what they find, succumbing to an intangible beatitude that takes them for a brief escape into another dimension. Both sorts of gardener are besotted; both get their hands dirty; think and talk gardening; but on the threshold of another's garden, each use a different set of whiskers.

  Mirabel Osler

  Funny, Dirty, Moving

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• I am really fascinated by human beings, fascinated! One thing I loved about living in New York was that I could sit on my stoop and just watch life happen. It was better than any kind of reality television - way more entertaining and enlightening.

  Idara Victor

  New York, Reality, Television

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• When it's impossible, it's better to stoop to compromise, without resisting and without complaining. People who complain are selfish.

  Indira Gandhi

  Selfish, People, Complaining

  Interview With Oriana Fallaci, sangam.org. December 24, 2014.

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• I think the public doesn't understand that one of the reasons I haven't stood up for myself is because in order to do that, I have to stoop to a level that further humiliates other people.

  Paula Broadwell

  Thinking, Order, People

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• If God calls you to be a minister, don't stoop to becoming a king.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Kings, Becoming, Ministers

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• Our happiness often depends upon social hypocrisies to which we will never stoop.

  Honore de Balzac

  Happiness, Hypocrisy, Social

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• I grew up in New York City, where we played highly unorganized sports: stick ball, stoop ball, and the occasional game of baseball with no adult supervision.

  Jeff Greenfield

  Sports, Baseball, New York

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• I heard the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through her marble halls! I saw her sable skirts all fringed with light From the celestial walls! I felt her presence, by its spell of might, Stoop o'er me from above; The calm, majestic presence of the Night, As of the one I love.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Wall, Night, Light

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.2

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• We are Wikipedians. This means that we should be: kind, thoughtful, passionate about getting it right, open, tolerant of different viewpoints, open to criticism, bold about changing our policies and also cautious about changing our policies. We are not vindictive, childish, and we don't stoop to the level of our worst critics, no matter how much we may find them to be annoying.

  Jimmy Wales

  Mean, Thoughtful, Criticism

  Wikipedia-l mailing list, December 18, 2005.

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• We live in our own world , A world that is too small For you to stoop and enter Even on hands and knees, The adult subterfuge.

  R. S. Thomas

  Hands, Adults, World

  R.S. Thomas (2012). “Collected Poems: 1945-1990 R.S.Thomas: Collected Poems : R S Thomas”, p.57, Hachette UK

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• In this country, some aristocratic families automatically categorize persons with dark skin, thick lips, and kinky hair as "Barias" [Amharic for slave]... let it be clear to everybody that I shall soon make these ignoramuses stoop and grind corn!

  Mengistu Haile Mariam

  Country, Dark, Hair

  "Mengistu Haile Mariam: The Profile of a Dictator". Ethiopian Review, February 1994.

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