Lowest Quotes - Page 2

• Whatever is the lot of humankind I want to taste within my deepest self. I want to seize the highest and the lowest, to load its woe and bliss upon my breast, and thus expand my single self titanically and in the end go down with all the rest.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Self, Want, Woe

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1985). “Faust/Bilingual”, Bantam Classics

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• For the value of everything exists for man only so long as he does not understand it. When he has fully understood, the value is lost, be it the lowest thing or the highest thing.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Men, Long, Doe

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• Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Courage, Exercise, Mountain

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• Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Hate, Hatred, Degrees

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann (1949). “Words of Goethe: being the conversations of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe”

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• Told that the passing grade is a B or competence and that we will help you to get there, students do competent work. The lowest passing grade in the real world is competence. Why do schools accept so much less?

  William Glasser

  Real, School, World

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• But something magical happened to me when I went to Reardan. Overnight I became a good player. I suppose it had something to do with confidence. I mean, I'd always been the lowest Indian on the reservation totem pole - I wasn't expected to be good so I wasn't. But in Reardan, my coach and the other players wanted me to be good. They needed me to be good. They expected me to be good. And so I became good. I wanted to live up to the expectations. I guess that's what it comes down to. The power of expectations. And as they expected more of me, I expected more of myself, and it just grew and grew.

  Sherman Alexie

  Mean, Player, Expectations

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• They say sarcasm is the lowest form of wit," Valkyrie said. China glanced at her. "They've obviously never met me.

  Derek Landy

  Sarcasm, Form, China

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• Syn may be too much of a gentleman to hit you, but I’m not. I’m not only ashamed to call you human, I’m completely disgusted that we share the same gender. You want to know the truth? The only filth in this room is you, and you’re the one who doesn’t deserve to breathe our air. Decent’s got nothing to do with birthright. It’s all about actions, and trust me, you’re the lowest form I’ve ever met and I’ve taken in the worst scum imaginable. But I’d rather sit at the table with them than you any day. (Shahara to Mara)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Taken, Air, Gentleman

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• I should have guessed you were Jace's sister," he said. "You both have the same artistic talent." Clary paused, her foot on the lowest stair. She was taken aback. "Jace can draw?" Nah." When Alec smiled, his eyes lit like blue lamps and Clary could see what Magnus had found so captivating about him. "I was just kidding. He can't draw a straight line.

  Cassandra Clare

  Taken, Eye, Blue

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.455, Simon and Schuster

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• Every individual, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place in the ladder of social life, and around him swirls a little world of interests, composed of stormy passions and conflicting atoms

  Alexandre Dumas

  Passion, World, Littles

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• At one of my lowest points, sugar had a painful grip on me. I'd buy/binge and then beat myself up over my behavior.

  Kris Carr

  Sugar, Painful, Behavior

  "Love, Eat, Heal" by Kris Carr, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 22, 2012.

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• Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.

  Albert Camus

  Children, Men, Air

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• You should always take a religion at its best and not at its worst, from its highest teachings and not from the lowest practices of some of its adherents.

  Annie Besant

  Teaching, Practice, Should

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• I forget what the relevant American rate is, but I can tell you that our goal is to have a combined federal-provincial corporate tax rate of no more than 25 percent. We're on target to do that by 2012. We will have significantly - by a significant margin the lowest corporate tax rates in the G-7, and that's our - our government's objective.

  Stephen Harper

  Government, Goal, Target

  "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. March 29, 2009.

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• Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.

  Vaclav Havel

  Hero, Men, Looks

  "Disturbing the Peace". Book by Vaclav Havel, 1986.

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• He sat on as the sun's rays came slowly down through the trees, lower and lower, and when the lowest reached a branch not far above him it caught a dewdrop poised upon a leaf. The drop instantly blazed crimson, and a slight movement of his head made it show all the colours of the spectrum with extraordinary purity, from a red almost too deep to be seen through all the others to the ultimate violet and back again.

  Patrick O'Brian

  Tree, Red, Violet

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• Here is the path to the higher life: down, lower down! Just as water always seeks and fills the lowest place, so the moment God finds men abased and empty, His glory and power flow in to exalt and to bless.

  Andrew Murray

  Men, Water, Flow

  Andrew Murray (2005). “Humility”, p.19, Whitaker House

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• I'm an anarchist. I'm implacably opposed to heirarchical systems of power and control. I also mistrust crowds, as they often operate according to their lowest common denominator. In terms of evolutionary psychology, the crowd is very close to a herd of stampeding wildebeest.

  Will Self

  Psychology, Crowds, Common

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• Wit is the lowest form of humor.

  Alexander Pope

  Humor, Literature, Form

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• Voting to go on strike is not a decision working people take lightly and is always accompanied by a strong sense of injustice at work. The impact of losing a day's pay is significant, not least for those in the lowest paid jobs who are already on the tightest budgets.

  Frances O'Grady

  Strong, Jobs, Impact

  " To strike is a right - stop trying to deter the low-paid from exercising it" by Frances O'Grady, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2012.

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• Where you have the most armed citizens in America, you have the lowest violent crime rate. Where you have the worst gun control, you have the highest crime rate.

  Ted Nugent

  Gun, America, Citizens

  "CNN's Piers Morgan Battles with Ted Nugent on Guns, Says Second Amendment Almost Killed Gabby Giffords". www.newsbusters.org. May 19, 2011.

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• I will openly admit that I've never really followed hockey. Given my New England upbringing, I have always adhered to the Celtics, Patriots, Red Sox, Bruins mantra of professional sports fandom, but hockey was definitely the lowest sport on the totem pole - even when the Bruins won the Stanley Cup.

  Rachel Nichols

  Sports, Hockey, Fandoms

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• Some of my lowest points were the most exciting opportunities to push through to be a better person.

  Demi Moore

  Opportunity, Better Person, Exciting

  "Demi Monde" by Chrissy Iley, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2007.

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• The dull people decided years and years ago, as everyone knows, that novel-writing was the lowest species of literary exertion, and that novel reading was a dangerous luxury and an utter waste of time.

  Wilkie Collins

  Reading, Writing, Years

  Wilkie Collins (2014). “My Miscellanies”, p.60, The Floating Press

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• When I sent those scripts, that was the lowest point of my life. We'd just had our second son, and when I went to collect them from hospital, I went to the bank to try and get some money to buy some diapers, the screen showed I've got $26 left.

  Ang Lee

  Son, Trying, Diapers

  "Ang Lee and James Schamus". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2000.

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