Lows Quotes - Page 21

• They say for every high high there must be a low low low low low

  Bat for Lashes

  Song: Sleep Alone, Album: Two Suns, 2009

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• Detroit is largely composed, today, of seemingly endless square miles of low-density failure.

  Jane Jacobs

  Squares, Density, Today

  Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.204, Vintage

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• So when they say I'm a low-level systems administrator, that I don't know what I'm talking about, I'd say it's somewhat misleading.

  Edward Snowden

  Talking, Levels, Administrators

  "Early Start" with Christine Romans and John Berman, www.cnn.com. May 28, 2014.

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• Lay low, play dumb, keep moving.

  Roger Stone

  Moving, Play, Dumb

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• One cannot attain divine knowledge till one gets rid of pride. Water does not stay on the top of a mound; but into low land it flows in torrents from all sides.

  Ramakrishna

  Pride, Land, Water

  Ramakrishna, Mahendra Nath Gupta (1942). “The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna”, Ramakrishna Vivekanada Center

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• I have been mislabeled as a big advocate of low-income home ownership over rental.

  Barney Frank

  Home, Low Income, Ownership

  "The Not-So-Retiring Barney Frank". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.nytimes.com. January 20, 2012.

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• The bar is so low in rap - mediocrity is king!

  Jay Electronica

  Kings, Rap, Bars

  "Jay Electronica" by Matt Diehl, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 17, 2010.

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• Food does not rank high on my list. I eat to live, and I'm very particular about my diet. It's strictly low fat diet for me.

  Terence Lewis

  Doe, Lists, Fats

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• On this simple unit-system [of building blocks] ruled on the low table-top all these forms were combined by the child into imaginative patter. Design was recreation! ...The virtue of all this lay in the awakening of the childmind to rhythmic structure in Nature - giving the child a sense of innate cause-and-effect otherwise far beyond child-comprehension.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Children, Block, Creativity

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• Every child should have an occasional pat on the back as long as it is applied low enough and hard enough.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Inspirational, Children, Should Have

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• When you live in the present moment, time stands still. Accept your circumstances and live them. If there is an experience ahead of you, have it! But if worries stand in your way, put them off until tomorrow. Give yourself a day off from worry. You deserve it. Some people live with a low-grade anxiety tugging at their spirit all day long. They go to sleep with it, wake up with it, carry it around at home, in town, to church, and with friends. Here's a remedy: Take the present moment and find something to laugh at. People who laugh, last.

  Barbara Johnson

  Sleep, Home, Giving

  Patsy Clairmont, Marilyn Meberg, Barbara Johnson, Luci Swindoll (1997). “Joy Breaks: 90 Devotions to Celebrate, Simplify, and Add Laughter to Your Life”, Zondervan Publishing Company

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• There are vivid memories from my childhood-what we had to go through because of low wages and the conditions, basically because there was no union. I suppose if I wanted to be fair I could say that I'm trying to settle a personal score. I could dramatize it by saying that I want to bring social justice to farm workers. But the truth is that I went through a lot of hell, and a lot of people did. If we can even the score a little for the workers then we are doing something. Besides, I don't know any other work I like to do better than this. I really don't.

  Cesar Chavez

  Memories, Commitment, People

  Cesar Chavez (2008). “An Organizer's Tale: Speeches”, p.78, Penguin

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• No living person is sunk so low as not to be imitated by somebody.

  William James

  Failure, Persons

  William James, Robert D Richardson (2010). “The Heart of William James”, p.139, Harvard University Press

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• This only grant me, that my means may lie, too low for envy, for contempt to high.

  Abraham Cowley

  Lying, Mean, Envy

  'Essays, in Verse and Prose' (1668) 'Of Myself'

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• Content may dwell in all stations. To be low but above contempt may be high enough to be happy.

  Thomas Browne

  May, Enough, Contempt

  Sir Thomas Browne (1844). “Religio Medici. Its sequel, Christian Morals ... With resemblant passages from Cowper's Task, and a verbal index. [Edited by John Peace.]”, p.147

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• When duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Military, Youth, Duty

  "Voluntaries" no. 3 (1867)

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• I've never gotten too high or too low. It only messes you up.

  Tim Duncan

  Basketball, Mess

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• What the horrors of war are, no one can imagine. They are not wounds and blood and fever, spotted and low, or dysentery, chronic and acute, cold and heat and famine. They are intoxication, drunken brutality, demoralization and disorder on the part of the inferior... jealousies, meanness, indifference, selfish brutality on the part of the superior.

  Florence Nightingale

  Selfish, War, Nursing

  Florence Nightingale (2001). “The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”

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• A low self-love in the parent desires that his child should repeat his character and fortune.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Love, Children, Character

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2742, Delphi Classics

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• We receive mixed messages about taking good care of ourselves. Love thy neighbor as thyself means to love thyself and thy neighbor. Yet, self-love often is confused with selfishness and conceit. We are selfish when we do not love and accept ourselves, and attempt to take from others to fill the emptiness. Conceit indicates low self-worth and an attempt to conceal it. It is difficult to extend to others what you have not been able to give yourself. Take good care of yourself so you can care about the rest of us.

  Jennifer James

  Confused, Selfish, Love You

  Jennifer James (1986). “Success Is the Quality of Your Journey”, William Morrow Paperbacks

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• Cats have intercepted my footsteps at the ankle for so long that my gait, both at home and on tour, has been compared to that of a man wading through low surf.

  Roy Blount, Jr.

  Home, Cat, Animal

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• Something happens to me when I witness someone's courage. They may not know I'm watching and I might not let them know. But something happens to me that will last me for a lifetime. To fill me when I'm empty, and rock me when I'm low.

  Holly Near

  Inspirational, Courage, Rocks

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• [A living organism] ... feeds upon negative entropy ... Thus the device by which an organism maintains itself stationary at a fairly high level of orderliness (= fairly low level of entropy) really consists in continually sucking orderliness from its environment.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Science, Environmental, Negative

  Erwin Schrodinger (2012). “What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches”, p.73, Cambridge University Press

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• In 1841 you and I had together a tedious low-water trip, on a Steam Boat from Louisville to St. Louis. You may remember, as I well do, that from Louisville to the mouth of the Ohio there were, on board, ten or a dozen slaves, shackled together with irons. That sight was a continual torment to me; and I see something like it every time I touch the Ohio, or any other slave-border.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Sight, Ohio, Iron

  Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.360, Library of America

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• So plain that no one, high or low, ever does mistake it, except in a plainly selfish way; for although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Selfish, Mistake, Men

  "Fragment on Slavery" ca. 1 July 1854

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