Lows Quotes - Page 37

• Magic birds were dancing in the mystic marsh. The grass swayed with them, and the shallow waters, and the earth fluttered under them. The earth was dancing with the cranes, and the low sun, and the wind and sky.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Wind, Sky, Dancing

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1985). “The Yearling”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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• I went through a divorce right as we were starting the show. My divorce became final right after we started shooting the first year, and during that time I was in such a low place.

  Lee Tergesen

  Divorce, Years, Starting Over

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• I don’t believe you can ever get hurt by buying a good location at a low price.

  Donald Trump

  Hurt, Believe, Buying

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• The Last Airbender is an agonizing experience in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be invented. The laws of chance suggest that something should have gone right. Not here. It puts a nail in the coffin of low-rent 3D, but it will need a lot more coffins than that.

  Roger Ebert

  Thinking, Should Have, Law

  Roger Ebert (2012). “A Horrible Experience of Unbearable Length: More Movies That Suck”, p.175, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I feel very honored and special really. You can't imagine, to arrive at the Oscars when you arrive so low, and you can't go further than the Oscars.

  Berenice Bejo

  Special, Oscars, Imagine

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• My phone rings, they call me up and say, 'Chael, your testosterone level is too high.' I say, 'Well, how high was it?' They say, '0.7.' I said, 'What's normal?' They say, '0.6.'; I said, 'One-tenth? You're telling me I'm one-tenth higher than the average man? Re-test that - you must have caught me on a low day.'

  Chael Sonnen

  Men, Phones, Average

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• Due to poor weather, low visibility and extreme winds, I was forced to make the decision to descend after receiving word that there was another week of the daunting weather around the corner. You just can't climb being blown off your feet!

  Lonnie Dupre

  Wind, Weather, Feet

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• All we need do with nuclear waste is dilute it to a low radiation level and sprinkle it over the ocean -- or even over America after hormesis is better understood and verified with respect to more diseases.

  Arthur B. Robinson

  Ocean, America, Needs

  "Republican Suggested "Sprinkling" Radioactive Waste on America". Article by Bruce Wilson, www.dailykos.com. Septmber 19, 2012.

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• This thing we call luck is merely professionalism and attention to detail, it's your awareness of everything that is going on around you, it's how well you know and understand your airplane and your own limitations. Luck is the sum total of your of abilities as an aviator. If you think your luck is running low, you'd better get busy and make some more. Work harder. Pay more attention. Do better preflights.

  Stephen Coonts

  Running, Hard Work, Thinking

  "The Intruders". Book by Stephen Coonts, 1994.

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• You see some classes of the human family that are black, uncouth, uncomely, disagreeable and low in their habits, wild, and seemingly deprived of nearly all the blessings of the intelligence that is generally bestowed upon mankind....Cain slew his brother. Can might have been killed, and that would have put a termination to that line of human beings. This was not to be, and the Lord put a mark upon him, which is the flat nose and black skin.

  Brigham Young

  Brother, Blessing, Class

  Journal of Discourses, vol. 7 (p. 290), 1863.

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• Don't ever let anyone pull you so low as to hate them. We must use the weapon of love. We must have the compassion and understanding for those who hate us. We must realize so many people are taught to hate us that they are not totally responsible for their hate. But we stand in life at midnight; we are always on the threshold of a new dawn.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Hate, Compassion, People

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• I'm the master of low expectations.

  George W. Bush

  Expectations, Low Expectations, Masters

  "Bash: President says he builds relations on instinct" by Dana Bash, www.cnn.com. June 7, 2003.

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• People love to see death. It reminds them that however mean, however low, however horrible their lives become… at least they have one.

  Joe Abercrombie

  Mean, People, Horrible

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• I think it was in the Rose Garden where I issued this brilliant statement: If I had a magic wand -- but the president doesn't have a magic wand. You just can't say, 'low gas.'

  George W. Bush

  Garden, Thinking, Rose

  Remarks on the Economy, www.washingtonpost.com. July 15, 2008.

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• American women of wealth, education, virtue and refinement, if you do not wish the lower orders of Chinese, Africans, Germans and Irish, with their low ideas of womanhood, to make laws for you and your daughters awake to the danger of your present position and demand that woman, too, shall be represented in the government!

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Daughter, Order, Law

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Ann Dexter Gordon, Susan Brownell Anthony (2000). “The Selected Papers of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: Against an aristocracy of sex, 1866 to 1873”, p.237, Rutgers University Press

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• Most persons spend their lives stuck in relatively low states of mind. In these states of mind their views of themselves and the world around them are often severely limited.

  Frederick Lenz

  Views, Mind, World

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• The 2013/14 storms & floods show the UK needs to invest in a climate resilient, low carbon, food secure, full employment, positive future

  Phil Harding

  Future, Vision, Storm

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• Tis the old secret of the gods that they come in low disguises.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  God, Secret, Disguise

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald A. Bosco, Joel Myerson (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.526, Harvard University Press

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• We're gonna get high, high, high, when we're low. The fires burn from better days. She scream why, oh why? I said I don't know!

  Billie Joe Armstrong

  Life, Pain, Fire

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• The worst effect of sin is within and is manifest not in poverty, and pain, and bodily defacement, but in the discrowned faculties, the unworthy love, the low ideal, the brutalized and enslaved spirit.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Love, Pain, Poverty

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• Despite a few really bad days we had quite a lot of fun making Low, especially when all the radical ideas were making sense and things were starting to click.

  Tony Visconti

  Fun, Bad Day, Ideas

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• Depending on the day or even the hour, productivity can take very low dips. At times, I may feel like throwing in the towel. I love being inspired by amazing women who have achieved great things. When I have a setback, I will spend 15 minutes reading quotes from strong women or reading or watching an interview with a woman I admire (a gold medalist or a CEO). This gets me back in the right mindset to tackle any challenge.

  Samantha Ettus

  Strong Women, Reading, Love Is

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• If you want to live a long time, don't fool with nothing old but money, nothing big but a bank roll, nothing black but a Cadillac, nothing over twenty-two years, nothing that weighs over 130. If you do, you're in trouble. 'Cause when you're getting old and your cells gettin' low, you'll need a Delco battery to boost ya.

  Satchel Paige

  Cells, Years, Two

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• The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low.

  Aristotle

  Expression, Excellence, Clear

  Aristotle, Gerald Frank Else (1970). “Poetics”, p.58, University of Michigan Press

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• It might sound odd, but I want to thank Michael Bay because hes been saying how important it is to show 3D with the right luminescence. And thats very important for this film, a lot of which was shot at night or with very low illumination.

  David Heyman

  Night, Illumination, Important

  "'Harry Potter' Finale: Rupert Grint, David Heyman, Phelps Twins Give First Look at CineEurope" by Scott Roxborough, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 30, 2011.

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