Nadir Quotes

• Los Angeles is often described as the nadir of vapidity, a smog-choked space cradle.

  Diablo Cody

  Space, Smog, Los Angeles

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• The following twenty years would be the nadir of American Indian history, as the total Indian population between 1890 and 1910 fell to fewer than 250,000. (It was not until 1917 that Indian births exceeded deaths for the first time in fifty years.)

  Kenneth C. Davis

  Years, Twenties, Population

  Kenneth C. Davis (1990). “Don't Know Much About History: Everything You Need to Know About American History But Never Learned”, Crown Pub

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• Despair is good. Despair can be the nadir of one life and the starting point of an ascent into another, better one.

  Dean Koontz

  Despair, Ascent, Starting

  Dean Koontz (2007). “Velocity: A Novel”, p.417, Bantam

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• I think 1973 was the nadir of fashion. When you watch the coverage from that era, you're struck by the astonishing ugliness of the clothes.

  John Malkovich

  Fashion, Thinking, Clothes

  "John Malkovich Discusses Secretariat". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. January 24, 2011.

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• As the blackness of the night recedes so does the nadir of yesterday. The child I am forgets so quickly.

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner

  Children, Night, Yesterday

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• My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. It's about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. It's about Washington and the army and the war. It's the nadir, the low point of the United States of America.

  David McCullough

  War, Book, Army

  Interview with Bruce Cole, www.neh.gov.

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• It is the profoundest of cosmic ironies. The divine power, our true spiritual essence, does not achieve perfection until it hits the 'rock' bottom of the cosmos - the dense and crude earth. It remains imperfect until the moment of entombment for the simple reason that until that dark nadir is reached the experiential adventure of existence remains incomplete, and Self is not yet endowed with the entire spectrum of the light of consciousness - from spirit to matter - from the highest high to the lowest low.

  Lon Milo DuQuette

  Spiritual, Adventure, Dark

  Jason Augustus Newcomb, Lon Milo Duquette (2004). “The New Hermetics: 21st Century Magick for Illumination and Power”, p.14, Weiser Books

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• In the field of marketing . . . the trend toward selling [has] reached something of a nadir with the unveiling . . . of so-called subliminal projection. That is the technique designed to flash messages past our conscious guard.

  Vance Packard

  Past, Marketing, Technique

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• The term "godawful" should be used sparingly in connection with motion pictures. With Angels & Demons, however, it seems oddly appropriate. Not only does this prequel-turned-sequel to The Da Vinci Code make its predecessor seem like a masterwork of pacing and plotting, but it may represent a nadir for director Ron Howard and is probably the worst instance of acting from star Tom Hanks since back in the days when he was struggling out from under the shadow of Bosom Buddies.

  James Berardinelli

  Stars, Struggle, Angel

  "Angels & Demons (United States, 2009)". A movie review, www.reelviews.net. 2009.

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• Being fat is the absolute nadir of the misfit. You're a misfit because nothing fits. You don't fit in. You're not fit. You're fat. Fat doesn't have the poetic cachet of alcohol, the whiff of danger in the drug of choice. You're just fat. Being fat is so un-American, so unattractive, unerotic, unfashionable, undisciplined, unthinkable, uncool. It makes you invisible. It makes you conspicuous.

  Claudia Shear

  Alcohol, Choices, Drug

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• Every man's first declaration of love is bathos--the zenith of his passion connoting perhaps the nadir of his intelligence.

  William John Locke

  Passion, Love Is, Men

  William John Locke (2012). “Jaffery”, p.263, tredition

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• Man, if he compare himself with all that he can see, is at the zenith of power; but if he compare himself with all that he can conceive, he is at the nadir of weakness.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Weakness, Zenith

  Charles Caleb COLTON (1849). “L.P.”, p.421

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• 1994 was the nadir for heavy metal, although the rest of the '90s weren't much of a picnic either.

  Martin Popoff

  Picnics, Heavy Metal, Metals

  Source: archive.alternativenation.net

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• In Western Europe and North America some things are better than they were - at least relative to their moral nadirs - such as labour legislation, the opening of the professions to women, intolerance for domestic violence, but so much is still morally unacceptable - the weapons trade, cruel and unusual punishment, economic parasitism.

  Catherine Wilson

  Europe, Punishment, America

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Liberty is only valued when it is threatened, therefore it is the threat that highlights the value. We should be grateful to the Nadir, since they heighten the value of our liberty.

  David Gemmell

  Grateful, Liberty, Should

  "Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde". Book by David Gemmell, Ch. 9, May 1, 1988.

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• The obvious liberal rejoinders come to mind: What about the child whose home is hit by a bomb? Did she have some bomb-shaped thoughtform that brought ruin down on her head? And did my [fired white-collar workers] boot-camp mates cause the layoffs that drove them out of their jobs by "vibrating" at a layoff-related frequency? It seems inexcusably cruel to tell people who have reach some kind of personal nadir that their probem is entirely of their own making.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Jobs, Children, Work

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• Man is at the nadir of his stregth when the Earth, the seas, the mountains are not in him, for without them his soul is unsourced, and he has no images by which to abide.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Strength, Men, Sea

  Edward Dahlberg (1972). “The sorrows of Priapus: consisting of The sorrows of Priapus and The carnal myth”, Not Avail

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• We are left with the feeling that the church has overdone it, no matter how you cut it, and that homosexuals have certainly suffered more wrong than they have committed, and that there must be flaws in whatever theology of nature or hierarchy of sins has made homosexuality be viewed as the nadir of depravity... This feeling increases when one becomes acquainted with responsible, Christian, homosexual people.

  Paul King Jewett

  Christian, Cutting, Gay

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