Lower Quotes

In India, if you are from the elite, dogs are extremely important. The breed of the dog indicates your wealth, that you are westernized. The cook, another human being, is on a much lower level than your dog. You see this all the time. (Kiran Desai)
Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes. View quote
Oswald Spengler
It's a terrible thing to be alone - yes it is - it is - but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath - as terrible as you like - but a mask. View quote
Katherine Mansfield
Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry. View quote
Havelock Ellis
There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-conformist. View quote
Ayn Rand
I feel no doubt whatever that the parish laws of England have contributed to raise the price of provisions and to lower the real price of labour. View quote
Thomas Malthus
I am an international leader, the dean of the Arab rulers, the king of kings of Africa and the imam of Muslims, and my international status does not allow me to descend to a lower level. View quote
Muammar Gaddafi
There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations. View quote
Jodi Picoult
The lower you fall, the higher you'll fly. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
Instead of striving to be right at high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures. View quote
Edward de Bono
The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One. (Michel de Montaigne)
If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible we should find them tailed. View quote
William Winwood Reade
The overall purpose of human communication is - or should be - reconciliation. It should ultimately serve to lower or remove the walls of misunderstanding which unduly separate us human beings, one from another. View quote
M. Scott Peck
Cruelty to men and to the lower animals as well, which would have passed unnoticed a century ago, now shocks the sensibilities and is regarded as wicked and degrading. View quote
Elihu Root
Even from my sick bed, even if you are going to lower me into the grave and I feel something is going wrong, I will get up. View quote
Lee Kuan Yew
A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
Between the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupations, That is known as the Children's Hour. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I have everything I had twenty years ago, only it's all a little bit lower. View quote
Gypsy Rose Lee
Cognitive therapy seeks to alleviate psychological stresses by correcting faulty conceptions and self-signals. By correcting erroneous beliefs we can lower excessive reactions. View quote
Aaron Beck
Really, if the lower orders don't set us a good example, what on earth is the use of them. View quote
Oscar Wilde
We can only take it so far, because man can only take it so far, lower self can only take it so far, and you have to realize that the public is only at a certain place. (Alice Cooper)
I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep everyone's expectations. View quote
Bill Watterson
From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text And embryo Good, to reach full stature, Absorbs the Evil in its nature. View quote
James Russell Lowell
That is the true definition of sin; when knowing right you do the lower, ah, then you sin. Where there is no knowledge, sin is not present. View quote
Annie Besant
Unable to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity raw animality forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food. View quote
Lewis Mumford
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