Lowest Quotes - Page 13

• It is not the lowest priced goods that are always the cheapest - the quality is, or ought to be as much an object with the purchaser, as the price.

  George Washington

  Quality, Goods, Ought

  George Washington, Stephen Lucas (1999). “The Quotable George Washington: The Wisdom of an American Patriot”, p.10, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Starting anything is a roller coaster with the highest highs and lowest lows.

  Jack Dorsey

  Smart, Roller Coaster, Coasters

  "10 Smart Quotes From 'Innovation Uncensored' Conference" by Craig Kanalley, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 24, 2013.

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• In a perfect world what poor countries at the lowest rungs of economic development need is not a multi-party democracy, but in fact a decisive benevolent dictator to push through the reforms required to get the economy moving

  Dambisa Moyo

  Country, Party, Moving

  Dambisa Moyo (2009). “Dead Aid: Why Aid Is Not Working and How There Is a Better Way for Africa”, p.43, Macmillan

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• As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind - every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder.

  John Glenn

  Inspirational, Funny, Humorous

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• Some people say Larry the Cable Guy's only successful because he's pandering to the lowest common denominator, blatantly and not ironically exploiting people's racist and homophobic tendencies. Don't listen to these people, Larry. They're just bitter and jealous and right.

  Greg Giraldo

  Funny, Jealous, Successful

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• A pun is the lowest form of humor—when you don't think of it first.

  Oscar Levant

  Thinking, Firsts, Form

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• At my lowest I was making nothing, of course

  Teri Hatcher

  Courses

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• You will have the highest of highs and the lowest of lows, just remember to always handle yourself with grace and dignity.

  Kristin Chenoweth

  Grace, Dignity, Remember

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• Yeah, remember, under the Bush administration, welfare — I mean, excuse me, poverty among African Americans and among single unmarried women, poverty was at the lowest rate ever in the history of this country. So Obama’s policies are not working, Bush polices worked! For long a time as a matter of fact.

  Rick Santorum

  Country, Mean, Long

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• And I can't even go to the grocery store without some ones that's clean and a shirt with a team/It seems we living the American dream but people highest up got the lowest self esteem/The prettiest people do the ugliest things for the road to riches and diamond rings.

  Kanye West

  Dream, Self Esteem, Team

  Song: Self Conscious

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• We have a lowest-common-denominator Christianity being taught in so many denominations that has produced a people who simply do not know some of the most basic Christian truths.

  Albert Mohler

  Christian, People, Taught

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• Drekitude is the lowest point in the lowest ebb. It could be your look. It could be your shoes. It could be that you're standing wrong. Drek is a total, total, total hot mess.

  Andre Leon Talley

  Shoes, Hot, Looks

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• Condemnation by category is the lowest form of hatred, for it is cold-hearted and abstract, lacking even the courage of a personal hatred.

  Wendell Berry

  Hatred, Cold Hearted, Abstract

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• Aborting my baby is the most serious of the many maternal crimes I tally in my head when I am at my lowest, when the Bad Mother label seems to fit best. Rocketship was my baby. And I killed him.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Mother, Baby, Labels

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• Not Chaos, not the darkest pit of lowest Erebus, nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out by help of dreams - can breed such fear and awe as fall upon us often when we look into our Minds, into the Mind of Man.

  William Wordsworth

  Dream, Fall, Men

  1814 'The Excursion', preface, l.35-41.

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• There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hypocrisy, Politics, Satisfaction

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Volume II”, p.123

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• To me it seems not unreasonable to find a re-enforcement of optimism, a renewal of courage and hope, in the modern theory that man has mounted to what he is from the lowest step of potentiality, through toilsome grades of ever-expanding existence, even thought it have been by a spiral stairway, mainly dark or dusty, with loop-holes at long intervals only, and these granting but a narrow and one-sided view.

  James Russell Lowell

  Dark, Men, Views

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• The blessings of fortune are the lowest; the next are the bodily advantages of strength and health; but the superlative blessings, in fine, are those of the mind.

  Roger L'Estrange

  Blessing, Mind, Next

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• Oil remains fundamentally a government business. While many regions of the world offer great oil opportunities, the Middle East with two-thirds of the world's oil and the lowest cost, is still where the prize ultimately lies, even though companies are anxious for greater access there, progress continues to be slow.

  Dick Cheney

  Lying, War, Opportunity

  "Libya: another neocon war" by David Swanson, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2011.

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• The lowest standards of ethics of which a right-thinking man can possibly conceive is taught to the common soldier whose trade is to shoot his fellow men. In youth he may have learned the command, 'Thou shalt not kill,' but the ruler takes the boy just as he enters manhood and teaches him that his highest duty is to shoot a bullet through his neighbor's heart - and this, unmoved by passion or feeling or hatred, and without the least regard to right or wrong, but simply because his ruler gives the word.

  Clarence Darrow

  War, Heart, Passion

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• It is manifestly unjust that a privileged few should continue to accumulate excess goods, squandering available resources, while masses of people are living in conditions of misery at the very lowest level of subsistence.

  Pope John Paul II

  People, Excess, Levels

  Pope John Paul II (1998). “In my own words”

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• It is a rude feeling, because it is natural only to people standing on the lowest level of morality, and expecting from other nations such outrages as they themselves are ready to inflict.

  Leo Tolstoy

  People, Rude, Feelings

  graf Leo Tolstoy (1989). “I Cannot be Silent: Writings on Politics, Art and Religion by Leo Tolstoy”

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• The capitalist system of production is an economic democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote. The consumers are the sovereign people. The capitalists, the entrepreneurs, and the farmers are the people's mandatories. If they do not obey, if they fail to produce, at the lowest possible cost, what

  Ludwig von Mises

  People, Giving, Entrepreneur

  Ludwig Von Mises (1944). “Bureaucracy”

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• The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow We are such stuff as dreams are made of.

  William Shakespeare

  Dream, Stuff, Tides

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• In all societies, it is advisable to associate if possible with the highest; not that the highest are always the best, but because, if disgusted there, we can descend at any time; but if we begin with the lowest, to ascend is impossible.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Association, Impossible, Disgusted

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.22

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