Lowest Quotes - Page 15

• Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom.

  E. M. Forster

  Memories, Stupid, People

  E. M. Forster (1954). “Aspects Of the Novel”

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• There are three degrees of filial piety. The highest is being a credit to our parents, the second is not disgracing them; the lowest is being able simply to support them.

  Confucius

  Thank You, Support, Parent

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• Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was.

  Art Buchwald

  Thinking, Stupidity, Television

  Art Buchwald (1968). “Have I ever lied to you?”

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• We are so vain as to set the highest value upon those things to which nature has assigned the lowest place. What can be more coarse and rude in the mind than the precious metals, or more slavish and dirty than the people that dig and work them? And yet they defile our minds more than our bodies, and make the possessor fouler than the artificer of them. Rich men, in fine, are only the greater slaves.

  Seneca the Younger

  Dirty, Men, People

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• The yellow Indians do have a meagre talent. The Negroes are far below them, and at the lowest point are a part of the American people.

  Immanuel Kant

  Yellow, People, Racist

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• Gangsta rap often reaches higher than its ugliest, lowest common denominator, misogyny, violence, materialism and sexual transgression are not its exclusive domain. At its best, this music draws attention to complex dimensions of ghetto life ignored by most Americans. Indeed, gangsta rap's in-your-face style may do more to force America to confront crucial social problems than a million sermons or political speeches.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Rap, Ghetto, Gangsta

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• We do not seek the unanimity that comes to those who water down all issues to the lowest common denominator - or to those who conceal their differences behind fixed smiles - or to those who measure unity by standards of popularity and affection, instead of trust and respect. We are allies. This is a partnership, not an empire. We are bound to have differences and disappointments - and we are equally bound to bring them out into the open, to settle them where they can be settled, and to respect each other's views when they cannot be settled.

  John F. Kennedy

  Disappointment, Differences, Issues

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• In public administration good sense would seem to require that public expectation be kept at the lowest possible level in order to minimize eventual disappointment.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Disappointment, Order, Expectations

  "A life in our times: memoirs".

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• I don't think I possess any skill that anyone else doesn't have. I've just had perhaps more of an opportunity, more of an exposure, and been fortunate to survive a lot of situations that many other weren't so lucky to make it. It's not how close can you get to the ground, but how precise can you fly the airplane. If you feel so careless with you life that you want to be the world's lowest flying aviator you might do it for a while. But there are a great many former friends of mine who are no longer with us simply because they cut their margins to close.

  Bob Hoover

  Inspirational, Life, Airplane

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• It's ironic that retailers and restaurants live or die on customer service, yet their employees have some of the lowest pay and worst benefits of any industry. That's one reason so many retail experiences are mediocre for the public.

  Howard Schultz

  Ironic, Retail, Benefits

  "Grounds For Success". Interview with Scott S. Smith, www.entrepreneur.com. May 1, 1998.

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• I respect the audience's intelligence a lot, and that's why I don't try to go for the lowest common denominator.

  Spike Lee

  Trying, Common, Audience

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My lowest days as a Christian have been more fulfilling and rewarding than all the days of glory in the White House.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Christian, White, House

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• Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.

  Marion Barry

  Funny, Country, Crazy

  Quoted in Chicago Tribune, 28 Mar. 1989

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• at your weakest, you end up showing more strength; at your lowest, you are suddenly lifted higher than you’ve ever been. They all border one another, these opposites and show how quickly we can be altered.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Opposites, Borders, Ends

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• Oh, the stoop of the Redeemer's amazing love! Let us, henceforth, contend how low we can go side by side with Him, but remember when we have gone to the lowest He descends lower still, so that we can truly feel that the very lowest place is too high for us, because He has gone lower still.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Amazing Love, Gone, Sides

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• The same president who has insisted that core moralism drives him has brought America to its lowest moral standing in history.

  Glenn Greenwald

  America, President, Moral

  Glenn Greenwald (2007). “A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency”, p.9, Crown

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• I see. So you playacted the role of a rake who was only pretending to be in earnest, knowing you would come across as though you had the lowest of motives, when in fact, you were sincere?” “Precisely.” She gave a short, wry laugh and shook her head at him. “Convoluted sir! You are a maze.” He shot her a sulky glance. “I thought you were going to say I was amazing.” “That, too,” she admitted with a rueful smile, capturing his square chin between her fingertips.

  Gaelen Foley

  Knowing, Wry Smile, Squares

  Gaelen Foley (2002). “Lord of Fire”, p.175, Ballantine Books

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• Anything was better than nothing. Half-full was better than empty. Ignorance was the lowest form of humiliation and suffering.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Life, Ignorance, Suffering

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2011). “Silence”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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• It’s never the enemy without who brings you down. It’s always the enemy within.” – Nick “Guard your back, Nick. It’s the one you don’t see coming. The one you trust whose betrayal is most lethal. They know your weakness and they know how to hit the lowest. It’s when your back is turned and your guard is down that they move in for the kill.” – Kyrian

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Betrayal, Moving, Enemy

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• Instead of asking what's wrong with rampant consumerism, we ought to be asking, 'What justifies it?' Popular art does not have to pander to the lowest level of intelligence and taste.

  Bill Watterson

  Art, Doe, Asking

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• It is a lively spark of nobleness to descend in most favour to one when he is lowest in affliction

  Philip Sidney

  Sympathy, Affliction, Sparks

  Sir Philip Sidney (1724). “The works of the Honourable Sir Philip Sidney, kt., in prose and verse”, p.774

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• The highest point of yesterday should be the lowest point of today

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Yoga, Yesterday, Today

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• The great lesson is, that unity is behind all. Call it God, Love, Spirit. Allah, Jehovah - it is the same unity that animates all life from the lowest animal to the noblest man.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Animal, Men, Diversity

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2154, Manonmani Publishers

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• Even the lowest of the low have the Atman (Soul) inside, which never dies and never is born, immortal, without beginning or end, the all pure, omnipotent and omnipresent Atman!

  Swami Vivekananda

  God, Spiritual, Soul

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• People, like water, will run downhill, seeking their lowest level unless something interdicts them.

  Cal Thomas

  Running, Adversity, People

  Cal Thomas (1990). “Death of Ethics in America”, W Publishing Group

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