Lows Quotes - Page 38

• How low, how little are the proud, How indigent the great!

  Thomas Gray

  Proud, Littles

  1748 Ode on the Spring, l.19-20.

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• Public opinion always wants easy money, that is, low interest rates.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Money, Public Opinion, Want

  "A Critique of Interventionism". Book by Ludwig von Mises, p. 163, 1929.

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• The rustling of the leaves is like a low hymn to nature.

  James Ellis

  Hymns

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• Every man has at times in his mind the Ideal of what he should be, but is not. This ideal may be high and complete, or it may be quite low and insufficient; yet in all men, that really seek to improve, it is better than the actual character... Man never falls so low, that he can see nothing higher than himself.

  Theodore Parker

  Fall, Character, Men

  "A Lesson for the Day; or The Christianity of Christ, of the Church, and of Society". "The Dial" Magazine, (p. 196), October 1940.

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• Sure thou did'st nourish once! and many springs, Many bright mornings, much dew, many showers, Passed o'er thy head; many light hearts and wings, Which now are dead, lodg'd in thy living bowers. And still a new succession sings and flies; Fresh groves grow up, and their green branches shoot Towards the old and still-enduring skies; While the low violet thrives at their root.

  Henry Vaughan

  Morning, Growing Up, Spring

  Henry Vaughan, “The Timber”

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• Bright pledge of peace and sunshine! the sure tie Of thy Lord's hand, the object of His eye! When I behold thee, though my light be dim, Distinct, and low, I can in thine see Him Who looks upon thee from His glorious throne, And minds the covenant between all and One.

  Henry Vaughan

  Eye, Sunshine, Light

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• MCJOB: A low-pay, low-prestige, low-dignity, no-future job in the service sector. Frequently considered a satisfying career choice for people who have never held one.

  Douglas Coupland

  Jobs, Careers, People

  1991 Generation X,'The Sun IsYour Enemy'.

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• Even the existence of this corporeal element, low as it in reality is, because it is the source of death and all evils, is likewise good for the permanence of the Universe and the continuation of the order of things, so that one thing departs and the other succeeds.

  Maimonides

  Reality, Order, Evil

  Moses Maimonides, Aeterna Press (1948). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.433, Aeterna Press

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• I know very well that if you get men who are really, really swells, for that is what it is, Mr. Low, and pay them well enough, and so make it really an important thing, they can browbeat any judge and hoodwink any jury.

  Anthony Trollope

  Men, Judging, Important

  Anthony Trollope, John Bowen (2011). “Phineas Redux”, p.388, Oxford University Press

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• We say then, that Christianity is adapted to the intellect, because its spirit coincides with that of true philosophy; because it removes the incubus of sensuality and low vice; because of the place it gives to truth; because it demands free inquiry; because its mighty truths and systems are brought before the mind in the same way as the truths and systems of nature; because it solves higher problems than nature can; and because it is so communicated as to be adapted to every mind.

  Mark Hopkins

  Philosophy, Giving, Mind

  Mark Hopkins (1863). “Evidences of Christianity: Lectures Before the Lowell Institute, January 1844”, p.136

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• He that distributeth not That which he hath received-- His food, his drink, his sustenance-- Unto devotee, brahman, beggar, wayfarer-- Such a low man as he, they say, is like Unto a lack of rain.

  Gautama Buddha

  Rain, Men, Giving

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• I suggest that US foreign policy can still be defined as "kiss my ass or I'll kick your head in." But of course it doesn't put it like that. It talks of "low intensity conflict..." What all this adds up to is a disease at the very centre of language, so that language becomes a permanent masquerade, a tapestry of lies.

  Harold Pinter

  Lying, Kissing, Add

  "Oh, Superman". Broadcast for "Opinion" on Channel 4 (May 31, 1990); later quoted in Harold Pinter "Various Voices: Prose, Poetry, Politics 1948-2005" (pp. 198-199), 2005.

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• There is no golden mean between these two extremes; either this early life must become low in our estimation, or it will have our inordinate love.

  John Calvin

  Mean, Two, Golden

  "Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life". Book by John Calvin, 1550.

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• Now I'm not making love to anyone's wishes,
  Only for that light I see
  'Cause when I'm dead and lowered low in my grave,
  That's gonna be the only thing that's left of me.

  Cat Stevens

  Light, Making Love, Wish

  "Song: 'Sitting' ('Catch Bull at Four')". 1972.

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• Think of one structural change in 11 years he made, other than being just doling out money in the annual Budget? And don't say the GST because Howard did that and it wasn't a structural change anyway, just a change in the tax system. This is a low flying person.

  Paul Keating

  Flying, Persons

  "Keating in the Hot Seat". Interview with Kerry O'Brien, www.abc.net.au. August 06, 2008.

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• we often observe that there is abundance of capital to be had at low rates of interest, while there are also large numbers of artisans starving for want of employment.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Numbers, Employment, Want

  William Stanley Jevons (1871). “The Theory of Political Economy”, p.257

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• Let us rid ourselves of the fiction that low oil prices are somehow good for the United States.

  Dick Cheney

  Oil, Fiction, United States

  "THE 2004 CAMPAIGN: THE VICE PRESIDENT; Cheney Tax Plan From '86 Would Have Raised Gas Prices" by Richard A. Oppel Jr., www.nytimes.com. April 6, 2004.

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• We are keenly in sympathy with the representatives of Labour. We have too few of them in the House of Commons. The Liberal party, high and low, have discovered, if they ever forgot it, that the real road to success lies in adhering to the old principles of the party.

  Henry Campbell-Bannerman

  Real, Lying, Party

  Speech to Liberals in Belmont on January 02, 1903. "CB: a life of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman". Book by John Wilson, p. 394, 1973.

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• Changi became my university instead of my prison. Among the inmates there were experts in all walks of life - the high and the low roads. I studied and absorbed everything I could from physics to counterfeiting, but most of all I learned the art of surviving.

  James Clavell

  Art, Experts, Inmates

  "James Clavell, Best-Selling Storyteller of Far Eastern Epics, Is Dead at 69" by William Grimes, www.nytimes.com. September 8, 1994.

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• Listen I don't expect an apology from men like Chuck Schumer, and I would put him and other individuals who were attacking me at the top of the list contributing to the low, low public perception of Congress, the integrity of Congress quite frankly.

  Alberto Gonzales

  Kings, Integrity, Apology

  "Gonzales: 'I feel angry'". Interview with John King, johnkingusa.blogs.cnn.com. July 23, 2010.

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• The reader can test his own psychology by asking himself whether he would consider, in retrospect, the selling at 156 in 1925 and buying back at 109 in 1931 was a satisfactory operation. Some may think that an intelligent investor should have been able to sell out much closer to the high of 381 and to buy back nearer the low of 41. If that is your own view you are probably a speculator at heart and will have trouble keeping to true investment precepts while the market rushes up and down.

  Benjamin Graham

  Heart, Intelligent, Thinking

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• A price decline is of no real importance to the bona fide investor unless it is either very substantial say, more than a third from cost or unless it reflects a known deterioration of consequence in the company's position. In a well-defined bear market many sound common stocks sell temporarily at extraordinary low prices. It is possible that the investor may then have a paper loss of fully 50 per cent on some of his holdings, without any convincing indication that the underlying values have been permanently affected.

  Benjamin Graham

  Real, Loss, Sound

  "The Intelligent Investor: The Classic Text on Value Investing". Book by Benjamin Graham, Chapter II, The Investor and Stock-Market Fluctuations, p. 25, 1949.

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• I've always tried to keep my cover prices on the low side. I'm more interested in getting people to read the books we publish and less interested in the profit margin.

  Kevin Sampsell

  Book, People, Sides

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• The world economy is in a nosedive, and understanding what I call "depression economics" - the weird world you get into when even a zero interest rate isn't low enough, and a messed-up financial system is dragging down the real economy - is essential if we're going to avoid the worst.

  Paul Krugman

  Zero, Real, Understanding

  "Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman on the Economy". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2008.

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• What the Depression teaches us is that when the economy is so depressed that even a zero interest rate isn't low enough, you have to put conventional notions of prudence and sound policy aside.

  Paul Krugman

  Zero, Sound, Enough

  "Nobel Laureate Paul Krugman on the Economy". Live chat, www.washingtonpost.com. December 15, 2008.

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