Low Quotes - page 2

He who comes up to his own idea of greatness must always have had a very low standard of it in mind. (William Hazlitt)
How lovely the little river is, with its dark changing wavelets It seems to me like a living companion while I wander along the bank, and listen to its low, placid voice . . . View quote
George Eliot
Those who have achieved all their aims probably set them too low. View quote
Herbert von Karajan
History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums. View quote
Alan Greenspan
That low man seeks a little thing to do, Sees it and does it This high man, with a great thing to pursue, Dies ere he knows it. That low man goes on adding one to one, His hundreds soon hit This high man, aiming at a million, Misses an unit. That, has the world hereshould he need the next, Let the world mind him This, throws himself on God, and unperplext Seeking shall find Him. View quote
Robert Browning
And in that town a dog was found, As many dogs there be, Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound, And curs of low degree. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability. View quote
Oscar Wilde
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. View quote
William Stanley Jevons
There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from. View quote
Bernard Mandeville
As high as we have mounted in delight, In our dejection do we sink as low. View quote
William Wordsworth
There will be no propriety in the spectacle of an elegant interior approached by a low mean entrance. (Vitruvius)
So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
All of us recruits are equal in the eyes of the Army: low as you can go. View quote
Garth Nix
The tall, the wise, the reverend head Must lie as low as ours. View quote
Isaac Watts
We catched fish, and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness. It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didn't ever feel like talking loud, and it warn't often that we laughed, only a kind of low chuckle. We had mighty good weather, as a general thing, and nothing ever happened to us at all, that night, nor the next, nor the next. View quote
Mark Twain
Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom. View quote
Plato
However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police. View quote
Quentin Crisp
Men of England, wherefore plough For the lords who lay ye low? View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
But in any case, I did poorly on the tests and so, in the first three years of school, I had teachers who thought I was stupid and when people think you're stupid, they have low expectations for you. View quote
Robert Sternberg
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come. View quote
Robert H. Schuller
Every time you hear someone read your book and liked your book, you're never sure whether that's going to follow with a similar remark from someone else. Perhaps I have low expectations, but whenever I hear someone say, 'I liked your book,' I don't know if it's going to happen again. (Joshua Ferris)
I had some big ups and downs when I was in my 20s and the one thing I learned was, no matter how low it gets, something good will come along - something always comes out of that dark period. View quote
Darren Aronofsky
Unequal funding resources also results in unequal educational opportunity when you consider studies that show that one half of low income students who are qualified to attend college do not attend because they can't afford to. View quote
Bobby Scott
It's not about weight, it's about fitness, and one component of being fit is to have relatively low body fat, because fat is not very efficient, whereas muscle is. View quote
Deborah Bull
So many comics have such low self-esteem. View quote
Debra Wilson