Bottom Quotes - page 4

The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom. (Bertolt Brecht)
Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world. View quote
Bruce Fairchild Barton
Every day the bucket a-go a well, one day the bottom a-go drop out. View quote
Bob Marley
The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will turn you into an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you. View quote
Werner Heisenberg
We are born to inquire after truth; it belongs to a greater power to possess it. It is not, as Democritus said, hid in the bottom of the deeps, but rather elevated to an infinite height in the divine knowledge. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
SHOEBURYNESS (abs.n.) The vague uncomfortable feeling you get when sitting on a seat which is still warm from somebody else's bottom. View quote
Douglas Adams
In fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom. I call myself the best example of that. View quote
Malcolm X
Science, at bottom, is really anti-intellectual. It always distrusts pure reason, and demands the production of objective fact. View quote
H. L. Mencken
But as the priceless treasure too frequently hides at the bottom of well, it needs some courage to dive for it, especially as he that does so will be likely to incur more scorn and obloquy for the mud and water into which he has ventured to plunge, than thanks for the jewel he procures; as like in manner, she who undertakes the cleansing of a careless bachelor's apartment will be liable to more abuse for the dust she raises than commendation for the clearance she effects. View quote
Anne Brontë
There's a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness. View quote
Denis Diderot
Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed. She is said to lie at the bottom of a well, for the very reason, perhaps, that whoever looks down in search of her sees his own image at the bottom, and is persuaded not only that he has seen the goddess, but that she is far better looking than he had imagined. (James Russell Lowell)
I think the knowledge about how legislation really affects small businesses is extremely valuable. If you haven't run a small business, then you don't have this kind of knowledge about how a regulation passed or taxes increased affects your bottom line. If you recognize that every new regulation takes that much more time to comply with, requires that many more employees, then it really gives you that foundational basis to make those decisions. View quote
Kristi Noem
The major western democracies are moving towards corporatism. Democracy has become a business plan, with a bottom line for every human activity, every dream, every decency, every hope. The main parliamentary parties are now devoted to the same economic policies - socialism for the rich, capitalism for the poor - and the same foreign policy of servility to endless war. This is not democracy. It is to politics what McDonalds is to food. View quote
John Pilger
An irresistible footnote: in 1971, pension fund managers invested a record 122% of net funds available in equities - at full prices they couldn't buy enough of them. In 1974, after the bottom had fallen out, they committed a then record low of 21% to stocks. View quote
Warren Buffett
I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes. They have in themselves what they value in their horses, - mettle and bottom. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don't bail. The best of the gold's at the bottom of barrels of crap. View quote
Randy Pausch
The reason the mass of men fear God, and at bottom dislike Him, is because they rather distrust His heart, and fancy Him all brain like a watch. (You perceive I employ a capital initial in the pronoun referring to the Deity; don't you think there is a slight dash of flunkeyism in that usage?). View quote
Herman Melville
Many a one commits a reprehensible action, who is at bottom an honourable man, because man seldom acts upon natural impulse, but from some secret passion of the moment which lies hidden and concealed within the narrowest folds of his heart. View quote
Napoleon Bonaparte
Give a beggar a dime and he'll bless you. Give him a dollar and he'll curse you for withholding the rest of your fortune. Poverty is a bag with a hole at the bottom. View quote
Anzia Yezierska
People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven't got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom. View quote
Peter Ustinov
The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else. (Lascelles Abercrombie)
Fascism was born to inspire a faith not of the Right (which at bottom aspires to conserve everything, even injustice) or of the Left (which at bottom aspires to destroy everything, even goodness), but a collective, integral, national faith. View quote
José Antonio Primo de Rivera
Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one's balance and keep afloat. View quote
Eric Hoffer
The bottom line is that time travel is allowed by the laws of physics. View quote
Brian Greene
At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference. View quote
Søren Kierkegaard