Bottom Quotes - page 42

The evening wind made such a disturbance just now, among some tall old elm-trees at the bottom of the garden, that neither my mother nor Miss Betsey could forbear glancing that way. As the elms bent to one another, like giants who were whispering secrets, and after a few seconds of such repose, fell into a violent flurry, tossing their wild arms about, as if their late confidences were really too wicked for their peace of mind . . . (Charles Dickens)
The scars left from the child's defeat in the fight against irrational authority are to be found at the bottom of every neurosis. View quote
Erich Fromm
All young sects are at bottom hostile to State and property, class and rank, and are attracted to universal equality. View quote
Oswald Spengler
Philosophy, the love of Wisdom, is at the very bottom defence against the incomprehensible. View quote
Oswald Spengler
Trickle-down theories do not address the legitimate aspirations of the poor. We must lift those at the bottom so that poverty is erased from the dictionary of modern India. View quote
Pranab Mukherjee
However much we talk of the inexorable laws governing the life of individuals and of societies, we remain at the bottom convinced that in human affairs everything in more or less fortuitous. We do not even believe in the inevitability of our own death. Hence the difficulty of deciphering the present, of detecting the seeds of things to come as they germinate before our eyes. We are not attuned to seeing the inevitable. View quote
Eric Hoffer
I don't think I'm too thin at all. I understand when people say, 'Well your face gets gaunt,' but to get your bottom half to be the right size, your face might have to be a little gaunt. You choose your battles. View quote
Courteney Cox
I came from the bottom of the bottom. It's hard for a lot of people to comprehend my story – a lot of people just don't get me because they haven't experienced it. I came from the bottom and I have risen up and I have changed but I have never forgotten. View quote
50 Cent
If there's a stack [of novels to review], the unpromising stuff goes at the top and the promising stuff goes at the bottom. That way, I am eager to finish Overwrought Romantic Mary Sue Fantasy because I know that will let me read Niche Product That Only the Author, James and Some Guy at JPL Likes. View quote
James Nicoll
Politics isn't about left versus right; it's about top versus bottom. View quote
Jim Hightower
The last book, the one on the bottom, was a copy of the 1,500-page Gray's Anatomy. The weight was all wrong in her hands. She opened the cover, revealing a space hollowed out with surgical precision. (Lis Wiehl)
Without the safety of the flotation device, or the pool bottom beneath her feet, Makayla was suddenly drowning in fear. View quote
Lis Wiehl
I say we scrap the current [Social Security] system and replace it with a system wherein you add your name to the bottom of a list, and the you send some money to the person at the top of the list, and then you . . . Oh, wait that IS our current system. View quote
Dave Barry
As I scrape the bottom of the soul for some ingredients the only way I can explain to myself, about what it all is, is to believe that in some past life (if there is one), I belonged to the rainforests. The mantra there, for survival, is to submit to the natural forces, bow before it, respect its ways, learn and grow. You cannot defy it or go against it. In the rainforests there are labyrinthine darknesses weaving around you but there is always light in streaks, in a glow, in a stream, sunlight...all of which brings hope. You don't bathe in it all the time but it seeks you out. Man is but a speck. The human race, still a speck, in this mighty universe rich with millions of secrets. View quote
Manav Gupta
My first time was all about who is the top and who is the bottom. That took five minutes. View quote
Miss Foozie
We will meet; and there we may rehearse most obscenely and courageously. Shakespeare, Midsummer Night's Dream. Spoken by Bottom, Act I Sc. 2. View quote
William Shakespeare
It is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom. Each, in its utmost development, supposes a high degree of intimacy and heart-knowledge; each renders one individual dependent for the food of his affections and spiritual life upon another; each leaves the passionate lover, or the no less passionate hater, forlorn and desolate by the withdrawal of his object. View quote
Nathaniel Hawthorne
The bottom line in the Civil War, after all is said and done, showed that every Confederate state was a slave state and every free state was a Union state. These facts were not a coincidence, and every Civil War soldier knew it. View quote
James M. McPherson
If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom woud have a lot more. View quote
Chris Martin
The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down. View quote
Pat Paulsen
They have [...] a split personality. One moment they're your best mate, and next they are trying to drag you down to the bottom of the sea to drown you. [...] It's just astonishing. (Lewis Pugh)
A thought came across my mind: if things go pear-shaped on this swim, how long will it take for my frozen body to sink the four and a half kilometers to the bottom of the ocean? View quote
Lewis Pugh
the loss pressed down on her chest and came up into her throat. it was a fine cry -- loud and long -- but it had no bottom and no top, just circles and circles of sorrow. View quote
Toni Morrison
All schools, all colleges, have two great functions to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten.1908, notebook. View quote
Mark Twain
From top to bottom, the Communist Party can't get through a single day without telling lies. View quote
Pu Zhiqiang