A Quote by Walter Savage Landor
It is easy to look down on others; to look down on ourselves is the difficulty.
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There is a strange pecking order among actors. Theatre actors look down on film actors, who look down on TV actors. Thank God for reality shows, or we wouldn't have anybody to look down on.
The more you look down on others, the less ANYBODY will look up to you.
In some neighborhoods, if you want to walk down the streets, you've got two choices - look down, or look hard.
Oh precious heart, you think you're lost, look down look down and find your feet. The next step is the path you're on
How hard it is for people to live without someone to look down upon-really to look down upon. It is not just that they feel cheated out of someone to hate. It is that they are compelled to look more closely into themselves and what they don't like about themselves.
There is a great destructive force that comes upon us when we start comparing ourselves in the flesh with what we could be spiritually. We should never compare what we are with what we could be, because we will always be down on ourselves when we do this. Just look to Jesus and what He is. As long as we look to Jesus we will go toward Him. When we look at our inferiority we will go toward it.
Class never tries to build itself up by tearing others down. Class is already up and need not strive to look better by making others look worse.
Look down - look down that lonesome road
Before you travel on
Snobs look down on people, and I look down on everyone. Not in a snooty, classist way - I mean because I'm better than everyone. I don't give a s**t about good manners.
You know in cartoons, the way someone can run off a cliff and they're fine, they don't fall down until they look down? My mom always said that was the secret of life. Never look down. But it's more than that. It's not just about looking. It's about never realizing that you're in the middle of the air and you don't know how to fly.
You don't look down at your feet. A lot of comedians want to look down at their feet, but you break contact with the audience.
Natural Theology says not only look up and look out-it also says look down and look in, and you will find the proofs of the reality of God in the depth of your own nature.
Look up, now look down. Up is endless, down has an ending. Always look up.
Yet how proud we are,
In daring to look down upon ourselves!
Breaking down that wall is the kind of story that might have a happy middle - oh, look, we broke down this wall, I'm going to look at you like a girl and you're going to look at me like a boy, and we're going to play a fun game called Can I Put My Hand There What About There What About There.
Sometimes I think we're all tightrope walkers suspended on a wire two thousand feet in the air, and so long as we never look down we're okay, but some of us lose momentum and look down for a second and are never quite the same again: we know.
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