Top 1200 Above And Below Quotes & Sayings - Page 10

There is within each of us a modulation, an inner exaltation, which lifts us above the buffetings with which events assail us. Likewise, it lifts us above dependence upon the gifts of events for our joy.

To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.

I set myself high standards, and when I drop below them, I'm not happy about it.

In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice.

Woman! thou loveliest gift that here below Man can receive, or Providence bestow.

I have been there, and still would go; 'T is like a little heaven below.

We're all shareholders. These guys below me, they see the CEO taking it easy, it's their money.

To love is to believe, to hope, to know; 'Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!

I've still got family members living below the poverty line in New York.

[A writer] should try not to be too far, personally, below the level of his work.

The Kabbalah describes angels as bundles of light, meaning intelligence, consciousness. Kabbalists believe that above every blade of grass is an angel crying "Grow! Grow!" ... I believe that above the entire human race is one super-angel, crying "Evolve! Evolve!"

People have been playing against me below their strength for fifteen years.

If you will not rise above the things of this world, they will rise above you.

The 2012 payout will be the lowest in our history: well below 50 percent.

Jove lifts the golden balances that show The fates of mortal men, and things below.

Deep are the foundations of sincerity. Even stone walls have their foundation below the frost.

The immediate cause of the increase of population is the excess of the births above deaths; and the rate of increase, or the period of doubling, depends upon the proportion which the excess of the births above the deaths bears to the population.

I think that any program that's born from below rather than on high is going to survive.

Even in a healthy society, violence, lawlessness, and predation lie just below the surface.

To love is to believe, to hope, to know; Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!

I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history.

Under President Bachmann you will see gasoline come down below $2 a gallon again.

If a house is priced appropriately, make a bid 10 percent below that amount.

If above all things we would taste God, and feel eternal life in ourselves, we must go forth into God with our feeling, above reason; and there we must abide, onefold, empty of ourselves, and free from images, lifted up by love into the simple bareness of our intelligence.

Peter Kubelka is the perfectionist of the film medium; and, as I honor that quality above all others at this time finding such a lack of it now elsewhere, I would simply like to say: Peter Kubelka is the world's greatest filmmaker - which is to say, simply: see his films!...by all means/above all else...etcetera.

Progressive, radical, or even revolutionary change has always come from below.

A good party man puts his party above himself and his country above his party.

Great things happen nationally when topmost leadership is goaded and supported from below.

How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven.

The rate of population growth in the United States is slightly below that required to reproduce itself.

I live below my means. I think that's a good discipline because you never can tell.

He lies below, correct in cypress wood, And entertains the most exclusive worms.

The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below

The river and the sea can be kings of a hundred valleys, because they lie below them.

At dinner parties I sit below the salt now. There are a lot of interesting people there.

Rock 'n' roll was two pegs below being a prisoner of war back then.

I thought that, given the system of rewards central to our economic system, in which profit maximization is valued above all else and specifically above life, it is probably just as irresistible to the owners of capital (human or otherwise) to exploit workers (and the land): "Nothing personal," they say as they load their property onto the ship bound for the Middle Passage, "but a man's gotta turn a dime."

Do not choose for your friends and familiar acquaintance those that are of an estate or quality too much above yours...You will hereby accustom yourselves to live after their rate in clothes, in habit, and in expenses, whereby you will learn a fashion and rank of life above your degree and estate, which will in the end be your undoing.

In 2009, the proportion of American women who were married dropped below 50 percent.

When Pa was at home the gun always lay across those two wooden hooks above the door. ... The gun was always loaded, and always above the door so that Pa could get it quickly and easily, any time he needed a gun.

The French league is a bit below the English. But I think life in Paris is more beautiful.

Those doves below, the ones utterly cared for, never endangered ones, cannot know tenderness.

I like a hem below my knee even though I was blessed with fairly good gams.

Old Time, who changes all below, To wean men gently for the grave.

I found that through my life, living in the city of Toronto, I look above the Pizza Pizza sign, and I look above the other signs and window dressing, and I see evidence of a city that no longer exists in the keystones and the decorations that line the tops of buildings. That presence of the old city has always moved me.

We're all carnies, though some people are in denial. They want to be above it all, above the mayhem of laughter and people and lights and animals and the dark sadness that lurks in the coners and beneath the rides and in the trailers after hours. So they ride teh Ferris wheel, and at the top, they think they've left it all behind They've ascended to a place where they can take things seriously. Where they can be taken seriously.

I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him.

I know I have to live up to the hype wherever I go. If I'm an inch below the standard, it'll be chaos.

Once you get past funny, my other qualities are so below average. It's not like I'm handy.

Not surprisingly, work-life moaners tend to be a phenomenon of below-average performers.

Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.

Truth and oyle are ever above. [Truth and oil are ever above.]

He who surpasses or subdues mankind, must look down on the hate of those below.

Mistreating your drum set is just one step below child abuse

The ugliness can sometimes be super ugly, but also a warning sign of something down below.

there is nothing sorer to the spirit than falling below what one's lover thinks of one.

I cannot think of any character below the flatterer, except he who envies him

Keep thy airspeed up, less the earth come from below and smit thee.

It was an extraterrestrial performance. It is very special to go below 4:50, but I believe I can do better.

But at least he can still see the lights below us. Although maybe for him it doesn't matter.