Top 1200 Above And Below Quotes & Sayings - Page 11

The glory of God shines, indeed, in all creatures on high and below, but never more brightly than in the cross.

I never, ever read the comments below an article on the Web. People are mean. I'm a human being.

My father was a self-employed textile agent, and the shop below his office was an art gallery.

By subliminal, I mean things that occur in our world that are below the threshold of consciousness but do have a psychological effect on us.

For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.

Paul was not ignorant of Satan's devices, but we are not so wise. Among his most successful devices today are these: exalting tolerance above truth; emphasizing the head more than the heart; making size more important than sort; stressing the positive to the neglect of the negative; putting happiness above holiness; majoring on this world instead of the next.

The freedom to create is somehow linked with facility of access to those obscure regions below the conscious mind.

The foolish race of mankind are swarming below in the night; they shriek and rage and quarrel - and all of them are right.

If you go to Minnesota in January, you should know that it's gonna be cold. You don't panic when the thermometer falls below zero.

To see the Earth below you when we could take a break... to appreciate the environment around us was very special.

For Hades is mighty in calling men to account below the earth, and with a mind that records in tablets he surveys all things.

Grief can have a quality of profound healing because we are forced to a depth of feeling that is usually below the threshold of awareness.

Keep looking below surface appearances. Don't shrink from doing so just because you might not like what you find.

Tie me up, please... Chantal said. They looked above at some vines and roots hanging down from the grassy area above the depression in the canal they were standing in. She was in his hands-he had to comply. A little bit of kink was one of the most delicious of erotic pleasures. Catholic school girls were often the horniest-Brett could hardly contain his elation.

Indifference must be a crime in us, to be ranked but one degree below treachery; for deserting the commonwealth is next to betraying it.

My brother's a grip. My mom's a scriptwriter. My dad's a director. So it's like, at heart, I'm a below-the-line girl.

Americans are so often thrown by Japan. It looks familiar but, an inch below the surface, it isn't anything like the West at all.

All penguins are the same below the surface, which I think is as perfect an analogy as we're likely to get for the futility of racism.

For there below ground sits the Dark God, strong to call men to judgment; he sees all, and writes it in his memory.

They say that a kingdom is like a pyramid: the king on top and the people below. But in this country, it's upside down.

Perhaps the window is not a sun but an asterisk, interrupting the grammar of the sky, with me sitting below it like a footnote.

Death is another bar which lies several steps below the normal world. I'm at its threshold, but not yet in it. Its doorway is doorless.

Ohio is one of only two states that have a minimum wage below the federal level of $5.15 an hour.

Whenever the white man treats the Indian as they treat each other then we shall have no more wars. We shall be all alike - brothers of one father and mother, with one sky above us and one country around us and one government for all. Then the Great Spirit Chief who rules above will smile upon this land and send rain to wash out the bloody spots made by brothers' hands upon the face of the earth. For this time the Indian race is waiting and praying. I hope no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.

Richard Sherman has kind of the peak of self-confidence. I'm a little below that. But I've learned a lot from him.

I was raised by a single mother. We were definitely below the median income of our area.

Bion used to say that the way to the shades below was easy; he could go there with his eyes shut.

Most church members live so far below the standard, you would have to backslide to be in fellowship with them.

The art of politics consists in knowing precisely when it is necessary to hit an opponent slightly below the belt.

I have no qualms about doing a character who may be below the lead in the pecking order, whether it's a hero or a villain or a comedian.

Growing old is not a gradual decline, but a series of drops, full of sorrow, from one ledge to another below it.

If the bones of all those who have fallen as a prey to intemperance could be piled up it would make a vast pyramid. Who will gird himself for the journey and try with me to scale this mountain of the dead--going up miles high on human carcasses to find still other peaks far above, mountain above mountain, white with the bones of drunkards.

For my lifestyle, I believe in living 10 times below my means. As a result of that, I have the luxury of working only when I'm inspired.

Continue to make the demands of the day your immediate concern, and take occasion to test the purity of your hearts and the steadfastness of your spirits. When you then take a deep breath and rise above the cares of this world and in an hour of leisure, you will surely win the proper frame of mind to face devoutly what is above us, with reverence, seeing in all events the manifestation of a higher guidance.

There are ancient and modern poems which breathe, in their entirety and in every detail, the divine breath of irony. In such poemsthere lives a real transcendental buffoonery. Their interior is permeated by the mood which surveys everything and rises infinitely above everything limited, even above the poet's own art, virtue, and genius; and their exterior form by the histrionic style of an ordinary good Italian buffo.

The yellow Indians do have a meagre talent. The Negroes are far below them, and at the lowest point are a part of the American people.

A lot of punk rock is not going to be in the mainstream. It's below the radar. The beauty of it is that you're not supposed to always know. It's subterranean.

The sum of the crowd's IQ was far below that of its most modest single member. Mobs have passions, not brains.

And above all, above all, honest work must be rewarded by a fair and just tax system. The tax system today does not reward hard work: it penalizes it. Inherited or invested wealth frequently multiplies itself while paying no taxes at all. But wages on the assembly line or in farming the land, these hard-earned dollars are taxed to the very last penny.

I have no idea what my batting average was in high school, but I know it wasn't below .450, and that's pretty good hitting where I come from.

I have no belief in the system. So Sonny is perfectly at home (in Washington D.C.). Politicians are one step down below used-car salesmen.

Errors like straws upon the surface flow, Who would search for pearls to be grateful for often must dive below.

As fall the light autumnal leaves, one still the other following, till the bough strews all its honors on the earth below.

I saw a commercial for an above-ground pool, it was 30 seconds long. Because that's the maximum amount of time you can picture yourself having fun in an above-ground pool. If it was 31 seconds, the actor would say "The water is only up to here? What do I do now? Throw the ball back to Jimmy? Or put some goggles on and look at his feet?"

Most Americans living below the official poverty line own a car or truck - and government entitlement programs seldom provide cars and trucks. Most people living below the official poverty line also have air conditioning, color television, and a microwave oven - and these too are not usually handed out by government entitlement programs. Cell phones and other electronic devices are by no means unheard of in low-income neighborhoods, where children would supposedly go hungry if there were no school-lunch programs. In reality, low-income people are overweight more often than other Americans.

The bourgeois public sphere may be conceived above all as the sphere of private people come together as a public; they soon claimed the public sphere regulated from above against the public authorities themselves, to engage them in a debate over the general rules governing relations in the basically privatized but publicly relevant sphere of commodity exchange and social labor.

I looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy except one, and he was lying like the dead - and that one was myself.

I thought I'd reached the bottom a few times, but then I'd realise there was another 30 floors of despair below that.

People - pardon me, journalists and politicians - have often accused me of believing that I'm above the law. And yet, who isn't? Everywhere you prod it, even with the shortest stick, the established system isn't simply corrupt, it's unequivocally putrescent. The law is created by demonstrable criminals, enforced by demonstrable, interpreted by demonstrable criminals, all for demonstrably criminal purposes. Of course I'm above the law. And so are you.

Trust your hunches. They're usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.

If [people] place such things as friendship and family ties above their own productive work, yes, then they are immoral. Friendship, family life and human relationships are not primary in a man's life. A man who places others first, above his own creative work, is an emotional parasite.

By virtue of Creation, and still more the Incarnation, nothing here below is profane for those who know how to see.

We joke a lot about how, in Hollywood, the writer is one step below the doormat. That's not self-loathing. That's true!

The sublime and the ridiculous are often so nearly related, that it is difficult to class them separately. One step above the sublime makes the ridiculous, and one step above the ridiculous makes the sublime again.

You are therefore able to run on this path, on which God is found above all vision, hearing, taste, touch, smell, speech, sense, rationality, and intellect. It is found as none of these, but rather above everything as God of gods and King of all kings. Indeed, the King of the world of the intellect is the King of kings and Lord of lords in the universe.

Malicious tongues spread their poison abroad and nothing here below is proof against them.

This upper limit, of earth at our feet is visible and touches the air, but below it reaches to infinity

Have charity; have patience; have mercy. Never bring a human being, however silly, ignorant, or weak--above all, any little child--to shame and confusion of face. Never by petulance, by suspicion, by ridicule, even by selfish and silly haste--never, above all, by indulging in the devilish pleasure of a sneer--crush what is finest and rouse up what is coarsest in the heart of any fellow-creature.

I always managed to fly a bit below the radar, but high enough to avoid colliding into anything.

In any normal season, most of the teams below Chelsea would think they are doing quite well.