Top 1200 Above And Below Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

And below the heimongmong, all along the ground, were weeds already spilling out over the edges, running wild in every direction.

Below a certain point, if you keep too quiet, people no longer see you as thoughtful or deep; they simply forget you.

I have a feeling that there is a gap in the food retail market - a niche below some of the current budget operators such as Aldi and Lidl.

Whoever be the instruments of any good to us, of whatever sort, we must look above them, and eye the hand and counsel of God in it, which is the first spring, and be duly thankful to God for it. And whatever evil of crosses or afflictions befalls us, we must look above the instruments of it to God.

With gridlock the norm, Congress's approval rating is below 10 percent and the public has lost faith in its national leadership.

Falling in love is like religious conversion. It goes on for a long time below the threshold before it reaches consciousness.

My actual intake of different substances was far below what people thought it was, no matter how weird or outrageous they think I am

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

what pudor pejorocracy affronts how awe, night-rest and neighborhood can rot what breeds where dirtiness is law what crawls below

I write the word solitude on my wall and then below it: Do you know me at all? Are my words just air? Is my heart easy to spare?

We live in a country with a vast majority of people below the poverty line. Our natural resources are limited and getting scarcer.

You might be a redneck if you consider a good tan to be the back of your neck and the left arm below the shirt sleeve.

I was out of my bed in one second, trembling with excitement, and I dashed to the door and into the adjoining room, where I could watch the streets below from the windows.

On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below.

Scratch below the surface, and you will find I am a patriotic little thing, desperately proud to be part of this island nation.

Behavior which appears superficially correct but is intrinsically corrupt always irritates those who see below the surface.

It's better to swim in the sea below Than to swing in the air and feed the crow, Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol.

My actual intake of different substances was far below what people thought it was, no matter how weird or outrageous they think I am.

Let us enquire. Who, then, shall challenge the words? Why are they challenged. And by whom? By those who call themselves the guardians of morality, and who are the constituted guardians of religion. Enquiry, it seems, suits not them. They have drawn the line, beyond which human reason shall not pass -- above which human virtue shall not aspire! All that is without their faith or above their rule, is immorality, is atheism, is -- I know not what.

History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.

When you can stand over the clouds and watch them roll through the mountains below you, it shifts absolutely everything in your brain.

As hipster chicks age, and their skin starts to sag, tramp stamps sink below waistbands, like the sun slipping into the sea.

Dialogue is the only way to end war and terror. We need practical solidarity with those who are weaker and diplomacy from below.

Well, it's hard to stumble And land in some muddy lagoon When it's nine below zero And three o'clock in the afternoon.

Obama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It's minuscule, few percent.

I thought a forest was made up entirely of trees, but now I know that the foundation lies below ground, in the fungi.

The only thing you'll find on the summit of Mount Everest is a divine view. The things that really matter lie far below.

My first introduction to New Orleans was from the air, flying high over the city with a view of the land - and water - below.

Any system described by a power law [...] has several curious effects. The first is that, by definition, most participants are below average.

The reason we have the stars twinkle at night is because the light is being kind of blurred by the atmosphere around the Earth. That is why the Hubble Space Telescope is so good, because it is above the atmosphere. So it is kind of like looking at the sun from the bottom of a swimming pool, versus looking at the sun above the swimming pool.

In debating the respective merits of dogs and cats, not having to walk a cat when it's 20 below zero deserves consideration.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

A year's worth of Social Security for an individual is not considered to be below the poverty level, and yet we know that would be extraordinarily tough to live on.

The way two people can end up in the same place, find each other in a crowd, and change their lives and the lives of the people around them forever... It makes you believe in fate. And fate gives love some authority. Like it's been stamped with approval from above, if you believe in above. A godly green light. Some destined significance.

My heart resembles the ocean; has storm, and ebb and flow; and many a beautiful pearl lies hid in its depths below.

I've stopped reading the comments below news articles and on gossip blogs because those are the ones that'll ruin your day in a second.

By 2012, my game was shot. You're sitting on your chair watching players' leagues below you play shots you can't. That destroyed me.

And that boys," yelled Mr. Weasley over the tumult of the crowd below,"is why you should never go for looks alone!

To create a minimum standard of life below which no human being can fall is the most elementary duty of the democratic state.

The aim of life is no more to control the mind, but to develop it harmoniously; not to achieve salvation here after, but to make the best use of it here below

When the value of the company clearly has fallen below what its assets are worth, having a shareholder who says, 'Let's get a better board' can be helpful.

Somebody once asked Niels Bohr why he had a horseshoe hanging above the front door of his house. Surely you, a world famous physicist, can't really believe that hanging a horseshoe above your door brings you luck? Of course not, Bohr replied, but I have been reliably informed that it will bring me luck whether I believe in it or not.

The wild sea roars and lashes the granite cliffs below,And round the misty islets the loud strong tempests blow.

You get below the Mason-Dixon line and you have some of the best music, culture, the two races, the literature, and it's so rich.

In some pictures of Provincetown the persons of the inhabitants are not drawn below the ankles, so much being supposed to be buried in the sand.

Once you get below the floor of our personal identities, we're all connected. Perhaps that's why we can move into others' lives.

An individual has not begun to live until he can rise above the narrow horizons of his particular individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. And this is one of the big problems of life, that so many people never quite get to the point of rising above self. And so they end up the tragic victims of self-centeredness. They end up the victims of distorted and disrupted personality.

Every intimacy carries secreted somewhere below its initial lovely surfaces, the ever-coiled makings of complete catastrophe.

There can be no possible question that cold is felt much more keenly in the thin air of nineteen thousand feet than it is below.

There is no threshold level of fine particle pollution below which health risk reductions are not achieved by reduced exposure.

O foolish anxiety of wretched man, how inconclusive are the arguments which make thee beat thy wings below!

In theatre, there's the director, the writer, and below them the actor. In film, it's the actors who are most important. That goes against the grain for me.

It is man's intrinsic and irreducible self-responsibility to humanize himself, to exercise his entire range of rational and moral resources to raise his mode of being and seeing and acting above not just that of animals, but also above that of the majority of subhuman (never to be self-realized) humans who will never draw themselves into a self-punishing position of focal self-diagnosis and self-accountability.

There are certain directors I have worked with who build up the scene and get you all excited, but when you actually do it, it falls below your expectation.

We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.

Sometimes I turn the TV just below where you can hear it and write down what I think they might be saying by the mumbles and rhythms.

If you know that most processing is below the level of awareness, you learn the value of sleep. You're brain is working on the problem anyway.

All my ambition is, I own, to profit and to please unknown; like streams supplied from springs below, which scatter blessings as they go.

To the average professed Christian today, living so far below normal, New Testament Christianity would be a shock.

That's generally true of people who drop bombs from high altitudes. You don't know what's going on below. You don't see the human consequences of what you're doing.