Kowtowing Quotes & Sayings

If you stand up to the human race you lose something called their 'goodwill'; if you kowtow to them you gain ... their permission to continue kowtowing. — Celia Green

It will come all right in the end. — Ramana Maharshi

There's nothing wrong with most men's egos that the kowtowing of a headwaiter can't cure. — Mignon McLaughlin

It's important to know what motivates you, not what motivates somebody else. — Candy Crowley

In case anyone needs reminding, it was the relentless drive of the tourism industry and kowtowing State Department bureaucrats that led to the Bush-era Visa Express Program, which relaxed visa policies, eliminated in-person consulate interviews and opened the door to the 9/11 hijackers. — Michelle Malkin

Adversity is the trial of principle. Without it a man hardly knows whether he is honest or not. — Henry Fielding

I'd love to do a whole series of stories and have them collected into books. — Sergio Aragones

OH, THERE HAS TO BE SOMETHING IN THE STOCKING THAT MAKES A NOISE, said Death. OTHERWISE, WHAT IS 4:30 A.M. FOR? — Terry Pratchett

Peter Grant,' I said. 'Recent arrival, slacker and man of very little fame. — Ben Aaronovitch

A majority of Americans support Social Security and Medicare, a progressive tax system and a government that regulates business in the public interest, but most share deep skepticism about the government's ability to do all this well. — Adam Davidson

We all fight on two fronts, the one facing the enemy, the one facing what we do to the enemy. — Joseph Boyden

Because I simply couldn't make up my mind to do it. I never can make up my mind about anything myself - I'm always afflicted with indecision. Just as soon as I decide to do something I feel in my bones that another course would be the correct one. It's a dreadful misfortune, but I was born that way, and there is no use in blaming me for it, as some people do. — L.M. Montgomery

The one consistent policy running through this [Clinton] administration is the love it has lavished on Marxists
food aid for North Korea, diplomatic recognition of the Hanoi regime, chronic kowtowing to Beijing and now doing Castro's dirty work. How can the Clinton gang
which carried the Viet Cong flag during anti-war demonstrations and decorated their dorm rooms with pictures of Che Guevara
not feel contempt for people who insist, with every fiber of their being, that communism is mankind's mortal enemy? — Don Feder

No one chooses to raise children alone. — Erykah Badu

The only way to success in American public life lies in flattering and kowtowing to the mob — H.L. Mencken

When I did that '3 Days of Normal' one, we had no budget, and we were all staying in a house in New Hampshire. There's no trailers, and it's just a family environment. There's not much of a crew; you just do what you need to do. — Mircea Monroe

I don't like grand restaurants or kowtowing waiters. I don't need that kind of attention and I don't want it. — Danielle Steel

Movement is life! — Alessandro Boccaletti