Lowlier Quotes & Sayings

And I'm thinking as our bodies meet that I'll remember this forever, and i just hope it's for all the right reasons. — Steven Herrick

Was she ever grumpy? Did she ever yell? Fall about laughing? Eat too much? Drink too much? Call out for someone to bring her toilet paper? Lose her car keys? Was she ever just a human being? — Liane Moriarty

In the violent scorn of her revolted pride, of her indignant honor, had she forgotten a lowlier yet harder duty left undone?
In her contempt and dread of yielding to mere amorous weakness had she stifled and denied the cry of pity, the cry of conscience?
To suffer woes which hope thinks infinite. To forgive wrongs darker than death or night. To defy power which seems omnipotent. To love and live to hope till hope creates from it's own wreck the thing it contemplates. Neither to change, nor falter, nor repent.
This had been the higher, diviner way which she had missed, this obligation from the passion of the past which she had left unfulfilled, unaccepted.
Now the misgiving arose in her whether she had mistaken arrogance for duty; whether, cleaving so closely to honor she had forgotten the obligation of mercy. — Ouida

The only excuse from a man who abuses you are the ones we give him. — Selena Haskins

I'm looking forward to it. I'd like to be married. — Chad Michael Murray

You can't please everyone, and you have to trust your instincts, and you have to do your work and throw yourself in there and trust your instincts, and just trust that you're doing a good job that I can be proud of as well. — Matt Ryan

Logic is one thing and commonsense another. — Elbert Hubbard

Bow down before the one you serve, you're going to get what you deserve. — Trent Reznor

Unless the digital divide is narrowed soon, the United States may be headed to the class warfare of a century ago, the last time the economy changed so fundamentally. It won't be pleasant. — Jonathan Alter

I must first know myself, as the Delphian inscription says; to be curious about that which is not my concern, while I am still in ignorance of my own self, would be ridiculous. And therefore I bid farewell to all this; the common opinion is enough for me. For, as I was saying, I want to know not about this, but about myself: am I a monster more complicated and swollen with passion than the serpent Typho, or a creature of a gentler and simpler sort, to whom Nature has given a diviner and lowlier destiny? — Socrates

For Metafiction, in its ascendant and most important phases, was really nothing more than a single-order expansion of its own great theoretical nemisis, Realism: if realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see. — David Foster Wallace

It was lovely when you found students who responded to things you were enthusiastic about. — William Maxwell

Deflation isn't good, and inflation is easier to cure than deflation. — Robert Kiyosaki

All happiness is in the mind. — Yogi Bhajan

There is always room for change, but you have to be open to that change. — Kathryn Budig

Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent. — Jan Peter Balkenende

Men don't like me. I haven't been on a date for six months. I've just started a club with a girlfriend called the We Hate Men But We Can't Be Gay Club. — Lara Stone