Below Quotes
930 quotes by 773 authors
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Below us the Thames grew lighter, and all around below were the shadows - the dark shadows of buildings and bridges that formed the base…
— Ernie Pyle
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Yesterday in this country we had people die of hunger and malnutrition. In some parts of this country, the infant mortality rate rivals that of…
— Alcee Hastings
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No age, sex, or condition is above or below the absolute necessity of modesty; but without it one is vastly beneath the rank of man.
— Bernard Barton
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If a house is priced appropriately, make a bid 10 percent below that amount.
— Barbara Corcoran
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To Republicans, I humbly suggest that we make it possible for Democrats to give up their quest for redistribution of income and wealth by our…
— Jack Kemp
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I meet so many that think population growth is a major problem in regard to climate change. But the number of children born per year…
— Hans Rosling
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The poster boy for our superabled future is Oscar Pistorius, an increasingly famous South African sprinter who happens to have had both of his legs…
— Daniel H. Wilson
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Technology has a shadow side. It accounts for real progress in medicine, but has also hurt it in many ways, making it more impersonal, expensive…
— Andrew Weil
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Even when I was living below the poverty line as a novelist, I was still living better than 99.5% of the human population of the…
— Jonathan Ames
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Like many kids, I used to pretend all sorts of things. I would climb into a tree and imagine that I was on an island,…
— Mohsin Hamid
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I was a completely below-average high school student. I never went to college.
— Grant Achatz
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Doubly happy, however, is the man whom lofty mountain tops are within reach, for the lights that shine there illumine all that lies below
— John Muir
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We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man in…
— Henry Beston
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His laughter, which was never far below the surface of his conversation, now sparkled like a splash of water in sunlight.
— Joseph Lelyveld
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FEMALE, n. One of the opposing, or unfair, sex. The Maker, at Creation's birth, With living things had stocked the earth. From elephants to bats…
— Ambrose Bierce
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I really wanted to die at certain periods in my life. Death was like love, a romantic escape. I took pills because I didn't want…
— Brigitte Bardot
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Never were abilities so much below mediocrity so well rewarded; no, not when Caligula's horse was made Consul
— John Randolph
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There is no wisdom below the girdle
— Proverb
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The first stage in a technology's advance is that it'll fall below a critical price. After it falls below a critical price, it will tend,…
— Chris Anderson
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In each age men of genius undertake the ascent. From below, the world follows them with their eyes. These men go up the mountain, enter…
— Victor Hugo
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