Bowing Quotes
47 quotes by 43 authors
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The supreme thing is worship. The attitude of worship is the attitude of a subject bent before the King... The fundamental thought is that of…
— G. Campbell Morgan
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Before and after practicing Judo or engaging in a match, opponents bow to each other. Bowing is an expression of gratitude and respect. In effect,…
— Kano Jigoro
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After Gibbs, one the most distinguished [American scientists] was Langley, of the Smithsonian. ... He had the physicist's heinous fault of professing to know nothing…
— Henry Adams
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Voting is merely a labor-saving device for ascertaining on which side force lies and bowing to the inevitable... It is neither more nor less than…
— Benjamin Tucker
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The superior man has nothing to compete for. But if he must compete, he does it in an archery match, wherein he ascends to his…
— Confucius
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Human beings understand themselves and shape their futures by arguing and challenging and questioning and saying the un-sayable, not by bowing the knee whether to…
— Salman Rushdie
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Baptism is bowing before the Father and letting him do his work.
— Max Lucado
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Bowing to the Saudi king is not an energy policy.
— Newt Gingrich
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Teaching creativity to your child isn't like teaching good manners. No one can paint a masterpiece by bowing to another person's precepts about elbows on…
— Gurney Williams
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Why is acquiescence to the numerous viewed as better servitude than bowing to might?
— William J. Murray
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Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.
— Solomon
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I look forward to seeing Christ and bowing down before Him in praise and gratitude for all He has done for us, and for using…
— Billy Graham
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All science is intelligent inference; excessive literalism is delusion, not a humble bowing to evidence.
— Stephen Jay Gould
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Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their heads, were like the little images that they place in the very bowing of the…
— William Laud
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God pursues us into whatever dark place we've landed and behind whatever locked door holds us in. He holds our unwashed and dirty hands and…
— Bob Goff
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If we want to really see the Buddha, we should observe his virtuous qualities. Whatever he taught, we should practise it. Only bowing to him…
— Ajahn Chah
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Many fledgling moralists in those days were going about our town proclaiming there was nothing to be done about it and we should bow to…
— Albert Camus
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The leader’s (Jeff Denson’s) superb bowing.. showcasing Denson’s haunting vocals
— Bill Milkowski
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A thunder-storm!—the eloquence of heaven, When every cloud is from its slumber riven, Who hath not paused beneath its hollow groan, And felt Omnipotence around…
— Robert Montgomery
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You can see the goldenrod, that most tenacious and pernicious and beauteous of all New England flora, bowing away from the wind like a great…
— Stephen King
Who Wrote These Bowing Quotes
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