Lowest Quotes
441 quotes by 361 authors
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"Oil remains fundamentally a government business. While many regions of the world offer great oil opportunities, the Middle East with two-thirds of the world's oil…
— Dick Cheney
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The lowest standards of ethics of which a right-thinking man can possibly conceive is taught to the common soldier whose trade is to shoot his…
— Clarence Darrow
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It is manifestly unjust that a privileged few should continue to accumulate excess goods, squandering available resources, while masses of people are living in conditions…
— Pope John Paul II
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It is a rude feeling, because it is natural only to people standing on the lowest level of morality, and expecting from other nations such…
— Leo Tolstoy
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The capitalist system of production is an economic democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote. The consumers are the sovereign people. The…
— Ludwig von Mises
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A saint is Christ's bride, totally attached, faithful, dependent. A saint is also totally independent, detached from idols and from other husbands... A saint is…
— Peter Kreeft
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The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow We are such stuff as dreams are made of.
— William Shakespeare
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In all societies, it is advisable to associate if possible with the highest; not that the highest are always the best, but because, if disgusted…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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All womankind, from the highest to the lowest love jokes; the difficulty is to know how they choose to have them cut; and there is…
— Laurence Sterne
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[T]here are depths of thousands of miles which are hidden from our inquiry. The only tidings we have from those unfathomable regions are by means…
— Oliver Goldsmith
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In my own time there have been inventions of this sort, transparent windows tubes for diffusing warmth equally through all parts of a building short-hand,…
— Seneca the Younger
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Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end…
— Ernest Hemingway
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The perfection of any matter, the highest or the lowest, touches on the divine.
— Martin Buber
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To me it seems not unreasonable to find a re-enforcement of optimism, a renewal of courage and hope, in the modern theory that man has…
— James Russell Lowell
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There is a certain satisfaction in coming down to the lowest ground of politics, for we get rid of cant and hypocrisy.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In a perfect world what poor countries at the lowest rungs of economic development need is not a multi-party democracy, but in fact a decisive…
— Dambisa Moyo
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As I hurtled through space, one thought kept crossing my mind - every part of this rocket was supplied by the lowest bidder.
— John Glenn
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Attacking People With Disabilities is the Lowest Display of Power I Can Think Of
— Morgan Freeman
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Some people say Larry the Cable Guy's only successful because he's pandering to the lowest common denominator, blatantly and not ironically exploiting people's racist and…
— Greg Giraldo
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A pun is the lowest form of humor—when you don't think of it first.
— Oscar Levant
Who Wrote These Lowest Quotes
361 authors contributed a total of 441 Lowest Quotes, led by these top contributors: