Lows Quotes
1911 Lows quotes by 1446 unique authors
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A deception that elevates us is dearer than a host of low truths.
— Alexander Pushkin
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God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
— C.S. Lewis
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Half the night I waste in sighs, Half in dreams I sorrow after The delight of early skies; In a wakeful dose I sorrow For…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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A gentle breeze catches in the branches then and I hear it, soft and low, a murmured prayer--Gem-ma, Gem-ma--and then the leaves bend down and…
— Libba Bray
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Jesus. Low-Key Lyesmith," said Shadow. and then he heard what he was saying and he understood. "Loki," he said. "Loki Lie-smith." "You're slow," said Loki,…
— Neil Gaiman
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When the spent sun throws up its rays on cloud And goes down burning into the gulf below, No voice in nature is heard to…
— Robert Frost
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If the fires of freedom and civil liberties burn low in other lands they must be made brighter in our own. If in other lands…
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Miro, I'm so sorry. I always felt such pity for you humans because you could only think of one thing at a time and your…
— Orson Scott Card
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Mr. Bibbit, you might warn this Mr. Harding that I'm so crazy I admit to voting for Eisenhower. Bibbit! You tell Mr. McMurphy I'm so…
— Ken Kesey
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Pleasant things to hear, though hearing them from him embarrasses me. I soak up the praise but feel obliged to disparage the gift. I believe…
— Wallace Stegner
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She tells her love while half asleep, In the dark hours, With half-words whispered low: As Earth stirs in her winter sleep And puts out…
— Robert Graves
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To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain…
— Oscar Wilde
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Floating to shore...riding a low moon...on a slow cloud.
— Nikki Giovanni
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Yes, my tiara sets off the whole thing nicely," said Auntie Muriel in a rather carrying whisper. "But I must say, Ginevra's dress is far…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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The Church has surrendered her once lofty concept of God and has substituted for it one so low, so ignoble, as to be utterly unworthy…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Dad said I would always be "high minded and low waged" from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right.
— Jim Harrison
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A lang, lang time ago…” MacPhee began, ignoring St.Vincent’s low groan, “there was a bonnie maid called Malvina. She was the betrothed of Oscar, the…
— Lisa Kleypas
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Pain! Deep, tearing, throbbing, needle-sharp, hammer-blunt pain – ripping through his body and through his mind, twisting deep in his guts and slicing at his…
— Stuart Hill
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Truly fine poetry must be read aloud. A good poem does not allow itself to be read in a low voice or silently. If we…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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I would build a cloudy House For my thoughts to live in; When for earth too fancy-loose And too low for Heaven! Hush! I talk…
— Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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Detestation of the high is the involuntary homage of the low.
— Charles Dickens
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Malfoy glanced around. Harry knew he was checking for signs of teachers. Then he looked back at Harry and said in a low voice, "You're…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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What does it mean?" Emily said, in a low, panicked voice: "What does it mean if a rainbow comes before rain?
— Jaclyn Moriarty
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Society. The same society, I might add, that dictates that little girls should always be sugar and spice and everything nice, which encourages them not…
— Sarah Dessen
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I love you,” she said softly. Jason's arms tightened around her. He grinned sleepily. “I know.” Taylor drifted off contentedly. Until through the darkness, she…
— Julie James
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