Quotes About Lower

Hence Augustine says (Gen. ad lit. ii, 8): "The other things which are lower than the angels are so created that they first receive existence in the knowledge of the rational creature, and then in their own nature.

We have repeatedly demonstrated our species's bottomless ability to lower our standards to make information technology look good.

The upper chamber contained a quantity of sand trickling into the lower

Love is like an April day, Half of sunshine, half of shower; Right the poets, they who say Love is like an April day— Silver lined, deny who may, Are the clouds that darkly lower— Love is like an April day, Half of sunshine, half of shower.

Let's bring in Donald Trump. He wants to lower taxes across the board for individuals and large and small businesses, significantly reduce burdensome regulations, and unleash America's energy resources.

There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.

Shuddering under the autumn stars, each year, the head sinks lower and lower.

Mastery consists not in abnormal dreams, visions, and fantastic imaginings or living, but in using the higher forces against the lower—escaping the pains of the lower planes by vibrating on the higher.

Everything happens according to Law; that nothing ever "merely happens"; that there is no such thing as Chance; that while there are various planes of Cause and Effect, the higher dominating the lower planes, still nothing ever entirely escapes the Law.

He said he did not like her. Yet he was keen to know about her. Well, he should put himself to the test. She believed that there were in him desired for higher things, and desires for lower, and that the desire for the higher would conquer. At any rate, he should try. She forget that her 'higher' and 'lower' were arbitrary.

immediately downward.

Lower Manhattan to tell me that whatever he was touting was the best thing he had ever produced. I liked him.

It is a good sign when man's higher nature comes forward. A bad sign when his lower nature comes forward.

I tell you,' said Augustine, 'if there is anything that is revealed with the strength of a divine law in our times, it is that the masses are to rise, and the under class become the upper one.

On the ground the reaction was one of revulsion. One old lady stopped me in the Ardoyne. 'Son, I thought we couldn't sink any lower until I saw what they did to those two wee boys yesterday.' There were tears in her eyes. 'It's terrible, simply terrible.

He saw himself as a hated prier into the homes of strangers, a kind of intellectual charlatan rationalizing his own prurience into scientific curiosity; someone at once lower and more pretentious than a professional social worker.

I am informed by veterans of the Lower East Side that decalcomania pictures were called "cockamamies" because no one knew how to spell "decalcomania.

Republicans should embrace the possibility that Obamacare could pave the way toward lower health care entitlement spending overall. That won't be easy. But it's not unthinkable, either.

I've learned new footwork patterns that are very unusual. I've learned how to find a lower centre of gravity, and I've found more angles to throw shots.

Lower interest rates are usually considered good for stocks because they lower the cost of borrowing and make bonds a less attractive alternative investment.

and I should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind, but that the middle station had the fewest disasters, and was not exposed to so many vicissitudes as the higher or lower part of mankind;

should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind, but that the middle station had the fewest disasters, and was not exposed to so many vicissitudes as the higher or lower part of mankind;

I should always find that the calamities of life were shared among the upper and lower part of mankind, but that the middle station had the fewest disasters,...

The evolution of higher and of lower forms of life is as well and as soundly established as the eternal hills. It has long since ceased to be a theory; it is a law of Nature as universal in living things as is the law of gravitation in material things and in the motions of the heavenly spheres.