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Quotes About Lowered

The Berg pitched and Thomas held on to a bar in the wall as the ship lowered to the ground. The ramp door started cranking open with the squeal of hinges
~ James Dashner
There was another thing. It was a job below his qualifications. Not that he didn't take it seriously; he did. But since, professionally, he had now lowered his expectations, he found that he was rarely disappointed.
~ Julian Barnes
In an epoch of criticism ideals are lowered; other feelings take the place of veneration, respect, adoration, and wonder. Our own age thrusts these feelings further and further into the background, so that they can only be conveyed to man through his every-day life in a very small degree.
~ Rudolf Steiner
Every country in the world is battling the rising cost of health care. No community anywhere has demonstrably lowered its health-care costs (not just slowed their rate of increase) by improving medical services. They've lowered costs only by cutting or rationing them.
~ Atul Gawande
She opened the door. His office was small and rain-pavement gray. He was bent over his desk, his head lowered.
~ Harlan Coben
He'd lowered
~ C.J. Box
The summer of 1830 I... blasted the tunnel through the rock to take water from the dam above the falls for the mill... In 1831 we lowered the tunnel four feet, and built a new dam across the creek.
~ Ezra Cornell
I hate it when people talk about Buffy as being campy... I hate camp, I don't enjoy dumb TV. I believe Aaron Spelling has single-handedly lowered SAT scores.
~ Joss Whedon
The standards are being lowered, not just on the Internet, but in all of news and media.
~ Vince McMahon
The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon.
~ William Golding
Then he took off with ponderous flight and circled and lowered, circled and lowered until the others danced in joy and hunger at his approach.
~ Zora Neale Hurston