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Quotes About Below

It is incontestable that the void which we grasp with the pincers of contradiction is from on high, for we grasp it the better the more we sharpen our natural faculties of intelligence, will and love. The void which is from below is that into which we fall when we allow our natural faculties to become atrophied.
~ Simone Weil
Either God is not all-powerful, or God is not absolutely good, or God does not command wherever He has the power to do so. So the existence of evil here below, far from being a proof against the reality of God, is what reveals Him to us in truth.
~ Simone Weil
Blood—" I rasped. "The earth cannot hold all the blood that's shed on it. And so the stream flows below. We have passed through it now; soon it will be gone from you.
~ Ellen Kushner
Anyone who is into his/her destiny can't/won't sit below the salt. i.e. he/she will hardly be of low social class. Yes, because a destiny discovered/fulfilled is bound to make a remarkable difference.
~ Emeasoba George
Our fleeting happiness here below is the forerunning proof of another and a perfect happiness, just as the earth, a fragment of the world, attests the universe.
~ balzac honore de xiii
But the ground shakes, as if something's trying to push up from below, and I think of other people's mothers shaking out their duvets or even God shaking out the fabric of space-time.
~ Scarlett Thomas
In other words, in Jesus' demand to live righteously, which runs through the Sermon, we see an Ethic from Above, from Below, and from Beyond—but it is an ethic his followers are to perform. The best way to preach the Sermon is to preach what it is: a demand on the disciple.
~ Scot McKnight
My whole life, I prepared to come down in order to save the world above.. Now I have to ascend to save the world below..
~ Jonathan Friesen, Aquifer
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
~ Walter Scott
It's better to swim in the sea below Than to swing in the air and feed the crow, Says jolly Ned Teach of Bristol.
~ Benjamin Franklin
He could not see a belt without hitting below it.
~ Margot Asquith
To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.
~ Plato
For far too long we have underestimated the power of spontaneous, organic and constructive change driven from below, in our obsession with designing change from above. Embrace the general theory of evolution. Admit that everything evolves.
~ Matt Ridley
bark-stripped branch against the cliff below the Highledge. He had scored claw marks across it, one for each life taken by the Dark Forest.
~ Erin Hunter
He who would search for pearls must dive below.
~ John Dryden
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
~ Sir Walter Scott
Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, and men below, and the saints above, for love is heaven, and heaven is love.
~ Sir Walter Scott
The stars above will be below when man has Love.
~ Philip José Farmer
He was a real mean one … below the belt … you ain't called on to teach folks like that … them ain't Maycomb's ways, Miss Caroline, not really … now don't you fret, ma'am.
~ Harper Lee
I have recommended in my writings the study of civic virtues, without which there is no redemption. I have written likewise (and repeat my words) that reforms, to be beneficial, must come from above, that those which come from below are irregularly gained and uncertain.
~ Jose Rizal
De geschiedenis staat beneden op je te wachten.
~ Kader Abdolah
Then, pilgrim, turn, thy cares forego; All earth-born cares are wrong: Man wants but little here below, Nor wants that little long.
~ Kamo no Ch?mei
Base World, I trample on thy face, Thy Glory I despise, No gain I find in ought below, For God hath made me wise.
~ bradstreet anne ii
There will be a competition for the memorial. And then it can be developed with trees, with planting. It can become a very beautiful place protected from the streets, because it is below. And it can be something very moving and very private.
~ Daniel Libeskind