Abased Quotes

#1. Those, who are believed to be most self - abased and humble, are generally in reality the most ambitious and envious

Baruch Spinoza

#2. Here is the path to the higher life: down, lower down! Just as water always seeks and fills the lowest place, so the moment God finds men abased and empty, His glory and power flow in to exalt and to bless.

Andrew Murray

#3. Noble have I created thee, yet thou hast abased thyself. Rise then unto that for which thou wast created.

Baha'u'llah

#4. It is gracious ambition to covet to be like the Most Holy, for he has said, Be ye holy, for I am holy; but it is sinful ambition to aim to be like the Most High, for he has said, He who exalts himself shall be abased.

Matthew Henry

#5. Valor is abased by too much loftiness.

Philip Sidney

#6. Because silver and gold have their value from the matter itself, they have first this privilege, that the value of them cannot be altered by the power of one, nor of a few commonwealths, as being a common measure of the commodities of all places. But base money may easily be enhanced or abased.

Thomas Hobbes

#7. If all were equalized by death, as the medieval idea constantly emphasized, was it not possible that inequalities on earth were contrary to the will of God?

Barbara Tuchman

#8. There are always going to be people who are experts in security or end-user devices or collaboration or databases. That's not going to go away. But what's the reason all of these professions come together? To help the business transform itself.

Satya Nadella

#9. Like dogs and lions, small children can sense fear. The slightest flinch, the slightest disinclination, and they will jump atop you and devour you.

Rachel Cohn

#10. Everybody's got their troubles.

Dorothy Parker

#11. One of our most important defenses against satanic influence will be learning how to behave out of what we know is truth rather than what we feel. Satan's desire is to modify human behavior to accomplish his unholy purposes.

Beth Moore

#12. Irreversible decisions are good for the soul, word lady.

Erica Bauermeister

#13. Systems governed by only one set of rules are more vulnerable than those with variety.

Geoff Mulgan

#14. There's always hope. Always. You just never know what life - or death - might bring. I think we've all seen that the world is a little more complicated than we ever could have imagined.

James Dashner

#15. I am drawn, as a reader, to detail-drenched stories about human lives affected as much by the internal as by the external, the kind of fiction that Jane Smiley nicely describes as 'first and foremost about how individuals fit, or don't fit, into their social worlds.'

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#16. I pledge to respect and protect the constitution and the law of my country and to carry out my duties to the best of my ability.

Heinz Fischer

#17. I'm not somebody with over-weening ambition.

Jeremy Corbyn

#18. Have a chocolate-covered raisin," he said.
"They look like rat droppings," said the Chair.
The Dean peered at them in the gloom.
"So that's it," he said. "The bag fell on the floor a minute ago, and I thought there seemed rather a lot.

Terry Pratchett

#19. Every pleasure raises the tide of life; every pain lowers the tide of life.

Herbert Spencer

#20. I don't really get nervous, ever. I just have a good time.

Logan Henderson

#21. To contribute usefully to the advance of science, one must sometimes not disdain from undertaking simple verifications.

Leon Foucault