Top 100 Below Above Quotes
#1. Man invents war. Man discovers peace. He invents war from without. He discovers peace from within. War man throws. Peace man sows. The smile of war is the flood of human blood. The smile of peace is the love, below, above.
Sri Chinmoy
#2. The solid, solid universe
Is pervious to Love;
With bandaged eyes he never errs,
Around, below, above.
His blinding light
He flingeth white
On God's and Satan's brood,
And reconciles
By mystic wiles
The evil and the good.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#3. To a true believer, death is but going to church: from the church below to the church above.
Augustus Toplady
#4. In bed above, we're deep asleep.
While greater love lies further deep.
This dream must end,
The world must know,
We all depend on the beat below.
Steven Moffat
#5. They that crouch to those who are above them, always trample on those who are below them.
George Earle Buckle
#6. If you would know my path and follow in its way, then know the land about, both track and willage, in its bridge and in its drownings. Know the outcast rat-shacks, relic stones and gill-halls. Mark each path above and know the underpath below, its secret way from vault to treasure hole.' My
Alan Moore
#7. You are not a lost cause. You are a hawk who has had her wings clipped for so long that she had forgotten to fly. But when they fully heal and you are let out of the cage, you are going to soar, Alyssa, so high above everyone else that we will be just dots below, forever forgotten. ~Caleb
Kristi Strong
#8. The world has forgotten, in its concern with Left and Right, that there is an Above and Below.
Glen Drake
#9. I wandered through various public rooms, glory below, gloom above: for the look of lust always is gloomy; lust is never quite sure
even when the velvety victim is locked up in one's dungeon
that some rival devil or influential god may still not abolish one's prepared triumph.
Vladimir Nabokov
#10. Therefore the place of what is firm and strong is below, and that of what is soft and weak is above.
Lao-Tzu
#11. A wide valley of the dead spread out below me, hundreds of them gently tucked into the ground in neat rows, their whispers frozen into the stones above them: I am here. I was here. Remember me. Remember.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#12. Acknowledge and take to heart this day that the LORD is God in heaven above and on the earth below. There is no other. Keep
Anonymous
#14. Imagine a limitless expanse of water: above and below, before and behind, right and left, everywhere there is water. In that water is placed a jar filled with water. There is water inside the jar and water outside, but the jar is still there. The 'I' is the jar.
Ramakrishna
#15. I am proud up to the point of equality; everything above or below that appears to me arrant impertinence or abject meanness.
William Hazlitt
#16. The strange thing about the sunset is that we actually don't want the sun to set, we want it to stay right on the horizon, not below it, not above it, just right on it!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#17. Autocracy is a government of the few from above; Bolshevism is a government of the few from below.
Ameen Rihani
#18. Between valleys I took the stone stairways laid down by villages, and would glimpse the farmers toiling up below me in crocodiles of decorated straw hats, or waiting in curiosity above.
Colin Thubron
#19. Man cannot live on the human plane, he must be either above or below it.
Eric Gill
#20. Milton was the gold standard of religious poets for English and American scholars. But Milton wrote of Hell and Heaven from above and below, respectively, not from the inside: safer advantages.
Matthew Pearl
#21. Let the disciple cultivate love without measure towards all beings. Let him cultivate towards the whole world, above, below, around, a heart of love unstinted ... For in all the world this state of heart is best.
Gautama Buddha
#22. For it is just as sinful from the standpoint of nature and of truth to be above oneself as to be below oneself.
Haruki Murakami
#23. Though the man above might say hello, expect no love from the beast below
Steven Moffat
#24. If faces were different when lit from above or below
what was a face? What was anything?
William Golding
#25. Enlightenment means rising above thought, not falling back to a level below thought, the level of an animal or a plant.
Eckhart Tolle
#26. It is said that heaven does not create one man above or below another man. Any existing distinction between the wise and the stupid, between the rich and the poor, comes down to a matter of education.
Fukuzawa Yukichi
#27. Reality is merely one-tenth visible section of the iceberg that one sees above the surface of the ocean - art remaining nine-tenths of it that lies below the surface. That is why it is more near Truth than Reality itself. Art does not merely reflect Reality - it enlarges it.
Anita Desai
#28. There is still something in everything I do that defeats me, makes me dissatisfied, challenges me to further effort. Sometimes I rise above my level, sometimes I fall below it, but always I fall short of the things I dream.
H.G.Wells
#29. I don't like to play above or below people's heads. Basically, I just like to get up in front of a crowd and rip it up.
Angus Young
#30. Under star-dark seas and skies of gold
Live those Above and those Below
They sing and weep, both high and deep
While over and under the ocean rolls
Ally Condie
#31. The wheel turns. Blue above, green below, we wander a long way, but love is what the cup of our soul contains when we leave the world and the flesh.
Louise Murphy
#32. The sun never has an inferiority complex. It shines the same whether above or below.
Curtis Tyrone Jones
#33. But as the late- seventeenth-century philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz said, 'To be neutral is rather like someone who lives in the middle of a house and is smoked out from below and drenched with urine from above.
Eleanor Herman
#34. An exaltation of spirit lifted me, as it were, far above the earth and the sinful creatures crawling on its surface; and I deemed myself as an eagle among the children of men, soaring on high, and looking down with pity and contempt on the grovelling creatures below.
James Hogg
#35. It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it. One who trusts nobody will not trust sycophants. One who does not value real glory will not value its counterfeit.
Thomas B. Macaulay
#36. Summer lightning made it seem that flickering white-hot wires were turning in the terribly blue sky just above the horizon, and the recent storms had driven in toward shore hundreds of gigantic Portuguese man-o'-wars that now hung below the surface of the water like big malignant pearls.
Tim Powers
#37. Imagine there's no heaven, it's easy if you try. No hell below us, above us only sky. Imagine all the people living for today ...
John Lennon
#38. What is there," Owain wondered aloud, to the sky above him and the soil below, "persuades this man still that my words do not mean what they seem to mean in sane men's ears?
Edith Pargeter
#39. The old ladies were dressing up, she thought; the clouds draped around the mountains' shoulders like a dirty boa, with the snowcaps jutting above and the broad green bases below.
Linda Howard
#40. And when statesmen or others worry him [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions. With a firm and steadfast mind one should hold under all conditions, that everywhere the earth is below and the sky above and to the energetic man, every region is his fatherland.
Tycho Brahe
#41. Creativity gives new forms, new patterns, new ideas, new art forms. And we don't know where creativity comes from. Is it inspired from above? Welling up from below? Picked up from the air? What? Creativity is a mystery wherever you encounter it ...
Rupert Sheldrake
#42. Weep slept. Dreamers dreamed. A grand moon drifted, and, and the wings of the citadel cut the sky in two: light above, dark below.
Laini Taylor
#43. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
John Dryden
#44. The disciples worshipped the most high Lord Who had come down from heaven, made the earth into heaven and gone up again whence He came, having united things below with things above and formed one Church, at the same time heavenly and earthly, to the glory of His love for mankind.
Gregory Palamas
#45. I wasn't going to be an actor. I was going to be a lawyer. I came from a family just above working class, just below middle class, a great family of wonderful values. The idea of me having a chance for a law degree was enticing. Enticing to me but also very enticing to my family.
Gerard Butler
#46. There is an equator that runs just under the nose: all that live below the equator are animals; all that live above it are men.
Henry Ward Beecher
#47. Playing Rachmaninoff was like walking on a rope bridge across a gorge with dreamy skies above and a raging, muddy river below.
Ella Leya
#48. Both above and below, without and within, which way so ever thou dost turn thee, everywhere thou shalt find the Cross; and everywhere of necessity thou must hold fast patience, if thou wilt have inward peace, and enjoy an everlasting crown.
Thomas A Kempis
#49. No country is so peaceful as the one that leads into death. Life arches above one's head like a bridgespan, and below it flows the water, carries the boat, takes it further.
Alfred Doblin
#50. The tragedy of life is not found in failure but complacency. Not in you doing too much, but doing too little. Not in you living above your means, but below your capacity. It's not failure but aiming too low, that is life's greatest tragedy.
Benjamin E. Mays
#51. Each man carries the vestiges of his birth; the slime and eggshells of his primeval past with him to the end of his days. Some never become human, remaining frog, lizard, ant. Some are human above the waist, fish below.
Hermann Hesse
#52. I have always hated crowds. I like deserts, prisons, and monasteries. I have discovered, too, that there are fewer idiots at 3000 meters above sea level than down below.
Jean Giono
#53. Every moment is a crossroad in time. Consider that, as above so below and as inside so outside and live accordingly.
Grigoris Deoudis
#54. I really love living in cities where the people living above, below and next to you are from totally different worlds to you.
Rupert Friend
#55. searching the sky from high above to below the horizon, gradually working around until he reached the right and the rear.
Jonathan Falconer
#57. How do you know if you are living to far above (or below) those among whom you are ministering? Ask yourself this question: Is this (car, house, lifestyle) helping me or hindering me in winning and discipling people for Jesus?
Loren Cunningham
#58. there is always more wretchedness below than there is brotherhood above,
Victor Hugo
#59. Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained seals.
John Steinbeck
#60. 40. My adepts stand upright; their head above the heavens, their feet below the hells.
41. But since one is naturally attracted to the Angel, another to the Demon, let the first strengthen the lower link, the last attach more firmly to the higher.
Aleister Crowley
#61. When I look up and see the sun shining on the patch of white clouds up in the blue, I begin to think how it would feel to be up somewhere above it winging swiftly thought the clear air, watching the earth below, and the men on it, no bigger than ants.
Eddie Rickenbacker
#62. If we could share this world below, If we could learn to love ... If we could share this world below, We'd need no world above.
Ray Nelson
#63. Man is the merriest species of the creation; all above or below him are serious.
Joseph Addison
#64. I'm the head and not the tail. I'm above and not below. I will find favor with man and God. I was created in the image of God to do good things and to love people.
Brenda Warner
#65. Mozart creates music from a mysterious center, and so knows the limits to the right and the left, above and below. He maintains moderation.
Karl Barth
#66. When fear enters the heart of a man at hearing the names of candidates and the reading of laws that are proposed, then is the State safe, but when these things are heard without regard, as above or below us, then is the Commonwealth sick or dead.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#67. Economists may not know how to run the economy, but they know how to create shortages or gluts simply by regulating prices below the market, or artificially supporting them from above.
Milton Friedman
#68. copy instead of finding the book on the shelf. And the finding is half the fun. Browsing on either side, above and below, that is the joy of it.
Mary Jane Hathaway
#69. We have before us the fiendishness of business competition and the world war, passion and wrongdoing, antagonism between classes and moral depravity within them, economic tyranny above and the slave spirit below.
Karl Barth
#70. In the 9/11 Commission Report, one of the things they point out is that firefighters saved just about everybody below the fire. I don't think they realize how proud the fire department is of that. Because, conceivably, that's all they could have done. They could not have gotten above that fire.
Rudy Giuliani
#71. Maybe the answer to all of his problems was nothing more than a darkened sky and a glittering city, a lofty perch above the world below. It seemed entirely possible that it was all just a matter of setting and location, and Peter wondered why he hadn't thought of it before.
Jennifer E. Smith
#72. She that weds well will wisely match her love, Nor be below her husband nor above.
Ovid
#73. Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived.
Gregory Bateson
#74. It is hard to lift up your own misfortune. To be at once the viewer and the viewed. To be both above and below. The one below is a spot, a shadow ... To consider your own person in the light of eternity (read: in the light of death). To rise into the air. The world from a bird's-eye view.
Danilo Kis
#75. As above, so below," runs the old motto. It
Frank Joseph
#76. It's always the people who strive to find, and tell you about one of your imperfections, that want to feel one step above you. The truth is their ten steps below you with nothing better to say.
Ron Baratono
#77. Her skin glowed in dawn's soft light sneaking in through curtains, and she stretched her arms up toward the ceiling in a move that elongated everything above her waist and below his belt.
Avery Flynn
#78. Two men are equally free from the rage of ambition; are they therefore equal in merit? Perhaps not; one may be above ambition, the other below it.
Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke
#79. Only those beneath me can envy or hate me. I have never been envied nor hated; I am above no one. Only those above me can praise or belittle me. I have never been praised nor belittled; I am below no one.
Kahlil Gibran
#80. And there, surrounded by death above and below, he sticks his tongue out and tastes the sweetness of life.
Danny Scheinmann
#81. After the rains departed the skies and settled on earth - clear skies; moist brilliant earth - greater clarity returned to life alone with the blue above and made the world below rejoice with the freshness of the recent rain. It left heaven in our souls and a freshness in our hearts.
Fernando Pessoa
#82. I don't believe stores should stock clothes below or above a certain weight. They should be made to feel uncomfortable when they go in and can't find a size.
Jamelia
#84. We don't agree with the depiction of buildings in the '20s and 1930s. Things were seen either from above or below which tended to monumentalize the object. This was exploited in terms of a socialistic view - a fresh view of the world, a new man, a new beginning.
Bernd Becher
#85. Above, below, all around are the movements of the elements. But the motion of virtue is in none of these: it is something more divine, and advancing by a way hardly observed it goes happily on its road.
Marcus Aurelius
#86. Time is a ribbon, a delicate organdy, so thin that you can see through it to the layer of time below and the layer above. Moments overlapping, lying on top of each other.
Laura Whitcomb
#87. Christianity is alone in thinking that sex is entirely the Devil's business and an offence to God, This is a strange doctrine and almost implies that God and the devil must have collaborated on the creation of humanity, God working above the belly button and the Devil below.
Robert Anton Wilson
#88. The son needs the father to have access to his source, and the father needs the son to have access to the future and the infinite.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#89. In the chakras, it's the heart chakra, anahata, the central chakra, three above and three below, which symbolizes happiness and love, psychic oneness, spiritual understanding.
Frederick Lenz
#90. Wheresoe'er I am, - below, or else above you - Wheresoe'er you are, my heart shall truly love you.
Joshua Sylvester
#91. Oh come on!" I said. "If Walker couldn't control me with his Voice, did you really think you stood any chance? I've been around. I've stepped on worse things than you! I've faced angels, from Above and Below! I don't bow down to anyone! I'm John Taylor!
Simon R. Green
#92. To those whose talents are above mediocrity, the highest subjects may be announced. To those who are below mediocrity, the highest subjects may not be announced.
Confucius
#93. I was wearing corn plasters above and below my toes and taping my ankles twice.
Cesar Romero
#94. Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below.
Noam Chomsky
#95. Either everything in man can be traced as a development from below, or something must come from above. There is no avoiding that dilemma: you must be either a naturalist or a supernaturalist.
T. S. Eliot
#96. In movement there is balance. In balance there is movement. Yoga is all about balance. Within and Without. Above, Below. Front, Behind. Male, Female. In, Out.
Mark Whitwell
#97. Sunsets.
The illusion either above the horizon or below it.
When day and night are linked in a way that cannot be one without the other, yet they cannot exist at the same time.
Ebelsain Villegas
#98. Behind your image, below your words, above your thoughts, the silence of another world waits.
John O'Donohue
#99. the drama below and the drama above could easily collide at any moment
Ana Chapman
