Kowtowing Quotes

#1. The only way to success in American public life lies in flattering and kowtowing to the mob

H.L. Mencken

#2. If you stand up to the human race you lose something called their 'goodwill'; if you kowtow to them you gain ... their permission to continue kowtowing.

Celia Green

#3. There's nothing wrong with most men's egos that the kowtowing of a headwaiter can't cure.

Mignon McLaughlin

#4. I don't like grand restaurants or kowtowing waiters. I don't need that kind of attention and I don't want it.

Danielle Steel

#5. In case anyone needs reminding, it was the relentless drive of the tourism industry and kowtowing State Department bureaucrats that led to the Bush-era Visa Express Program, which relaxed visa policies, eliminated in-person consulate interviews and opened the door to the 9/11 hijackers.

Michelle Malkin

#6. No, my dear, how should I be sad? I, who have been rich and happy, have become even richer and happier now. My son has been given to me.

Hermann Hesse

#7. Bruce Marshall's acoustic set gets a big thumbs up from me.

Kenny Loggins

#8. Please don't let the illegal ivory trade orphan even more baby elephants.

Yao Ming

#9. I think there's a lot of reasons for having an extended primary. I think super PACs play a role.

Reince Priebus

#10. I was only good at one thing: words. I had read more, much more, than anybody else, and I knew how words worked in the way that some boys knew how engines worked.

Jeanette Winterson

#11. We must be prepared to make the same heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war.

Albert Einstein

#12. When you reach that competing point, when you reach that time when the gun is about to go off, everyone's level is pretty much the same. The one thing that's going to separate you from everybody else is how you deal with those pressures, how you stay relaxed.

Apolo Ohno

#13. We could have made peace with Syrian dictator Bashar Assad a long time ago. It didn't happen, because Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu doesn't want to give up the Golan (Heights).

Tom Segev

#14. Whoever tramples on the plea for justice temperately made in the name of peace only outrages peace and kills something fine in the heart of man which God put there when we got our manhood.

William Allen White

#15. Four marks of true repentance are: acknowledgement of wrong, willingness to confess it, willingness to abandon it, and willingness to make restitution.

Corrie Ten Boom

#16. With change there is nothing you cannot deal with.

Sunday Adelaja

#17. You can't rule out the impossible, because you never know which of your assumptions about what was possible might turn out, in the real universe, to be false.

Orson Scott Card