Loftily Quotes

#1. The more loftily we see Christ enthroned, and the more lowly we are when bowing before the foot of the throne, the more truly shall we be prepared to act our part towards Him.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#2. Concerning great things one should either be silent or speak loftily.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#3. When we are misunderstood it is always our own fault. What the reader wants most of all is to be able to grasp what we think; but you loftily refuse to comply.

George Sand

#4. We women have intuition," Barby said loftily. "I wouldn't expect you to understand. I can't imagine why there aren't more women detectives.

John Blaine

#5. The artistic is thus very close to the ethical. If only we could grasp the world from someone else's standpoint, we would have a fuller sense of how and why they act as they do. We would thus be less inclined to reproach them from some loftily external point of view. To understand is to forgive.

Terry Eagleton

#6. It's always the same with these bogus equivalences: They start by pretending loftily to find no difference between aggressor and victim, and they end up by saying that it's the victim of violence who is "really" inciting it.

Christopher Hitchens

#7. Someone ought to write a novel about me," said Lebedeva loftily. "I shouldn't care if they lied to make it more interesting, as long as they were good lies, full of kisses and daring escapes and the occasional act of barbarism. I can't abide a poor liar.

Catherynne M Valente

#8. (Hunter) "conner was at his desk, tapping away at another computer. It was amazing how much he and Quinn looked alike. Quinn nudged me as if he knew what I was thinking.
"I'm cuter,"he informed me loftily.

Alyxandra Harvey

#9. Much of what sophisticates loftily refer to as the complexityof the real world is in fact the inconsistency in their own minds.

Thomas Sowell

#10. The demand of the day is for a higher standard and style of Christian life. Every follower of Christ must represent His religion purely, loftily, impressively, before that multitude of "Bible-readers" whose only Bible is the Christian.

Theodore L. Cuyler

#11. REFUSE TO ACCEPT ANY OTHER REALITY

Ronda Rousey

#12. No matter how bad it is ... or how bad it gets ... I'm going to make it.

Les Brown

#13. Men there have been who have done the essayist's part so well as to have earned an immortality in the doing; but we have had not many of them, and they make but a poor figure on our shelves. It is a pity that things should be thus with us, for a good essayist is the pleasantest companion imaginable.

William Ernest Henley

#14. The task he has chosen for himself, of wooing my mother with a bright red pickup truck, a Patsy Cline tape, and a string of malapropisms, is ample justification to me for not taking the world too seriously, its relentless heartbreak notwithstanding.

Richard Russo

#15. Letting agencies are unregulated. They charge a search fee, which in some cases can run into several hundred pounds, but the search consists of no more than checking through a computer database to see whether they have any properties for that person.

Jeremy Corbyn

#16. A really important part of competition is coming back, trying to do it better the second time than you did the first.

Brian Boitano