Look Down On Quotes

#1. The Europeans look down on raising your hands. They don't like the end-zone dance. I think that's unfortunate. That feeling - the finish line, the last couple of meters - is what motivates me.

Lance Armstrong

#2. If your not willing to do the work that your instructing me to do. I will look down on you.

Jonathan Burkett

#3. The more you look down on others, the less ANYBODY will look up to you ...

Bob Teague

#4. Those who look down on other Christians because they lack a particular gift or experience, or those who despise a particular gift and look down on Christians who have it, are not demonstrating spiritual maturity.

Craig S. Keener

#5. Architects have created this fake separation between creation and execution. You can see it in architecture schools, where the students look down on going to contracts classes.

Joshua Prince-Ramus

#6. Maybe not," mused Maggie. "If we eat pies, then we should never, not for one moment, look down on the making of them." "I don't," said William.

Alexander McCall Smith

#7. Those who understand the gospel cannot possibly look down on anyone, since they were saved by sheer grace, not by their perfect doctrine or strong moral character.

Timothy Keller

#8. The heavens, with their everlasting faithfulness, look down on no sadder contradiction than the sluggard and the slattern in their prayers.

James Martineau

#9. What if our children are all super-bright and I can't understand what they're saying and they look down on me because I haven't got a PhD?

Sophie Kinsella

#10. People who've never gone hunting have a tendency to look down on hunters and act like they're out killing Bambi's father.

Patty Hearst

#11. Dublin people think they are the center of the world and the center of Ireland. And they don't realize that people have to leave Ireland to get work, and they look down on people who do.

Martin McDonagh

#12. That's right, grannie! And the rich have to look down on the poor." "No, my dear. I did not say that. The rich have to be KIND to the poor.

George MacDonald

#13. If you want to fulfil your dreams, stay away from the people who look down on you. Those who try to finish every single sentence for you. Those people are called dream killers.

Euginia Herlihy

#14. During climbs into taller trees, I was occasionally able to look down on the backs of birds, which shine with reflected sunlight as they move through the green depths of the canopy, like schools of fish.

Richard Preston

#15. As he puts it, he was reborn in a coal chute, so he can't look down on anyone now.

Lia Habel

#16. The only justification we have to look down on someone is because we are about to pick him up.

Jesse Jackson

#17. Damsel in distress," she muttered, her mother's favorite cuss. Regular cursing made some people look down on a person, but imaginative cursing made a person feel better and those around smile.

Jordan Elizabeth Mierek

#18. I believe we come to earth with sealed orders. I believe that only those who lack passion look down on purpose.

Liv Ullmann

#19. Doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on.

Mark Twain

#20. It seems to be part of the human condition to need someone you can look down on. I still don't get that one.

Janis Ian

#21. Mimes were invented to give magicians someone to look down on

Jamy Ian Swiss

#22. The highest point at which human life and art meet is in the ordinary. To look down on the ordinary is to despise what you can't have. Show me a man who fears being ordinary, and I'll show you a man who is not yet a man.

Yukio Mishima

#23. Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up.

Jesse Jackson

#24. Pity goes hand in hand with contempt. Don't ever forget that, Liberty. You can't take handouts or help from anyone, because that gives people the right to look down on you.

Lisa Kleypas

#25. All dogs look up to you. All cats look down on you. Only the pig looks at you as an equal

Winston Churchill

#26. Never look down on people unless you are helping them up.

Jesse Jackson

#27. Remember That No Matter How Cool You Think You May Be, You Are Not Cool Enough To Look Down On Any One ... Ever.

Paul Walker

#28. Concetta is being duped. But you should never look down on someone for trusting the wrong person. It could happen to any of us.

Adriana Trigiani

#29. Everyone loves a flawed hero. I don't want perfect people. I want people who have a story, have been through some shit, dance to their own beat and still make i work, not the fake-arsed posh fuck-wits who look down on us slightly geeky weird-but-cool entrepreneurs.

Dan Meredith

#30. Stage actors look down on movie actors, movie actors look down on TV actors, and TV actors look down on ... mass murderers ...

George Clooney

#31. Lord, look down on Thy Servant!
Bad things have come to pass.
There is no heat in the midday sun, nor health in the wayside grass.
His bones are full of an old disease - his torments run and increase.
Lord, make haste with Thy Lightning and grant him a quick release!

Cherise Sinclair

#32. I'm delighted with it, because it used to be that films were the lowest form of art. Now we've got something to look down on.

Billy Wilder

#33. From the height from which the great look down on the world all the rest of mankind seem equal.

William Hazlitt

#34. The pleasure of other people is a byproduct of the pleasure that comes from yourself so I cannot judge or look down on someone who does whatever they feel like doing.

Mark Lanegan

#35. We give ourselves only to relationships and pursuits that build us up and bolster our efforts at self-justification and self-creation. But this also leads us to disdain and look down on those who do not have the same accomplishments or identity-markers

Timothy Keller

#36. The ancient dream of man to fly among the stars and go through the could and look down on the lands and seas has degenerated in its realization to the socialized and apathetic behavior of passengers who hardly look out the windows.

Paul Goodman

#37. Don't let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in life, in love, in faith, and in purity ... Be diligent in these matters; give yourself wholly to them, so that everyone may see your progress.

Karen Kingsbury

#38. Every man is a king so long as he has someone to look down on.

Sinclair Lewis

#39. By ignoring compliments and homages we lead the person paying those compliments to think we look down on him, when in fact we are only doubting ourselves.

Albert Camus

#40. Good God, with a bounty
Look down on Marion County,
For the soil is so pore, and so awful rooty, too,
I don't know what to God the pore folks gonna do.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

#41. But do not look down on even the most minute of things; for with the coming of daybreak, even the tiniest particles of dust in this world sing and dance in the sunlight.

Wang Anyi

#42. You can't control what others think. The only thing you can control is yourself. Some people will look down on you for your choices in life, no matter what they are. You can't do anything about that. The only thing you can do is decide how to live your own life. And to hell with everybody else

Marie Sexton

#43. Can you climb high enough to get above the clouds, look down on the rain from a place in the sun?

Ally Condie

#44. Ursus stepped forward. 'Watch your tongue when you speak to the goddess!' he snarled.
The Doctor frowned. 'I think that would make speaking rather difficult,' he said.He stuck his tongue out and crossed his eyes to look down on it. 'Therterly inghockigal.' he said.

Jacqueline Rayner

#45. The worst form of snobbery is to deny information; to anyone at all. Always remember that. Bas as it is to look down on another human being: to act as censor? Unforgivable.

Matthew Blakstad

#46. I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

Winston S. Churchill

#47. Snobs are people who look down on other people, but that does not justify our looking down on them. Who can say what dark fears of being inferior lurk behind their superior airs or what they suffer in private for the slights they dish out in public?

Frederick Buechner

#48. I think I will be able to, in the end, rise above the clouds and climb the stairs to Heaven, and I will look down on my beautiful life.

Yayoi Kusama

#49. Commercials are art, too; they're 30-second movies starring people like me. If you look down on the medium, you're never going to book. If you don't love it, do not bother. Find another job you like.

Geneva Carr

#50. He who ascends to mountaintops, shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow; He who surpasses or subdues mankind Must look down on the hate of those below

Barbara Taylor Bradford

#51. When human hearts break and human hearts despair, then from the twilight of the past the great conquerors of distress and care, of disgrace and misery, of spiritual slavery and physical compulsion, look down on them and hold out their eternal hands to the despairing mortals.

Adolf Hitler

#52. If I had a view like this to look down on every day, I would have the energy and inspiration to conquer the world. The trouble is, when you most need such a view, no one gives it to you.

Jennifer Egan

#53. But I'm not going to stand up on a gravestone and look down on life and say, 'O lovely!

Ursula K. Le Guin

#54. If one assumes a humble attitude, one's own good qualities will increase. Whereas if one is proud, one will become jealous of others, one will look down on others, and due to that there will be unhappiness in society.

Dalai Lama

#55. Big things start small ... Never look down on that thing you think is nothing ... always remember that ... !

Akinwumi Jarule

#56. Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante's scheme, Limbo is to Hell.

Irving Layton

#57. Never make a promise you can't keep.
Never look down on a person you can't help.
Never solicit a question you can't answer.
Never judge a person you don't understand.
Never condemn a person you don't know.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#58. Its like he knows he's better than you, but doesn't look down on you for it because he knows it's not your fault.

Patrick Rothfuss

#59. Never look down on someone because God himself does not do so. No matter what defines the status, nationality or gender of a person, once God's spirit is in him/her, he or she becomes a complete creature with complete potentials!

Israelmore Ayivor

#60. If you're trying to show off for people at the top, forget it. They will look down on you anyhow. And if you're trying to show off for people at the bottom, forget it. They will only envy you. Status will get you nowhere. Only an open heart will allow you to float equally between everyone.

Mitch Albom

#61. If the sailor in his sling were to turn and look down on her, he'd know she was a whore by the tentacles.

Stepan Chapman

#62. You look down on us... you think you're so much smarter than we are. When the only thing you really are is younger and luckier.

Michael Callahan

#63. My mom, God love her, she was one of those Bible people. She thought it was wrong to bother anybody, regardless of race, color or religion. It just wasn't a Christian thing to look down on anybody, and that's what she taught us.

Levon Helm

#64. I like things that make me feel seven again. I don't ever look down on people for the way they choose to have fun; it's just not necessarily the way I like to have fun.

Taylor Swift

#65. The irony is that the people we tend to vote for actually look down on voters and voting. That's just idiotic, right? That's like a snake eating its own tail! A wolf in a trap gnawing off its own head to escape!

Steven Weber

#66. Show no fear to your enemies. Only contempt. Never let anyone look down on you. You're just as good as any of them. I don't care who they are. Better in fact. In our world, Dagans are royalty and you, my son, are a prince.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#67. How sublime to look down on the workhouse of nature, to see her clouds, hail, snow, rain, thunder, all fabricated at our feet!

Thomas Jefferson

#68. There is a strange pecking order among actors. Theatre actors look down on film actors, who look down on TV actors. Thank God for reality shows, or we wouldn't have anybody to look down on.

George Clooney

#69. I don't look down on tourism. I live in Hawaii where we have 7 million visitors a year. If they weren't there, there would be no economy. So I understand why a tourist economy is necessary.

Paul Theroux

#70. I'll never look down on and I love running into actors who say 'Oh yeah, I did a soap.' I say 'Tell me which one!' It's like being a member of a secret society.

Nathan Fillion

#71. It is common nowadays for teenagers to look down on others.

Ririko Tsujita

#72. I don't look down on them, but what can you do? If a man has only ever driven a rickshaw and never in his life held a book in his hand, then what can you expect from him?

Monica Ali

#73. There are two worlds: the deaf world and the hearing world. There are some people in the deaf community that feel that hearing people look down on us.

Sean Berdy

#74. There's disgust with what people called a broken political system, and they're really angry at elites, whether it's the Republican establishment or particularly the media who they feel look down on them, tell them they're bigots.

Mara Liasson

#75. Don't look down on them for looking down on us. Look at them, instead, as friends we don't know yet and who don't yet know what they are missing in not knowing us.

Frederick Buechner

#76. I'm always disappointed when people don't live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.

Maya Angelou

#77. I did it to win love, and to prove myself capable. Not to move mountains. In my opinions, mountains don't move. They only look changed when you look down on them from great height.

Barbara Kingsolver

#78. The food chain has victims at both ends: even rapists and murderers need someone to look down on, and kid killers will do nicely.

Michael Marshall

#79. Acting is not the noblest profession in the world, but there are things lower than acting. Not many, mind you - but politicians give you something to look down on from time to time.

Spencer Tracy

#80. The only reason you should ever look down on someone, is to help them up.

A.J. Garces

#81. When I was little, I used to think that the sky at night was a big, black blanket that separated heaven from earth, and the stars were a whole bunch of little pin holes that the angels poked in the blanket so they could look down on us.

Robin Jones Gunn

#82. When you are disposed to be vain of your mental acquirements, look up to those who are more accomplished than yourself, that you may be fired with emulation; but when you feel dissatisfied with your circumstances, look down on those beneath you, that you may learn contentment.

Hannah More

#83. To get yourself together you need not to even think there is anyone else in this world. I don't need to look down on, or get off on, or get over on. The hardest thing to overcome is our own lies, confusion and our jealousy

Charles Manson

#84. Do not look down on any race;
no people have a monopoly on folly,
and do not look up to any race;
no people have a monopoly on wisdom.
One does not please God by his ethnicity;
one pleases God by his deeds.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#85. If there's anything I look down on, it's a man in a blue outfit.

Sylvia Plath

#86. Everyone is happier if they have someone else to look down on, as well as someone to look up to, especially if they resent both.

Christopher Moore

#87. And all those who look down on me I'm tearing down your balcony.

Eminem

#88. The theater is a great equalizer: it is the only place where the poor can look down on the rich.

Will Rogers

#89. Above all else she mustn't think that using her body will help her attain her goal. Men use women who play seductively, and then they look down on them.

Dacia Maraini

#90. Don't look down on somebody unless you are helping them up.

Jesse Jackson

#91. I say, never look down on a man unless he's between your legs.

K. Bromberg

#92. She wouldn't disapprove of people who gave up philosophy or literary theory to do ordinary things." "Maybe not," mused Maggie. "If we eat pies, then we should never, not for one moment, look down on the making of them.

Alexander McCall Smith

#93. If I have any worth, it is to live my life for God so as to teach these peoples; even though some of them still look down on me.

Saint Patrick

#94. Jesus was always on the front-lines washing dirty feet. Humility soon is shelved in ministry and we start thinking to much of ourselves. It is hard to effectively minister in Christ name when we look down on someone, but if we are washing their feet we look up to them giving them value and worth.

Jonah Books

#95. In my opinion, mountains don't move. They only look changed when you look down on them from a greaty height.

Barbara Kingsolver

#96. It is easy to look down on others; to look down on ourselves is the difficulty.

Walter Savage Landor

#97. As Winston Churchill said, "Dogs look up to you, Cats look down on you." It's just that I discovered that being looked at from both of those perspectives is where I want to be.

Emily Yoffe

#98. The most despicable humans are the ones who always feel virtuous and look down on the rest of the world.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#99. She had always been this way: interested-quite unnecessarily, some would say-in the secrets of strangers. When flying, she always chose a window seat so that when the plane took off or landed, she could look down on the tiny houses and imagine the lives of the people who inhabited them.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

#100. [I don't get it. You guys look down on chimps for flinging their own poo but you think it's fine to fling other kinds of poo around? I mean, you get opposable thumbs and this is what you do with them?]

Kevin Hearne