Top 86 Lowers Quotes
#1. Dad has always said that a man who raises a hand against a female lowers himself beneath her feet.
Erin Watt
#2. When she lowers her eyes she seems to hold all the beauty in the world between her eyelids; when she raises them I see only myself in her gaze.
Natalie Clifford Barney
#3. Fuck me," I moan, "right here, right now."
He dives in for another kiss as he lowers the zipper over my hard dick. When he reaches inside my underwear I lean into his hand.
"So hard and so ready," he whispers in my mouth.
"Always for you, Rick.
Candi Kay
#4. The true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme poverty lowers the character of the democracy.
Aristotle.
#5. Constantly scanning the world for the negative comes with a great cost. It undercuts our creativity, raises our stress levels, and lowers our motivation and ability to accomplish goals.
Shawn Achor
#6. I should avoid that emotion, when I laugh I always think that I'm somehow an a guy who lowers his IQ.
Deyth Banger
#7. Maximoff lowers his voice. 'The shade is called My Lips Against Your Lips, and it's not coming off. Stop rubbing and let's form a plan.
Becca Ritchie
#8. The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers, And heavily in clouds brings on the day, The great, the important day, big with the fate Of Cato and of Rome.
Joseph Addison
#9. Playing for money, or adopting the attitude of one who plays for money, lowers the fever.
Steven Pressfield
#10. Nothing so lowers a lover in a virile maiden's estimation, than for him to be 'whipped' in a personal encounter with a rival.
Arthur Desmond
#11. PC stuff just lowers the general acceptance of good work and replaces it with bogus poetry that celebrates values that in themselves are probably quite worthy.
Diane Wakoski
#12. I laugh, but Ash stops me with a kiss. His arms wrap around me and lift me slightly off the ground. I'm lost in him, the feel of his lips, the taste of his spearmint gum. When he lowers me to the ground again, I'm lightheaded. "So,
Ashelyn Drake
#13. Man lowers his head and lunges into civilization, forgetting the days of his infancy when he sought truth in a snowflake or a stick. Man forgets the wisdom of the child.
Jack Kerouac
#14. He leans into my ear. Lowers his voice. "Ignite, my love. Ignite.
Tahereh Mafi
#15. He lowers his lips to mine, placing them over my mouth gently, our kiss bearing the weight of a thousand we may never have.
Robin LaFevers
#16. What shall I do with all the days and hours
That must be counted ere I see thy face?
How shall I charm the interval that lowers
Between this time and that sweet time of grace?
Fanny Kemble
#17. I'm just messing with you guys. I like seeing psycho chick get all intense." He glances at me, lowers his voice. "I mean that as a compliment
because, you know"
he waves a haphazard hand in my direction
"psycho kind of works for you.
Tahereh Mafi
#18. Six Sigma is a quality program that, when all is said and done, improves your customers' experience, lowers your costs, and builds better leaders.
Jack Welch
#19. Party loyalty lowers the greatest men to the petty level of the masses.
Jean De La Bruyere
#20. The basic idea that if you increase government spending or you cut people's taxes that stimulates the economy and lowers the unemployment rate, is a very widely accepted idea. It's in every economics textbook, that's what we teach our undergraduates, and I certainly try to teach them the truth.
Christina Romer
#21. She lowers her eyes to the monstrous, ancient Tree centered in the crimson field.
B.C. Powell
#22. The person who dumps garbage into your mind will do you considerably more harm than the person who dumps garbage on your floor, because each load of mind garbage negatively impacts your possibilities and lowers your expectations.
Zig Ziglar
#23. Science increases our understanding in proportion as it lowers our pride.
Claude Bernard
#24. The preaching that ignores the doctrine of Hell lowers the holiness of God and degrades the work of Christ.
Paul Stewart
#25. Love makes you say stupid stuff, though I don't think it technically lowers your chances of a scholarship.
Mette Ivie Harrison
#26. Business and the environment: Wasting resources costs the earth - and lowers your competitive edge
Phil Harding
#27. The great reproach always brought against Rabelais is not the want of reserve of his language merely, but his occasional studied coarseness, which is enough to spoil his whole work, and which lowers its value.
Francois Rabelais
#28. The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#29. Maven stares after his fleeing brother. "He does not like to lose. And" - he lowers his voice, now so close to me I can see the tiny flecks of silver in his eyes - "neither do I. I won't lose you, Mare. I won't."
"You'll never lose me.
Victoria Aveyard
#30. Disobedience is essentially a prideful power struggle against someone in authority over us. It can be a parent, a priesthood leader, a teacher, or ultimately God. A proud person hates the fact that someone is above him. He thinks this lowers his position.
Ezra Taft Benson
#31. His head lowers so he's looking in my eyes. I'm completely in love with you.
Mila Ferrera
#32. I like your sister. A lot."
I look at him dumbly.
He looks at me, lowers his voice to say, "I like you.
Sophie Jordan
#33. Lower himself!" says the lady, with a toss of her head. "No man lowers himself by pursuing an honest calling. No man!
William Makepeace Thackeray
#34. Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard.
Sigmund Freud
#35. Research shows the presence of women raises the standards of ethical behavior and lowers corruption.
Hillary Clinton
#36. When the storm-cloud that lowers o'er the daybeam is gone,
Unchanged, unextinguished its life-spring will shine;
When Erin has ceased with their memory to groan,
She will smile through the tears of revival on thine.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
#37. No matter who it is or what you think of them, never rejoice in the pain of others. It lowers you to a level you should not be at.
John Patrick Hickey
#38. When the Fed raises or lowers interest rates, for instance, then that affects the entire economy. Contracts or expands it.
David Baldacci
#39. I hate it when men go to strip bars. It lowers the rest of us that know if a man has to pay to see a woman naked, he is a loser and probably should get weeded out.
Henry Rollins
#40. He lowers his head while we're flying and touches his lips to mine. His kiss is hot and wet as it intensifies.
Susan Ee
#41. When a man is hit by Friendly Fire, his blood pressure lowers and his morale sinks. I have been hit by Friendly Fire in my heart. Sighs spill from my body instead of blood.
Hideo Kojima
#42. Excellence resides in quality, not in quantity. The best is always few and rare; much lowers value.
Baltasar Gracian
#43. He who lowers his mind to the dust of all men's feet, Sees the Name of God enshrined in every heart.
Guru Arjan Dev
#44. Your skin was electric - I half thought there should be sparks." He lowers his voice. "I know you felt it. You looked so beautiful.
Carolyn Crane
#45. Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
Barbara Sher
#46. The physical demands of cycling is that it actually lowers your immune system, and you expose yourself to a tremendous amount of elements - so certain people might get a chronic overload and develop, say, bad asthma.
Greg LeMond
#47. As the horsepower in modern automobiles steadily rises, the congestion of traffic steadily lowers the average possible speed of your car. This is known as Progress.
Sydney J. Harris
#48. Humility is often only feigned submission which people use to render others submissive. It is a subterfuge of pride which lowers itself in order to rise.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#49. You said that I didn't notice people like you." His voice lowers. His eyes are relentlessly blue, and they cut into me. "That's completely false. You've never been invisible to me. I saw you the first day we crossed paths, and I've been seeing you ever since.
Courtney Milan
#50. Then he smiles and I smile. And then I blush and he lowers his eyes, and it's like this entire pantomime of nervous gestures.
Becky Albertalli
#51. That means that violation of her purity lowers the honor rating of the male and, ultimately, of the entire family. In such cultures, rape by those outside the family is a tool of humiliation and shame that shreds the fabric of family life.
Walter F. Taylor Jr.
#52. Fasting lowers your blood pressure and can lower your cholesterol.
Jentezen Franklin
#53. It's better to live a life full of regrets than not live at all." He lowers his voice and adds huskily, "Let me show you how it's done.
Mia Asher
#54. If Apple ever lowers the iPod's price and develops Windows software for it, watch out: the invasion of the iPod people will surely begin in earnest.
David Pogue
#55. Your body is a hyacinth,
Into which a monk dips his waxy fingers.
Our silence is a black cavern,
From which a soft animal steps at times
And slowly lowers heavy eyelids.
On your temples black dew drips,
The last gold of expired stars
Georg Trakl
#56. Five swoops down, flames extinguished. Instead of going in for another strike, Five catches Nine by the wrist in midair. He lowers him gently to the ground. In response, Nine punches him right in the face. Because of course he does.
Pittacus Lore
#57. Logan lowers his head close to mine. 'Just know this, Ivy Calhhoun,' he begins. 'If I werena a ghost I would open all door for you, properly.
Cindy Miles
#58. I'm going to work with the Senate and the House to make sure we have a bill that lowers tuition for all Floridians.
Rick Scott
#59. It's that confused vibe that lowers her guard and makes it easy for her invest in the conversation, all because humans have an instinct to share what they know to people in need.
Roosh V
#60. Every pleasure raises the tide of life; every pain lowers the tide of life.
Herbert Spencer
#61. A true and worthy ideal frees and uplifts a people; a false ideal imprisons and lowers.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#62. In fact, scientists have shown that the better your DNA, your genetic machinery is at healing itself, the longer you live. That's how meditation lowers biological age.
Deepak Chopra
#63. Finn lowers his voice to a confidential whisper. 'Arabella was
my first literary infatuation. I had a mad crush on her.
Jessica Spotswood
#64. In the circle of yellow lamplight,
These few roof-beams and columns
Of what could be a Mogul Emperor's palace.
The Prince chews his long nails,
The Princess lowers her green eyelids.
They both smoke too much,
Never go to bed before daybreak.
Charles Simic
#65. How can one liberate the many? By first liberating his own being. He does this not by elevating himself, but by lowering himself. He lowers himself to that which is simple, modest, true; integrating it into himself, he becomes a master of simplicity, modesty, truth.
Laozi
#66. ECassChoosesPikachu: What does not kill us merely lowers our defenses for the next shit storm to finish us off.
SeanCassinova to ECassChoosesPikachu: I still have my "Free Hugs" sign.
L. H. Cosway
#67. The proposition of Mr. Ricardo, which states that a rise in the price of labour lowers the price of a large class of commodities, has undoubtedly a very paradoxical air; but it is, nevertheless, true, and the appearance of paradox would vanish, if it were stated more naturally and correctly.
Thomas Malthus
#68. Taxes are like abortion, and not just because both are grotesque procedures supported by Democrats. You're for them or against them. Taxes go up or down; government raises taxes or lowers them. But Democrats will not let the words 'abortion' or 'tax hikes' pass their lips.
Ann Coulter
#69. If there is no evidence that sport lowers aggression, at the same time it should be said that there is also no evidence that sport is motivated by aggression.
Erich Fromm
#70. Carrying a concealed weapon is a sign of self-defense, self-protection, and I think it lowers crime.
John Barrasso
#71. Fear creates its own self-fulfilling dynamic- as people give into it, they lose energy and momentum. Their lack of confidence translates into inaction that lowers confidence levels even further, on and on.
Robert Greene
#72. The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.
Alexis De Tocqueville
#73. Anything that encourages pauperism, anything that relaxes the manly fiber and lowers self-respect, is an unmixed evil.
Theodore Roosevelt
#74. Giving, in the form of volunteer work: enhances your immune system, lowers cholesterol levels, strengthens your heart, decreases the incidence of chest pains, and generally reduces stress.
Azim Jamal
#75. Once you have met your own soul, you know that you are being guided. You are being led from within, and even the inexorable wheel of life is your teacher. It is the cycle of failure and renewal that slowly lowers you into the arms of a very safe God.
Richard Rohr
#76. Chewing gum actually lowers your cortisol levels, the hormone responsible for stress. But chewing gum doesn't just reduce stress, it also makes you more alert and improves your performance in memory-oriented tasks. It does so by increasing the blood flow to your brain and alerting your senses.
Travis Bradberry
#77. Thank you Jonah."
He lowers his head at the break in my voice. I ignore the moisture in his eyes and pretend that mine don't sting.
"For what?" he whispers.
" For showing me that people can change. Even if it is one person out of a million.
Katie McGarry
#78. His hands find my hips and his breathing slows. What are we doing? What is this exactly? He lowers his head and opens his eyes. They search mine and I know he's asking himself the same questions.
Skyla Madi
#79. Aspiration lifts the life; groveling lowers it. When we are striving for excellence in everything we do the entire life grows and expands, but if we allow our standards to drop, there is a natural progression that follows, a tendency for a downward effort in all that we do thereafter.
Orison Swett Marden
#80. Grades are almost completely relative, in effect ranking students relative to others in their class. Thus extra achievement by one student not only raises his position, but in effect lowers the position of others.
James S. Coleman
#81. I hate to be wrong. It makes me feel like a failure. Being wrong has the same affect on me as a lack of food or sleep. It lowers my entire mood. But, I need to be proved wrong sometimes, as it restores humility, and doesn't allow my ego to swell to stupidly big sizes.
Paul Kelly
#82. In fact, marijuana lowers your stress level and lowers your body temperature. It actually seems that people live longer if they use it. If you substitute marijuana for tobacco and alcohol, you'll add 24 years to your life.
Jack Herer
#84. Love always elevates the character of man. It never lowers him, provided love be love
Bhagat Singh
#85. God speaks of his children shining best in ways that only he can provide. The heavens lift one as a golden child while the flesh lowers one to a child with gold.
Criss Jami
#86. Any economic network is largely dependent on trust if it is to function well. As economists put it, a high degree of trust lowers the costs of transactions and compensates for a lack of information. According to the American philosopher Francis Fukuyama, trust is a key prerequisite for prosperity.
Daniel Ammann
