Obeisance Quotes

#1. The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.

William Butler Yeats

#2. Covenant. And We said to them: Enter the door making obeisance.

Anonymous

#3. The dog rose on his hind legs in front of Philip Philipovich and performed obeisance to him.

Mikhail Bulgakov

#4. So often I heard people paying blind obeisance to change - as though it had some virtue of its own. Change or we will die. Change or we will stagnate. Evergreens don't stagnate.

Judith Perelman Rossner

#5. Wherever goodness lay, it did not lie in ritual, unthinking obeisance before a deity but rather, perhaps, in the slow clumsy, error-strewn working out of an individual or collective path.

Salman Rushdie

#6. This Earle of Oxford, making of his low obeisance to Queen Elizabeth, happened to let a Fart, at which he was so abashed and ashamed that he went to Travell, 7 yeares. On his returne the Queen welcomed him home, and sayd, My Lord, I had forgott the Fart.

John Aubrey

#7. it. Commit yourself wholeheartedly to it. Praise it; give your attention, love, and devotion to your ideal; and as you continue to do so, all the fearful thoughts will make obeisance to your exalted state of mind--that is, they will lose their power and disappear from the mind.

Joseph Murphy

#8. It seems there was a custom in Ireland at this time of showing obeisance to your king by sucking his nipples. No nipples, you could not be a king.

Marilyn Johnson

#9. David and fell on his face and did obeisance. David

Anonymous

#10. Our civilization, such as it is, was shaped by religion, and the men who aspire to public office anyplace in the free world must make obeisance to God or risk immediate opprobrium.

Frank Sinatra

#11. Seems there was a custom in Ireland at this time of showing obeisance to your king by sucking his nipples.

Marilyn Johnson

#12. The Democratic Party's complete obeisance to [the abortion] lobby makes Democrats look bought, frightened and craven.

Peggy Noonan

#13. GREAT LEADER'S DIRECTION FLASHES WILL SHOWER EVERY GOAL POME ON OBEISANCE LOINISATION.ANY CHAGRIN POTHER??

Various

#14. The truth, and nothing but the truth, is that dawn begins with a wrestling match with my soul and a systematic rejection of all the other useful possibilities a day offers. I make obeisance to the story, its characters, and the muse with burnt offerings.

Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor

#15. plunge ahead, put one foot in front of the other, straighten your back and your shoulders and everything else that is likely to slump, buck up and go forward, and in this way, every obstacle, be it physical or only imaged, falls face down in obeisance and in absolute defeat...

Jamaica Kincaid

#16. Mumbling obeisance to abhorrence of apartheid is like those lapsed believers who cross themselves when entering a church.

Nadine Gordimer

#17. Christmas has become a public affirmation of the power and benignity of the state, to which we all make obeisance in the sybolism of the breath test ceremony.

Auberon Waugh

#18. No matter what obeisance the state may demand, we who serve the King are free indeed.

R.C. Sproul Jr.

#19. To them it was a holy crusade; not just a right, but a veritable duty, no less than an obeisance to God's commandment.

C.W. Lovatt

#20. Jesus does not offer to make bad people good but to make dead people alive. Worldviews

Ravi Zacharias

#21. I am forever fettered to myself [ ... ] and that's what I must try to live with.

Franz Kafka

#22. My uncles, who are farmers in Minooka, Illinois - I grew up with them and their pickup trucks and mustaches, and to me that was masculinity: big hairy sweaty guys who could pick up a bus.

Nick Offerman

#23. Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.

James Russell Lowell

#24. If you are truly a servant of God, then you are to serve him as a master.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#25. There is something wrong about being photographed that has nothing to do with vanity.

Nigella Lawson

#26. Booth: "You're a smart ass, you know that?"
Brennan: "Objectively I'd say I'm very smart, although it has nothing to do with my ass.

Kathy Reichs