Prop Up Quotes

#1. Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money off them.

Mark Twain

#2. If you think that running your economy into the ground and having to send troops in in order to prop up your only ally is leadership, then we've got a different definition of leadership.

Barack Obama

#3. This notion that we're going to prop up foreign governments, that we're going to invade other countries for some kind of perceived benefit where we're going to install somebody who's going to be supportive of American interests or American corporate private interests needs to stop.

Matt Gonzalez

#4. We can choose to move with God, further into justice and wholeness, or we can choose to prop up the world's dead systems, baptizing injustice and power in sacred language.

Sarah Bessey

#5. Standards are declining left and right, and it doesn't matter. It's whatever is necessary to prop up Obama.

Rush Limbaugh

#6. I suspect each of us uses the past to prop up the bruised present. It's a clumsy try for the comfort of normality.

Adib Khan

#7. We are always boosting or trying to prop up the ego by fulfilling some desire or other, and always craving affirmation from the outside.

Pankaj Mishra

#8. Oh, please. If she's going to use Mr. Darcy to prop up her arguments, I give up.

Sophie Kinsella

#9. We'll support the government on issues if it's essential to the country but our primary responsibility is not to prop up the government, our responsibility is to provide an opposition and an alternative government for Parliament and for Canadians.

Stephen Harper

#10. I'm not against government involvement in times of need. I am for recognizing that big public companies will continue to cut jobs in an effort to prop up stock prices, which in turn stimulates the need for more government involvement.

Mark Cuban

#11. I believe Government should encourage competition, NOT prop up the weak when the going gets tough.

Ziad K. Abdelnour

#12. I plant my elbows on the kitchen table, prop up my chin and think: When the hell did the compass needle get out of whack and lead my life astray?

Haruki Murakami

#13. We grasp at transitory pleasures. We brood about the past and worry about the future. We continually seek to prop up and defend an egoic self that doesn't exist.

Sam Harris

#14. Women never use their intelligence, except when they need to prop up their intuition.

Jacques Deval

#15. I loved this place. You could prop up the bar and watch the world go by; no one made you talk or expected anything of you

Tim Relf

#16. One works hard to prop up an illusion that sucks the life out of them, and the other works hard to make their home a place that restores them, nurtures them, and gives life to others.

Craig Groeschel

#17. Would we as a nation be better off dealing with the truth rather than believing fantasies that prop up the Status Quo and the Fed's dearly beloved measure of the economy, the stock market? How often does accepting illusion help us navigate real life? Short answer: never.

Charles Hugh Smith

#18. I am not writing to flatter paternal egotism, to echo cant, or prop up humbug; I am merely telling the truth.

Charlotte Bronte

#19. If you let markets - in general, my belief is that if you let markets give you information, they'll give you the information rather than artificially prop up everything.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#20. As those that pull down private houses adjoining to the temples of the gods, prop up such parts as are contiguous to them; so, in undermining bashfulness, due regard is to be had to adjacent modesty, good-nature and humanity.

Plutarch

#21. Do you dance? Or are you strictly a prop-up-the-wall-with-a-beer kind of guy?"
"I dance. But I don't shag."
She laughed. "I think we've just established that you do".
"Not Austin Powers shagging. It's A Carolina thing. A dance.

Virginia Kantra

#22. A knife can be a symbol, but it also better be able to cut string. And if it represent cutting free, cutting loose, in the story's beginning, it better not be used to prop up a bookcase and then forgotten later on.

Ansen Dibell

#23. The CD, it should be noted, was born out of greed. It was devised to prop up record sales on the expectation of people replenishing their record collections with CDs of albums they had already purchased.

John Mellencamp

#24. If you can't compete fairly, honestly, effectively, no government should intervene. Now, some governments do. They prop up failing industries.

Hillary Clinton

#25. Universal military service may be compared to the efforts of a man to prop up his falling house who so surrounds it and fills it with props and buttresses and planks and scaffolding that he manages to keep the house standing only by making it impossible to live in it.

Leo Tolstoy

#26. The failure of Lehman may have allowed the government to do more to prop up the economy than it otherwise could.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

#27. Some people drink to unleash their libidos, and other people drink to prop up their egos.

Lou Reed

#28. If we can elect an African American as president, we can support gay marriage! Defeat prop 8! We will not give up!

Madonna Ciccone

#29. Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.

John Ruskin

#30. It did not speak well of the power of God, in other words, if He needed a human government to prop him up.

Jon Meacham

#31. I was never in danger. Nothing bad can happen to you if you're with your mom. Your mom can stop a bullet from lodging in your heart. She can prop you up when you can't. You mom is your blood and bone before your body even knows how to make any.

Scaachi Koul

#32. My mother always taught me that two wrongs don't make a right. We shouldn't bail out Wall Street. We shouldn't bail out Detroit. It will cost the economy more than the cost of the bailout which is more than the politicians think. We'll run into the hundred of millions to prop these companies up.

Peter Schiff

#33. He felt like part of himself had been taken away, an inward prop that was holding up his courage and confidence.

Orson Scott Card

#34. Instead of focusing on men and focusing on what we can do to prop them up, people seem really incredibly focused on the fact that women are doing well and maybe that's not such a good thing.

Jessica Valenti

#35. I love costumes. My dream growing up was always to have my own costume and prop shop.

Amy Sedaris

#36. He wished he could prop his fearful self up in a corner like a broom and walk away.

Nina George

#37. Does it have a bed?" Liz asked doing her best to prop him up.
"A couple of old army cots that probably have more mildew than a politician has bullshit.

Hunter Shea

#38. A lot of share-buying, not bargain-seeking, is designed to prop stock prices up. Thirty to 40 years ago, it was very profitable to look at companies that were aggressively buying their own shares. They were motivated simply to buy below what it was worth.

Charlie Munger

#39. It runs in the family. And don't expect me to be ashamed. Yankees lock away loony relatives, but down here, we prop 'em up on parade floats and march 'em through the middle of town.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#40. A single prop that does not look real to an audience can louse you up. The same is true of the smallest flaw in setting up the motivation in a story line.

Desi Arnaz

#41. I can stand on my own feet; I don't need any man's mahogany desk to prop me up

William Faulkner

#42. I don't care much for facts, am not much interested in them, you can't stand a fact up, you've got to prop it up, and when you move to one side a little and look at it from that angle, it's not thick enough to cast a shadow in that direction.

William Faulkner

#43. Country music is one of those places where we support each other and prop each other up.

Chris Stapleton

#44. American society loves to prop people up and then take them down.

Zach Galifianakis

#45. Gethin Jenkins is one of the best loose-head props in the world. He hits up to 40 rucks a game, makes at least 10 carries and even more tackles. Those are amazing statistics for a prop and he is a very intelligent rugby player.

Warren Gatland

#46. The modern believer is not suspicious enough, which is perhaps why, when they try to construct arguments in their defence, the convictions are left doing all the work and reason, debilitated by neglect, weakly fails to prop them up.

Julian Baggini

#47. Frank Capra was a prop man, I think. John Ford was a prop man. It was a little bit of a father and son thing, and you kind of worked your way up.

Francis Ford Coppola

#48. Live in dreams for too long and ye go mad - ye can never wake up prop'ly, ye can never get the hang o' reality again.

Terry Pratchett

#49. Bo : Prop's very brave and I'm
good at cheering him up, so
we make a good team.

Cornelia Funke

#50. SHUT UP," Carot Top say, the cocane now taking effect. "This isnt Poetry 101. People want to laugh. Your suposed to be a 'King' of Prop Comedy. But youve been acting more like a jester of prop comedy.

Seinfeld 2000

#51. Renounce," he says again and now it begins to make sense.
"No," I breathe and prop myself up on my elbows. "Never.

Celia Mcmahon

#52. I'm all right,' Jace protested, but his hand gripped Alec's sleeve tightly. 'I can stand.'
It looks to me like you're using a wall to prop you up. That's not my definition of "standing."'
It's leaning,' Jace told him. 'Leaning comes right before standing.

Cassandra Clare

#53. And by the way, I would not only reappoint Greenspan; if Greenspan would happen to die, God forbid, I would do like they did in the movie 'Weekend at Bernie's.' I would prop him up and put a pair of dark glasses on him.

John McCain

#54. I know that I've overfed myself trying to prop myself up because I'm exhausted.

Geri Halliwell

#55. The brands with which we surround ourselves prop us up, make us feel sexy and beautiful, when in reality we're pretty dumpy creatures.

Aaron Belz