Top 35 Quotes About Being Looked Down Upon
#1. being looked down upon is good for the soul, good for empathy, good training for a human.
Monica Byrne
#2. Bushido. The sense of honor which cannot bear being looked down upon as an inferior power, - that was the strongest of motives.
Inazo Nitobe
#3. I have not looked at Carlos since the meeting ... Being around him is like walking around with the flu ... The need to lie down in a darkened room and let my hatred of him run through me is almost insurmountable.
Kathleen Maher
#4. She walked a ways down the concourse, and looked back and waved and then turned a corner and was out of sight. I still stood for a moment, looking at the last place I had seen her, being careful not to be routine, while I became the other guy again, the one I was without her.
Robert B. Parker
#5. My natural hair is jet black. I used to have it down to my bum. And I went through a phase of being obsessed with fake tan. So from the age of 14 to 16, I looked like an Apache Indian!
Abbey Clancy
#6. When we relate to ourselves with loving kindness, perfectionism naturally drops away.
Sharon Salzberg
#7. Look, man, I get it. We don't do attachments. We depend on something or someone and the system rips it away from us. But Echo's not the system, man. She's a girl who looked like shit yesterday and chased you down when we all decided you should play the dick instead of being her friend.
Katie McGarry
#8. If she rented the studio in town, I'd probably never see either of my parents again. Well, except for dinner. They usually showed up for food
Maggie Stiefvater
#9. It was quite impossible to describe.
Here is what it looked like.
It looked like a piano sounds shortly after being dropped down a well. It tasted yellow, and it felt Paisley. It smelled like the total eclipse of the moon.
Terry Pratchett
#10. No one is talking about the man behind the ass. It was a lot of 'Miley twerks on Robin Thicke,' but never, 'Robin Thicke grinds up on Miley.' They're only talking about the one that bent over. So, obviously there's a double standard.
Miley Cyrus
#11. Answer e-mails from junior people before more senior ones. Junior people have further to go and tend to remember who slighted them.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
#12. Shame is all about fear. We're afraid that people won't like us if they know the truth about who we are, where we come from, what we believe, how much we're struggling, or, believe it or not, how wonderful we are when soaring
Brene Brown
#13. It looked like a piano sounds shortly after being dropped down a well. It tasted yellow, and felt Paisley. It smelled like a total eclipse of the moon. Of course, nearer to the tower it got really weird.
Terry Pratchett
#14. I've never liked being looked at like I was a hero. I always wind up letting someone down. Sometimes I get lucky. Sometimes the only person who gets hurt is me.
Seanan McGuire
#15. The man looked down at his feet. Tietjens said to himself that it was Valentine Wannop doing this to him. He ought to turn the man down at once. He was pervaded by a sense of her being. It was imbecile. Yet it was so.
Ford Madox Ford
#16. He got right down in the dark between heartbeats, and rested there. And then he saw that another one wasn't going to come. That's it. That's the last. He looked at the dark. I would like to take this opportunity, he said, to pray for another human being.
Denis Johnson
#17. I don't like being too looked up at or too looked down on. I prefer meeting in the middle to being worshiped or spat out.
Joni Mitchell
#18. ... -- the periwinkles looked exactly as if they were being poured down each side of the steps -- ...
Elizabeth Von Arnim
#19. In some African tribes, this would make us married," a dry male voice returned. Angel looked up. His arms reflexively gripping her waist, a tall, lean man with windswept black hair looked down at her with amused emerald eyes. "In others, it would mean we're being prepared for supper
Suzanne Enoch
#20. There's a long pause.
But it's not a bad pause, because Mik is looking at me like I'm the treasure from the high shelf that someone's just taken down and put into his hands. I find I don't mind being looked at like this. I don't mind it at all.
Laini Taylor
#21. If a traditional publisher offered me a quarter of a million dollars for a novel, I'd consider it. But anything less than that, I'm sure I can do better on my own.
J.A. Konrath
#22. Without local newspapers there's no one to tell you when somebody's been fined for having rats in their kitchens.
Bill Bryson
#23. I can't go back to being who I used to be!'
Hadley looked down at him sympathetically.
'None of us can, kid.' he said. 'That's the point. You get what you get. Life changes you. Time travel or no, you always have to build on what you live through.
Margaret Peterson Haddix
#24. 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
#25. I was in a couple punk bands as a kid. I did some more experimental stuff with my friend Dan for a few years.
Venetian Snares
#26. People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to.
Robert Half
#28. I stood and looked at the large framed painting of the Pierrot clown that hung on her wall and sympathised with the tears that rolled down its cheek. Like the clown, I felt contained within a frame, the only difference being my tears were not for public show.
Eileen Munroe
#29. Obeying is like eating and drinking. There's nothing like it if you've been without it for too long.
Hermann Hesse
#30. Yeah, he was. But hate doesn't care. Hate can turn anyone a little mental.
Cambria Hebert
#31. They're a dark people with a gift for suffering way past their deserving. It's said that without whiskey to soak and soften the world, they'd kill themselves. (Irish)
John Steinbeck
#32. I'm not afraid of heights, but the idea of falling from them, well, that I'm afraid of.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#33. The past, with its monstrous depth and span, reached toward him, demanding an understanding that he simply could not give it. His mind was too young and too narrow to withstand the onrush of her life.
Karen Russell
#34. She didn't like it when religious folks looked down on her for being an atheist; but to be honest, I didn't see how this was any different from the way she looked down on people for being Christians.
Jodi Picoult
#35. I think if you speak to any creative person, there's something so powerful - so intoxicating, if you will - about discovering another voice, another instrument, another way of looking at things, another way of perceiving things.
Jhumpa Lahiri
