Quotes About Groveling

#1. Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and the powerful.

Edward Abbey

#2. How long is this endless groveling before every cry of 'racism' going to continue before the whole country collectively throws up?

Pat Buchanan

#3. What an antithetical mind! - tenderness, roughness - delicacy, coarseness - sentiment, sensuality - soaring and groveling, dirt and deity - all mixed up in that one compound of inspired clay!

Lord Byron

#4. I feel ashamed that the new, nuclear, neo-liberal India thinks of itself as a 'natural ally' of Israel. Ever since India began to call itself an emerging superpower, it has become a slavish, groveling satellite state of the US.

Arundhati Roy

#5. All that shameless groveling. no wonder 'merapa wanted him to go. This was his punishment, a conclusion clearer than anything he'd witnessed since leaving Mira III. Would his father do that? of course he would. That's what parents were for.

Marcha A. Fox

#6. Stop groveling, stop whining and start working!

Abhijit Naskar

#7. Be inspired with the belief that life is a great and noble calling; not a mean and groveling thing that we are to shuffle through as we can, but an elevated and lofty destiny.

William E. Gladstone

#8. Redd stared at the bald head bent down before her. How refreshing Vollrath's sacrifice was. He didn't beg for his life. He didn't embarrasss himself with groveling or sniveling, or appeals to her nomexistent mercy.

Frank Beddor

#9. Did you google 'best groveling speeches' while I was passed out?

Priscilla Glenn

#10. When the mind loses its feeling for elegance, it grows corrupt and groveling, and seeks in the crowd what ought to be found at home.

Walter Savage Landor

#11. True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us.

Tryon Edwards

#12. I was literally just going and applying for jobs, and I couldn't get a job, and I was getting more and more broke, and you find yourself groveling for jobs you don't even want.

Ben Gibbard

#13. Better to die with my chin held high than groveling like a cowering worm.

Sarah J. Maas

#14. I am very good at groveling.

Megan Whalen Turner

#15. She'd learned early that if she couldn't be on time to save her life, she'd better cultivate the unseemly art of groveling.

Michelle Sagara

#16. There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual

James Russell Lowell

#17. We should try to learn the nature of [the spirit of revelation] ... This is the grand means that the Lord has provided for us, that we may know the light, and not be groveling continually in the dark.

Lorenzo Snow

#18. To many Americans, everything from the Easter morning to the Ascension had to be made up by the groveling enthusiasts as part of their plan to get themselves martyred.

Antonin Scalia

#19. I'm just a no-good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime.

Al Yankovic

#20. Who knows not Circe, The daughter of the Sun , whose charmed cup Whoever tasted, lost his upright shape, And downward fell into a groveling swine?

John Milton

#21. Unquestionably, however, something else is at work, something that cuts deeper into the American psyche. We have a profound hatred of the weak and the poor, and a corresponding groveling terror before the rich and successful, and we're building a bureaucracy to match those feelings.

Matt Taibbi

#22. Humility is not a weak and timid quality; it must be carefully distinguished from a groveling spirit.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#23. Groveling for connection from someone who compares you to Hitler is not good for a person's self-esteem.

Amy Dickinson

#24. We do not find truth groveling through error.

Thomas S. Monson

#25. Humility, or poverty of spirit, is not a matter of thinking low thoughts about ourselves. It is not a matter of groveling in the dust. It is simply a matter of knowing ourselves as we really are. And when we see ourselves as we really are, we will see that we are poor.

John W. Miller

#26. It is impossible for men engaged in low and groveling pursuits to have noble and generous sentiments. A man's thought must always follow his employment.

Demosthenes

#27. By avarice and selfishness, and a groveling habit, from which none of us is free, of regarding the soil as property, or the means of acquiring property chiefly, the landscape is deformed, husbandry is degraded with us, and the farmer leads the meanest of lives. He knows Nature but as a robber.

Henry David Thoreau

#28. But a Broom-stick, perhaps you will say, is an Emblem of a Tree standing on its Head; and pray what is Man but a topsy-turvy Creature? His Animal Faculties perpetually mounted on his Rational; his Head where his Heels should be, groveling on the Earth.

Jonathan Swift

#29. Do what comes into your life and do it well ... Be polite without groveling. If you are ever afraid of anything, do not deny it, but behave as if you feared nothing.

Anna Lee

#30. you, Perry, you deserve a lifetime of servitude. Eons of groveling.

Karina Halle

#31. Wisdom, sits alone, topmost in heaven: she is its light, its God; and in the heart of man she sits as high, though groveling minds forget her oftentimes, seeing but this world's idols.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

#32. His response right now wouldn't win his brother the support he needs as a new king-and it just might push his father to cut his tongue after all. And groveling at Emma's feet without a tongue would be inconvenient.

Anna Banks

#33. 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

#34. When the entertainers of the Right aren't declaring their disgust with President Obama for groveling before foreign potentates, they're pretending to fear him as a left-wing thug, an exemplar of what they call 'the Chicago way.'

Thomas Frank

#35. I'm apologizing. For whatever I did. For whatever the guy who hurt you did. For the JFK assassination or the botched moon landing. Take your pick." ~Cain, Ghost of You

Kelly Moran