Quotes About Kowtow

#1. The kowtow was symbolically voluntary: it was the representative deference of a people that had been not so much conquered as awed. The tribute presented to China on such occasions was often exceeded in value by the Emperor's return gifts.

Henry Kissinger

#2. She was damned if she was going to kowtow to him.

Jo Zebedee

#3. A person can allow a tyrannical world to bully them. One can kowtow to the demands of petty tormentors; blithely accept being the drummer boy for other people's private parade. Alternatively, a person can seek to obtain autonomy over their life.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#4. The best way to get your audience larger and more consistent is to be more divisive and more radical and criticize those who cater to or kowtow to other forces.

Norman Ornstein

#5. A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.

Zach Galifianakis

#6. If you stand up to the human race you lose something called their 'goodwill'; if you kowtow to them you gain ... their permission to continue kowtowing.

Celia Green

#7. How many times can a man kowtow and snivel before his thorny little crumb of pride pokes him into action?

T.W. Piperbrook

#8. Innocent people shouldn't be made to beg for their lives. The weak shouldn't have to kowtow to receive help, from us or anyone else.

David Mack

#9. Only fools pity survivors their scars and you should never kowtow to fools

Jeaniene Frost

#10. The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have both.

Ben Hecht

#11. The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.

Charles Spurgeon

#12. And I couldn't love a lie anymore.

Katherine Grace Bond

#13. The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.

Norman Thomas

#14. It took a couple of hundred million years to develop a thinking ape and you want a smart one in a lousy few hundred thousand?

Spider Robinson

#15. Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

Voltaire

#16. Actually, the first time I saw one in real life, I thought of the Great Pit of Carkoon in Return of the Jedi." "OK,

Matthew Norman

#17. Everything and everyone we treasured in this world comes to an end. I loved the world not for itself but for the marvelous gift that it was, and my only hope against eventual despair was to love something larger than the world, larger even than a near-infinite sparkling universe full of worlds.

Dean Koontz

#18. I have no regrets. regret only makes wrinkles.

Sophia Loren

#19. Insurance companies pay big bucks for procedures but next to nothing for patient consultations and preventive medicine, which is what most medicine is.

Alex Gibney

#20. A strong foundation at home sets you up for a strong foundation at work.

Robin Sharma

#21. I've kind of realised life is meant to be tough and everybody is in psychic and spiritual discomfort of some sort and has a burden to carry. I've realised I'm not special.

Marian Keyes

#22. The boy held her tighter, murmured soft words to lull her to sleep.
"It's only a nightmare," he whispered. "The dreams will stop."
He didn't understand. The dreams were the only place it was safe to use her power now, and she longed for them.

Leigh Bardugo