Quotes About Lowering The Bar

#1. The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.

Lester B. Pearson

#2. I hate the word sexy.

Ursula Andress

#3. But now seeing that great knowledge, while good, had not saved the world, he turned in penance to the Lord, crying.

Walter Miller

#4. Pride would be a lot easier to swallow if it didn't taste so bad.

Brad Moore

#5. We have stopped giving adulation to the truly talented and started giving it to the truly average in the hope that by lowering the bar, we ourselves might be eligible for the fame and glory.

Corey Taylor

#6. He had in abundance youth's most dangerous qualities: optimism and relentlessness. He would risk everything he had to fly the plane that could carry the bomb within him.

John Irving

#7. 'The Cosby Show' made an impact on comedy, television and culture. We rejected lowering the bar.

Bill Cosby

#8. Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us; if we could learn them in some other way, we should not live.

Arthur Schopenhauer

#9. At Peter's court, the tournament of power would be still more vicious. The prizes were glittering, the ascent vertiginous, the descent sudden and the end often lethal.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

#10. New Hampshire polling data are unreliable because, when you call the Granite State's registered Republicans and independents in the middle of dinner and ask them who they're going to vote for, they have a mouth full of mashed potatoes and you can't understand what they say.

P. J. O'Rourke

#11. I think the first little jolt I got was reading Gerard Manley Hopkins - I liked other poems ... but Hopkins was kind of electric for me - he changed the rules with speech, and the whole intensity of the language was there and so on.

Seamus Heaney

#12. Hamlet, I will argue, is a play about reading and misreading, about the difficulties of interpretation.

William Shakespeare

#13. Until we establish a felt sense of kinship between our own species and those fellow mortals who share with us the sun and shadow of life on this agonized planet, there is no hope for other species, there is no hope for the environment, and there is no hope for ourselves.

Jon Wynne-Tyson

#14. Mockingbirds don't do one thing except make music for us to enjoy.

Harper Lee

#15. I declare that for me it is in vocalisation, in the use of mantras and prayer, through the awakening of the sexual secretions, resides the only way to reach the goal and everything else that is not here, is unfortunately lost time.

Arnold Krumm-Heller

#16. Forget the place you're trying to get to and see the beauty in right now ...

Evanescence

#17. With introductions out of the way, Erick got down to the business of having abducted me.
"Why were you asking Fink about the priest?"
"I have some sins to confess," I said. "For ruining the life of the last man to kidnap me.

Jennifer A. Nielsen

#18. Cheap grace replaces truth with tolerance, lowering the bar so everyone can jump over it and we can all feel good about ourselves.

Randy Alcorn