Quotes About Not Bowing Down

#1. Freedom is found in submitting to convictions, not bowing down to our fears!
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Evinda Lepins

#2. What makes us the most normal," said Reiko, "is knowing that we're not normal.

Haruki Murakami

#3. Why do men go to zoos?

H.L. Mencken

#4. The music, the prayers, the bowing and rising, the incense
all of it was breaking down my defenses. That's what good liturgy does. It breaks your heart open and turns you toward God.

Fred Bahnson

#5. Blessing is defined by neither ease nor worldly possessions nor pain-free existence nor stock-market successes. Blessing is bowing down to receive the expressions of divine favor that in the inner recesses of the human heart make life worth the bother.

Beth Moore

#6. I ached for the difference between Carlisle and me - that he could touch her so gently, without fear, knowing he would never harm her.

Stephenie Meyer

#7. Why would you do that?" I asked as he gasped. "Why would you hand me a lever to your pain?" I walked forward, bending the finger down, and he backed before me, into the crowd of his supporters, crying out, bowing low to lessen the sharp angle at which I held the digit.

Mark Lawrence

#8. The dead Martian had been affixed to the wall with a single-charge prospector's spike.

James S.A. Corey

#9. Worship is an inward reverence, the bowing down of the soul in the presence of God.

Elizabeth George

#10. Don't confound static electricity with ecstatic eccentricity. One will leave your hair up, the other will live up in the air!

Ana Claudia Antunes

#11. I find myself lacing my fingers together and bowing my head. Sometimes my father did this in the morning before sitting down at the breakfast table, but I never asked him what he was doing. Still, I would like to feel like I belong to my father again before I . . . well, before it's over.

Veronica Roth

#12. Roman Catholicism: a hundred million people bowing down before a flesh-hating, elderly celibate.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#13. Painful for a person is rebellious independence, only in loving companionship with his associates does a person feel safe: Only in reverently bowing down before the higher does a person feel exalted.

Thomas Carlyle

#14. The supreme thing is worship. The attitude of worship is the attitude of a subject bent before the King ... The fundamental thought is that of prostration, of bowing down.

G. Campbell Morgan

#15. She would have said that love was hocus-pocus, a deception, and she believed that. But at the prospect she still felt a hush, a flutter along the nerves, a bowing down of sense, a flagrant postration

Alice Munro

#16. I will come by train. I will wear a yellow bonnet. I am plain and tall.

Patricia MacLachlan

#17. The story ends with a crack the actor Hans Conreid made on seeing my two hundred black and white pots. Said Hans, "You're one actor no one will ever be able to say he hasn't got a pot to ... " End quote.

Vincent Price

#18. And then Micah Bayar swept back his cloak and dropped to his knees, bowing his head, his amulet swinging forward. Fiona glared down at him like she wanted to stomp on him.
Ho, Han thought. Micah breaks with his family? That's interesting.

Cinda Williams Chima

#19. Kissing her once more, I tell her without hesitation, "if you promise to never leave me, I will love you. And be good to you. I'll treat you like a queen." My queen. I heard somewhere that a king only bows down to his queen. And I'm bowing down to Lexi.

Belle Aurora

#20. a law is but a deduction from experience and experiment, and therefore laws must conform with historical facts, not facts with law.

Immanuel Velikovsky

#21. The Ukrainian authorities said Thursday that former President Viktor F. Yanukovych and Russian security agents were involved in plans for elite police units

Anonymous

#22. I'm aiming to do what I need to do for acting and nothing more. I'm bowing down to acting.

Abbey Lee Kershaw

#23. I once heard a Chicago-area pastor put it this way: we don't need more Americans bowing down to the Democrat donkey or the Republican elephant. We need more Americans bowing down to the Lion of Judah.

Todd Starnes

#24. And once I knew a meditative rose That never raised its head from bowing down, Yet drew its inspiration from the stars. It bloomed and faded here beside the road, And, being a poet, wrote on empty air With fragrance all the beauty of its soul.

Henry Abbey

#25. Some hypocrites and seeming mortified men, that held down their heads, were like the little images that they place in the very bowing of the vaults of churches, that look as if they held up the church, but are but puppets.

William Laud

#26. Bowing down in prayer to a body results in worldly life and bowing down in prayer to Soul results in attaining moksha (final liberation).

Dada Bhagwan

#27. If being in love made a person mad, then being away from the one you loved made you a lunatic.

Nicole Williams

#28. Blessing is bowing down to receive the expressions of divine favor that in the inner recesses of the human heart and mind make life worth the bother.

Beth Moore

#29. Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

King Solomon