Top 100 Quotes About The Bottom
#1. The bottom line is that if you appeal to Jesus as your priest, what place is there for the law in your life? You call on a man from Nazareth, from the tribe of Judah, who shares no family lineage with Aaron,
Andrew Farley
#2. So people ask, 'But how can you work for a friend?' I say it's because I know that the magazine is called 'O.' The bottom line is somebody has to have the final word. Oprah's not right all the time, but her record is pretty damn good. That's not to say you can't disagree.
Gayle King
#3. If the people at the top think that reaching for a gun will solve the problem, why shouldn't the people at the bottom think the same?
Michael Moorcock
#4. At the bottom, the elimination of spyware and the preservation of privacy for the consumer are critical goals if the Internet is to remain safe and reliable and credible.
Cliff Stearns
#5. The Bottom Line: If people don't LOVE our work, we will not be able to sell what we make.
Jack White
#6. I had a list of ways I would prefer to die. Drowning was toward the bottom of the list. My top choice was "never." At
Lemony Snicket
#7. He'd had to fold his long legs into his desk. His boots had seen better days, and his jeans unraveled in a curiously irresistible way at the bottom. He didn't look like anyone I'd ever seen before. He reminded me of an actor in an old Western - Rock Hudson in Giant - all dark intensity.
Laura Anderson Kurk
#8. Here's the bottom line: where you are geographically affects where you are spiritually. A few years ago I came up with a simple formula: change of place + change of pace = change of perspective.
Mark Batterson
#9. And maybe Finch didn't feel like he had a choice, or maybe he wasn't trying to kill himself at all but just going in search of the bottom. But I'll never really know, will I? Then
Jennifer Niven
#10. I believe the people of Arizona and the people of America are fed up with the federal government. The bottom line is, is that they need to secure our borders. And in regards to Senate Bill 1070, what a disappointment! It hasn't been divisive; it has united Arizona! It has united America!
Jan Brewer
#11. My half-suppressed Canadian years, my whole childhood and youth, rose like a corpse from the bottom of the sea to confront me.
Ross Macdonald
#12. The trick is not escaping your fear, but confronting it and allowing it to drive and teach you. Only by getting to the bottom of your fears can you find their valuable lessons and move forward stronger than before.
Jillian Michaels
#13. I always felt I was scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to get a song together.
Leonard Cohen
#14. I see the whole field of environmentalis m and population as nothing more
than the survival of the human species. I have wanted to have some bumper
sticker made up saying 'Save the Humans'. At the bottom of it all, we are
trying to save ourselves.
Ted Turner
#15. Personally, I am more than ever inclined to believe that the Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion are genuine. Without them I do not see how one could explain things that are happening today. More than ever, I think the Jews are at the bottom of all our troubles.
Nesta Helen Webster
#16. The purest form of faith happens when you reach the bottom of your reasoning and find there is nothing that you can do that will make sense out of what you have been through.
Shannon L. Alder
#17. It is a long revisionist road up from the bottom for George W. Bush. He is ranked toward the bottom rung of presidents.
Douglas Brinkley
#18. The bottom of a lake we cannot see, because its surface is covered with ripples. It is only possible for us to catch a glimpse of the bottom, when the ripples have subsided, and the water is calm.
Swami Vivekananda
#19. In fact, the Gospel shows us change comes from the bottom rather than the top, from an old rugged cross rather than a gold royal throne.
Shane Claiborne
#20. Have you ever seen a genius out there looking for a job? it's the saddest thing in the world. no one will hire him. there is only one place where he is always welcome- at the bottom.
Henry Miller
#21. And the thing is, we can't fail. We've already hit the bottom and come out of it. From here on out, if we just love and listen, we can't go wrong, babe.
Erin McCarthy
#22. Factory farming came about from a moral race to the bottom, with corporations vying against each other to produce more and bigger animals with less care at lower cost.
Matthew Scully
#23. I was enveloped in numbness, and absence of feeling so deep the bottom was lost from view.
Haruki Murakami
#24. I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.
Frank Lloyd Wright
#25. The bottom line was that I was in an abusive relationship.
Shannon Celebi
#26. The bottom line is, it's a great script and that's very inspiring and makes you want to overcome whatever technical difficulties you come up against.
John Crowley
#27. I am passionate about music and my work to the bottom of my very soul, but I also very much enjoy good clothes and some of the finer things in life. Rappers do, too, and perhaps it's one of the reasons I've been welcomed so warmly into their world.
Clive Davis
#28. Nashville used to have more integrity than just looking at the bottom line.
Crystal Gayle
#29. As soon as you move one step up from the bottom, your effectiveness depends on your ability to reach others through the spoken and written word.
Peter Drucker
#30. Sailing is just the bottom line, like adding up the score in bridge. My real interest is in the tremendous game of life.
Dennis Conner
#31. These are my shoes that I designed from top to the very sole to the very top to the bottom. Laces.
Ryan Lochte
#32. When the savages of Louisiana wish to have fruit, they cut the tree at the bottom and gather the fruit. That is exactly a despotic government.
Baron De Montesquieu
#33. Filmmaking, like sex, isn't a polite enterprise. It involves a lot of mess and the bottom line is, if somebody ain't screaming, you're not doing your job.
James Woods
#34. The bottom line is that you are the one who is creating your life the way it is. The life you currently live is the result of all your past thoughts and actions. You are in charge of your current thoughts and your present feelings.
Jack Canfield
#35. The tabloids operate in an amoral parallel universe where the bottom line is selling newspapers.
Steve Coogan
#36. Many, many steeples would have to be stacked one on top of another to reach from the bottom to the surface of the sea.
Hans Christian Andersen
#37. If the Lord says to give more than you think you are able to give, know that He will provide for you. Whether things are sailing smoothly or the bottom has dropped out, He is always trustworthy. You can count on Almighty God to keep His everlasting Word.
Charles Stanley
#38. We live not, in reality, on the summit of a solid earth but at the bottom of an ocean of air
Thales
#39. There's a bit of testicle at the bottom of our most sublime feelings and our purest tenderness.
Denis Diderot
#40. A bowl rotates faster at the top than at the bottom.
Aminu Kano
#41. Whenever you brown butter, some of it is lost - water evaporates, milk solids fall to the bottom of the pan, that kind of thing. It's possible that in browning the butter you ended up making the dough with too little butter.
Dorie Greenspan
#42. I exercise daily to keep my figure. I keep patting my hand against the bottom of my chin. It works too. I have the thinnest fingers in town.
Totie Fields
#43. Since today's companies are totally dependent on a continuing human membership that produces a superior intellectual output in comparison to the competition, then there is inevitably a fight over the right to the bottom line.
Arie De Geus
#44. Here at the bottom of the world, everything was upside down.
Lesley Howarth
#45. Don't be a quitter.
Try harder.
Don't be so picky.
Be willing to start at the bottom.
Prove yourself.
Debbie Macomber
#46. Johanna: What's it feel like when you dive?
Jacques: It's a feeling of slipping without falling. The hardest thing is when you're at the bottom.
Johanna: Why?
Jacques: 'Cause you have to find a good reason to come back up... and I have a hard time finding one.
Luc Besson
#47. The bottom line is the Kiss Army is growing by leaps and bounds.
Ace Frehley
#48. I thought when I became a Christian I had nothing to do but just to lay my oars in the bottom of the boat and float along. But I soon found that I would have to go against the current.
Dwight L. Moody
#49. She knew scotch from whiskey, had no trouble counting markers, and almost certainly dealt her cards from the bottom of the deck. She was absolutely shameless. He hadn't had this much fun in years.
Erica Ridley
#50. The bottom line is that people are seeking answers and direction, not messages or sales pitches.
Brian Solis
#51. I thought I'd reached the bottom a few times, but then I'd realise there was another 30 floors of despair below that.
Trent Reznor
#52. The bottom line is these techniques have hurt our image around the world, the damage they have done to our interests far outweighed whatever benefit they gave us and they are not essential to our national security.
Dennis C. Blair
#53. Why are we still talking?" She reached for the bottom of her shirt and pulled it over her head, tossing it aside in the hallway.
T.J. Kline
#54. May feel like you're falling', Tabby, but remember, I'm at the bottom ready to catch you.
Kristen Ashley
#55. It is that to which we cling that drags us to the bottom of the abyss. There is real power at having nothing to lose.
Richard Paul Evans
#56. Absurdism was really just realism seen from close to the bottom.
George Saunders
#57. The bottom line, as Raul Hilberg put it, was that most people thought that, even if Jews shouldn't be killed, they weren't worth saving.
Victoria J. Barnett
#58. My assumption was that all indigenous architecture would be more fractal. My reasoning was that all indigenous architecture tends to be organized from the bottom up. As it turns out, though, my reasoning was wrong.
Ron Eglash
#60. Great man is still a great man even at the bottom of a well and a little man is still a little man even at the top of a mountain!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#61. I don't drive around London much. Any journey around Islington involves hundreds of speed bumps that seem to tear the bottom of your car off.
Alan Davies
#62. It was not impossible to build Rapture at the bottom of the sea. It was impossible to build it anywhere else.
Andrew Ryan
#63. As a child. I grew up on a small farm, so I did a lot of drawings of animals, chickens and people. At the bottom of every page, I'd put a strange scribble. I was emulating adult handwriting, though I didn't actually know how to write.
Joyce Carol Oates
#64. We who live in free market societies believe that growth, prosperity and ultimately human fulfillment, are created from the bottom up, not the government down.
Ronald Reagan
#65. America is a bottom-up society, where new trends and ideas begin in cities and local communities ... My colleagues and I have studied this great country by reading its newspapers. We have discovered that trends are generated from the bottom up.
John Naisbitt
#66. The more we understand what happens in living cells, the more incredibly powerful you realize things can be when they work from the bottom up, by interaction of one molecule and another.
Richard Smalley
#67. The only way to grow the economy in a way that benefits the bottom 90 percent is to change the structure of the economy. At the least, this requires stronger unions and a higher minimum wage.
Robert Reich
#68. I think we are starting to get some information that will allow us to get to the bottom of this, and I hope we continue to work on this until we get to the bottom of it.
Collin C. Peterson
#69. Recognizing a persimmon is no great feat, for God's sake," I said. "They look like orange baseballs!" "And they taste like the bottom of a chamber pot," Jamie added,
Diana Gabaldon
#70. A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take A Midsummer Night's Dream over Hamlet every time. Any fool with steady hands and a working set of lungs can build up a house of cards and then blow it down, but it takes a genius to make people laugh.
Stephen King
#71. Our true destiny ... is a world built from the bottom up by competent citizens living in solid communities, engaged in and by their places.
David W. Orr
#72. So I want to thank the Pentagon, the Soviet Union and the military-industrial complex from the bottom of my heart. Without them, I could never have become the man I am today.
George Carlin
#73. Turning 50 changed me and I'm far more accepting of myself. I'm not thin, but I am a size 10. I go in at the middle and very much out at the bottom and top. And now I think, 'Well, that's how I am.'
Carol Vorderman
#74. THIS QUOTE CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR UNFORGIVEN
Then she was at the bottom, in the filtered light, alone. Black water filled her nose and mouth, her stomach, her lungs.
Her soul.
Lauren Kate
#75. But the human mind, when it reaches the bottom of the abyss, must bounce back or disintegrate entirely.
Edward Bunker
#76. So singularly clear was the water, that where it was only twenty or thirty feet deep the bottom was so perfectly distinct that the boat seemed floating in the air!
Mark Twain
#77. Here's the bottom line: I can't play someone if I can't figure out what he cares about. Everybody cares about something, even a rough character. It defines where we step in life. As soon as you find out what somebody cares about, then it all gets real.
William Fichtner
#78. A young writer is easily tempted by the allusive and ethereal and ironic and reflective, but the declarative is at the bottom of most good writing.
Garrison Keillor
#79. In any organization men would move up form the bottom to the top. That develops loyalty, ambition and talent, because there is a chance for promotion.
Alfred P. Sloan
#80. Good sense is at the bottom of everything: virtue, genius, wit, talent and taste.
Joseph Chenier
#81. We are all searching for love, some at the bottom of a bottle, some at the casino, some in the eyes of a new lover. The more we search outside ourselves, we more desperate we become. We suffer not because love's unavailable, but because we are not looking in the right place.
Vironika Tugaleva
#82. Freedom, that's the kind of power I'm interested in. When we help each other get free, then it's not about anybody being on top or anybody being on the bottom. It's about being together, in a community.
Eve Ensler
#83. I saw myself as a knight-errant ... but the damsel in distress stabbed me in the back, my sword shattered on the dragon's hide, and my grail turned out to be the bottom of a whiskey bottle.
Simon R. Green
#84. You've got to breathe! And make the bridge between the top half of your body and the bottom. Between the woman in you who's sweet and tender, and the woman in you who's a bitch.
Katie Singer
#85. We are not at the pinnacle of our power, of our existence. We have scrambled to the top of an ant-hill at the bottom of the world's highest mountain. We have long way still to climb." - The Blue Mountain
G.R. Matthews
#86. Betty White is a riot. She is a good time! That is the bottom line: Betty White is a good time. She is really an incredible woman. She is so kind. She doesn't have one mean bone in her body, and she is the funniest woman in the room always. And you'll never hear one complaint from her.
Odette Annable
#87. I am a man raking through ashes, a man struggling to find the embers of life in the bottom of a fireplace.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#88. Well," replied the Count, rising from his chair, "if getting to the bottom is what is called for, I am sure there is no man better suited for the job.
Amor Towles
#89. - I can make Skell laugh if I really have to, but I have to take off one of his boots first.
- That went by just a little fast, Torl.
- It's terribly hard to tickle the bottom of a man's foot when he's wearing boots, commander.
David Eddings
#90. You have to make shots. That's the bottom line.
Pat Summitt
#91. And suddenly it's very clear to her that every action is an interaction, and everything she has ever done has led to something else, and to another something else, and all of that is ending here, at the bottom of the hill by Highway 34, and she is dying.
Amy Zhang
#92. I don't care about skin the color, everybody is a human being. Beneath every skin color, you bleed red. That's just the bottom line of the truth.
Angelique Kidjo
#93. I love him, love him. He's a millstone round my neck - he'll take me to the bottom with him. But I love this millstone of mine - I can't live without it.
Anton Chekhov
#94. If our culture is to be transformed, it will happen from the bottom up - from ordinary believers practicing apologetics over the backyard fence or around the barbecue grill.
Charles Colson
#95. Your job is not to lower the bottom by adjusting for and accommodating the lowest-performing employees. You should be raising the top by recognizing and rewarding superstar behavior.
David Cottrell
#96. You long for success? Start at the bottom; dig down.
Edward Abbey
#97. Since the days of Adam, there has been hardly a mischief done in this world but a woman has been at the bottom of it.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#98. So he said 'I'm going to chop off the bottom of one of your trouser legs and put it in a library.' I thought 'That's a turn-up for the books.'
Tommy Cooper
#99. We can adhere to the Henry Hyde amendment by saying that no federal funds will be used for abortions. And that's the bottom line for me.
Henry Cuellar
#100. It wasn't permanent like the limestone cross that flagged the mountain peak in the horizon, so he made sure to write it down. After making the sign of the cross, a deep hunger pulled his weight to the bottom of La Loma.
Richard Yanez