The Lowest Ebb Quotes

#1. 'Drekitude' is the lowest point in the lowest ebb. It could be your look. It could be your shoes. It could be that you're standing wrong. 'Drek' is a total, total, total hot mess.

Andre Leon Talley

#2. Faith in the supernatural is a desperate wager made by man at the lowest ebb of his fortunes.

George Santayana

#3. To the question, "When were your spirits at the lowest ebb?" the obvious answer seemed to be, "When the gin gave out."

Francis Chichester

#4. The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#5. And she says, "You know your ass says, Bat Girl, right?" I didn't. "That do it for you, Calloway?" "It does a lot of things for me.

Krista Ritchie

#6. There is always a certain hour of the day and of the night when a man's courage is at its lowest ebb, and it was that hour only that he feared.

Albert Camus

#7. His self-respect was at its lowest ebb.

C.S. Forester

#8. Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

Walt Disney

#9. Because of outdated ideas around retirement, we have put the money cart ahead of the "life" horse.

Mitch Anthony

#10. When worse may yet befall, there's room for prayer,
But when our fortune's at its lowest ebb,
We trample fear beneath our feet, and live
Without a fear of evil yet to come.

Ovid

#11. It was necessary that spirituality sink to its lowest ebb that it should rise to the highest pinnacle in another direction.

Anonymous

#12. The dirty work at political conventions is almost always done in the grim hours between midnight and dawn. Hangmen and politicians work best when the human spirit is at its lowest ebb.

Russell Baker

#13. Strike had not been able to guard against warm feelings for Robin, who had stuck by him when he was at his lowest ebb and helped him turn his fortunes around; nor, having normal eyesight, could he escape the fact that she was a very good-looking woman.

Robert Galbraith

#14. Republican democracy is overperfect and demands political virtues and talents far superior to our own.

Simon Bolivar

#15. The cacophony of contemporary popular culture makes it hard to discern the call of truth and wisdom. There is no area in which practicing asceticism is more important.

Rod Dreher

#16. God's reasons for communicating with man must be subsumed under his reason for communicating to him his account of his creation of the world - and man.

Leo Strauss

#17. When one man dies it is a tragedy, when thousands die it's statistics.

Joseph Stalin

#18. My concern has always been that people who I portray, or the professions that I portray, are not embarrassed by my portrayal of them.

George Dzundza

#19. When it comes to labor and politics, I am inclined to be sympathetic
to the left, but when it comes to the Catholic Church, then I am far to
the right.

Dorothy Day

#20. Night is the worst time, when her vitality sinks to its lowest ebb and she's frightened of everything. Unable to read or do anything else, she wanders about the house like a woman living with ghosts, who can't find the way or the will to return to the living world.

Anna Kavan

#21. When the president acts in absence of a congressional grant of authority, he can rely only upon his own independent powers. When the president takes measures incompatible with the express or implied will of Congress, his power is at its lowest ebb.

Arlen Specter

#22. Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was.

Art Buchwald

#23. I don't consider myself a religious person, but I consider myself a very spiritual person. I would say I have a relationship with God, I believe in God, I do.

Youth Lagoon

#24. I look great because I'm happy.

Debi Mazar

#25. Even as human vitality is at its lowest ebb in the early morning, so it is with plant life in the early spring.

Mabel Osgood Wright