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“If Black women stand strong and our commitment is to ending domination I know that I'm supporting Black males, Black children male and female Black elderly because the bottom line is the struggle to end domination in all its forms.”

Ifs Knows Children Ends Form Strong Black Lines Struggle Commitment Female Males Bottom Black Women Domination Bottom Line Elderly Black Males Stand Strong

Author:Bell Hooks

“I thought I'd reached the bottom a few times, but then I'd realise there was another 30 floors of despair below that.”

Despair Bottom Realising

Author:Trent Reznor

“Focus on essentials and try not to get distracted and bogged down by things that don't add value to the bottom line.”

Trying Values Lines Focus Essentials Add Bottom Bottom Line Distracted

Author:Carlos Slim

“Rock bottom is an inability to cope with the commonplace that is so extreme it makes even the grandest and loveliest things unbearable...Rock bottom is everything out of focus. It's a failure of vision, a failure to see the world as it is, to see the good in what it is, and only to wonder why the hell things look the way they do and not some other way.”

World Way Looks Wonder Vision Hell Focus Rocks Bottom Extremes Inability Unbearable Commonplace

Author:Elizabeth Wurtzel

“I'm always fighting to make the team anyway. I'm always preparing like I'm one of the bottom guys, trying to make the team.”

Trying Guy Fighting Team Bottom Preparing Always Fighting

Author:Champ Bailey

“Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and its accessible to all of us, but we have to give ourselves the opportunity to identify, to plunge ourselves in a story where we see the world from the bottom up or through anothers eyes or heart.”

World Giving Humans Heart Soul Stories Eye Opportunity Empathy Bottom Mysterious Human Soul Plunge Transactions

Author:Sue Monk Kidd

“The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive, many others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear, others are slowly being devoured from within by rasping parasites, thousands of all species are dying of starvation, thirst, and disease. The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference.”

“I've got an image of me at the bottom of my garden sitting under my silver birch tree reading, while everyone else had gone somewhere exotic.”

Reading Gone Tree Sitting Garden Bottom Silver Exotic Birch Trees

Author:Geri Halliwell

“At the bottom of all patriotism there is war: that is why I am no patriot.”

War Bottom Patriot

Book:The journal of Jules Renard

Source: The journal of Jules Renard

“Careers, children and homemaking all come above preserving your appearance. Self-preservation is at the bottom of the scale.”

Children Self Careers Bottom Appearance Scales Preservation Self Preservation Homemaking

Author:Trinny Woodall

“Your tattoos are supposed to be some connection to your personality. That's a lot more important than going in and just picking one off a wall. I've never understood why people get butterflies tattooed on their bottoms or whatever. That's really weird.”

People Important Wall Personality Understood Connections Bottom Supposed To Be Butterfly Tattoo Really Weird Tattooed

Author:Ville Valo

“I didn't do very well academically; I was always in the bottom class.”

Wells Class Bottom

Author:Chris Lilley

“After a day and a half or so the traveler will realize that crossing the continent by Interstate he gets to know the country about as well as a cable messenger knows the sea bottom.”

Knows Wells Country Realizing Half Sea Bottom Continents Traveler Cables Crossings Messengers Interstate

Author:Wallace Stegner

“If you look at Gothic detailing right down to the bottom of a column or the capital of a column, it's a small version of the whole building; that's why, like dating the backbones of a dinosaur, a good historian can look at a detail of a Gothic building and tell you exactly what the rest of the building was, and infer the whole from the parts.”

Ifs Looks Whole Building Dating Bottom Details Versions Historian Gothic Columns Dinosaurs Backbone

Author:Charles Jencks

“Pick up a sunflower and count the florets running into its centre, or count the spiral scales of a pine cone or a pineapple, running from its bottom up its sides to the top, and you will find an extraordinary truth: recurring numbers, ratios and proportions.”

Running Sides Numbers Picks Extraordinary Bottom Scales Proportion Centre Ratios Spirals Recurring Sunflower Cones Pineapples

Author:Charles Jencks

“I'd rather live at the bottom of a well than leave Avonlea.”

Wells Bottom

Author:Rachel

“To cover the fact that a central bank is merely a cartel which has been legalized, its proponents had to lay down a thick smoke screen of technical jargon focusing always on how it would supposedly benefit commerce, the public, and the nation... there was not the slightest glimmer that underneath it all, was a master plan which was designed from top to bottom to serve private interests at the expense of the public... the system is merely a cartel with a government facade.”

Has Beens Facts Government Nations Interest Plans Masters Benefits Lays Bottom Screens Smoke Expenses Thick Commerce Facade Central Banks Jargon Cartels

Author:G. Edward Griffin

“Nature works with five polymers. Only five polymers. In the natural world, life builds from the bottom up, and it builds in resilience and multiple uses.”

World Use Natural Five Bottom Resilience Multiple Natural World World Life Polymers

Author:Janine Benyus

“Unfathomable oceans of grace are in Christ for you. Dive and dive again, you will never come to the bottom of these depths.”

Christ Grace Ocean Depth Bottom Unfathomable

Author:Robert E. Murray

“Fallout shelters are like bell-bottoms. They've gone in and out of favor.”

Gone Bottom Favors Bells Shelter Fallouts

Author:Irwin Redlener

“The evening wind made such a disturbance just now, among some tall old elm-trees at the bottom of the garden, that neither my mother nor Miss Betsey could forbear glancing that way. As the elms bent to one another, like giants who were whispering secrets, and after a few seconds of such repose, fell into a violent flurry, tossing their wild arms about, as if their late confidences were really too wicked for their peace of mind.”

Source: The Personal History of David Copperfield ... With Frontispiece by H. K. Browne

“It is one of those problems of human nature, which may be noted down, but not solved; - although Ralph felt no remorse at that moment for his conduct towards the innocent, true-hearted girl; although his libertine clients had done precisely what he had expected, precisely what he most wished, and precisely what would tend most to his advantage, still he hated them for doing it, from the very bottom of his soul.”

Source: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby ... With a Frontispiece from a Painting by T. Webster

“"Hope, you see, Wal'r," said the Captain, sagely, "Hope. It's that as animates you. Hope is a buoy, for which you overhaul your Little Warbler, sentimental diwision, but Lord, my lad, like any other buoy, it only floats; it can't be steered nowhere. Along with the figure-head of Hope,' said the Captain, 'there's a anchor; but what's the good of my having a anchor, if I can't find no bottom to let it go in?"”

Ifs Inspirational Littles Said I Can Lord Figures Bottom Captains Sentimental Floats Let It Go Anchors Lad Buoys

Book:The Works of Charles Dickens

Source: The Works of Charles Dickens

“... Take another glass of wine, and excuse my mentioning that society as a body does not expect one to be so strictly conscientious in emptying one's glass, as to turn it bottom upwards with the rim on one's nose.”

Doe Body Funny Turns Expectations Humorous Wine Bottom Glasses Excuse Noses Wine Glass Rims Great Expectations Important

Book:Great Expectations

Source: Great Expectations

“A lot of technologies in the world were unusual in the beginning, and became standard. That's the beauty of bottom-up entrepreneurship and innovations.”

World Technology Standards Innovation Bottom Entrepreneurship Unusual

Author:Iqbal Quadir

“The LPGA is basically corporate America's dinner party, and they can invite whomever they want. They're not ready for people getting up and making declarations. The bottom line is corporate America is pretty homophobic.”

People Want America Lines Party Ready Bottom Dinner Corporate Invites Declaration Bottom Line Not Ready Dinner Party Homophobic Corporate America

Author:Hollis Stacy

“Bottoms are alchemists who magically transform pain into sex.”

Pain Sex Bottom Alchemist

Author:Dossie Easton

“It may seem like I came out of the blue. But, my road was long, windy, full of hurdles, and even some dead ends. I lost family. I lost friends. I even lost my way. When I reached what felt like rock bottom, I realized I had a responsibility to everyone who believed in me and to kids, like me, who just needed a chance and something to believe in.”

Way Believe May Long Ends Seems Kids Lost Felt Chance Responsibility Rocks Needed Blue Bottom I Realized Like Me My Way Hurdle Dead Ends Windy Lost Friend

Author:Victor Cruz

“The bottom layer of the right-wing noise machine.”

Machines Wings Bottom Noise Layers Right Wing

Author:Glenn Greenwald

“Everything in science depends on what one calls an aperçu, on becoming aware of what is at the bottom of the phenomena. Such becoming aware is infinitely fertile.”

Science Awareness Depends Becoming Bottom Fertile

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“I have to admit that business-type thoughts do sneak into my head: I hope our customers pay us, I hope this stuff is decent, I hope we get it done on time. The little additions and subtractions that one has to do. Take sales, take costs and try to get that big positive number at the bottom.”

Trying Littles Done Bigs Stuff Numbers Pay Type Cost Bottom Customers Decent Sneak Get It Done Subtraction

Author:Bill Gates

“In the retail business, many people are too consumed with the bottom line. How much am I going to be selling? Am I going to be able to do all the things I need to get done? Instead, if they are at peace and feeling good about themselves - if they are treating customers with love and acting as statesmen and stateswomen and people who are connected to God in a spiritual sense - then every day for them is a real joy.”

People Ifs Needs Real Done Feelings Able Spiritual Joy Lines Acting Bottom Connected Customers Selling Feel Good Bottom Line Consumed Statesmen Retail Real Joy Retail Business

Author:Wayne Dyer

“The bottom line of comedy is to be funny, and the bottom line of drama is to be truthful. You can be truthful and funny, but if you're not truthful in a drama than the audience leaves you.”

Ifs Lines Audience Comedy Drama Bottom Truthful Bottom Line Being Truthful

Author:Eddie Izzard

“Success is not an accident. It is sheer hard work. There is no short-cuts. You have to take the stairs and you have to start from the bottom.”

Hard Success Cutting Hard Work Bottom Accidents Sheer Road To Success Stairs Recipe For Success Hard Work Pays Off Short Cuts

Author:Rita Zahara

“Anger is like a storm rising up from the bottom of your consciousness. When you feel it coming, turn your focus to your breath.”

Feels Turns Consciousness Focus Breaths Bottom Storm Rising Rising Up

Author:Nhat Hanh

“The sexes deceive themselves about one another: the reason being that at bottom they honor and love only themselves (or their ownideal, to express it more agreeably). Thus man wants woman to be peaceable--but woman is essentially, like the cat, not peaceable, however well she may have trained herself to assume the appearance of peace.”

Men Want Wells May Reason Sex Honor Men And Women Cat And Love Assuming Bottom Appearance Deceiving

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Beliefs constitute the basic stratum, that which lies deepest, in the architecture of our life. By them we live, and by the same token we rarely think of them.... One may symbolize the individual life as a bank of issue. The bank lives on the credit of a gold reserve which is rarely seen, which lies at the bottom of metal coffers hidden in the vaults of the building. The most elementary caution will suggest that from time to time the effective condition of these guaranties--of these credences, one might say, that are the basis of credit--be passed in review.”

“The innocence of those who grind the faces of the poor, but refrain from pinching the bottoms of their neighbour's wives! The innocence of Ford, the innocence of Rockefeller! The nineteenth century was the Age of Innocence--that sort of innocence. With the result that we're now almost ready to say that a man is seldom more innocently employed than when making love.”

Men Age Faces Poor Results Wife Century Ready Bottom Greed Lust Innocence Making Love Employed Neighbour Grind Nineteenth Century Refrain Pinching Love Lust

Book:The collected works of Aldous Huxley

Source: The collected works of Aldous Huxley

“I do not share the gloomy thought that Negroes in America are doomed to be stomped out bodaciously, nor even shackled to the bottom of things. Of course some of them will be tromped out, and some will always be at the bottom, keeping company with other bottom-folks.”

America Courses Company Share Bottom Folks African American Doomed My Thoughts Gloomy

Author:Zora Neale Hurston

“If science ever gets to the bottom of Voodoo in Haiti and Africa, it will be found that some important medical secrets, still unknown to medical science, give it its power, rather than the gestures of ceremony.”

Ifs Giving Stills Important Found Secret Bottom Medical Gestures Ceremony Haiti Voodoo Medical Science

Book:I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader

Source: I Love Myself when I Am Laughing ... and Then Again when I Am Looking Mean and Impressive: A Zora Neale Hurston Reader

“They have their belief, these poor Tibet people, that Providence sends down always an Incarnation of Himself into every generation. At bottom some belief in a kind of Pope! At bottom still better, a belief that there is a Greatest Man; that he is discoverable; that, once discovered, we ought to treat him with an obedience which knows no bounds. This is the truth of Grand Lamaism; the "discoverability" is the only error here.”

People Knows Men Kind Stills Belief Poor Generations Buddhism Ought Treats Errors Bottom Bounds Obedience Providence Pope Incarnation Tibet Greatest Man

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“Rockefeller made his money in oil, which he discovered at the bottom of wells. Oil was considered crude in those days, but so was Rockefeller. Now both are considered quite refined.”

Wells Made Bottom Oil Refined Crude

Author:Richard Armour

“The terrorist and the policeman both come from the same basket. Revolution, legality--counter-moves in the same game; forms of idleness at bottom identical.”

Moving Form Games Revolution Police Bottom Terrorist Idleness Identical Policemen Baskets Legality

Author:Joseph Conrad

“Sometimes the only way to become grounded is to hit bottom.”

Way Sometimes Reality Bottom Realism Grounded

Author:Mason Cooley

“At bottom, to be colored means that one has been caught in some utterly unbelievable cosmic joke, a joke so hideous and in such bad taste that it defeats all categories and definitions.”

Mean Has Beens Race Taste Jokes Bottom Defeat Caught Definitions Categories Cosmic Unbelievable Hideous Bad Taste

Author:James A. Baldwin

“A genuine Left doesn't consider anyone's suffering irrelevant or titillating; nor does it function as a microcosm of capitalist economy, with men competing for power and status at the top, and women doing all the work at the bottom.... Goodbye to all that.”

Men Doe Suffering Left Economy Function Bottom Genuine Liberalism Goodbye Capitalist Competing Irrelevant Microcosm Capitalist Economy

Book:The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches

Source: The Word of a Woman: Feminist Dispatches

“There seems to be a common strain of miserliness in the American people when it comes to throwing away toothpaste tubes which havea little left in the bottom.”

People Littles Seems Left Common Bottom Throwing Strain Tubes Toothpaste Throwing Away

Author:Robert Benchley

“Nearly all our ills are the result of neglect in some way or other. And this truth may be said to apply to the ills of nations as well. Negligence is at the bottom of all decay. And decay always starts by showing little signs-or warnings. Then is the time to show interest and to be alert. There is nothing quite so easy as to neglect, and nothing quite so difficult as to repair that negligence. Negligence always carries a high price. It costs nothing to avoid it!”

Way Wells May Littles Said Shows Nations Easy Difficult Interest Results Cost Bottom Carrie Neglect Warning Decay Negligence High Prices

Author:George Matthew Adams

“It gives me the greatest pleasure to say, as I do from the bottom of my heart, that never in the history of the country, in any crisis and under any conditions, have our Jewish fellow citizens failed to live up to the highest standards of citizenship and patriotism.”

Giving Heart Country Pleasure Conditions Citizens My Heart Highest Standards Give Me Crisis Fellows Bottom Citizenship Greatest Pleasures

Book:The Collected Works of William Howard Taft: Presidential addresses and state papers

Source: The Collected Works of William Howard Taft: Presidential addresses and state papers

“If I were twenty or thirty years younger, I would start afresh in this field with the certainty of accomplishing much. But I should have to learn from the bottom up, forgetting the theatre entirely and concentrating on the special medium of this new art. My mistake, and that of many others, lay in employing "theatrical" techniques despite every effort to avoid them. Here is something quite, quite fresh, a penetrating form of visual poetry, an untried exponent of the human soul. Alas, I am too old for it!”

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