Bowing Quotes
More Bowing Quotes
And when the angels said: 'Mary,God has chosen thee, and purified thee; He has chosen theeabove all women. Mary be obedient to thy Lord, prostrating and bowing before Him.'
The Koran— Sura 3, l.42-3
And when thy Lord said to the angels,'See, I am creating a mortal of a clay of mud moulded.When I have shaped him, and breathed My spirit in him, fall you down, bowing before him!'
The Koran— Sura15, l.28-9.
That's right! You're watching the DVD! So, the coolness of what the bowing man is doing is self-evident to you!
phil vischer— From Disc Two; Behind the Scenes: Big Idea Tour (00:05:58-00:06:06)
It is a bad thing to perform menial duties even for the sake of freedom; to fight with pinpricks, instead of with clubs. I have become tired of hypocrisy, stupidity, gross arbitrariness, and of our bowing and scraping, dodging, and hair-splitting over words. Consequently, the government has given me back my freedom.
karl marx— Letter from Marx to Arnold Ruge (25 January 1843), after the Prussian government dissolved the newspaper Neue Rheinische Zeitung, of which Marx was the editor
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.
— Attributed to Dr. Laud by Bacon, Apothegms, No. 273.
I asked of my dear friend Orator Prig: "What's the first part of oratory?" He said, "A great, wig." "And what is the second?" Then, dancing a jig And bowing profoundly, he said, "A great wig." "And what is the third?" Then he snored like a pig, And puffing his cheeks out, he replied, "A great wig."
— George Colman the Younger, Orator Prig.
bowing to the reality of harried lives, Rudwick recognizes that not everyone will read every word of the meaty second section; he even explicitly gives us permission to skip if we get “bogged down in the narrative.” Readers absolutely must not do such a thing; it should be illegal. The publisher should lock up the last 60 pages, and deny access to anyone who doesn't pass a multiple-choice exam inserted into the book between parts two and three.
stephen jay gould— "The Power of Narrative", p. 88
