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  • Things take indeed a wondrous turn When learned men do stoop to learn.

    Men   Scholarship   Turns  
    Bertolt Brecht (2015). “Life Of Galileo”, p.55, Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Our happiness often depends upon social hypocrisies to which we will never stoop.

  • But let me see thee stoop from heaven on wings That fill the sky with silver glitterings!

    Sky   Wings   Heaven  
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley (1829). “The Poetical Works of Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats. Complete in One Volume”
  • Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare.

    Punishment   Given   Dare  
    1866 Crime and Punishment, pt.5, ch.4 (translated by David Magarshak).
  • You may remember the story of how the devil and a friend of his were walking down the street, when they saw ahead of them a man stoop down and pick up something from the ground, look at it, and put it away in his pocket. The friend said to the devil, "What did that man pick up?" "He picked up a piece of the truth," said the devil. "That is a very bad business for you, then," said his friend. "Oh, not at all," the devil replied, "I am going to help him organize it."

    Love   Life   Truth  
    Jiddu Krishnamurti (2010). “Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti”, p.13, Harper Collins
  • There are more stars known to exist right now than the total number of all the grains of sand on every beach in the entire world. With those kinds of odds, it would seem downright naive for someone to go to a beach in, say, some out-of-the-way inlet in Baffin Bay, stoop to pick up only one tiny grain of sand, and declare that that grain alone was the only place where life could exist.

    Beach   Stars   Spring  
  • For one week, all I could think about was drinking margaritas--well, that and running my tongue along Reyes's teeth--but I didn't have salt--or Reyes's teeth. I'd also lacked the energy to leave my apartment to get some--or the desire to stoop low enough to beg Reyes to let me lick his teeth after what he did--so I could only wish for a margarita. And dream of Reyes's teeth. I'd secretly hoped a margarita would magically appear in my hand, but that would mean I would have to put down the remote, and God knew that was not going to happen.

    Darynda Jones (2015). “The Charley Davidson Series”, p.153, St. Martin's Press
  • There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.

    Henry Van Dyke (2007). “Counsels by the Way”, p.129, Wildside Press LLC
  • If angels stoop from visions of more than earthly beauty to spells of less than earthly worth, they are but fallen angels, mingling divine utterances with the babblings of madness, and the madness is not the divineness.

  • I dont think a really good pie can be made without a dozen or so children peeking over your shoulder as you stoop to look in at it every little while.

    John Gould (2015). “The House That Jacob Built”, p.124, Down East Books
  • Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no lies.

    Funny   Witty   Lying  
    Oliver Goldsmith (1898). “She Stoops to Conquer; Or, The Mistakes of a Night: A Comedy ...”
  • We stand tallest when we stoop to help others.

  • Don't let us make imaginary evils, when you know we have so many real ones to encounter.

    Real   Evil   Encounters  
    Oliver Goldsmith (1842). “The Select Works of Oliver Goldsmith: In One Volume. With the Portrait of the Author..”, p.273
  • O never star Was lost; here We all aspire to heaven and there is heaven Above us. If I stoop Into a dark tremendous sea of cloud, It is but for a time; I press God's lamp Close to my breast; its splendor soon or late Will pierce the gloom. I shall emerge some day.

    Stars   Dark   Sea  
  • A friend called me up the other day and talked about investing in a dot-com that sells lobsters. Internet lobsters. Where will this end? The next day he sent me a huge package of lobsters on ice. How low can you stoop?

  • If you let a child know that you think he is lazy, sloppy, untruthful, unpleasant, and thoughtless, he'll probably prove you are right. Obviously, it is much better to make him stretch to reach a positive image than stoop to match one at ground level.

    Dr. James Dobson (2015). “Building Confidence in Your Child”, p.136, Revell
  • Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

    1766 The Vicar of Wakefield, ch.13.
  • Pun: A form of wit, to which wise men stoop and fools aspire

    Wise   Men   Fool  
  • Love that goes upward is worship; Love that goes outward is affection; Love that stoops is grace.

    Love   Grace   Affection  
  • A Christian in his surroundings should encourage everyone to be better, instead of being the one who stoops to be like everyone else.

  • From generation to generation, lights are extinguished and darkness threatens until some one stoops to bear the torch.

  • I think the public doesn't understand that one of the reasons I haven't stood up for myself is because in order to do that, I have to stoop to a level that further humiliates other people.

    Thinking   Order   People  
    Source: www.vanityfair.com
  • Every brave man is a man of his word; to such base vices he cannot stoop, and shuns more than death the shame of lying.

    Lying   Men   Brave  
  • Or if Virtue feeble were, Heav'n itself would stoop to her.

    Virtue   Chimes   Stoops  
    1634 Comus, A Mask, l.1017-22.
  • One morning I woke up and found my favorite pigeon, Julius, had died I was devastated and was gonna use his crate as my stickball bat to honor him. I left the crate on my stoop and went in to get something and I returned to see the sanitation man put the crate into the crusher. I rushed him and caught him flush on the temple with a titanic right hand he was out cold, convulsing on the floor like an infantile retard.

    Morning   Men   Hands  
  • To sit on the front steps — whether it's a veranda in a small town or a concrete stoop in a big city — and to talk to our neighborhoods is infinitely more important than to huddle on the living-room lounger and watch a make-believe world in not-quite living color.

    Believe   Color   Cities  
  • Goldsmith tells us, that when lovely woman stoops to folly, she has nothing to do but to die; and when she stoops to be disagreeable, it is equally to be recommended as a clearer of ill-fame.

    Death   Rude   Lovely  
    1816 Emma, ch.45. ee Goldsmith 361:47.
  • I. cannot stoop to reply to the folly and the slander of every poor Tory partisan who assails me, and I should not have noticed you but for the fact that you are a member of the House of Commons.

    House   Facts   Poor  
    John Bright, H. J. Leech (1885). “The Public Letters of John Bright”, London : S. Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington
  • it is easy to starve, but it is difficult to stoop.

    Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Lyn Pykett (2012). “Lady Audley's Secret”, p.157, Oxford University Press
  • Apparently, union bosses are so distraught about declining enrollments they will stoop to exploiting illegal workers. There is no doubt that this would hurt American workers, who would suddenly face a flooded job market full of cheap foreign labor. It would depress the wages of the American workers and cost them jobs.

    Depressing   Hurt   Jobs  
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