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Bowing to the Saudi king is not an energy policy. -- Newt Gingrich
Bowing to well-meaning, special-interest groups is an immoral way to run a company, given all the people it would hurt. We simply cannot allow arbitrary rules to be forced on us by organizations that lack business expertise. -- T. J. Rodgers
Before and after practicing Judo or engaging in a match, opponents bow to each other. Bowing is an expression of gratitude and respect. In effect, you are thanking your opponent for giving you the opportunity to improve your technique. -- Kano Jigoro
Bowing is a very serious practice. You should be prepared to bow, even in your last moment. even though it is impossible to get rid of our self-centered desires, we have to do it. Our true nature wants us to. -- Shunryu Suzuki
Bowing, ceremonious, formal compliments, stiff civilities, will never be politeness; that must be easy, natural, unstudied; and what will give this but a mind benevolent and attentive to exert that amiable disposition in trifles to all you converse and live with? -- William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
I'm aiming to do what I need to do for acting and nothing more. I'm bowing down to acting. -- Abbey Lee Kershaw
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning. -- King Solomon
I actually think that one of the most dangerous phenomena is the bowing to expertise, whether it's in international relations or how to use technologies. -- Wes Boyd
A few minutes ago every tree was excited, bowing to the roaring storm, waving, swirling, tossing their branches in glorious enthusiasm like worship. But though to the outer ear these trees are now silent, their songs never cease. -- John Muir
When you put an individual on the cover of a big picture magazine, like 'Life of Look', their career skyrocketed. As a photographer, you were very empowered; people came to you, bowing to you and what you represented. -- Douglas Kirkland
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. -- William Laud
I like America anyway. In Japan we are much more formal. If two friends are separated for a long time and they meet they bow and bow and bow. They keep bowing without exchanging a word. Here they slap each other on the back and say: Hello, old man, how goes everything. -- Sessue Hayakawa
Baptism is bowing before the Father and letting him do his work. -- Max Lucado
One cannot free oneself by bowing to the yoke, but by breaking it. -- Carl Jung
The leaderâ??s (Jeff Densonâ??s) superb bowing.. showcasing Densonâ??s haunting vocals -- Bill Milkowski
Roman Catholicism: a hundred million people bowing down before a flesh-hating, elderly celibate. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
Devoid of all romance, the music plays and everyone must dance. I'm bowing out. -- Don McLean
Why is acquiescence to the numerous viewed as better servitude than bowing to might? -- William J. Murray
All science is intelligent inference; excessive literalism is delusion, not a humble bowing to evidence. -- Stephen Jay Gould
Worship is an inward reverence, the bowing down of the soul in the presence of God. -- Elizabeth George
The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Prayer is - not just bowing your head a few times a day, it pervades all of life. -- Philip Yancey
A Clock stopped-- Not the Mantel's-- Geneva's farthest skill Can't put the puppet bowing-- That just now dangled still -- Emily Dickinson
They swoon over Tom, who preens for them, bowing, which sets them to blushing and giggling. God help us all. -- Libba Bray
What's he doing?" Bethany asked. "He's bowing.'Good day milday." Bethany giggled. "Crocodiles don't bow." "They should when they meet a princess. -- Kerrelyn Sparks
Prayer is a ritual! But at the root of prayer is the idea of complete bowing down in submission to the Will of God. -- Louis Farrakhan
Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning. -- King Solomon
Teaching creativity to your child isn't like teaching good manners. No one can paint a masterpiece by bowing to another person's precepts about elbows on the table. -- Gurney Williams
Blessing is bowing down to receive the expressions of divine favor that in the inner recesses of the human heart and mind make life worth the bother. -- Beth Moore
Once having said no to Donald Trump, Mitt Romney can`t go back and say, I changed my mind, I`m bowing to the pressure from you. -- Chris Matthews
You can see the goldenrod, that most tenacious and pernicious and beauteous of all New England flora, bowing away from the wind like a great and silent congregation. -- Stephen King
Beware of organizations that proclaim their devotion to the light without embracing, bowing to the dark; for when they idealize half the world they must devalue the rest. -- Starhawk
Flaky devotionalism, bowing and scraping and sucking up to the teacher is very phony. It is counterproductive to enlightenment and spiritual development. What is necessary is mutual respect. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The supreme thing is worship. The attitude of worship is the attitude of a subject bent before the King... The fundamental thought is that of prostration, of bowing down. -- G. Campbell Morgan
Human beings understand themselves and shape their futures by arguing and challenging and questioning and saying the un-sayable, not by bowing the knee whether to gods or to men. -- Salman Rushdie
Painful for a person is rebellious independence, only in loving companionship with his associates does a person feel safe: Only in reverently bowing down before the higher does a person feel exalted. -- Thomas Carlyle
We notice the person who is for ever bowing and fussily servile, and perhaps say, How humble he is! But the truly humble person escapes notice: the world does not know him. -- Tito Colliander
The music, the prayers, the bowing and rising, the incense--all of it was breaking down my defenses. That's what good liturgy does. It breaks your heart open and turns you toward God. -- Fred Bahnson
The more loftily we see Christ enthroned, and the more lowly we are when bowing before the foot of the throne, the more truly shall we be prepared to act our part towards Him. -- Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Instead of closing our eyes and bowing our heads, sometimes God wants us to keep our eyes open for people in need, do something about it, and bow our whole lives to Him instead. -- Bob Goff
I look forward to seeing Christ and bowing down before Him in praise and gratitude for all He has done for us, and for using me on this earth by His grace-just as I am. -- Billy Graham
It is not the bowing, the dancing, the clapping and the singing that produce the worship, for at best they can only express that worship, but it is the worship that produces the jubilant responses. -- Judson Cornwall
The superior man has nothing to compete for. But if he must compete, he does it in an archery match, wherein he ascends to his position, bowing in deference. Descending, he drinks the ritual cup. -- Confucius
Scarcely anything that I observed in the United States caused me so much sorrow as the contemptuous estimate of the people entertained by those who were bowing the knee to be permitted to serve them. -- Harriet Martineau

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