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  • You got a problem?" he drawled, obviously expecting me to pee my pants before falling to the ground and groveling like an unworthy subject of the Emperor. And that was all it took. A new, screw-you attitude took precedence, trampling my fear under its boots. A highly dangerous approach, I still found it much easier to bear. "Well it all goes back to my childhood...." I began.

    Jennifer Rardin (2011). “Once Bitten, Twice Shy: Book One of the Jaz Parks Series”, p.61, Hachette UK
  • We should try to learn the nature of [the spirit of revelation]. . . . This is the grand means that the Lord has provided for us, that we may know the light, and not be groveling continually in the dark.

    Mean   Dark   Light  
  • We do not find truth groveling through error.

  • There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual

    Self   Sensual   Life Is  
    James Russell Lowell (1872). “Among my Books: Contents: Dryden. Witchcraft. Shakespeare once more. New England two centuries ago. Lessing. Rousseau and the Sentimentalists”, p.363
  • I am very good at groveling.

  • What you're saying is that 'I, the superior elite, will take care of you.' Why? Because, you see, that superior, elite group needs to feel superior and elite. And they can't be superior and elite unless you have a whole lot of people down there groveling around. So you keep them down there by feeding them.

    People   Groups   Needs  
    "Carson at CPAC: How to destroy America in 4 steps". humanevents.com. March 17, 2013.
  • Humility is not a weak and timid quality; it must be carefully distinguished from a groveling spirit.

  • Unquestionably, however, something else is at work, something that cuts deeper into the American psyche. We have a profound hatred of the weak and the poor, and a corresponding groveling terror before the rich and successful, and we're building a bureaucracy to match those feelings.

    Matt Taibbi (2014). “The Divide: American Injustice in the Age of the Wealth Gap”, p.13, Spiegel & Grau
  • True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us.

    Humility   Self   Spirit  
    Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.605, Ravenio Books
  • To many Americans, everything from the Easter morning to the Ascension had to be made up by the groveling enthusiasts as part of their plan to get themselves martyred.

    Easter   Morning   Scary  
  • What I got in Sunday school ... was simply a firm conviction that the Christian faith was full of palpable absurdities, and the Christian God preposterous.... The act of worship, as carried on by Christians, seems to me to be debasing rather than ennobling. It involves groveling before a being who, if he really exists, deserves to be denounced instead of respected.

  • When the mind loses its feeling for elegance, it grows corrupt and groveling, and seeks in the crowd what ought to be found at home.

    Home   Feelings   Mind  
    Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.272
  • Do what comes into your life and do it well... Be polite without groveling. If you are ever afraid of anything, do not deny it, but behave as if you feared nothing.

    Deny   Groveling   Polite  
  • First, draw off your hearts, because Jesus Christ, the Head, is risen and ascended upon high, and there sits at the right hand of His Father; and if the Head is in heaven, where should the members be but where the Head is? Shall Christ our Head be in heaven, and shall our hearts, which are His members, lie groveling on the ground and panting after the dust of the earth, making all our inquiry and labor after these? 'If Christ our Head be risen, seek those things that are above, where Christ sits at God's right hand.'

    Jesus   Father   Lying  
  • I feel ashamed that the new, nuclear, neo-liberal India thinks of itself as a 'natural ally' of Israel. Ever since India began to call itself an emerging superpower, it has become a slavish, groveling satellite state of the US.

    Source: www.soldefter.com
  • I was literally just going and applying for jobs, and I couldn't get a job, and I was getting more and more broke, and you find yourself groveling for jobs you don't even want.

    "Death Cab For Cutie's Guide To Seattle: Humble Beginnings" by James Montgomery, www.mtv.com. May 31, 2011.
  • Wisdom, sits alone, topmost in heaven: she is its light, its God; and in the heart of man she sits as high, though groveling minds forget her oftentimes, seeing but this world's idols.

    Wisdom   Heart   Men  
    Nathaniel Parker Willis (1850). “Sacred Poems”, p.118
  • I'm feeling generous today. You get to live.

  • There can be no conquest to the man who dwells in the narrow and small environment of a groveling life, and there can be no vision to the man the horizon of whose vision is limited by the bounds of self. But the great things of the world, the great accomplishments of the world, have been achieved by men who had high ideals and who have received great visions. The path is not easy, the climbing is rugged and hard, but the glory at the end is worthwhile.

    Men   Climbing   Self  
  • ... the advantages of being a postman seemed more and more dubious. It is not a congenial profession for anyone who is at all sensitive, for people visit upon the postman all their first annoyance at receiving a couple of bills when they looked for a love-letter, and if a packet is insufficiently stamped they hand over the pennies as though to a despicable bandit, too outrageous to be denied, too groveling to be feared.

    Couple   Hands   People  
  • I'm just a no-good, scum sucking, nose picking, boot licking, sniveling, groveling, worthless hunk of slime.

  • I express myself very strongly it`s groveling, I`m trying to show groveling, but all of a sudden I found that I was mocking somebody.

    Source: www.msnbc.com
  • Aspiration lifts the life; groveling lowers it. When we are striving for excellence in everything we do the entire life grows and expands, but if we allow our standards to drop, there is a natural progression that follows, a tendency for a downward effort in all that we do thereafter.

  • How long is this endless groveling before every cry of 'racism' going to continue before the whole country collectively throws up?

    Country   Long   Racism  
    "Buchanan's syndicated column". July 28, 1993.
  • Be inspired with the belief that life is a great and noble calling; not a mean and groveling thing that we are to shuffle through as we can, but an elevated and lofty destiny.

  • It is impossible for men engaged in low and groveling pursuits to have noble and generous sentiments. A man's thought must always follow his employment.

    Men   Noble   Impossible  
  • I confess I was surprised to find that so many men spent their whole day, ay, their whole lives almost, a-fishing. It is remarkable what a serious business men make of getting their dinners, and how universally shiftlessness and a groveling taste take refuge in a merely ant-like industry. Better go without your dinner, I thought, than be thus everlastingly fishing for it like a cormorant. Of course, viewed from the shore, our pursuits in the country appear not a whit less frivolous.

    Country   Men   Lakes  
    Henry David Thoreau (2008). “Cape Cod: Illustrated Edition of the American Classic”, p.165, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • Redd stared at the bald head bent down before her. How refreshing Vollrath's sacrifice was. He didn't beg for his life. He didn't embarrasss himself with groveling or sniveling, or appeals to her nomexistent mercy. Thinking that he might still be helpful in finding her Looking Glass Maze, she said, "I'm feeling generous today. You get to live.

  • Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and the powerful.

    Powerful   Knees   Pads  
    Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.21, RosettaBooks
  • Once we are self-aware, we must choose purposes and principles to live by; otherwise the vacuum will be filled, and we will lose our self-awareness and become like groveling animals who live primarily for survival and propagation. People who exist on that level aren't living; they are "being lived".

    Lying   Unique   Animal  
    "The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader".
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