Can't Drag Me Down Quotes

#1. Is there a reason why you're standing there, staring out the window and watching the neighbors? Are we preparing to kill them and drag them down to the basement and bury them alive?

R.L. Mathewson

#2. Lachie slaps his arms around his body and hugs himself when he comes out of the water that's thick with the spaghetti of dark, leathery seaweed.
"Does it not try to drag you down to the bottom?" I say.
"No, sure it's like being stroked by mermaids" says Lachie.

Flora Kennedy

#3. You've got the freedom to walk out if you drag you down. You've got the freedom to walk out, If they drag you down. If they drag you, If they drag you. Walk out.

Tegan Quin

#4. I thank God, that if I am gifted with little of the spirit which is able to raise mortals to the skies, I have yet none, as I trust, of that other spirit which would drag angels down.

Daniel Webster

#5. Celebrate me for who I am, dislike me for what I ain't ( ... ) put me up on a pedestal or drag me down in the dirt ( ... ) this is who I am, you can like ir or not, you can love me or leave me cuz I'm never gonna stop

Madonna Ciccone

#6. I dream of a day when they may rise above the billows to drag down in their reeking talons the remnants of puny, war-exhausted mankind - of a day when the land shall sink, and the dark ocean floor shall ascend amidst universal pandemonium.

H.P. Lovecraft

#7. A mind cluttered with past thoughts, old conversations and unhealed wounds can only serve to drag us down and compromise our ability to live free.

Shannon Tanner

#8. In a storm, you don't tie two boats together. They'll drag each other down.

Pierce Brown

#9. You look after yourself. You believe in God. And if people want to drag you down, you fight that, and you keep on fighting.

Mohamed Al-Fayed

#10. Negative people will always try to drag you down to their level. As hard as they may try ... don't let 'em!

Timothy Pina

#11. The mind uncontrolled and unguided will drag us down, down, for ever - rend us, kill us; and the mind controlled and guided will save us, free us.

Swami Vivekananda

#12. Pessimists are second rate people. They do not believe in life ... All they want to do is drag you down and appease their own feelings of mediocrity and fear.

Uell Stanley Andersen

#13. Our bodies are these collections of appetites that veer out of control and habits that drag us down paths we don't want to travel.

John Ortberg

#14. Whatever shit happened to drag us here to this moment ... I wish most of it hadn't needed to go down the way it did, but I'm still glad it ended up here, right here ... The pain was worth it if it's what brought you to me.

Linda Kage

#15. You can have terrible things happen in your family. A husband and wife can be having a knock-down, drag-out fight and the minute one of the kids gets hurt, the fight is over and it's about the family.

Sophia Bush

#16. Your friends drag you down, Gordie. Don't you know that? [ ... ] Your friends do. They're like drowning guys that are holding onto your legs. You can't save them. You can only drown with them.

Stephen King

#17. I don't care if the world or anyone in it tries to drag me down. Because I know that in the end, they will be the ones left tired from the struggle to hold me back.

Hayley Williams

#18. I want to drink. I want a woman like you. I want to go down, as far as you can drag me.

Ayn Rand

#19. If you can't keep up, drag them down to your level.

Laurence J. Peter

#20. The outcast lepers would like to drag everything down in their ruin. And they become all the more evil, the more you cast them out; and the more you depict them as a court of lemurs who want your ruin, the more they will be outcast.

Umberto Eco

#21. Sometimes too much tolerance can kill you.If you are tolerant of people poisoning themselves to death they will drag you down. They will ruin your life by being intentional obstacles to your dreams.

Ted Nugent

#22. If the world suffers from mental deterioration or from moral degradation, then something goes wrong at the very root of civilization or culture. Even though that civilization may drag out for a considerable period, it grows less and less vital and ultimately tumbles down.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#23. If you do not answer the noise and urgency of your gifts, they will turn on you. Or drag you down with their immense sadness at being abandoned.

Joy Harjo

#24. It's so natural to drag a good thing down. It takes a lot of control to let it be what it is. -Rhiannon

David Levithan

#25. It's tough out there, boy, and as long as there are people, there's gonna be somebody trying to take what you got and trying to drag you down. It's up to you whether you let them or not.

Mildred D. Taylor

#26. Your dad does like you. In fact, he wants to protect you from me. He told me to not bother trying to get my claws into you and drag you down to my level.
Bother. Definitely bother. I like the idea of you getting your claws into me.

Eileen Cook

#27. The only thing sadder than hateful people's willingness to drag us down to their level, is our willingness to oblige.

Steve Maraboli

#28. It takes courage to stay young, to make your enthusiasms work for you. Don't let anyone drag you down.

Ken Adam

#29. If CART continues on, it's just going to drag all of open-wheel racing down.

Michael Andretti

#30. The writing of a novel or short story or poem or whatever should elevate the audience, not drag the writer down to some level beneath herself. And she - the author - should fight always to prevent that dragging down, especially when the only possible benefit of allowing it to happen is monetary.

Caitlin R. Kiernan

#31. We will not go. The only way to get us there is to come in here with clubs and knock us on the head, and drag us out and take us down there dead.

Morning Star

#32. Divorce is a marital welfare. It's just couples asking society to bail them out because they didn't do enough research before they got married. How is that our fault? Don't drag down my country's statistics just because you ran off and got hitched before you ever saw each other in a bad mood.

Stephen Colbert

#33. Wish there was something that I could say or do, I can resist anything but the temptation from you. But I'd rather walk alone than chase you around, I'd rather fall myself then let you drag me on down.

Ben Harper

#34. We all have to face our faults and mistakes, and then choose to overcome them or let them drag us down.

Jessica Lave

#35. You may have crap that wants to drag you down, but if you really like what you're doing, then there's always a silver lining.

Vince Neil

#36. Do the moment-to-moment work of dropping anything that wants to drag you down, and Reality itself will see to it that you rise.

Guy Finley