Down By Quotes

#1. People don't necessarily take power from you for themselves. It just means they are operating at a lower attention level and you got pulled down by it. You are not sufficiently strong enough to be with someone and be unaffected.

Frederick Lenz

#2. That if I let myself go, did not always slow me down by thinking so much beforehand I could achieve many things I would never have dreamt possible!!

Per Petterson

#3. Lectio divina provides us with a discipline, developed and handed down by our ancestors, for recovering the context, restoring the intricate
web of relationships to which the Scriptures give witness but that are so easily lost or obscured in the act of writing.

Eugene H. Peterson

#4. If any of those times you rushed around madly - trying to get somewhere faster - had ever made any real difference in the quality of your life ... don't you think you'd be able to slow down by now?

Guy Finley

#5. Young certainly wouldn't have expected to be ambushed by three yuppies gone bad in El Paso, Texas. . . . young had never before been taken down by people wearing expensive shoes and tailored suits...not physically, anyway. He'd gone up against plenty of sharks in Washington DC,....

J. Fally

#6. When I grew up, there were locked cabinets in public libraries. You needed parental permission if you were under eighteen. I was let down by the overblown reputations of some hardcore fictional works.

Allan Gurganus

#7. One cannot legislate the maniacs off the street ... these maniacs can only be shut down by an armed citizenry. Indeed bad things can happen in nations where the citizenry is armed, but not as bad as those which seem to be threatening our disarmed citizenry in this country at this time.

Jeff Cooper

#8. In 2008, when almost every other investor got crushed, and even the Wall Street "experts" were down by almost half, I was up 17 percent - beating the S&P Average by over 50 percent.

Reminiscences of a Stock Market Flea

James J. Houts

#9. Jesus knelt down by Satan's shrunken form. "Don't you wonder why I didn't kill you?" Smiling, he said, "I'm saving you for the day when you love me. It will come.

Deepak Chopra

#10. She was a rut in the road. Plenty of life beneath the surface but it was kept beaten down by the wheels.

Zora Neale Hurston

#11. What is held by the whole Church, and that not as instituted by Councils, but as a matter of invariable custom, is rightly held to have been handed down by authority.

Saint Augustine

#12. Some people pray to their guides and feel let down by their guides when they go through a challenge in life.

Echo Bodine

#13. I feel ups and downs are a part of one's career, and this totally depends on how you take it. You can either be knocked down by the negative things, or you can take it in a positive way and learn from it.

Deepika Padukone

#14. If an Englishman gets run down by a truck he apologizes to the truck.

Jackie Mason

#15. Always dream high. Never let it down by inconsistent efforts. Your relentless labour & integrity make you successful in the long run.

Md. Mujib Ullah

#16. She was eight years old, with the body of a child, but her spirit was weighed down by an adult suffering.

Somaly Mam

#17. An uplifting, fat-tastic voyage to self-love, Read My Hips made me realize that I no longer need to be weighed down by constantly judging my body. I devoured this book-it's deliciously inspiring!

Hillary Carlip

#18. My idea of relaxation is not lying down by a beach. I have to move around, do stuff. Though I'm a massive quiz show person.

Daniel Radcliffe

#19. I could hunker down by myself and listen closely to mixes, but then to be able to have a sounding board of peers to get advice and feedback.

Aoife O'Donovan

#20. I always did think I would be married and settled down by now but maybe I ain't ready.

Holland Taylor

#21. Don't get bogged down by life and other people's problems or hang ups.

Angela Merkel

#22. a mammy's boy who never married and who keeps a shotgun in case of trespassers, but loves his trees, loves his woodland, and honors a covenant set down by his great-uncle, which was that no tree should ever be wantonly cut down.

Edna O'Brien

#23. Still, we will let all this be a thing of the past, though it hurts us, and beat down by constraint the anger that rises inside us.
Now I am making an end of my anger. It does not become me, unrelentingly to rage on

Homer

#24. To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.

Charles Dickens

#25. I should have been struck down by the despair a young lover feels who has sworn lifelong fidelity, when a friend speaks to him of the other mistresses he will have in time to come.

Marcel Proust

#26. If we allow our Christian faith to be adulterated with materialism, watered down by secularism, and intermingled with a bland humanism, we cannot stand up to a system that has vowed to bury us.

Billy Graham

#27. Old Nan told him a story about a bad little boy who climbed too high and was struck down by lightning, and how afterward the crows came to peck out his eyes.

George R R Martin

#28. It's easy enough to get into power. You can make promises and try to be all things to all people. But the moment you have to make decisions, you're going to annoy at least half of them. Whatever you do, in the end you're almost certain to be brought down by your own character traits.

Robert Harris

#29. He loved mountains, or he had loved the thought of them marching on the edge of stories brought from far away; but now he was borne down by the insupportable weight of Middle-earth. He longed to shut out the immensity in a quiet room by a fire.

J.R.R. Tolkien

#30. The Executive has got to have a freer hand and be able to move quick in an emergency, and not be tied down by a lot of dumb shyster-lawyer congressmen taking months to shoot off their mouths in debates.

Sinclair Lewis

#31. I think I've been a bit misunderstood; the first record was more timid than I wanted it to be. I don't like getting pinned down by sex or how I sound like because it's not who I am or what I want to be.

Lykke Li

#32. Don't worry, I'll calm down by tonight when we go out. Provided you keep your clothes on all day and manage not to commit any felonies."
Praline mumbled a promise to do his best, though even he worried that it might not be possible.

Marshall Thornton

#33. There were Lolo McCaffrey's thick braids and patchouli-oil smell, crouched down by the nutritional bars, her moon face staring at the label of a Clif Bar like someone who can't read.

J. Ryan Stradal

#34. Acidalia Planitia (where I am) has a relatively low elevation. So does Schiaparelli. But between them it goes up and down by 10 kilometers. There's going to be a lot of dangerous driving.

Andy Weir

#35. One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph.

Virginia Woolf

#36. Prayer, said Mechthild of Magdeburg, brings together two lovers, God and the soul, in a narrow room where they speak much of love: and here the rules which govern that meeting are laid down by a master's hand.

Anonymous

#37. He sighed, wondering how his life had been turned upside down by this woman in less than forty-eight hours. Correction: by this woman, a pig, and a rabbit.

Julia Quinn

#38. And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay"
"Well, I'm sorry, my son, but you're too late in asking
Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away.

John Denver

#39. He remembers the five rules of combat set down by Chuan Tzu - faith, companions, time, space and strategy.

Paulo Coelho

#40. It was quite a shot in the head to do the album and then have it shot down by nonmusical idiots.

Dan Fogelberg

#41. Once a fight has started, if you get involved in thinking about what to do, you will be cut down by your opponent with the very next blow.

Yagyu Munenori

#42. Anne, on her way to Orchard Slope, met Diana, bound for Green Gables, just where the mossy old log bridge spanned the brook below the Haunted Wood, and they sat down by the margin of the Dryad's Bubble, where tiny ferns were unrolling like curly-headed green pixy folk wakening up from a nap.

L.M. Montgomery

#43. A gun. I had been brought down by a gun. It was practically comical. Cheaters, I thought.

Richelle Mead

#44. Even I got turned down by girls, and when it happened, I dusted off my ego and moved on.

Richelle Mead

#45. I was never weighed down by beauty in my lifetime. However, I was beaten down by the sad fears of my gender- women who didn't allow you to feel pretty or rejoice in who you are, unless it fell beneath how they thought about themselves.

Shannon L. Alder

#46. The cloth shivers in the ocean wind, held down by plates and cutlery.

Susan Ee

#47. Even the wealthiest professional woman can be "brought down" by being in a relationship where she longs to be loved and is consistently lied to. To the degree that she trusts her male companion, lying and other forms of betrayal will most likely shatter her self-confidence and self-esteem.

Bell Hooks

#48. And the moon never beams Without bringing me dreams And the sun never shines But I see the bright eyes I lie down by the side Of my darling My life, my life..

Stevie Nicks

#49. I listened to Otis harrumphing and snoring down by my feet and felt like the only person left on earth still awake, the only person who knew the secret that not a single thing in this world was worth a damn.

Carrie Mesrobian

#50. Children, Never look Back! and this meant that we must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory . for children have no past, and that is the whole secret of the magical innocence of their smiles.

Milan Kundera

#51. It was considered that you were stepping down by doing television. I almost turned Cybill down because I so wanted to remain a theater actress.

Christine Baranski

#52. People think that strength is about lifting weights in the gym. It's more about getting up when you're knocked down by life.

Ashwin Sanghi

#53. I'm a dual citizen, as are my husband and children. We have got eight passports between us; we're weighed down by them whenever we go anywhere.

Emily Mortimer

#54. It is precisely when a person, who is borne down by inner emptiness and weariness or a sense of personal unworthiness, feels that he would like to withdraw from his task, that he should learn what it means to have a duty to perform in the fellowship, and

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#55. Be selfish sometimes. Love yourself. If you always put others before you, you will find yourself feeling beaten down by the world and that will make you bitter. Don't let the world make you bitter, not when you have such a beautiful soul.

Spencer Hoshino

#56. In point of fact all Americans are automatically turned down by China these days because of the escalation of Johnson's war in Vietnam, which several times has intruded into China.

Anna Louise Strong

#57. Despite the fact that my household had been turned upside down by my stupidity, this fool was holding my daughter hostage.

Jessica N. Watkins

#58. The history of the world, as it is written and handed down by word of mouth, often fails us completely; but man's intuitive capacity, though it often misleads, does lead, does not ever abandon one.

Franz Kafka

#59. The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.

Washington Irving

#60. I was turned down by every record label in L.A. Perseverance is three quarters of the game. Talent's only a quarter. Being able to withstand the word 'no' over and over can build you a pretty tough skin. I knew if I just kept at it, at the very least I'd get better at my craft.

Sheryl Crow

#61. I live and die with the Indians. The first game I attended back in the mid-'90s was almost a religious experience. We were down by six and won by two, and it was glorious. The stadium is so beautiful, and the way it frames the city when you're sitting high above the second base line is spectacular.

Mary Doria Russell

#62. I am no longer satisfied with attending or participating in a meeting called revival. I want to live revival reality and carry His glory into the darkness. Our goal is nothing less than lives and communities transformed from the inside out and turned upside-down by love. That is revival.

Michele Perry

#63. While a battle is raging one can see his enemy mowed down by the thousand, or the ten thousand, with great composure; but after the battle these scenes are distressing, and one is naturally disposed to do as much to alleviate the suffering of an enemy as a friend.

Ulysses S. Grant

#64. Recession doesn't deserve the right to exist. There are just too many things to be done in science and engineering to be bogged down by temporary economic dislocations.

Walt Disney Company

#65. Don't get bogged down by the notion of limits. There aren't any.

Sunita Williams

#66. He wanted to laugh at the poetic justice of it all. After a couple of years of chasing after women and then a decade of having them chase after him, he'd finally been brought down by a slip of a girl, fresh out of Cornwall, whom he was honor-bound to protect.

Julia Quinn

#67. Please subdue the anguish of your soul. Nobody is destined only to happiness or to pain. The wheel of life takes one up and down by turn.

Kalidasa

#68. Were it not for the relationship I have with Christ, the world surely would have run me down by now ... Certainly I'll never find the level of compassion Christ carried, but trying to learn that compassion is enough to carry me through.

Bret Lott

#69. The kind of love bounded by the sympathy will break down by arrogance.

M.F. Moonzajer

#70. Chains tie us down by land and sea; And wishes, vain as mine, may be All that is left to comfort thee.

William Wordsworth

#71. Offend Dobby!" choked the elf. "Dobby has never been asked to sit down by a wizard - like an equal -

J.K. Rowling

#72. I'm really enjoying growing up. I feel like so much of my life was in an existential crisis when I was young, and I don't feel as bogged down by that anymore.

Natasha Lyonne

#73. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? Where, indeed. Many a badly stung survivor, faced with the aftermath of some relative's funeral, has ruefully concluded that the victory has been won hands down by a funeral establishment - in disastrously unequal battle.

Jessica Mitford

#74. It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles - the oppression of tyranny - to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.

Abraham Lincoln

#75. The snag lies not in the laws themselves as we call them "loopholes" but the much anticipated upshots are knocked down by the failure to interpret in the intended perspective.

Henrietta Newton Martin

#76. A lot of (children's literature) beginners get bogged down by morals. A moral should never be driving the story. And a moral should never be confused with a plot. You can't preach to kids, and you can't talk down to them, either. It's amazing how they sense condescension.

Patty Smith

#77. We're just very belligerent, and I'm not trying to put Americans down, by and large I think we're nice people, but we operate with the information we're given and we are limited by the ignorance that is kind of injected into the media and into the TV shows.

Henry Rollins

#78. They were glued down, every last one of them. A packet of souls.
Was it fate?
Misfortune?
Is that what glued them down like that?
Of course not.
Let's not be stupid.
It probably had more to do with the hurled bombs, thrown down by humans hiding in the clouds.

Markus Zusak

#79. Striving to meet my father's expectations is like climbing out of quicksand: the harder I try to get to the top, the more I'm sucked back down by his unrelenting criticism.

Lac Su

#80. Bring your dopamine or adrenaline level down by activating other regions of the brain other than the prefrontal cortex.

David Rock

#81. Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands - two equally harmful disciplines.

Simone De Beauvoir

#82. Americans now know that housing prices can go down and they can go down by 10, 20, 30, and in some cases, 40 or 50 percent. We know they can go down. But five years ago, we thought they could only go up.

Bill Gross

#83. Going to where the silence is. That is the responsibility of a journalist: giving a voice to those who have been forgotten, forsaken, and beaten down by the powerful.

Amy Goodman

#84. As powerful as is our soul's call, so potent are the forces of Resistance arrayed against it. We're not alone if we've been mowed down by Resistance; millions of good men and women have bitten the dust before us.

Steven Pressfield

#85. The ultimate goal of the whole policy of peaceful co-existence was to make progress on the basic goal laid down by Lenin of a world largely composed of socialist, communist states, in which the Soviet Union would be the prime mover.

Paul Nitze

#86. Problems in your life are like the weights in the gym. You can either get weighed down by them or turn them to your advantage and become stronger.

Toffee

#87. Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.

Sallust

#88. Used to put movies down by saying that they were 'deep on the surface'
meaning that there was nothing underneath.

David Denby

#89. The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.

John Stuart Mill

#90. Recorded history's version does not coincide with the truth, but these are the facts, because they were passed down by word of mouth through the years, and every Maycombian knows them.

Harper Lee

#91. No one told these American soldiers they might be shot down by bullets made by their own brothers here. No one told them that the ships on which they were going to cross might be torpedoed by submarines built with US patents.

Smedley Butler

#92. Empires are not brought down by outside forces, they are destroyed by weaknesses from within.

Lionel

#93. I don't believe in the wisdom of children, nor in the wisdom of the old. There is a moment, a cusp, when the sum of gathered experience is worn down by the details of the living. We are never so wise as when we live in the moment.

Paul Kalanithi

#94. Sometimes I think the purpose of life is to reconcile us to its eventual loss by wearing us down, by proving, however long it takes, that life isn't all it's cracked up to be.

Julian Barnes

#95. We did all the standard camp numbers: "Down By The Aegean," "I Am My Own Great-Great-Great-Great Grandpa," "This Land is Minos's Land.

Rick Riordan

#96. A king should never sit easy, Aegon the Conqueror had said, when he commanded his armorers to forge a great seat from the swords laid down by his enemies.

George R R Martin

#97. It never hurt Lenny Bruce's career to get arrested for swearing. It did back in the time, but he broke those doors down by doing the stuff that he believed in.

Joe Rogan

#98. My mother made me take piano lessons, and because I am her oldest and she had not yet been worn down by the task of prodding five children to practice every day, she kept me practicing despite my whining.

Sheri L. Dew

#99. I used to carry a copy of Ulysses with me everywhere just in case I was knocked down by a bus. It seemed more important than having clean underwear.

Craig Raine

#100. what we call existence is a womb of infinitude, and is itself only incubatory - that eventually all attempts are broken down by the falsely excluded.

Charles Fort