Downplays Quotes

#1. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) new Summary for Policymakers is a political document that downplays assessments of uncertainty from the scientific reports. It omits much contrary evidence. In several cases, it even disagrees with the reports on which it is based.

Steven F. Hayward

#2. The myth of self-sufficiency demands optimism without end, downplays life's challenges, and shames us when, inevitably, we fall short.

Ashton Applewhite

#3. People who invest make money for themselves; people who speculate make money for their brokers. And that, in turn, is why Wall Street perennially downplays the durable virtues of investing and hypes the gaudy appeal of speculation.

Benjamin Graham

#4. Leave it to me: I'm always top banana in the shock department.

Truman Capote

#5. Economists are like computers. They need to have facts punched into them.

Kenneth E. Boulding

#6. Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Harold Macmillan

#7. ... he glanced over his shoulder at her, regarding her, as he often did before they made love, as if she were a lost continent about to be rediscovered.

Tom Robbins

#8. Purim is the birthday of the first Schutz-Jude , the first Jewish toady to foreign royalty.

I.L. Peretz

#9. Life in all its brevity deserved to be lived, for the right reasons. Belonging Places.

M.R. Weston

#10. It taught him how to listen
how to listen with a quiet heart and a waiting soul, open soul, without passion, without desire, without judgment, without opinion.

Hermann Hesse

#11. The Founders knew that a democracy would lead to some kind of tyranny. The term democracy appears in none of our Founding documents. Their vision for us was a Republic and limited government.

Walter E. Williams

#12. That's all I cared about too, was getting it right.

R. Lee Ermey

#13. For me, the glory of my first 25 years as a writer was I could put things off as long as I wanted.

Neil Gaiman

#14. My parents, especially my mother, were no influence on me whatsoever.

Andy Partridge

#15. One must bear what cannot be escaped," she told Alma, as she rubbed clean her face. "You will not die of your grief - no more than the rest of us ever have.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#16. When I was 15, all I knew was that I had to be somebody and that I could be somebody. So I exploited the only thing I knew, which was singing and songwriting.

Juan Gabriel

#17. Greater than the temptations of beauty are those of method.

James Richardson