Top 17 Putdown Quotes
#1. When I was young, I thought I was a bird at one time. Then they told me I can't fly, so I stopped flying.
Anthony Liccione
#2. I'm not certain what I notice first, the bright flickering light that illuminates the darkness underneath my eyelids, or the shrill screams that pull me form the dredges of sleep. Either way, I'm awake. And afraid.
Christine Fonseca
#3. The bounds of a personality are not reproducible by a sharp black line, but ... each of us flows imperceptibly into adjacent people and things.
Edith Wharton
#4. Religion assures us that our afflictions shall have an end; she comforts us, she dries our tears, she promises us another life. On the contrary, in the abominable worship of atheism, human woes are the incense, death is the priest, a coffin the altar, and annihilation the Deity.
Francois-Rene De Chateaubriand
#5. In schools the main problem is not the absence of innovations but the presence of too many disconnected ... piecemeal, superficially adorned projects ... We are over our heads.
Michael Fullan
#7. I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
Herodotus
#8. It took me an eternity to get through the toast, which tasted like lint and was gray from the sky. The sky foretold the end of the world.
Haruki Murakami
#9. The term 'steampunk' itself, now a badge of honor, began as a putdown, a joke. But like 'Big Bang' in cosmology, the diss became the standard.
Paul Di Filippo
#10. Writing a check separates a commitment from a conversation.
Warren Buffett
#11. Science without respect for human life is degrading to us all and reflects a hollow and deceptive philosophy, a philosophy that we as a people should never condone.
Nathan Deal
#13. Your aspirations are deeply influenced by your inspirations. Don't produce bad situations due to a lack of creative ambitions.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
#14. I will obviously take on board everything from my past, I always do.
Robin Trower
#15. Music saved my life. The voice you hear, the soul, the pain, is that of a person who deeply, deeply, deeply appreciates the opportunity they've been given.
CeeLo Green
#16. It is interesting that we call something good a "dream," but being called a "dreamer" is somewhat of a putdown.
Without dreamers, no dream would ever be given reality, and we would live in a very small and shallow world.
If you are a secret dreamer, it's your time to announce yourself.
Vera Nazarian
#17. She recognized her emerging impulses, unchecked and capable of surprising anyone, but she needed help to awaken them and set them free. When flirting with men, she tested their courage in hopes that their shameless gaze would help her find something deep within herself.
Vadim Babenko