Quotes About Down

#1. Black men struggle with masculinity so much. The idea that we must always be strong really presses us all down - it keeps us from growing.

Donald Glover

#2. Krystal flung herself violently off the chair, away from her mother. She was surprised to feel warm liquid flowing down her cheeks, and thought confusedly of blood, but it was tears, only tears, clear and shining on her fingertips when she wiped them away.

J.K. Rowling

#3. He looked over at me. "Indigo," he said. "Cyan". He glanced at the road in front of him, glanced at me. He reached over and ran his fingers down one of the darkest strands in the back, where I'd used a little purple. "Violet.

Jennifer Echols

#4. I've always thought with relationships, that it's more about what you bring to the table than what you're going to get from it. It's very nice if you sit down and the cake appears. But if you go to the table expecting cake, then it's not so good.

Anjelica Huston

#5. Munro snorted. "So he's supposed to go down to the loch at half-crack o' the morning, paddle about in the frigid water for an hour or two, and then emerge? I'm finding it difficult to believe she'd see anything impressive."
Everyone laughed.

Tessa Dare

#6. We should allow people to purchase health insurance across state lines. That will create a true 50-state national marketplace which will drive down the cost of low-cost, catastrophic health insurance.

Ted Cruz

#7. The fifties were when people started coming down on "juvenile delinquents," "hoodlums," "vandals"
anybody that was young, wore a motorcycle jacket, and didn't act polite around older people.

Joe Bob Briggs

#8. Time softens memories, sanding down the rough edges of death.

Amy Harmon

#9. When the chips are down, you are given
the chance to find the strength you never knew you had and put it toward the greater good. Or go over to the dark side. You know, if that's how you roll.

Jessica Lave

#10. Scientists have been struck by the fact that things that break down virtually never get lost, while things that get lost hardly ever break down.

Russell Baker

#11. I realized I was an attractive older woman who never wanted to settle down.

Cindy Gallop

#12. The whole intention of empirical economics is to force theory down to Earth.

George Akerlof

#13. She walked a ways down the concourse, and looked back and waved and then turned a corner and was out of sight. I still stood for a moment, looking at the last place I had seen her, being careful not to be routine, while I became the other guy again, the one I was without her.

Robert B. Parker

#14. America has had gifted conservative statesmen and national leaders. But with few exceptions, only the liberals have gone down in history as national heroes.

Gunnar Myrdal

#15. Anybody messes with the girls, we'll take care of him right smart," the elder Wurm assured Ian. "It's not that hard," the other said honestly. "Break just one of them bastards' noses with a hoe handle and the rest of 'em settle right down.

Diana Gabaldon

#16. Big tears of frustration and exhaustion were streaming down his cheeks. But because of all the wrinkles, they weren't dripping off. They spread out and ran together again, leaving a watery film over his ruined face.

Albert Camus

#17. In aviation they have auto pilot and color radar and a lot of other instrumentation that is a backup for pilots. It's really brought the incidents of plane crashes way down. Same thing ought to happen in the medical industry, I think.

Dennis Quaid

#18. Quarterbacks have to ask the crowd to quiet down. Pitchers never do.

Thomas Boswell

#19. The break down for kids is communication. Music helps bring that bond.

Sheila E.

#20. Housing works like a trampoline. When it is pushed down far enough and long enough, it will eventually snap upward very powerfully.

Roger Altman

#21. But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there.

Roger McGuinn

#22. I thought I knew you," she snapped. "I thought you were a good man, down deep"
Cett shook his head. "The good men are all dead, Allrianne. They died inside that city.

Brandon Sanderson

#23. The world will knock you down plenty. You don't need to be doing it to yourself.

Elizabeth Scott

#24. There are ... just two kinds of girls. Those who go down town Saturday nights, and those who don't.

Edna Ferber

#25. Walk into any of a hundred thousand classrooms today and hear the teachers divide and subdivide and interrelate and establish "principles" and study "methods" and what you will hear is the ghost of Aristotle speaking down through the centuries - the desiccating lifeless voice of dualistic reason.

Robert M. Pirsig

#26. You go down to Skid Row and you see literally hundreds of people and not just men, but women and children as well. It's really a tragedy that our society has come to that.

Ernie Hudson

#27. I hope your dreams have come or will come true. Or you feel inspired to down tools on what you wrongly thought was making you happy and follow the real dream.

Miranda Hart

#28. We are always being pushed and squeezed down one road or another. We have no choice but to step forward, and then step forward again, and then step forward again; suddenly we find ourselves on a road we haven't chosen at all.

Lauren Oliver

#29. I had seen stars in such numbers that they filled the sky. It almost seemed as if the sky would break under the weight of all those things and come tumbling down. Never had I seen such an amazing skyful of stars.

Haruki Murakami

#30. We're in a world where masculinity, especially with these big spectacle movies, is often pushed by rippling six packs and forcing an image down someone's throat trying to prove masculinity. Whereas I think true masculinity comes from having a strong sense of self.

Theo James

#31. Cooking gives you the ability to grow as a person and to give yourself confidence. You can invite people around, you can sit down and eat together and it makes you feel about ten feet tall because you've done it with your own hands.

William Katt

#32. Two other things that we hear again and again from our founders, they wish they had done earlier, and that is ... simply writing down how you do things and why you do things.

Sam Altman

#33. Whose the spiritual people pon earth. The Black people. Dem a deal wit God. And God no let dem down.

Bob Marley

#34. In the early days it was fun to fly. You could soar over rooftops and trees, or drop down to meet a passing train and wave at the engineer. The whole sky belonged to you. now there are so many regulations. The sky is crowded. All the fun is gone.

Katherine Stinson

#35. I had wanted to live forever as a gypsy girl; I had wanted to live forever as a child, tumbling down a rabbit hole. I had been granted both wishes, only to find immortality was not what it had promised to be; instead of a passport to the future, it was a yoke that bound me to the past.

Melanie Benjamin

#36. I spent the rest of the day in someone else's story. The rare moments that I put the book down, my own pain returned in burning stabs.

Amy Plum

#37. Being
infected, being a vampire, it' s always you. Maybe it' s more you than ever before. It' s you as you
always were, deep down inside.

Holly Black

#38. And the game of basketball, I play, I play first off because I love it. I love to have fun. I love to run up and down the court.

Kevin Durant

#39. I'm really too young to go out into the world alone, he thought as he lay down

E.B. White

#40. I figure I'll be champ for about ten years and then I'll let my brother take over - like the Kennedys down in Washington.

Muhammad Ali

#41. I'm going to lie down. Please wake me up in a couple of don't.

Ruby Elliot

#42. Men were not meant to leave the earth. Spend too much time in the clouds and you never want to come back down again.

George R R Martin

#43. In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#44. There is no grief amount wolves. Nature has a wonderful way of making you face reality. You can sit and weep if you want, but you are likely to be killed while you're still in your mourning, because you let your guard down.

Jodi Picoult

#45. The people that you work with are, when you get down to it, your very best friends.

Michael Scott

#46. Oh, Ron! Hermione flung her arms around Ron's neck and broke down completely. Ron, looking quite terrified, patted her very awkwardly on the top of the head.

J.K. Rowling

#47. The Lord is my shepherd
I shall not want him for long
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures
and there are no green pastures
He leadeth me beside still waters
and still waters run deep

Ernest Hemingway,

#48. I believe that government should confine itself to the public realm and that it should be as stripped down as possible, within reason. It should not be burdened by excess bureaucracy.

Camille Paglia

#49. In my generation, we learned how to be leaders by being exposed to and involved with adults who empowered us and gave us a sense that we could choose things. We've let down the generations coming behind us and we are trying to re- establish that connection.

Marian Wright Edelman

#50. Love flows down. The ground submits to the sky and suffers what comes. Is the ground worse for giving in like that? Do not put blankets over the drum. Open completely. Let your spirit ear listen to the green dome's passionate murmur.

Rumi

#51. My town was all-white and shut down Section 8 housing because they didn't want black people to move into the town. And I thought that was wrong - duh.

Cecily McMillan

#52. Deep down, I'm a Texas girl looking for that big romance every girl dreams about. Biologically, I look forward to being a cornerstone of a family. I'll be in my glory when I have a child on my knee.

Renee Zellweger

#53. The rationales for centralized, to-down decision making - control, direction, and compliance - melts away when individuals are tightly aligned with the company's values and goals, accountable for their actions, and self-regulated.

Dov Seidman

#54. I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, Lord, only makest me dwell in safety.

Anonymous

#55. Nobody notices it when your zipper is up, but everyone notices when it's down.

Cynthia Lewis

#56. You who have read the history of nations, from Moses down to our last election, where have you ever seen one class looking after the interests of another?

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#57. Hate is on a scale, and is growing on a planetary scale of unprecedented size. The violent left is coming to our streets, all of our streets, to smash, to tear down, to kill, to bankrupt, to destroy. It is will be global in its nature and global in its scope.

Glenn Beck

#58. Wisdom of the Ages: Do the aliens on the moon pull down their pants and 'earth' their friends for fun?

Matthew D. Heines

#59. Cachet - isn't that like panache, but sitting down?

Warren Zevon

#60. Worn with tights it is not an issue, although there is something deeply unfeminist about not being able to sit down in one comfortably.

Sienna Guillory

#61. When he wakes sometimes from dark dreams of broken cradles, and compasses without bearings, he pushes the unease down, lets the daylight contradict it. And isolation lulls him with the music of the lie.

M.L. Stedman

#62. I was a kind of angsty teenager and I would write diaries and write stuff down all the time. Sometimes I get to the level on stage where I'm singing and it feels heavy, but not always.

Ellie Goulding

#63. Increasingly, Sawtooth's own memories are a loud bright muddle, like opening the door on a party full of strangers. He lies awake at night, limping down the long corridors of his memory, trying to find the girl's hands, ...

Karen Russell

#64. We die, we turn, we are reborn as we deserve to be reborn, based on our doings in this world." Will looked down at his bitten nails. "I will probably be reborn as a slug that someone salts.

Cassandra Clare

#65. I hope you learn how to slow down and not let your life pass you by while you're watching the idiot box. Life's short, and one day you'll wake up and look in the mirror and realize you look like King Tut.

K. Martin Beckner

#66. In New York, the dunk is not the thing. To break somebody down and shoot a J-that's as big as a dunk in New York.

Lamar Odom

#67. I know that many of the things I have said from the Scriptures have offended, and I have sometimes been tempted to tone down the message. But, God helping me, I never will! I would become a false prophet. I would also betray my Lord.

Billy Graham

#68. To really know life you've got to be part of life. You must get down and look, you must get into the nooks and crannies of existence. You have to rub elbows with all kinds and types of men before you can finally establish what he is.

L. Ron Hubbard

#69. I once waited on Sean Connery. A long time ago. This was at the Caledonian Hotel in Edinburgh. They closed down the restaurant for him, and when he walked in with his morning paper, all the waitresses started squealing. He was a big guy, bigger than in the movies.

Tony D'Souza

#70. Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier! Down goes Frazier!

Howard Cosell

#71. Anything to do with persuasion is rhetoric, right down to the argumentum ad baculum, which means threatening somebody with a stick until they agree with you.

Mark Forsyth

#72. Maybe love won't let you down. All of your failures are training grounds and just as your back's turned you'll be surprised ... as your solitude subsides .

William Shakespeare

#73. I dumbed down for my audience to double my dollars

Jay-Z

#74. Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.

Al Hirschfeld

#75. If you strike us down now we shall rise again and renew the fight. You cannot conquer Ireland; you cannot extinguish the Irish passion for freedom. If our deed has not been sufficient to win freedom then our children will win it by a better deed.

Padraig Pearse

#76. Touch it gently, put two fingers inside, make sure it's wet & rub up & down. Yep that's how you wash a cup!

Ashley Purdy

#77. The physical act of meditating by closing one's eyes and slowing down the speed of internal thoughts - especially worrisome thinking - results in a physiological response that is well documented in the scientific literature.

Tim McCarthy

#78. It more often than not involves a measuring of self, of what is right against what is want. Often these points of decision carry him(or her) down roads that, later, are regretted and even cursed.

H. Leighton Dickson

#79. Why is it so sexy when hot guys stare each other down like that? Why do I feel like licking the air? Am I ovulating?

Nicole Christie

#80. Today what we are doing is modernizing the financial services industry, tearing down those antiquated laws and granting banks significant new authority.

William J. Clinton

#81. Holding on to the past will hold you down in life. Learn from it but move on.

Jonathan Anthony Burkett

#82. A lot of boys will let me down but a real man wouldn't do it like that.

Keri Hilson

#83. Since his inauguration in 2009, President Obama has upheld FDR's vision of America as a nation that keeps its word - a nation still committed to uphold the 'four freedoms' that President Roosevelt set down in the great Atlantic Charter of August 1941.

Nigel Hamilton

#84. Mel," I began, staring down, "there's something I have to tell you."
"I'm listening, babe."
"I kissed Henry when we were camping."
Well, it was a six-hour kiss, but who's counting?

Ophelia London

#85. Let us live this day in that light, that life, and that peace, so that we may gain the victory over those things that press us down.

George Dawson

#86. I think I bring the songs that aren't about me or related to me to life. It's like the song 'How Do I Let A Good Man Down?' Let me tell you, I didn't write that song - because if I have a good man, I ain't going to let him down.

Sharon Jones

#87. Women and children were slaughtered by the Taliban. You are going to sit down and negotiate with these folks? They never lived up to an agreement. The Pakistanis tried in '08, the Russians tried it when they were there. George Bush tried it in '05. It has never worked.

Mike Rogers

#88. By day the old area of Barcelona is bustling, full of shouting, hammering, drilling and shutters being pulled up and down. You listen out for sounds.
If you want a replacement gas cylinder you wait for the sound of the delivery man hitting a cylinder with a piece of metal in the street.

Colm Toibin

#89. You may beat me up, but you can't beat me down, for I believe in the power of "me

Rick Ferreira

#90. If you're single and not committed, then go for it. The world's your oyster. But, if you're happily married and want to remain happily married, then the only oyster should be the one sliding down your throat from your spouse.

Jack Dancer

#91. One might say that "Torch Song" is, in part, about the urgency of the effort to pin things down and what wild dart throwing that desire leads to.

Laura Mullen

#92. I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.

Sylvia Plath

#93. I think it's an interesting thing to me, because we have this desire for everything to be explained to us. But if you go through your daily actions, very little ends up having a written-down explanation for why things happen, or why people do specific things.

Alice Sebold

#94. ... -- the periwinkles looked exactly as if they were being poured down each side of the steps -- ...

Elizabeth Von Arnim

#95. Have you got a brook in your little heart, Where bashful flowers blow, And blushing birds go down to drink, And shadows tremble so?

Emily Dickinson

#96. I sat with it, the porn still going, the load of hate now trickling down the side of my hip and I wondered if there was a machine in existence that could possibly gauge how much I had regressed in the past five minutes.

Eric Monsky

#97. Every time I learn a new thing to do on my computer, I have to write it down so that I can remember it.

Betty Parsons

#98. All I can say is that nothing that happens is down to just one person, or just one action. It was part of life. Yours, and hers, and your father's.

Anne Corlett

#99. We finally sat down and asked ourselves how much of our lives we wanted to give everybody. We had just given a little too much, and it started to become a burden.

Brian Austin Green

#100. It is neither just nor human so to grind men down with excessive labour as to stupefy their minds and wear out their bodies.

Pope Leo XIII