Quotes About Downgrading

#1. Huh," Zoya said to Adrik. "I'm impressed." At the elation that burst over his face, she groaned. "Never mind. I'm downgrading that to grudging approval.

Leigh Bardugo

#2. I am also downgrading his pronoun from a 'he' to an 'it'.

Nicole Amakan

#3. Music is an extremely powerful force if used properly to uplift people. I believe music should be uplifting and not downgrading ... it's a very, very powerful tool.

Gary Wright

#4. The word 'living' has so many connotations that I'm almost reluctant to try to define it scientifically because it sounds as if I'm then downgrading all the other significances of that word.

Francis Collins

#5. There are innumerable ways to murder a person, but the most subtle and pernicious of these is to mutilate the soul of the innocent by denying or downgrading their uniqueness and their beauty.

Gerry Spence

#6. As we develop and get quicker with technology in America, it's like we're downgrading if you look at the investment in education ... that's the thing that worries me.

Will.i.am

#7. To the ideal of high consumption and the downgrading of spiritual values corresponds a conception of injustice that centers exclusively on the problem of consumption; and equality in consumption cannot be achieved except by violence.

Jacques Ellul

#8. Bias has to be taught. If you hear your parents downgrading women or people of different backgrounds, why, you are going to do that.

Barbara Bush

#9. A journey is best measured in friends, not in miles.

Tim Cahill

#10. My father-in-law has ear hair like a wolverine. It fans out from the auricles, wafting from the ridge lines like cilia, like gray feathered plumage.

Rosecrans Baldwin

#11. A majority of senators should be able to adopt rules at the beginning of each Congress.

Tom Udall

#12. If x is the population of the United States and y is the degree of imbecility of the average American, then democracy is the theory that x times y is less than y

H.L. Mencken

#13. If you see your neighbor in sin, don't look only at this, but also think about what he has done or does that is good, and infrequently trying this in general, while not partialy judging, you will find that he is better than you.

Saint Basil

#14. I want to be the best, and the best work. You have to earn what you get, and you have to work to keep it.

Alex Rodriguez

#15. The truth is that our way of celebrating the Christmas season does spring from myriad cultures and sources, from St. Nicholas to Coca-Cola advertising campaigns.

Richard Roeper

#16. Those who make hostility a daily manner are often left in the lurch at difficult times.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#17. I met Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. I'm not really star struck by actors, but musicians, that's when I get star struck. Chad Smith is my number one drum influence, so that was a real mind-blow. I spoke to him - proper English, thank God!

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

#18. Accept that I enjoy being with you. Accept that when I'm with you I see Heaven in your eyes.

Jana Oliver

#19. Gravitational and electromagnetic interactions are long-range interactions, meaning they act on objects no matter how far they are separated from each other.

Francois Englert

#20. Christ is worth all, or he is worth nothing.

George Whitefield

#21. When I was a postdoc, I jotted every fresh thought on a three-by-five card and kept them in a card catalogue.

Randy Schekman

#22. We said there warn't no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don't. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.

Mark Twain

#23. Living too long in New York does that to a girl, gives her the false sense that the world is full of interesting people. Or at least people who are crazy in an interesting way. At

Maria Semple