Top 38 Quotes About Going Down Swinging
#1. Some people get into this business and they're so afraid to lose anything. They try to protect their position like clinging to a beachhead. These actors end up making really safe choices. I never wanted to go that route. If I go down, I'm going down swinging.
Matt Damon
#2. Don't look for flaws as you go through life and even when you find them it is wise and kind to be somewhat blind, and look for the virtue behind them.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#3. You know what it's like to move from being happy to being not? It's like swinging as high as you can and someone stops you as you come back down.
Joan Bauer
#4. Whereas the melancholic exhibits a state of general inhibition, in the manic patient even normal inhibitions of the instincts are partly or wholly abolished.
Karl Abraham
#5. Fran grounded out to the pitcher. Max popped a weak single to right field. Brendan struck out swinging. But the Tigers hopes for a winning season were down to the last out.
Fred Bowen
#6. A man ought to carry himself in the world as an orange tree would if it could walk up and down in the garden, swinging perfume from every little censer it holds up in the air.
Henry Ward Beecher
#7. MUSIC. Tunneling right down into your CORE and SOULTIME. Hep, sloppy, SEXY and cerebral. Chancy and hip-swinging like ELVIS and your first teenage KISS.
Carew Papritz
#8. That's my problem.
I go these long periods without sex, and then at some point, I just crack; I break down and try to hump the closest swinging penis.
Natalie E. Wrye
#9. We have seen the Democrat solution to an energy crisis; it's called California.
J. C. Watts
#10. You have seen a ship out on the bay, swinging with the tide, and seeming as if it would follow it; and yet it cannot, for down beneath the water it is anchored. So many a soul sways toward heaven, but cannot ascend thither, because it is anchored to some secret sin.
Henry Ward Beecher
#11. When we talk about self-realization, we're talking from the point of view of limitation of the mind. Real knowledge is to see that you are that - you are eternity.
Frederick Lenz
#13. What's swinging in words? If a guy makes you pat your foot and if you feel it down your back, you don't have to ask anybody if that's good music or not. You can always feel it.
Miles Davis
#14. I was going to live on my salary or go down swinging.
Gene Tierney
#15. Don't let your cool stand in the way of being soulful. Life is too short. Too short to hate. Too short to judge. Too short not to live for. Don't let anything or anyone get the best of you or your heart and mind. If you are going down ... go down swinging, singing, and loving.
Butch Walker
#16. I've been in the studio when you go through a track and you run down a track and you know even before the singer starts singing, you know the track is swinging ... you know you have a multimillion-seller hit - and what you're working on suddenly has magic.
Ahmet Ertegun
#17. I don't have to get a pitch down the middle. If I like the pitch-even if it's 15 inches off the plate, and that's the pitch I wanted-I'm swinging.
Vladimir Guerrero
#18. Haitians do not need development programs imposed on them by expatriates. Instead, they need help in developing as self-assured persons.
Tony Campolo
#19. I'm going to go down swinging ... I'm sure as heck not going to go home and say I had a bad tournament.
Andre Agassi
#21. I've always got into stunts; even at drama school, I was falling down trap doors, and swinging in on ropes.
Thomas Howes
#22. Our own belief is that the renovation of the world will be brought about only by the Holy Eucharist.
Pope Leo XIII
#24. To pray is to descend with the mind into the heart, and there to stand before the face of the Lord, ever-present, all seeing, within you.
Theophan The Recluse
#26. The truth. Nobody's coming for us. The place we're running to probably isn't safe. And there is nobody I can trust in this equation except Ezra and Byron.
Amie Kaufman
#27. If you can go out there and stand up for what it is you believe in no matter how many times you are knocked down, in the end the swinging of your own blows will exhaust them.
Erin Brockovich
#28. Winter walks up and down the town swinging his censer, but no smoke or sweetness comes from it, only the sour, metallic frankness of salt and snow.
Mary Oliver
#29. Your best ideas, those eureka moments that turn the world upside down, seldom come when you're juggling emails, rushing to meet the 5 P.M. deadline or straining to make your voice heard in a high-stress meeting. They come when you're walking the dog, soaking in the bath or swinging in a hammock.
Carl Honore
#30. Kill one man and you're a murderer, kill a million and you're a conqueror.
Jean Rostand
#33. It was difficult after losing the first two sets and in the third set I was a break down, but something happened and I tried to run and keep fighting and I kept swinging in the third, fourth and fifth sets.
Nikolay Davydenko
#34. The only time I feel at ease is swinging up and down in a coconut tree.
Ray Davies
#35. Me," Artemis blurted. "I'm the nut."
Artemis could have sworn the squid winked at him before bringing the five-ton chunk of spacecraft swinging down toward the morsel of meat in its blue shell.
"I'm the nut!" Artemis shouted again, a little hysterically, it must be said.
Eoin Colfer
#36. And then Micah Bayar swept back his cloak and dropped to his knees, bowing his head, his amulet swinging forward. Fiona glared down at him like she wanted to stomp on him.
Ho, Han thought. Micah breaks with his family? That's interesting.
Cinda Williams Chima
#37. She begged for time to stop, for clocks to break, for every star to remain fixed. But none of that happened.
Alice Hoffman
#38. The drag queen walks into a Catholic church as the priest is coming down the aisle swinging the incense pot. And he says to the priest, Oh, honey, I love your dress, but did you know your handbag's on fire?
Garrison Keillor
