Quotes About Not Being Kept Down

#1. If you're living hand-to-mouth, and still buying into the con that the big threats to America are socialized medicine, Mexican immigrants and tax increases, then you're not being kept down by the rich. You're being kept down by you.

Bill Maher

#2. An accurate knowledge of the past of a country is necessary for everyone who would understand its present, and who desires to judge of its future.

Annie Besant

#3. We're add mad here.

Lewis Carroll

#4. Virtue lies half way between two opposite vices.

Horace

#5. She's beautiful and graceful, and she is very compassionate and loyal when you aren't responsible for the murder of her family.

Lauren DeStefano

#6. I think I view the system the same way that Ayn Rand views the system - that it really oppresses those that create, if you will, and tries to take away from those that produce and give to the non-producers.

Gary Johnson

#7. When you by nature subscribe to the view that everyone except yourself is a berk or a wanker, it is hard to bond with anybody in any rational common cause.

Lynne Truss

#8. Celebrity means that I can affect people in a positive way.

David Hasselhoff

#9. Most successful people can identify one minute, one moment, where their lives changed, and it usually occurred in times of adversity.

Willie Jolley

#10. Everything is ironic to me. There are moments I find hysterical, but I'm probably the only one who would find that, except for a few people.

River Phoenix

#11. I need to talk to Lena There it was. I'd finally said it. The one thing that had kept me from being able to exhale all day. The thing that had made me feel like I couldn't sit down, like I couldn't stay. Like I had to get up and go somewhere, even if I had nowhere to go.

Kami Garcia

#12. The thing with brothers is, you're supposed to take turns being the keeper. Sometimes you get to sit down and be the brother who is kept.

Orson Scott Card

#13. Every dog has its day.

John Heywood

#14. I survived my fall down the ravine. I survived the implosion of Ashwood Estates. I wasn't even conscious then, and Malcolm said something kept us from being crushed, that it was as if some force kept us safe as the world fell down around us. Third time's the charm.

Pittacus Lore

#15. There was always a slug on the lettuce.
This was too good to be true.
He had never trusted Jester, and didn't trust David.
He wasn't going to let his gaurd down just yet.
Being carful had kept him alive this far.
There was no reason to stop being careful now.

Charlie Higson

#16. I was turned down by every record label in L.A. Perseverance is three quarters of the game. Talent's only a quarter. Being able to withstand the word 'no' over and over can build you a pretty tough skin. I knew if I just kept at it, at the very least I'd get better at my craft.

Sheryl Crow

#17. It is very natural that every one who makes anything inside themselves that is makes it entirely out of what is in them does naturally have to have two civilizations. They have to have the civilization that makes them and the civilization that has nothing to do with them.

Gertrude Stein

#18. They were as sublime as the moon and stars above them, and the moon ans stars were as ardent as they.

Thomas Hardy

#19. Above all, being a Democrat means having compassion for others ... It means standing up for people who have been kept down ...

George McGovern

#20. It isn't money itself that causes the trouble, but the use of money as votive offering and pagan ornament.

Lewis H. Lapham

#21. You don't just deal with adversity. You use it to propel you forward.

Erik Weihenmayer