Down Quotes

I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.

~ Boris Pasternak

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

~ Ayn Rand

We shall suffer no attachment to literature, no taste for abstract discussion, no love of purely intellectual theories, to seduce us from our devotion to the cause of the oppressed, the down trodden, the insulted and injured masses of our fellow men.

~ George Ripley

When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.

~ Margaret J. Wheatley

I vent my anger in the gym, and it calms me down.

~ Samantha Ruth Prabhu

When I left EastEnders, I could have earned an absolute fortune from sexy calendars, shoots for lads' mags, fitness videos and reality shows. But I always turned them down.

~ Michelle Ryan

I have found a flat on Merseyside and am settling down here. If I can keep playing and get back to full match fitness, I know I have a lot to offer still.

~ David Ginola

I concentrate on exercises from the waist down, since that is the laziest part of a woman's body.

~ Tina Louise

First of all, Greece won't go down. We're talking about a country that is capable of making change. Europe will not allow the destabilization of the 27-country euro zone. But if there were no action, then markets would start becoming jittery about other countries - and not only Spain and Portugal, but other countries in the European Union.

~ George Papandreou

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

~ Maya Angelou

To be hopeful means to be uncertain about the future, to be tender toward possibilities, to be dedicated to change all the way down to the bottom of your heart.

~ Rebecca Solnit

Maybe sometimes I'm such a thinker, I reevaluate too much. Sometimes when it comes down to it, I really don't need to do anything, I don't really need to change anything. I need to just keep plugging away, working at it.

~ Michael Chang

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

~ Alfred Lord Tennyson

After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.

~ Mickey Mantle

While I encourage people to save 100% down for a home, a mortgage is the one debt that I don't frown upon.

~ Dave Ramsey

When it was suggested that I write a memoir I said, 'I'm not old enough. I'm not distinguished enough.' But I went home and sat down to write, and the material for the book just came flooding into my hands.

~ Julia Cameron

For an economic recovery program to be effective, it must not only create a short-term economic boost but also generate lasting value. Home Star would accomplish that by breaking down the key barrier between homeowners and money-saving retrofits: upfront costs.

~ Peter Welch

When you sit down and watch something alone, you're going to watch it for what it is.

~ John Turturro

We must strictly enforce the Environmental Law, closing down the polluters that fail to meet the standards.

~ Ma Jun

In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.

~ Arnold Schwarzenegger

If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.

~ B. F. Skinner

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged down by the mass, either by ridicule or slander.

~ Victor Hugo

We're coming down to an extremely unethical society. Very few colleges offer courses in ethics, and very few companies have a code of conduct or code of ethics.

~ Frank Abagnale

When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.

~ Carl Sandburg

Terror will crash down on us if we fail to understand that a pluralistic society requires the personal and daily commitment of every citizen.

~ Tariq Ramadan

What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority is always prepared to put down a revolutionary minority.

~ Walter Lippmann

I've always had a propensity for getting the cursive down pretty well. What it evolved into was my pseudo-waitressing job when I was auditioning. I didn't wait tables. I did calligraphy for the invitations for, like, Robin Thicke and Paula Patton's wedding.

~ Meghan Markle

What an electric thrill it sends up and down the spine, how it sets the heart racing: A Royal Romance! A Royal Wedding! The pomp and the pageantry!

~ Hamish Bowles

Jody Hill, who I created 'Eastbound And Down' and 'Fist Foot Way' with, was my best man at my wedding.

~ Danny Mcbride

Routine is a declivity down which many governments slide, and routine says that freedom of the press is dangerous.

~ José Rizal

The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist.

~ Friedrich Engels

My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.'

~ Joe Biden

My dad was a truck driver. We all used to ride along with him. And the way he'd keep awake was to sing while he was going down the road. So we all joined in.

~ Johnny Van Zant

If I took the 40 years of my dad talking to me about war and battles and taking me to battlefields and distilled it down into one question, it would probably be the idea of the necessary or unnecessary war.

~ Suzanne Collins

Run to meet the future or it's going to run you down.

~ Anthony J. D'angelo