Down Quotes
You can't lose confidence in yourself, or you've lost already. When you get knocked down, you've got to keep getting back up.
We must begin to believe that God, in the mystery of prayer, has entrusted us with a force that can move the Heavenly world, and can bring its power down to earth.
When I've seen an opportunity I haven't sat down and called a committee meeting, We've gone and done it.
Every person who has ever achieved anything has been knocked down many times. But all of them picked themselves up and kept going, and that is what I have always tried to do.
Ladies love outlaws, like babies love stray dogs. Ladies touch babies like a banker touches gold, outlaws touch ladies somewhere deep down in their soul.
No such thing as spare time, no such thing as free time, no such thing as down time. All you got is life time. Go.
Failure is part of success, an integral part. Everybody gets knocked down. Knowing it will happen and what you must do when it does is the first step back.
They say that if you're afraid of homosexuals, it means that deep down inside you're actually a homosexual yourself. That worries me because I'm afraid of dogs.
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
If you lie down and let somebody kick you, you're never going to get nowhere. You have to stand up.
Even if my songs are a bit low-spirited, they make me happy. I become happy when I hear sad songs. When you sing about sad things in a beautiful way, the atmosphere turns upside down
Historians are dangerous and capable of turning everything upside down. They have to be watched.
Please subdue the anguish of your soul. Nobody is destined only to happiness or to pain. The wheel of life takes one up and down by turn.
In every crisis there is a message. Crises are nature's way of forcing change - breaking down old structures, shaking loose negative habits so that something new and better can take their place.
The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.
When it comes time to sit down and write the next book, you're deathly afraid that you're not up to the task. That was certainly the case with me after Snow Falling on Cedars.
Some people are settling down, some people are settling and some people refuse to settle for anything less than butterflies.
One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody.
It's not easy to see things from the middle, rather than looking down on them from above or up at them from below, or from left to right or right to left: try it, you'll see that everything changes.
You'll be old and you never lived, and you kind of feel silly to lie down and die and to never have lived, to have been a job chaser and never have lived.
In point of fact all Americans are automatically turned down by China these days because of the escalation of Johnson's war in Vietnam, which several times has intruded into China.
Actually when I'm depressed or feeling down, I seem to play quiet music and enjoy the time. So I listen to a lot of ballads and I try to enjoy the time with music.
I have worked really hard to defy categorization, to break down a taxonomy whenever it comes my way.
You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
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.
Hating someone is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat. Invest your energy into something more worthwhile.
When Richie Cunningham drank too many beers, his parents sat him down and explained their concerns. If you live on this earth, you find out that we are all the same.
People can put you down, and they will but Allah will never abandon you, so long as you don’t.
Looking down at the Earth, you started to pick up a sense of speed much more than I had noticed on orbit.
Most people, when they reach a certain age, let down and talk about what they used to do. Well, who gives a damn about what you used to do? It's what you're doing now.
Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.
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.
Simplify, slow down, be kind. And don't forget to have art in your life - music, paintings, theater, dance, and sunsets.
Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see - not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.
