Down Quotes

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

All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right temptation, put in the right spot.

I'm 86 and my doctor used to tell me to slow down - at least he did until he dropped dead.

I broke down while at Oxford, was rejected by a record number of medical tribunals during the War, and finally got permission to leave Oxford and do civilian work till the War ended.

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.

While 45 of the 50 States have either a State constitutional amendment or a statute that preserves the current definition of marriage, left-wing activist judges and officials at the local levels have struck down State laws protecting marriage.

Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.

Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.

I love to go down to the schoolyard and watch all the little children jump up and down and run around yelling and screaming. They don't know I'm only using blanks.

When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.

Having Down syndrome is like being born normal. I am just like you and you are just like me. We are all born in different ways, that is the way I can describe it. I have a normal life.

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That's the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.

You have the right to kill me, but you don't have the right to judge me. That's life. There's nobility in that. There's focus. It's genuine. It's crystal and it's pure and it's available to everybody, so just shut your traps and put down your McDonalds, your vaccines, your Us Weekly, your TMZ and the rest of it.

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.

I would often find myself, at the age of 21, at midnight, running down a dark street on my own with 10 men chasing me. And the fact they had cameras in their hands made that legal.

In the Brown decision, the United States Supreme Court unanimously struck down the legal and moral footing of racially segregated public education in this country.

I also urge the Obama administration - both on its own and in cooperation with other responsible governments around the world - to use all legal means necessary to shut down WikiLeaks before it can do more damage by releasing additional cables. WikiLeaks' activities represent a shared threat to collective international security.

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.

Bipartisanship isn't an option anymore; it is a requirement. The American people have divided responsibility for leadership right down the middle.

Comrade Deng Xiaoping - along with other party elders - gave the party leadership their firm and full support to put down the political disturbance using forceful measures.

Shouldn't Democrats insist that Sen. Durbin step down as their whip, the number two man in their leadership?

Leadership must be established from the top down.

I can tell you that the Canadian intelligence and law enforcement agencies have been providing outstanding co-operation with our intelligence and law enforcement agencies as we work together to track down terrorists here in North America and put them out of commission.

The PATRIOT Act brought down the wall separating intelligence agencies from law enforcement and other entities charged with protecting the Nation from terrorism.

I think anybody with any intelligence sits down and sees Star Trek not a kids' show.

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.