Down and Quotes · Page 5

Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.

— Orison Swett Marden

Life comes after you have been filled with the Holy Spirit. Get down and pray for power.

— Smith Wigglesworth

I just keep my head down and work hard on what I do.

— Clint Black

No matter who the characters are, you can strip them down and find small universal truths.

— Jena Malone

I’m quite hyper, and my wife would prefer it if I sat down and read a book.

— Jamie Dornan

Oh Esperanza!' said Isabel, jumping up and down and clapping.'I think my heart is dancing.

— Pam Muñoz Ryan

I definitely can relate to being down and closed-off at certain times in my life.

— Aubrey Plaza

There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.

— Adrienne Rich

We will not allow the past to drag us down and stop us from moving ahead. We understand where we should move.

— Vladimir Putin

...if a child waited to speak until all the grown-ups settled down and gave her some room to say her piece, the…

— Katherine Hannigan

Praise is sunshine; it warms, it inspires, it promotes growth; blame and rebuke are rain and hail; they beat down and bedraggle,…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

I was born in the year the Titanic sank. The Titanic went down, and I came up. That tells you a little…

— Studs Terkel

Everybody stumbles across a golden opportunity at least once in a lifetime. Unfortunately most people just pick themselves up, dust themselves down,…

— Winston Churchill

Sporadic thoughts will pop into my head and I'll have to go write something down, and the next thing you know I've…

— Eminem

Your characters get angry at you if you speak about them and stop you from giving birth to them on the page…

— Joe Eszterhas

Learn to slow down and perceive the mysterious events and opportunities that happen in life... if we look closely we see they...…

— James Redfield

The weird thing about serious acting is I've always done impressions of people, all my life, and I did the thing called…

— Tom Hiddleston

When you start creating opinion, and you start creating difference of opinion, you're doing something. People are actually sitting down and critiquing.…

— Lupe Fiasco

If a man, holding a belief which he was taught in childhood or persuaded of afterwards, keeps down and pushes away any…

— William Kingdon Clifford

I must fling myself down and writhe; I must strive with every piece of force I possess; I bruise and batter myself…

— Harry Houdini

He [Vince Spadea] was about as down and out as you could see from a Top 20 player. Then to claw his…

— Andy Roddick

When you're a chef, you graze. You never get a chance to sit down and eat. They don't actually sit down and…

— Gordon Ramsay

I calculated the amount of time I spent with my father during my entire life... the total amount of time I had…

— Mohammed Reza Pahlavi

There's a dishonest tyranny in the liberal/progressive/socialist agenda that comes down and says 'we are here because we care about you; we…

— Allen West

I certainly don't sit down and plan a book out before I write it. There's a phrase I use called "The Valley…

— Terry Pratchett

Then he crouches down behind it, motions for Tess and me to sit down, and begins unbuttoning his vest. I blush scarlet…

— Marie Lu

Strange that so few ever come to the woods to see how the pine lives and grows and spires, lifting its evergreen…

— Henry David Thoreau

A typical weeknight when he was home like this: 1. Sit down and try to do homework. 2. Get interrupted by Jeffrey:…

— Jordan Sonnenblick

Films are subjective - what you like, what you don't like. But the thing for me that is absolutely unifying is the…

— Christopher Nolan

I still to this day maintain that in that million-and-a-half feet of film [Heaven's Gate] that we shot, we thought we were…

— Richard Masur

Do you want to do this thing? Sit down and do it. Are you not writing? Keep sitting there. Does it not…

— Ann Patchett

Any guilt about food, shame about the body, or judgment about health are considered stressors by the brain and are immediately transduced…

— Marc David

The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.

— Dalai Lama

If you just keep your head down and just try and do your thing, sometimes magic happens.

— Gavin Rossdale

You have got to sit down and talk to people. You can't understand people from a distance.

— Yitzhak Rabin

Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference.

— Tim Ferriss

Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.

— Nelson Mandela

I avoid the media circus, keep my head down and try to keep growing and learning things.

— Georgie Fame

I don't think I'd want to sit down and listen to people's stories all day long.

— Joan Severance

My soul is now her day, my day her night, So I lie down, and so I rise.

— Karl Shapiro