Down Quotes
23748 quotes by 11295 authors
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Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down.
— J. J. Abrams
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Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
— Aristotle
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Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
— Aristotle
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I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the appearance is that…
— Richard Armitage
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Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down.
— Lance Armstrong
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My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers in Latin America.
— Desi Arnaz
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This is the sheriff you're talking about, with a gun and badge that enforces the law. Nothing is going to stop me from cracking down…
— Joe Arpaio
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The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we go down without…
— Mary Astell
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I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help you, that's a rural heart.…
— Rodney Atkins
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I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for extended periods of time.
— Rowan Atkinson
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I think every age lives in a blend of technology so there's always older ones mixed in with newer ones, and when the new technology…
— Margaret Atwood
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The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can remember. So it's…
— Chinua Achebe
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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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One of the most feared expressions in modern times is 'The computer is down.'
— Norman Ralph Augustine
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The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was 'Crime and Punishment'. I put the thing down after reading it in a…
— Paul Auster
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Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our mother or father…
— Paul Auster
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Folks have to pin me down because, for one thing, I don't have a laptop. I don't have an iPhone, and I refuse to carry…
— Dan Aykroyd
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A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him feel that he…
— Irving Babbitt
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We need a strong, bold constitutional conservative who won't back down and who will fight for the values we believe in. That's what we need…
— Michele Bachmann
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He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition…
— Francis Bacon
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