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Down Quotes by Edward Abbey
- Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.
- There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep.
- There comes a time in the life of us all when we must lay aside our books or put down our tools and leave our…
- Representative government has broken down. Our politicians represent not the people who vote for them but the commercial interests who finance their election campaigns. We…
- In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.
- Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging…
- When riding my old Harley a ninety per at midnight down the Via Roma in Naples, I kept one consolation firmly in mind: If anything…
- You long for success? Start at the bottom; dig down.
- Desert springtime, with flowers popping up all over the place, trees leafing out, streams gushing down from the mountains. Great time of year for hiking,…
- Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.
More Down Quotes
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- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. — Aristotle
- I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the… — Richard Armitage
- Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's… — Lance Armstrong
- My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers… — Desi Arnaz
- This is the sheriff you're talking about, with a gun and badge that enforces the law. Nothing is going to stop me… — Joe Arpaio
- The Steps to Folly as well as Sin are gradual, and almost imperceptible, and when we are once on the Decline, we… — Mary Astell