Beilby Downing Quotes & Sayings

In the intoxication of falling, man was prone to believe himself propelled upward. — Hermann Broch

Beauty is nonchalance. — Marty Rubin

I promised myself that no matter where I went, what I did, I'd never take anything for granted again. — Nora Roberts

In a weird way it was just too good to put down. It was like a novel so disgusting you just have to finish it. — Stephen King

The beauty in correcting our own mistakes; rather than attempting to correct the mistakes in others, is that working upon our own flaws improves us. But working upon the flaws of others not only leaves us unimproved; it actually leaves us being less than we were prior to making those assessments. I believe that the moral of this natural occurrence, is that we are all born to find and fix our own shortcomings; rather than find and fix the shortcomings in others. And if all people were to do this, then we would be a race of creatures looking inward, in order to bring out something better. Now think of what a beautiful race that would be. — C. JoyBell C.

After Michael Jordan had scored a play-off record 69 points - I'll always remember this as the night Michael and I combined to score 70 points. — Stacey King

You gotta go in the mud sometimes to figure who you are. — Andy Irons

The big, bad unknown is only that until it is known. Then you look back and wonder what all the fuss and worry was about. — S.A. Tawks

When you get married you forget about kissing other women. — Pat Boone

Ever since it became theoretically evident that our precious personal identities were just brand-tags for trading crumbs of labour-power on the libidino-economic junk circuit, the vestiges of authorial theatricality have been wearing thinner. — Nick Land

There is not a living man who does not wish to play the despot when he is stiff: it seems to him his joy is less when others appear to have as much fun as he; by an impulse of pride, very natural at this juncture, he would like to be the only one in the world capable of experiencing what he feels: the idea of seeing another enjoy as he enjoys reduces him to a kind of equality with that other, which impairs the unspeakable charm despotism causes him to feel. — Marquis De Sade

I don't believe in luck. Like I didn't win a lot of races for awhile, and it's because I didn't put myself in position to win enough of them. — Michael Waltrip

For Christians, faith is a precious good, the most valuable personal and social resource. When it is left untapped, the common good suffers - not just the particular interests of Christians. — Miroslav Volf

to judge darkness as bad or wrong is akin to judging whether up is better than down, or whether blue is better than red — Timothy Roderick