Downgrade Relationship Quotes & Sayings

The most important thing, married or single, is that you can't compare your life to overly simplified fantasy figures on TV, in movies, or in magazines. Every human being is unique. Every relationship is unique. If you're in it, it's your job to find out what's unique about it. I don't think you should be in a relationship and downgrade it because it doesn't look the same as some Hollywood image. — Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Once you have become permanently startled, as I am, by the realization that we are a social species, you tend to keep an eye out for the pieces of evidence that this is, by and large, good for us. — Lewis Thomas

We can't change minds without knowing what's in them. — John F. Kerry

I absolutely adore the alchemy of a bit of an idea. — Glen Hansard

Many of my works fall into the category of 'Zeitgeist novels'. Yet I hope that they aren't only reportage, but also attempts to convey the sense of the present to the future. — Will Self

At 1.30 she left the hospital to do some shopping. Both men were sound asleep. Gentle afternoon sunlight flooded the room, and I felt as though I might drift off at any moment perching on my stool. Yellow and white chrysanthemums in a vase on the table by the window reminded people it was autumn. In the air floated the sweet smell of boiled fish left over from lunch. The nurses continued to clip-clop up and down the hall, talking to each other in clear, penetrating voices. They would peep into the room now and then and flash me a smile when they saw that both patients were sleeping. I wished I had something to read, but there were no books or magazines or newspapers in the room, just a calendar on the wall. — Haruki Murakami

Who hath the how is careless of the why — Aleister Crowley

Every day I've got to hear about unemployment and people starving. — Jonathan Davis

Let it flow, while I pump it slow, then I speed it up, heat it up, make it more nasty. — LL Cool J

In order to pick something up, you've got to put something down. — Todd Stocker

The last struggle for our rights, the battle for our civilization, is entirely with ourselves. — William Wells Brown

Everybody needs money. That's why they call it money. — Danny DeVito

I have a lot of interests in global issues, as you know, humanity, inequity, arms control, and I continue to be active on all these issues. — Mohamed ElBaradei

To enter into the realm of contemplation, one must in a certain sense die: but this death is in fact the entrance into a higher life. It is a death for the sake of life, which leaves behind all that we can know or treasure as life, as thought, as experience as joy, as being. [Every form of intuition and experience] die to be born again on a higher level of life. — Thomas Merton