Downist Quotes & Sayings

Thankfully, God's restraining grace keeps even the worst of us from being utterly depraved. The worst people who have ever lived could've been worse. — Tullian Tchividjian

It's not so much revenge, but I think you want to hold on to a little of that just for extra motivation. — Brenden Morrow

He once told a reporter he wanted his obituary to be short - "just make it born in Russia, first lesson at 3, debut at 7, debut in America in 1917". — Jascha Heifetz

Channel a bohemian state of mind with an effortless dress paired with a must have embroidered moto jacket. — Lubov Azria

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health. — Charles Caleb Colton

The constellations this year seem unfavourable to rebels. — Cesare Borgia

Every fiber of my being knows he's a bad person but my whole body doesn't give a shit. — Colleen Hoover

I am joining the government not from the academic position but from St. Petersburg city council. — Anatoly Chubais

Your normal Wall Street big-swinging Richard has enough of a lingering moral compass to at least tell himself that his wizardry benefits somebody or something besides himself. You know, his cleverness makes capital markets more efficient. It provides credit to productive enterprise. Whatever. — Tina Brown

I can imagine nothing more terrifying than an Eternity filled with men who were all the same. The only thing which has made life bearable ... has been the diversity of creatures on the surface of the globe. — T.H. White

It is no good saying we [journalists] must report only what is true because what is true cannot always be proven. — John Humphrys

Certainly the primary imperative of a physician is to be skilled in medical science, but if he or she does not probe a patient's soul, then the doctor's care is given without caring, and part of the sacred mission of healing is missing. — Jerome Groopman

I think we should all have a responsibility not to affect other people in a negative way. — Ali Hewson

They made love then. Kassad, at twenty-three standard years, had been in love once and had enjoyed sex many times. He thought he knew the way and the why of it. There was nothing in his experience to that moment which he could not have described with a phrase and a laugh to his squadmates in the hold of a troop transport. With the calm, sure cynicism of a twenty-three-year-old veteran he was sure that he would never experience anything that could not be so described, so dismissed. He was wrong. He could never adequately share the sense of the next few minutes with anyone else. He would never try. — Dan Simmons

Skyline reveals a city's purpose and character. Oxford had its dreaming spires; Manhattan its glittering towers; Edinburgh its eccentric spikes. — Alexander McCall Smith