Downrightness Quotes & Sayings

Saying hello doesn't have an ROI. It's about building relationships. — Gary Vaynerchuk

You got to remember, this is the United States. Practically ninety percent of your friends and neighbors are right-wing, fundamentalist, un-Christian, Nazi-bastard, racist dogs. No one sunk the Mayflower when we had the chance, and we are stuck with those attitudes. — Dan O'Neill

But all that having been said, you can't, in a city of a million people like Karbala, or 5 million like Baghdad, you can't be in all places at all times. — John Abizaid

Thus far did I come laden with my sin; Nor could aught ease the grief that I was in, Till I came hither; what a place is this! Must here be the beginning of my bliss? Must here the burden fall from off my back? Must here the strings that bound it to me crack? Blest cross! blest sepulchre! blest rather be The Man that was there put to shame for me! — John Bunyan

The doings of men, their prayers, fear, wrath, pleasure, delights, and recreations, are the subject of this book.
[Lat., Quicquid agunt homines, votum, timor, ira, voluptas, gaudia, discursus, nostri est farrago libelli.] — Juvenal

I'm one of those people who does a lot of things. I'm lucky. I get up and I have a lot of energy. I have a great work ethic. — Jamie Lee Curtis

Paul Slazinger says, incidentally, that the human condition can be summed up in just one word, and this is the word: Embarrassment. — Kurt Vonnegut

I hope that you enjoy reading my dreams in as much as I had in dreaming them. — G.R. Holton

When people are frightened about going hungry and paying their mortgages, a scarcity model begins to prevail; they fear someone else will get their piece of the pie. — Barbara Kingsolver

I remember when I was little, my mom asked me, 'Would you like to play the violin or the piano?' I looked at that giant monster and said to myself - I am not going to lock myself on that bench the whole day. This is small and lightweight. I can play from standing, sitting or walking. — Sirena Huang

We should seek to free the moral life from the embarrassments and entanglements in which it has been involved by the quibbles of the schools and the mutual antagonisms of the sects; to introduce into it an element of downrightness and practical earnestness; above all, to secure to the modern world, in its struggle with manifold evil, the boon of moral unity, despite intellectual diversity. — Felix Adler

The essence of the conflict today, really, is cars versus people ... We can have a city that is very friendly to cars, or a city that is very friendly to people. We cannot have both. — Enrique Penalosa