Downtime Crossword Quotes & Sayings

Suddenly Shirley understood why her father had brought her 10,000 miles to live among strangers. Here, she did not have to wait for gray hairs to be considered wise. Here, she could speak up, question even the conduct of the President. Here, Shirley Temple Wong was somebody. She felt as if she had the power of ten tigers, as if she had grown as tall as the Statue of Liberty. — Bette Bao Lord

I want to be a force for real good. In other words. I know that there are bad forces, forces that bring suffering to others and misery to the world, but I want to be the opposite force. I want to be the force which is truly for good. — John Coltrane

At FDA, our mission is to promote and protect the health of the public. As commissioner, I've worked hard to galvanize people around that idea. I want employees to be thinking about the unique and essential contribution they are making to our mission. — Margaret Hamburg

I can get into politics. I'm a pretty straight guy for this business. I have a pretty healthy outlook. — Rex Smith

So much history can be lost if no one tells the story
so that's what I do. I tell the stories. This is my way of fighting for social change. — Alanis Obomsawin

Parents are the worst teachers, if they are good at it and you're not. My father thought I was the densest offspring he could have produced. — John Hurt

... rational metaphysics teaches that man becomes all things by understanding them ... imaginative metaphysics shows that
man becomes all things by not understanding them ... for when he does not understand he makes the things out of himself and becomes them by transforming himself into them. — Giambattista Vico

desire will be at rest, not only our desire for God but all our desires; so that the joy of the blessed is full to perfection - indeed, over-full, since they will obtain more than they were capable of desiring, — Peter Kreeft

You have to work at having quality in your church, because people that are influential in your city may be God's instruments for resolving all kinds of problems that will most surely come up in the future. — Sunday Adelaja

Because I love you...Not just when it's easy. All the time. — Ann Aguirre

That is how to live: in the choosing. There are no rules but those you make for yourself. — Karen Marie Moning

Only six electronic digital computers would be required to satisfy the computing needs of the entire United States, — Howard Aiken

Determinists can't help it — Jerry DePyper

God is a snooker player, that's why all the planets are turning! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

With the people, especially a people seized of property, resides the aggregate of original power. — Ezra Stiles