Downtrodden Def Quotes & Sayings

You've always been my safe place, my escape when life gets crazy. You're my calm through every storm. — Courtney Giardina

My interest in his new toy, the Theremin, isn't very big. It simply does not fit into my way of playing music. I do not want to fiddle around with my hands in the air. — Klaus Schulze

As one grows older, something of the lightness of one's dreams; one begins to take life up in both hands, and to care more for the fruit than the flower, — W.B.Yeats

To such perseverance in willful self-deception Elizabeth would make no reply, and immediately and in silence withdrew; determined, that if he persisted in considering her repeated refusals as flattering encouragement, to apply to her father, whose negative might be uttered in such a manner as must be decisive, and whose behavior at least could not be mistaken for the affectation and coquetry of an elegant female. — Jane Austen

I could use a hundred people who don't know there is such a word as impossible. — Henry Ford

I don't have the time, the energy, or the interest to deal with your problems. — Tahereh Mafi

Lists are a form of power. — A.S. Byatt

Embrace the void and have the courage to exist. — Dan Howell

First of all, in regard to slavery? Do you think it right that Hellenes should enslave Hellenic States, or allow others to enslave them, if they can help? Should not their custom be to spare them, considering the danger which there is that the whole race may one day fall under the yoke of the barbarians? To spare them is infinitely better. Then no Hellene should be owned by them as a slave; that is a rule which they will observe and advise the other Hellenes to observe. Certainly, he said; they will in this way be united against the barbarians and will keep their hands off one another. Next — Plato

I've learned that my readings of others' work often has little connection to their intentions. This doesn't mean that my response is wrong, and it doesn't make the author's views less right. Poets, like their poems, are "hopeful monsters". — Alice Fulton

To be a success, all we need is a purpose oriented journey filled with love and persistence. — Debasish Mridha