Upgrade Not Downgrade Quotes & Sayings

When Margot died after a car accident in which my sister was also seriously injured in November 1970, I sat on a hill behind a friend's house in Greymouth trying to get my head around having to identify the body of my university sweetheart. Yvonne was the only one who came with condolences (Paul Caffyn) — Theresa Sjoquist

I think somebody ought to do a survey as to how many great, important men have quit to spend time with their families who spent any more time with their family. — Walter Cronkite

It happened every single day in Brooklyn: awaken to fresh glory, fall asleep to blight and ruin. — Kate Christensen

Work and pray, live on hay,
You'll get pie in the sky when you die.
-Joe Hill, The Preacher and the Slave — Michael Lee West

Consequently, I won just about everything I set out to win, everything bar the World Cup, of course. But even now, I don't regret that, because I was part of a team which twice reached the semi-finals. — Michel Patini

I don't want to own anything until I find a place where me and things go together. — Truman Capote

She has many names and many visages. She has loves and desires. She dares to dream of a future for herself and her people, despite living under the shadow of the gun, the acrid odour of devastation clogging her nostrils. For the most part she is stoic, for the garrison is also her home, her workplace, her field and her playground. Sometimes, she cries out in anguish, but the sound is muted, for there are few who want to hear. Her suffering and courage would be the stuff of legend, if only legend consisted of ordinary women carrying out extraordinary acts, going about the daily business of survival, displaying super-human strength in countering a mighty military juggernaut. — Laxmi Murthy

Once again, the only sensible approach is tentatively to reject the dragon hypothesis, to be open to future physical data, and to wonder what the cause might be that so many apparently sane and sober people share the same strange delusion. — Jerry A. Coyne

we live by legends, and not by bread alone. — Dmitry Glukhovsky

Don't downgrade your dream just to fit your reality. Upgrade your conviction to match your destiny. — Stuart Scott

The world is a circle that possesses as many centres as it does men. — R. Scott Bakker

It is belief in the Bible, the fruits of deep meditation, which has served me as the guide of my moral and literary life. I have found capital safely invested and richly productive of interest, although I have sometimes made but a bad use of it. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Davey Boy's Dead was given a new lease on life when doctors transplanted the Dynamite Kidney into his body. That new lease on life came to a sudden and rather hilarious end when the Dynamite Kidney exploded and tore a hole in Davey Boy's side. - The Hills are Alive with the Sound of Zombies — Darrin Mason

If God allows you to be stripped of the exterior portions of your life, He means for you to cultivate the interior — Oswald Chambers

The world is changing at such a rapid rate that it's turning us all into amateurs. Even for professionals, the best way to flourish is to retain an amateur's spirit and embrace uncertainty and the unknown. — Austin Kleon

Don't downgrade your dream to match your reality. Upgrade your faith to match your destiny. — DeVon Franklin