I don't give up and I don't wear down. I'm not just rock, I'm diamond.
— Orson Scott Card
Somebody cracks a joke, a whole row laughs, one witticism sets off another, and, like matches, they flare up and burn down.
— Joseph Roth
Sorry, Bramblestar!" Purdy gasped. "I'm too old and stiff for this. I can't get up or down, so I'd better live here, okay?
— Erin Hunter
You look like you were chewed up by a wolf and shit down the wrong side of the mountain. What's wrong?
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
Courage is confused with picking up arms and cowardness is confused with laying them down.
— Mitch Albom
Ziggy, when you go up bring me up and when you go down don't let me down. Stephen, Money can't buy you life.
— Bob Marley
For a moment Jack felt the strongest inclination to snatch up his little gilt chair and beat the white-faced man down with it ...
— Patrick O'Brian
I lean up to kiss Turner's moist lips, but he pulls back and smirks down at me, touching the bare skin on my hip with gentle fingers.
— C.M. Stunich
It's not that I'm not upset; it's just that I'm too tired to run up and down the corridor screaming.
— Lois McMaster Bujold
I got up with my wife, I sat down at the computer when she went to work, and I didn't stop until she got home.
— George Stephen
I grew up in Texas and we used to go to Padre Island, eight hours in the car down to the beach.
— St. Vincent
I love moving in extra dimensions. Not just backwards and forwards, but up and down and around.
— Kirsten Hubbard
When I look down, I miss all the good stuffAnd when I look up, I just trip over things ... — Ani DiFranco
I know it's wrong - God, it's all kinds of wrong - but I just want to lie down with you and wake up with you, just once, just once ever in my life.
— Cassandra Clare
The drawbridge was up and the portcullis down,
— George R R Martin
I'm not ashamed of who you are. And the only time I would look down on you is if I were helping you back up. — Belle Aurora
You should always stand up for what you believe and never stand down to promise or protect your career. — Debra L. Lee
Life is like the stock market. Some days you're up. Some days you're down. And some days you feel like something the bull left behind. — Paula Wall
Those who say life is knocking them down and giving them a tough time are usually the first to beat themselves up. Be on your own side. — Rasheed Ogunlaru
This circuit is interesting because it has inclines and declines. Not just up, but down as well. — Murray Walker
But that's the thing about truth - even when you think you know it, it can still sneak up behind you and knock you down. — Rachel Bateman
Whatever is stealing your peace and rocking your boat, what ever is taking your smile away, reach down, pick it up, and throw it overboard. — Jentezen Franklin
There's a lot of negative things trying to pull people down, and I think people respond when you tell them that hey, there are good things up ahead. — Joel Osteen
I held my arm out in front of me and twisted it back and forth. Palm up. Palm down. Now you look fractured. Now you look whole. — Leila Sales
Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup. The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that. — Robert Fulghum
I think of night. The moon shines in front of the bed. Above the frost is the doubt. I look up and there is a full moon. I look down and miss my life. — Antonio Garrido
Fear is that thing that keeps you up there on that other plateau. Fear is that thing that just keeps you closed down, and quite frankly, alone. — Andrew Shue
He looks me up and down blankly. 'So. No Speedos?''I left them in my other bag with my muscle shirts and tanning spray. You? — Melissa Keil
The man who will get up will be helped up; and the man who will not get up will be allowed to stay down. — Frederick Douglass
Few among men are they who cross to the further shore. The others merely run up and down the bank on this side. — Gautama Buddha
The inferior put others down; the superior lift others up;
the great are an asset to themselves and the world. — Matshona Dhliwayo
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow. G. K. Chesterton — Leslie Parrott
Winter walks up and down the town swinging his censer, but no smoke or sweetness comes from it, only the sour, metallic frankness of salt and snow. — Mary Oliver
PSA145.14 The LORD upholdeth all that fall, and raiseth up all those that be bowed down. — Anonymous
No, no, no, no,no,' he gasped. 'You can't bring up your mum and dad while your hand is down there, Finke — Melina Marchetta
Life is like a mountain: after climbing up one side and sliding down the other, put up the sled. — Josh Billings
If you can't build yourself up without pushing someone else down, it's time to step back and reevaluate just what you're trying to accomplish. — LK Hunsaker
You grow up and change your look. I feel different from how I did in my Playboy days. Now I think I'm in charge of toning down my look or not. — Pamela Anderson
Overall goals must be scaled down in importance and immediate goals must be scaled up. — Robert M. Pirsig
Other men look up and down, left and right; but men like us are different. We are visionaries. — Eoin Colfer
They looked down on her; and she looked up through them. — John Fowles
I would join Sisyphus in Hades and gladly push my boulder up the slope if only, each time it rolled back down, I were given a line of Aeschylus. — Tom Stoppard
I was the dork in high school who sang musical numbers up and down the hallways. — Amy Adams
Look down at me and you see a fool,Look up at me and you see a god,
Look straight at me and you see yourself. — Charles Manson
I sometimes use music as way of getting back to a certain time, dredging up stuff from the past and putting it down on canvas. — Danny Fox
..his tone, like warm maple syrup, drizzled down her spine and licked all the way back up. — Jasmine Haynes
I would find you down the line with broken wings, pick you up, and swear that you would taste the sky again. — Pleasefindthis
You could put on monkeys jumping up and down and get bigger numbers than MSNBC. — Bill O'Reilly
Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else. — Ray Bradbury
Hero worship has died with heroes, and if someone bows down today, it is to pick up something. — Natalie Clifford Barney
People are running to and from class and I just want to yell, Slow down and wait for the world to catch up! — Jessica Sorensen
cigar, and walked up and down before the house, a portly, — Sinclair Lewis
People don't want to give up their SUVs. They don't want to turn the thermostat down in the winter and up in the summer. — Ed Begley Jr.
Grief is deeper when the sun goes down and memories rise up with the moon and stars. — Francine Rivers
If you look up at the sky after falling down the blue sky is also today stretching limitlessly and smiles at me ... I'm alive. — Aya Kito
You can't have an up without a down, a left without a right - and you can't have good times without expecting bad. — Harlan Coben
I could not put your new novel down. At 950 pages and weighing in at over ten lbs. I couldn't even pick the goddamned thing up! — Fred Barnett
Reading always calmed me down: filling my head with other - made up - people's problems and conflicts made my own seem less terrible, less real. — Heather James
But the important thing is to lie down and fall asleep. That little nap means you wake up fresh again and can continue. — James Levine
At least with the video class I'd be behind a lens instead of standing up in front of everyone where they could strip me down and evaluate me — Jessica Sorensen
Oh Esperanza!' said Isabel, jumping up and down and clapping.'I think my heart is dancing. — Pam Munoz Ryan
I was hoping he would get up so I could hit him again and keep him down. — Mike Tyson
It's like we've been living in two different cities. You up here in all this marbled comfort, and me down there, killing myself in slow motion. — Garth Risk Hallberg
She was trying to pull it up to stick it through his throat, but he had her wrist, kept the blade down and his face turned away from its questing edge — Joe Hill
For me, when I get knocked down, I really try to get back up and go at it again. I don't like to give up. — Jeremy Lin
I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man, only when that man needs help to get up from the ground. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The only time I feel at ease is swinging up and down in a coconut tree. — Ray Davies
Fortunes are built during the down market and collected in the up market. — Jason Calacanis
We look up for inspiration, down for desperation, right and left for information. — Tyga
He alone fails who gives up and lies down. — Ralph Waldo Trine
You look up when you wish to be exalted. And I look down because I am exalted. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Tell me you're eighteen," he whispered. "I'm not." "Damn you." And then he tilted my face back up to his, and his mouth came down over mine anyway. — Sierra Simone
Always remember, a cat looks down on man, a dog looks up to man, but a pig will look man right in the eye and see his equal. — Winston S. Churchill
I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number of heartbeats and I'm damned if I'm going to use up mine running up and down a street. — Neil Armstrong
In golf, you keep your head down and follow through. In the vice presidency, you keep your head up and follow through. It's a big difference. — Dan Quayle
The last time she was up here, she had been ... staring up at the sky and dreaming of stars. Now, she looked down and plotted flames. — Kiersten White
As affluence and urbanization rise in a society, rates of depression and suicide tend to go up rather than down. — Sebastian Junger
It's not easy to sit down and open yourself up and say, 'This is how much I love you,' you know? It's scary to do that. — Jason Isbell
Reach up as far as you can, and God will reach down all the way. — John H. Vincent
If you slow it down, eat in courses, your body, mind, stomach will catch up with this full feeling and you won't eat as much. — Guy Fieri
I hope that this medal inspires the kids at home to put down guns and knives and pick up a pair of trainers instead. — Erick Barrondo
It didn't even really matter how good the band was - if someone could keep a beat, then you were prepared to jump up and down and smash around. — Daniel Craig
Climb up the stairs cheerfully, climb down the stairs cheerfully! Let your mind is unaffected by the ups and downs of life! — Mehmet Murat Ildan
I felt like a yo-yo, up one minute and then down the next. Bouncing between highs and lows so fast I couldn't see straight. — Jamie Canosa
The reason why all men honor love is because it looks up, and not down; aspires and not despairs. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Why do 'slow down' and 'slow up' mean the same thing? Why is the third hand on the watch called the second hand? — George Carlin
Mr. Shepherd, ye cannot stop a bad thought from coming into your head. But ye need not pull up a chair and bide it sit down. - Mrs. Brown — Barbara Kingsolver
When someone pushes you down you must get up and stand on your own two feet even if your scared to do it. Only you can set limits to your success. — Sunny Leone
im eaisly influenced by others Do's and Don'ts. How can they bring me up so high, an sink me down like a stone? — Cassie Premo Steele
When people say - 'Well, do you miss being a judge since you're in Congress,' I go - 'Only when I want people to sit down and shut up.' — Louie Gohmert
