Quotes of: Downward Keyword

I find now, swallowing one teaspoon of pain, that it drops downward to the past where it mixes with last year’s cupful and downward into a decade’s quart and downward into a lifetime’s ocean. I alternate treading water and deadman’s float.

The Complete Poems

It's very important for men to look downward, to the next generation.

James Hillman

Cobb: Downwards is the only way forwards.

Inception

Let's stop this American downward spiral.

Rick Perry

Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards.

Keith Richards

Your mind simply can't focus forward and downward all at the same time.

Daryn Kagan

Let me be one of the upward and outward lookers, not one of the downward and inward lookers.

Life

I had a terrible manager once who described my career as 'spiraling downward.'

Rickie Lee Jones

When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.

Jim Hightower

Two steps upward after one step downward is still an achievement.

Paula Ramsis

I started my career at the top and have been working my way downwards ever since.

Tom Glazer

I remember thinking, 'Downward dog' is so not a resting pose!' Now it actually can be.

Jennifer Nettles

The point of conservatism is not that it prevents movement forward and upward, but that it prevents movement backward and downward, into chaotic darkness and a return to a primitive state.

Vladimir Putin

You can make bad choices and find yourself in a downward spiral or you can find something that gets you out of it.

Ray LaMontagne

I was so busy fighting and so busy trying to keep everything above water that I didn't realize I was spiraling downward with nowhere to go.

Lorraine Bracco

I have an addictive personality. Boarding school merely sent me more quickly on the downward spiral that dominated my childhood.

Marcus Brigstocke

Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending downwards.

William Whewell

All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

He felt like a baked bean in a can, soaring through the air on a downward turn of a parabolic arc...

Infected Connection

What I was concerned about when I wrote the 'Downward Spiral' record was being a self-centred destructive force. The point was tearing down everything in a search for something else.

Trent Reznor

Corporate America cannot afford to remain silent or passive about the downward spiral we are undergoing. It cannot turn a blind eye to how difficult the experience of life is for so many of their customers.

Simon Mainwaring