Up And Down Quotes - Page 2

Whoever has no house now, will never have one. Whoever is alone will stay alone, will sit, read, write long letters through the evening, and wander on the boulevards, up and down, restlessly, while dry leaves are blowing.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Writing, Long, House

Rainer Maria Rilke, “Autumn Day”

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As an ability, love is always there as a potential, ready to flourish and help our lives flourish. As we go up and down in life, as we acquire or lose, as we are showered with praise or unfairly blamed, always within there is the ability of love, recognized or not, given life or not.

Sharon Salzberg

Love Is, Helping, Praise

Sharon Salzberg (2008). “The Kindness Handbook: A Practical Companion: Easy Read Comfort Edition”, p.9, ReadHowYouWant.com

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She was unaware that she was somewhat of a celebrity up in heaven. I had told people about her, what she did, how she observed moments of silence up and down the city and wrote small individual prayers in her journal, and the story had travelled so quickly that women lined up to know she had found where they’d been killed. She had fans in heaven..... Meanwhile, for us, she was doing important work, work that most people on Earth were too frightened even too contemplate.

Alice Sebold

Prayer, Cities, People

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It was cold autumn weather, but in spite of the cold they wandered up and down the roads of the Park for nearly three hours. They agreed to break off their intercourse; every bond, he said, is a bond to sorrow.

James Joyce

Autumn, Break Off, Weather

James Joyce (2016). “James Joyce The Dover Reader”, p.84, Courier Dover Publications

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I always thought storytelling was like juggling [...] You keep a lot of different tales in the air, and juggle them up and down, and if you're good you don't drop any.

Salman Rushdie

Air, Different, Down And

Salman Rushdie (1990). “Haroun and the Sea of Stories”, Penguin Books

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This cell belongs to a brain, and it is my brain, the brain of me who is writing; and the cell in question, and within it the atom in question, is in charge of my writing, in a gigantic minuscule game which nobody has yet described. It is that which at this instant, issuing out of a labyrinthine tangle of yeses and nos, makes my hand run along a certain path on the paper, mark it with these volutes that are signs: a double snap, up and down, between two levels of energy, guides this hand of mine to impress on the paper this dot, here, this one.

Primo Levi

Running, Writing, Cells

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I'd rather hang out with five people that I love than with 400 strangers at a club who are all doing the up-and-down inspection thing. They appraise everybody from head to toe - the outfit, the handbag, the shoes, how much they weigh... I can't stand it!

Sophia Bush

Shoes, People, Handbags

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Life's up and down from the time you get here to the time you leave.

Luke Bryan

Luke, Bryan

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My preference is swimming in the sea. I find the sea is more liberating, wild and good fun rather than plodding up and down a pool.

Jo Brand

Fun, Swimming, Sea

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We were all flying around up and down the coast near Dunkirk looking for enemy aircraft which seemed also to be milling around with no particular cohesion.

Douglas Bader

Flying, Enemy, Cohesion

Douglas Bader (2006). “Douglas Bader: Fight for the Sky”, p.19, Pen and Sword

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All careers go up and down like friendships, like marriages, like anything else, and you can't bat a thousand all the time.

Julie Andrews

Inspiring, Careers, Bats

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You shall find out how salt is the taste of another man's bread, and how hard is the way up and down another man's stairs.

Dante Alighieri

Men, Way, Taste

Divina Commedia "Paradiso" canto 17, l. 58 (ca. 1310 - 1321) (translation by John D. Sinclair)

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Once, when Tom was over here, to tease Rose, I asked him, "Before she was born, can you remember? Were things just the same as they are these days? Did it still rain and get dark and all the stuff it does now? Did the sun go up and down in exactly the same way?" Yes," Tom said, and then he smiled at Rose and said, "No. Not really. Not exactly the same way.

Hilary McKay

Rain, Dark, Rose

Hilary McKay (2007). “Caddy Ever After”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? The entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; the self that took the veil and left the world -- a coward perhaps, yet somehow beautiful, as it flits with its lantern restlessly up and down the dark corridors.

Virginia Woolf

Beautiful, Dark, Self

Virginia Woolf (2012). “Monday or Tuesday: Eight Stories”, p.28, Courier Corporation

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Dwarfs were not a naturally religious species, but in a world where pit props could crack without warning and pockets of fire damp could suddenly explode they'd seen the need for gods as the sort of supernatural equivalent of a hard hat. Besides, when you hit your thumb with an eight-pound hammer it's nice to be able to blaspheme. It takes a very special and strong-minded kind of atheist to jump up and down with their hand clasped under their other armpit and shout, "Oh, random-fluctuations-in-the-space-time-continuum!" or "Aaargh, primitive-and-outmoded-concept on a crutch!

Terry Pratchett

Religious, Atheist, Strong

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Simon shook his head."Look,do you know what you want to eat,or do you just want me to keep pushing this cart up and down aisles because it amuses you?" "That and I'm not really familiar with what they sell in mundane grocery stores.Maryse usually cooks or we order in food."said Jace

Cassandra Clare

Order, Pushing, Looks

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To stand at the edge of the sea, to sense the ebb and flow of the tides, to feel the breath of a mist moving over a great salt marsh, to watch the flight of shore birds that have swept up and down the surf lines of the continents for untold thousands of years, to see the running of the old eels and the young shad to the sea, is to have knowledge of things that are as nearly eternal as any earthly life can be.

Rachel Carson

Running, Moving, Years

Paul Brooks, Rachel Carson (1972). “The house of life: Rachel Carson at work”

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And as the hour approached for the execution, in his own mind, Collins became both the executioner and the victim. He would pace up and down, transformed in almost a kind of exorcism when he knew he was responsible for taking someone's life.

Liam Neeson

Mind, Pace, Exorcism

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I don't go out to clubs. You'll never see me on a table at a bar, jumping up and down.

Lea Michele

Jumping, Bars, Clubs

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If my life were a song it would probably be titled 'Roller Coaster', up and down all the time.

Scotty McCreery

Song, Roller Coaster, Coasters

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As a kid, we would drive up and down 77 North - that's our highway - there would be office buildings on the side of the highway and I'd be like, that's what my house is going to look like when I get older. I'm going to start making my house look like this.

LeBron James

Kids, Office, House

Interview With Larry King, edition.cnn.com. June 2, 2010.

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Ever since I was little, I loved to eat. I started eating when I wasn't hungry. My weight has always been up and down.

Janet Jackson

Weight, Littles, Eating

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I have vertigo. Vertigo makes it feel like the floor is pitching up and down. Things seem to be spinning. It's like standing on the deck of a ship in really high seas.

Laura Hillenbrand

Sea, Pitching, Ships

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Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture.

Ernest Hemingway

Country, Style, Cuckoo Clocks

Toronto Star Weekly 4 Mar. 1922, in William White By-line: Ernest Hemingway (1967) p. 18 See also F. Scott Fitzgerald (6.20)

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Trent looked me up and down. “Is that all you’re going to do?” My pulse quickened, and I gazed at the front of the basilica where the scratching was coming from. “I might have a snack later if nothing comes through those doors.

Kim Harrison

Doors, Snacks, Pulse

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