Ups & Downs Quotes - Page 12

• Don't let ups and downs leave you down and out.

  Harvey Mackay

  Down And

  Harvey Mackay (2011). “The Mackay MBA of Selling in the Real World”, Penguin

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• We know something of the cost of that war. We were in it from December seventh, '41, till August of '45. Ever since that time, we have been waging peace. It has had its ups and downs just as the war did.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, August, Defense

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• How does one say in the jargon of musicology that my sould was pulled out of me and thrown up in the air, to be tossed about by the music. How does one say that I breathed, that I existed, in harmony with the ups and downs of those notes. What kind of notes both elevate and cast down, exalt and crush?

  Yann Martel

  Crush, Air, Jargon

  Yann Martel (1993). “The Facts Behind the Helsinki Roccamatios”, Orlando : Harcourt

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• I was always interested in how to be more joyful. This goes all the way back to elemenatary school. I looked at what was going on around me and I wanted something better. Because my mother had so many ups and downs, I watned to know how to be "up" more often.

  Bonnie St. John

  Mother, School, Way

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• Its fun for me to go on other folks talk shows. When youve endured the ups and downs and tensions and pitfalls of hosting, being a guest is a piece of angel food.

  Dick Cavett

  Fun, Angel, Pitfalls

  Dick Cavett (2014). “Brief Encounters: Conversations, Magic Moments, and Assorted Hijinks”, p.39, Henry Holt and Company

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• Obviously in the world of sports, you go through different ups and downs than in normal life. You might be on top of the world playing or you're sidelined with an injury.

  Tobin Heath

  Sports, Different, World

  "A conversation with U.S. women’s soccer team member Tobin Heath". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. December 2011.

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• One should aim, seriously, at disregarding ups and downs; a compliment here, silence there ... the central fact remains stable, which is the fact of my own pleasure in the art.

  Virginia Woolf

  Art, Silence, Facts

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.4298, Delphi Classics

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• Life is like a roller coaster- it has its ups and downs but in the end you have smiles and giggles because you know...you did it.

  Julia Serano

  Life, Roller Coaster, Coasters

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• "The weird world rolls on..." meaning that through all the ups and downs, all the travails that we go through, all the horrors, all the wars, all the deaths, all the cruelties, there's still something that keeps us wanting to wake up the next morning and go on with our lives - to make children, to fall in love, to continue humanity.

  Paul Auster

  Falling In Love, Morning, Children

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. September 6, 2008.

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• What family doesn't have its ups and downs?

  Eleanor of Aquitaine

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• Victoria had the discipline of being a queen to help her through the biggest trial of her life - when she lost Albert and faltered. I've had the discipline of the theatre to help me over the ups and downs. A wonderful life . . Go it old girl. You've done it well.

  Helen Hayes

  Girl, Queens, Discipline

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• My dad's gay experiences really had a very positive influence on me and my straight relationships - how to better accept all the weirdness and ambiguity and ups and downs and paradoxes. I knew from the beginning I was writing about love.

  Mike Mills

  Dad, Writing, Gay

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• I think the level of criticism you're under is never healthy. I think that's why lots of people in Hollywood end up in rehab. There are the ups and downs. I was never a fan of the attention.

  Lauren Conrad

  Thinking, People, Healthy

  "Q&A: Lauren Conrad talks new novel "Fame Game". Interview with Craig Wilson, www.azcentral.com. March 29, 2012.

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• But complex people are never certain that they are not crooks, never certain their passports are quite in order, and are, therefore, unnerved by the slightest thing.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Order, People, Crooks

  Elizabeth Bowen (1950). “Collected Impressions”

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• Pondering must turn out to be your cash asset, regardless of whichever ups and downs you occur throughout in the everyday living.

  Abdul Kalam

  Everyday, Cash, Assets

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• Nirvana is a state of perpetual bliss and ecstasy, unaffected by the transient ups and downs of its own creations.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Suffering, Bliss

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• The central benefit of Zen, in the context of ordinary ups and downs of life,is not in preventing the minus and promoting the plus,but in directing people to the fundamental reality that is not under the sway of ups and downs.

  Muso Soseki

  Reality, People, Ordinary

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• Nothing's perfect along the way [in life], and you ride the ups and downs. It's how you come out of those and continue on that I guess really matters.

  Jimmy Connors

  Way In Life, Perfect, Matter

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I keep reminding myself, through all the ups and downs of 'Community,' that I might never have another job that really means something to people, the way 'Community' means something to people. [...] That's more powerful than ratings.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Jobs, Powerful, Mean

  "Gillian Jacobs Talks Short Film IT'S NOT YOU, IT'S ME, Creating Her Own Original Content, COMMUNITY, BAD MILO, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 15, 2013.

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• Watch for the high tides of yourself and flow up with them; when the inevitable low tides come, either rest or meditate. You cannot escape rhythm. You transcend it by working with it.

  Elsa Barker

  Watches, Flow, Tides

  Elsa Barker (2011). “Letters from the Afterlife: A Guide to the Other Side”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

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• recurrence is sure. What the mind suffered last week, or last year, it does not suffer now; but it will suffer again next week or next year. Happiness is not a matter of events; it depends upon the tides of the mind.

  Alice Meynell

  Next Week, Years, Mind

  Alice Meynell (2013). “The Essential Alice Meynell Collection”, p.384, eBookIt.com

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• I am not so foolish as to murmur, if now, since I have drunk up my wine and beer, I have to put up with skimmed milk and sour.

  Sigrid Undset

  Wine, Beer, Drunk

  Sigrid Undset (2011). “The Bridal Wreath: Kristin Lavransdatter”, p.44, Vintage

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• Funeralese has had its ups and downs. The word 'morticians,' first used in Embalmers Monthly for February, 1895, was barred by the Chicago Tribune in 1932, 'not for lack of sympathy with the ambition of undertakers to be well regarded, but because of it. If they haven't the sense to save themselves from their own lexicographers, we shall not be guilty of abetting them in their folly.

  Jessica Mitford

  Ambition, Firsts, Chicago

  JESSICA MITFORD (1963). “THE AMERICAN WAY OF DEATH”

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• We know that God is in control and we all have ups and downs and fears and uncertainty sometimes. Sometimes even on an hourly basis we need to keep praying and keep our peace in God and remind ourselves on the promises of God that never fails.

  Nick Vujicic

  Promise, Needs, Praying

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Every season is so much different and you go through your ups and downs, you figure your team out, you get to play against great teams. Some of the best competition there's been since I've been in the league. Just every night, night in and night out we get to play against the top guys, the top teams. It's a lot of fun.

  Blake Griffin

  Fun, Team, Night

  Source: www.slamonlineph.com

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