- Nov 07, 2020
Down Quotes
Working the count, and watching things slip.
This page uses "down" across very different contexts — a baseball strategy built on working the count against a hitter's expectations, and a theory of absurdist humor rooted deep in the subconscious. For lighter, forward-looking sayings, try Downside quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Greeks are notorious for their potions. I wouldn't say I've used Windex, but there are so many tricks that have been handed down to me.
- Francis
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- Nov 07, 2020
When Pope Francis touched down on French soil for the first time in his papacy with a visit to the European Parliament in Strasbourg last November, Ms. Royal was the senior French official there to greet him.
- Push
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Bobsledding is like sprinting with NASCAR. You get to push these 400-pound sleds as fast as you can down a hill and hop in. How could you not enjoy that?
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Bobsled boils down to three things - your equipment, start, and drive. To win the Olympics requires all three.
- Know
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Bobsled is a universal sport, and most people don't know that. Anybody can slide down a hill.
- History
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Bush does not want to go down in history as the president who lost in Iraq. His strategy to the extent he has one is to hang tough and let whoever succeeds him take the fall.
- Nov 07, 2020
The poet is like the earth's shadow. The sun moves, and the poet writes something down.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Government at all levels has kicked the fiscal can down the road for far too long.
- Failure
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Spain held the doctrine (and was right in holding it) that every human enterprise should stand on two pillars - the temporal and the spiritual. To depend upon one of these pillars alone is to call down final failure upon any undertaking.
- Enough
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Too much detail can bog down any story. Enough with the history of gunpowder, the geology of Hawaii, the processes of whaling, and cactus and tumbleweed.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020