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We’ve collected the best Down Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: Charlie Sheen, Karen Blixen, Patsy Kensit, Ernest Hemingway, Anne-Marie. Use them as an inspiration.

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Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them.
2
God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.
Karen Blixen
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I am a survivor and not a victim. Life isn’t perfect. When you get a knock, you have to get up, dust yourself down and get on with it.
Patsy Kensit
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I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast – talk them or write them down.
5
When you get knocked down, you got to get backup. Otherwise, you are going to lose.
6
We didn’t crumble after 9/11. We didn’t falter after the Boston Marathon. But we’re America. Americans will never, ever stand down. We endure. We overcome. We own the finish line.
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If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you’ll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you’ll get to where you want to be.
8
I give all the glory to God. It’s kind of a win-win situation. The glory goes up to Him and the blessings fall down on me.
9
Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.
10
Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.
11
My art is not limited to the songs I create but also to the reaction it creates. I like to sit back and look at the whole thing as if it’s a tornado that I’m controlling. It’s creating chaos. When you create chaos, ideas are turned upside down, and everybody looks at things in a different way.
12
I let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible. From the air, fast down, and from the ground, fast up.
Jesse Owens
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You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.
14
They say with age your reflexes slow down. I’ve not felt it.
15
Allah is with people who show patience. If you are down in the dumps, Allah will help you if you have belief. But this is a personal thing between you and him. You can’t fool Allah.
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Even if you have a terminal disease, you don’t have to sit down and mope. Enjoy life and challenge the illness that you have.
17
You can’t deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
18
Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing. Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.
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For fast-acting relief try slowing down.
20
I have no illusions at all about being a sex symbol. None of my former girlfriends ever thought of me that way, and I don’t have any packs of women chasing me down the street like a Brad Pitt or someone like that.
Tobey Maguire
21
In the beginning I used to make one terrible play a game. Then I got so I’d make one a week and finally I’d pull a bad one about once a month. Now, I’m trying to keep it down to one a season.
Lou Gehrig
22
The inventory goes down the elevator every night.
Fairfax Cone
23
Consumption is still going up on Alibaba. This is because when the economy goes down people look online to Alibaba to buy cheaper things.
24
Just dream big. Go for it. There’s nothing holding you back. You can have ups and downs, but if you believe in something, keep the faith; keep fighting. And don’t let people put you down.
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I didn’t want a pickup with mud tires. I wanted an old blazer with as many speakers in the back as I could afford. I would even steal them out of my brother’s car and pack them in there. I remember sitting in a parking lot and turning my radio up and walking down the street to see how far you could feel it.
26
Don’t let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn’t go with it.
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Allah is with people who show patience. If you are down in the dumps, Allah will help you if you have belief. But this is a personal thing between you and him. You can’t fool Allah.
28
Sometimes it was tough doing take after take upside down! I did a lot of that sort of thing.
29
Religion and gods and beliefs – for me, it all comes down to your brother. And your brother might be the brother in your family, or it might be the guy next to you in the foxhole – it’s about human connections.
Eric Kripke
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Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, and which they see as they look up to them, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other.
31
I propose to construct a new chart for navigating, on which I shall delineate all the sea and lands of the Ocean in their proper positions under their bearings; and further, I propose to prepare a book, and to put down all as it were in a picture, by latitude from the equator, and western longitude.
32
The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.
33
My wife once said that one of her great ambitions was to walk down the streets of Hong Kong with her children. So we all went to Asia on one occasion. Then she said she’d like to walk down the streets of Jerusalem with her children. So we arranged our family finances and all went to Jerusalem.
34
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
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Life is very, very short, and you can choose to live it how you want. You can choose to dumb yourself down and not express yourself just so you can fit in, just so people won’t dislike you.
36
My roots are from Iran and so, I cook Iranian dishes that have been passed down the generations in our family. I was born and raised in India and enjoy cooking Indian food, too.
37
Never look backwards or you’ll fall down the stairs.
38
There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.
39
Have a dream, chase it down, jump over every single hurdle, and run through fire and ice to get there.
40
Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the drug store, but that’s just peanuts to space.
41
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
42
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
43
I remember flying in, driving down 101 in a cab, and passing by all these tech companies like Yahoo! I remember thinking, ‘Maybe someday we’ll build a company. This probably isn’t it, but one day we will.’
44
Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.
45
The Lord gave me ‘Sojourner,’ because I was to travel up an’ down the land, showin’ the people their sins an’ bein’ a sign unto them. Afterwards, I told the Lord I wanted another name ’cause everybody else had two names, and the Lord gave me ‘Truth,’ because I was to declare the truth to people.
46
The digital world has been in a separate orbit from our medical cocoon, and it’s time the boundaries be taken down.
47
I’ve sat looking down into a volcano that could blow at any moment; I’ve helped catch a shark and several rattlesnakes; I let a tarantula walk across my hand, and I ate rat soup.
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When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.
49
My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. This disaster will go down in history books as one of the largest natural disasters in U.S. history.
Ellen Tauscher
50
I’ve just concluded – since President Obama endorses the same-sex marriage, advocates homosexual people, and enjoys an attractive countenancethus if it becomes necessary, I shall travel to Washington, D.C., get down on my knee, and ask his hand.
51
Poetry and beauty are always making peace. When you read something beautiful you find coexistence; it breaks walls down.
Mahmoud Darwish
52
There’s always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.
53
The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
A. Whitney Brown
54
I don’t like country music, but I don’t mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means ‘put down’.
55
Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.
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Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness.
57
I went down the street to the 24-hour grocery. When I got there, the guy was locking the front door. I said, ‘Hey, the sign says you’re open 24 hours.’ He said, ‘Yes, but not in a row.’
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When times are down, keep believing, keep working hard, and things will pick up.
59
Having Black hair is unique in that Black women change up styles a lot. You can walk down one street block in New York City and see 10 different hairstyles that Black women are wearing: straight curls, short cuts, braids – we really run the gamut.
60
Sometimes you’ve got to let everything go – purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything… whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you’ll find that when you’re free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.
61
Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.
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With me, I come in the ring and start thinking right away. My thought process is just to put a guy down. I’m like a technician and learn to break it all down – from head to toe.
63
I had to listen to the classical music because it calms me down, calms my nerves down.
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We look at science as something very elite, which only a few people can learn. That’s just not true. You just have to start early and give kids a foundation. Kids live up, or down, to expectations.
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My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.
66
What I respect about my dad is he comes forth, and he tells the truth, and he’s a very honorable person. I respect him a lot. He, I know deep down, has a good heart.
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You have to break yourself down to rebuild yourself stronger.
68
I wanted to write about the moment when your addictions no longer hide the truth from you. When your whole life breaks down. That’s the moment when you have to somehow choose what your life is going to be about.
69
I love to have a bath with beautiful, relaxing music on and have no rush to do anything. It’s a wonderful indulgence, and it helps me to calm down and stop my mind running overtime.
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My personality is up and down, sassy and cheeky.
71
If any demonstrator ever lays down in front of my car, it’ll be the last car he’ll ever lay down in front of.
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Class never tries to build itself up by tearing others down. Class is already up and need not strive to look better by making others look worse.
73
I have seen people climbing up and down the ladder of success, and I learnt a lot from them.
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It’s that strength of the human spirit, the strength of what’s deep down in you, that’s really going to get you anywhere and everywhere.
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Tea time is a chance to slow down, pull back and appreciate our surroundings.
76
What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.
77
My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.
Jack Wagner
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Despite being such a brilliant director, Hansal Mehta is a simple and down to earth man. He is very sorted and driven by passion. So that’s a rare combination – being a good craftsman and a good human being.
79
When takers talk about mistakes, they’re usually quick to place the blame on other people. Givers are more likely to say ‘Here’s the mistake I made; I learned the following from it. Here are the steps I’m taking to make sure I don’t let people down in the future.’
80
You can knock me down, but I get up twice as strong.
81
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.
82
Write your goals down in detail and read your list of goals every day. Some goals may entail a list of shorter goals. Losing a lot of weight, for example, should include mini-goals, such as 10-pound milestones. This will keep your subconscious mind focused on what you want step by step.
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You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you. I mean, you’re supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer.
84
Would I lay down my life to save my brother? No, but I would to save two brothers or eight cousins.
John B. S. Haldane
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If it is a crime to love the South, its cause and its President, then I am a criminal. I would rather lie down in this prison and die than leave it owing allegiance to a government such as yours.
Belle Boyd
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I’ve been shut down, run down, talked about, dogged out, but that never stopped me from the being the true me that’s here and will be here.
87
Newman’s first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you’re upside down.
Paul Newman
88
The only Angels in Los Angeles are in Heaven, and they’re looking down on the Dodgers.
89
Everytime a child says ‘I don’t believe in fairies‘ there is a a little fairy somewhere that falls down dead.
90
As far back as I can remember, my mother would have me down by the bed at night with her, praying. I can still hear her voice calling my name to God and telling him that she wanted me to follow him in whatever he called me to do.
91
I was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out.
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But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That’s all.
93
You have to go through the falling down in order to learn to walk. It helps to know that you can survive it. That’s an education in itself.
94
The Iranians have shot down drones. They tried to destroy the Saudi oil fields. They tried to storm our embassy. So, when my Democratic friends say we need appeasement, well appeasement hasn’t worked. And I think that we’ve learned, with respect to Iran, that weakness invites the wolves.
95
Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don’t work, those that break down and those that get lost.
96
Arsene Wenger asked me to have a trial with Arsenal when I was 17. I turned it down. Zlatan doesn’t do auditions.
97
I’m unbelievably ticklish. When I was a little kid, my sisters would hold me down and tickle me until I peed my pants.
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When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass!
100
The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.
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I don’t know where streaming will go in the future. The analytics that we’re seeing tell us that streaming is the next thing, and downloads are going down. I feel like with the history of this platform, from vinyl to where we are now, it just seems like the next logical step.
102
On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.
103
I hate to witness animals in captivity – or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it’s a loss of what they are.
104
A kite needs to be tied down in order to fly. I learned how important restrictions can sometimes be in order to experience freedom.
105
You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
Booker T. Washington
106
Honest honey, I feel like crying every time I sit down to write you a letter… I am so unlucky.
Eddie Slovik
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Sometimes the very best of all summer books is a blank notebook. Get one big enough, and you can practice sketching the lemon slice in your drink or the hot lifeguard on the beach or the vista down the hill from your cabin.
108
Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
109
Some people think that you have to be the loudest voice in the room to make a difference. That is just not true. Often, the best thing we can do is turn down the volume. When the sound is quieter, you can actually hear what someone else is saying. And that can make a world of difference.
110
To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.
Booker T. Washington
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When you see things upside down, the ego can be extraordinarily funny; it’s absurd. But it’s tragic at the same time.
112
Never dress down for the poor. They won’t respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.
113
Part of my act is meant to shake you up. It looks like I’m being funny, but I’m reminding you of other things. Life is tough, darling. Life is hard. And we better laugh at everything; otherwise, we’re going down the tube.
114
Your mind knows only some things. Your inner voice, your instinct, knows everything. If you listen to what you know instinctively, it will always lead you down the right path.
115
Work hard for what you want because it won’t come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticizes you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive.
116
Make no mistake about it. Bad habits are called ‘bad’ for a reason. They kill our productivity and creativity. They slow us down. They hold us back from achieving our goals. And they’re detrimental to our health.
117
It’s easy to get negative because you get beat down. You go through a few disappointments and it’s easy to stay in that negative frame of mind. Choosing to be positive and having a grateful attitude is a whole cliche, but your attitude is going to determine how you’re going to live your life.
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My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
119
I remember arguing with kids on the street who were talking about Santa Claus. I said don’t be so daft – Santa Claus doesn’t come down our chimney. He’s an economic Santa Claus; he goes down chimneys where they’ve got money.
120
I don’t think a man has to go around shouting and play-acting to prove he is something. And a real man don’t go around putting other guys down, trampling their feelings in the dirt, making out they’re nothing.
121
Port Royal, Jamaica, was built for pirates. The town had a well-protected harbor, corrupt politicians and townsfolk, and a set of ethics that seemed passed down from Sodom and Gomorrah.
122
The most important thing is to stay down to earth and keep concentrating on the next game.
123
While the traditional banks and credit card companies lock down access to their payments infrastructure to a handful of trusted parties, Bitcoin is open to all.
124
I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end… I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
125
Some of us are like a shovel brigade that follow a parade down Main Street cleaning up.
Donald T. Regan
126
Some people thrive under pressure, but pressure can also ruin your performance, it can push you down angles which you don’t want to go.
127
When I first started wearing wigs, I didn’t know you had to anchor them down with bobby pins. I walked out during a windy day and my wig blew off and got stuck to a branch. I was walking while my wig was hanging! If that’s not the most embarrassing thing… but you have to use bobby pins.
128
Your best ideas, those eureka moments that turn the world upside down, seldom come when you’re juggling emails, rushing to meet the 5 P.M. deadline or straining to make your voice heard in a high-stress meeting. They come when you’re walking the dog, soaking in the bath or swinging in a hammock.
129
We have a big appetite for putting people down but, at the heart of everyone, there’s enough room for all of us to succeed.
130
I don’t mind being criticised, because I am not that easy to knock down, and no-one can destroy me. But I am bothered by the stupid people who call me dirty, brainless, and an idiot. You don’t say words like these to someone who you know nothing about.
131
Always be yourself. At the end of the day, that’s all you’ve really got; when you strip everything down, that’s all you’ve got, so always be yourself.
132
The soldiers did go away and their towns were torn down; and in the Moon of Falling Leaves (November), they made a treaty with Red Cloud that said our country would be ours as long as grass should grow and water flow.
133
I am a thinker, and I do muse over things a lot and am constantly assessing whether I am doing enough or what I should be doing more of to make sure I am not letting anyone down.
134
Absurdity is my favorite brand of humor because deep down inside, in our subconscious, it’s all surrealism. It’s all abstract. The world is the surrealism, the absurdity, the humor – it all just overlaps.
135
Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping him up.
136
Deforestation will continue as long as cutting down and burning trees is more economic than preserving them.
Johan Eliasch
137
There’s kind of a Zen aspect to bowling. The pins are either staying up or down before you even throw your arm back. It’s kind of a mind-set. You want to be in this perfect mind-set before you released the ball.
138
Like my makeup, I keep my hair simple. It’s either down or in a ponytail.
139
There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
140
Being a good teammate is when you try to sprint down a ball that everyone thinks is going out of bounds. But you go after it anyways and you get it.
141
I do really long DJ sets – I play for five or six hours sometimes – but the live shows are a bit more compact. The arch of how to tell a story, where the energy is, where you have peaks and drops, where things go up and things come down, that’s all being informed by DJ-ing.
142
Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.
Hector Berlioz
143
Do not sit down in Satan‘s easy chair of do-little, but arise and aim at the elevated standard which it is your privilege to attain.
144
Armenian folklore has it that three apples fell from Heaven: one for the teller of a story, one for the listener, and the third for the one who ‘took it to heart.’ What a pity Heaven awarded no apple to the one who wrote the story down.
Nancy Willard
145
There are just some really beautiful people in the world. When you’re walking down the street, or you’re at a restaurant, someone catches your eye because they have their own look. It goes way beyond what they’re wearing – into their mannerisms, the way they smile, or just the way they hold themselves.
146
Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll have to ram them down people’s throats.
Howard Aiken
147
A lot of times I’ve reached my hand out to people in the gay community that just didn’t have nobody to help them when they were down and out.
148
If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.
149
Europe has, to put it mildly, been in a poor state since the transition to the 21st century. This is down to national issues, European missteps, and an economic and financial crisis that crashed down on us with enough force to dislodge the essential European idea.
150
A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
Arnold H. Glasow
151
All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.
152
Then suddenly something just kicked me. I kind of woke up and realised that I was in a different atmosphere than you normally are. My immediate reaction was to back off, slow down.
153
A lot of people have their big dreams and get knocked down and don’t have things go their way. And you never give up hope, and you really just hold on to it. Hard work and perserverance. You just keep getting up and getting up, and then you get that breakthrough.
154
During difficult times, it’s best to cut down on sweets like cookies, cake and candy. Satisfy your sweet tooth with fruit to help prevent blood sugar dips and spikes.
155
You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
156
A novel ensures that we can look before and after, take action at whatever pace we choose, read again and again, skip and go back. The story in a book is humble and serviceable, available, friendly, is not switched on and off but taken up and put down, lasts a lifetime.
157
I spend a lot of time upside down. It increases the blood flow to the brain, so it really helps your creativity.
158
They have in me struck down but the trunk of the tree; the roots are many and deep – they will shoot up again!
159
Are you going to back down to somebody? If not, you’re giving yourself a chance.
160
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
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The darkest hour in any man’s life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.
Horace Greeley
162
Opportunity does not knock, it presents itself when you beat down the door.
163
As often as you fail, get up and try again. God will never let you down, so long as you don’t let Him down, and so long as you make the effort.
164
You can knock me down, but I get up twice as strong.
165
I have an interest in Native American artifacts, mainly Plains Indians from the 1840s to the 1900s, and I go in and out of that. I get really into it, and then I put it down, but it’s surrounding me.
166
As I matriculate my way down the field of life, I will never forget this moment and you wonderful people who helped make this day possible.
Hank Stram
167
If a window of opportunity appears, don’t pull down the shade.
168
I feel you can be down and out but if you are determined, nothing can stop you from winning.
169
So what do you desire to do? What do you really want to do as a person? You need to stop and document that; write it down; make a plan; and then God says, ‘I’ll direct your steps.’
170
Sometimes you have to disconnect to stay connected. Remember the old days when you had eye contact during a conversation? When everyone wasn’t looking down at a device in their hands? We’ve become so focused on that tiny screen that we forget the big picture, the people right in front of us.
171
Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
172
Just remember: if ever you feel weighed down by the bureaucracy and often mundanity of modern life, don’t fight the frustration. Let it be the catalyst for whimsy.
173
After a lifetime of losing and gaining weight, I get it. No matter how you slice it, weight loss comes down to the simple formula of calories in, calories out.
174
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
175
It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.
Arnold Bennett
176
Ideas come from ordinary, everyday life. And from imagination. And from feelings. And from memories. Memories of dust in my sneakers and humming whitewalls down a hill called Monkey.
177
Things don’t always go your way in football: there are always good and bad times. At the end of the day, you have to have a positive attitude and a strong mentality and not let any setbacks get you down. And that’s what I’ve done – I’ve tried to keep my composure, even when things aren’t going the way I’d like.
Giovani Dos Santos
178
Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.
179
For me, stories are like Lego blocks. If I don’t put one down, I can’t put the next one down.
180
A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
181
The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
182
There will be byes, there will be catches that will go down, but what is important is what you do when the next chance arrives. Because there will always be a next catch. If you are not positive, if you are not in a good frame of mind, you can drop that next one, too.
Rishabh Pant
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For this purpose I determined to keep an account of the voyage, and to write down punctually every thing we performed or saw from day to day, as will hereafter appear.
184
I boil down people to ‘good heart’ or ‘bad heart’ – meaning they’re basically good or basically not.
185
People choose to struggle when people don’t want to relax. Sometimes it is not on your side. Relax; calm down. No matter how hard the waves are, you will float on the ocean.
186
Older people sit down and ask, ‘What is it?’ but the boy asks, ‘What can I do with it?’.
187
Meek Mill – my homies used to call me ‘Meek Millions,’ and at the time I didn’t have no millions, so I ain’t really want to be called ‘Millions,’ so I just shortened it down to Meek Mill. ‘Meek Milli,’ my friends used to call me.
188
In getting older, I find myself becoming progressively more ineffectual in a lot of different ways, and part of that is down to no longer having the youthful feeling that what you’re doing has any true impact.
189
I wake up. If I have a rehearsal, I go do that, and when I come back to the hotel, I sit down and turn on the laptop, ’cause I’ve got nothing to do without that!
190
We are one people with one family. We all live in the same house… and through books, through information, we must find a way to say to people that we must lay down the burden of hate. For hate is too heavy a burden to bear.
191
Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
192
A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
Sam Rayburn
193
I was reading a book… ‘the history of glue‘ – I couldn’t put it down.
194
The consequence of the Bay of Pigs failure wasn’t an acceptance of Castro and his control of Cuba but, rather, a renewed determination to bring him down by stealth.
195
If you have forest, if you have green forest, the water table goes up. What happens with deforestation is the water level goes down and we all know how much importance drinking water has.
196
What ‘multiculturalismboils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture – and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.
197
If I were a Negro, I’d be fighting, as Martin Luther King fought, for human recognition and justice. I’d rather go down with my flag flying. If you’re weak or crippled, or you can’t speak out or fight back in some way, then people don’t hesitate to treat you badly.
198
Always be yourself. At the end of the day, that’s all you’ve really got; when you strip everything down, that’s all you’ve got, so always be yourself.
199
Everyone goes down a road that they’re not supposed to go down. You can do two things from it. You can keep going down that road and go to a dark place. Or you can turn and go up the hill and go to the top – try to go to the top.
200
When you show deep empathy toward others, their defensive energy goes down, and positive energy replaces it. That’s when you can get more creative in solving problems.
201
The whole thing of clothes is insane. You can spend a dollar on a jacket in a thrift store. And you can spend a thousand dollars on a jacket in a shop. And if you saw those two jackets walking down the street, you probably wouldn’t know which was which.
202
My definition, the definition that I’ve always believed in, is that esprit de corps means love for one’s own military legion – in my case, the United States Marine Corps. It means more than self-preservation, religion, or patriotism. I’ve also learned that this loyalty to one’s corps travels both ways: up and down.
Chesty Puller
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I am just a person who is human, down to earth enjoying life… whatever god blesses you with. Enjoying life for me is just normal.
Mohamed Al-Fayed
204
My belt holds my pants up, but the belt loops hold my belt up. I don’t really know what’s happening down there. Who is the real hero?
205
He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
206
Shakespeare‘s name, you may depend on it, stands absurdly too high and will go down.
207
Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it.
208
I believe that everyone has good days and bad days, but you can’t let the bad times beat you down.
209
There is no better exercise for your heart than reaching down and helping to lift someone up.
Bernard Meltzer
210
If you want to lose 40 pounds, you order salad instead of fries. If you want to be a better friend, you take the phone call instead of screening it. If you want to write a novel, you sit down and write a single paragraph. It’s scary to make major changes, but we usually have enough courage to take the next right step.
211
Dreams do come true if you work hard and you get your head down.
Kyla Reid
212
People like to tear you down. People are always going to take shots. You’ve just got to go for it.
213
I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving.
214
Over the years, I’ve given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.
215
Sometimes we fall, sometimes we stumble, but we can’t stay down. We can’t allow life to beat us down. Everything happens for a reason, and it builds character in us, and it tells us what we are about and how strong we really are when we didn’t think we could be that strong.
216
I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singingHappy Birthday.’
217
Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath. Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important. Just lie down.
Natalie Goldberg
218
I like to sit down, relax, have a cup of coffee on the terrace and read a book. I like to travel the world – and I’m lucky to see so much through cycling.
Marianne Vos
219
That a man be willing, when others are so too, as far forth as for peace and defense of himself he shall think it necessary, to lay down this right to all things; and be contented with so much liberty against other men, as he would allow other men against himself.
220
Kissing – and I mean like, yummy, smacking kissing – is the most delicious, most beautiful and passionate thing that two people can do, bar none. Better than sex, hands down.
221
Because of the dog’s joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least reason why we should honor as love the dog of our own life, and the dog down the street, and all the dogs not yet born.
222
Every man has a right to utter what he thinks truth, and every other man has a right to knock him down for it. Martyrdom is the test.
223
In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.
224
Love your neighbor as yourself; but don’t take down the fence.
225
I’ve found that when the market‘s going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future you will be happy.
Peter Lynch
226
It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one’s steps to the upper air – there’s the rub, the task.
227
I feel really humbled and really grateful to have the opportunities that I’ve had over the past couple of years to work with some amazing people. I think, at this point, I just want to put my head down and grind and do honest work.
228
No matter what kind of challenges or difficulties or painful situations you go through in your life, we all have something deep within us that we can reach down and find the inner strength to get through them.
229
For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.
Christina Rossetti
230
I have observed that baseball is not unlike a war, and when you come right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.
Ty Cobb
231
Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without the thorn.
232
I wrote the song For A Dancer for a friend of mine who died in a fire. He was in the sauna in a house that burned down, so he had no idea anything was going on. It was very sad.
233
Everybody, soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.
234
Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.
235
People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.
236
Life goes by fast. Enjoy it. Calm down. It’s all funny. Next. Everyone gets so upset about the wrong things.
237
Systematic theologybe careful how you tie down the Word to fit your set and final creeds, systems, dogmas, and organized theistic philosophies! The Word of God is not bound! It’s free to say what it will to the individual, and no one can outline it into dispensations which cannot be broken.
238
It was my 16th birthday – my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do – write songs and sing them to people.
239
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
240
I spend most of my time at the ranch with my family, and enjoy lifewatch the sun come up, watch it go down, thank God for another day, and just be happy.
241
You never think about what life’s going to be like five years down the road or 10 – you just go though the day and try to make good decisions. Sometimes you do, sometimes you don’t. You just hope this day will be a good day.
Jack Harbaugh
242
The tennis ball doesn’t know how old I am. The ball doesn’t know if I’m a man or a woman or if I come from a communist country or not. Sport has always broken down these barriers.
243
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
244
I promise not to let you down. I will be your servant with all humility and gratitude.
Mwai Kibaki
245
I’d just as soon play tennis with the net down.
246
I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.
247
I may not have the gun that Jesse James had when he was gunned down, but if there’s a piece identified with him and the same place, then I get interested; it’s always excited me.
Red McCombs
248
Some days I’m up, some days I’m down. But I think one thing that does get you moving is hope.
249
We’re all entitled to make mistakes. I’m not one of these guys where if you make a mistake, I’m gonna try to tear your life down and burn it to the ground.
250
Honestly, I never really put the mic down.
251
As mayor, I would support law enforcement, not knock it down.
252
It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
253
As you get older, time speeds up but life slows down.
254
Let’s be very clear: Strong men – men who are truly role models – don’t need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful. People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.
255
I love having my hands in the dirt. It is never a science and always an art. There are no rules. And if it comes down to me versus that weed I’m trying to pull out of the ground that doesn’t want to come out? I know I’ll win.
256
I enjoy ‘down South’ music.
257
Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.
258
If you don’t have a leg to stand on, you can’t put your foot down.
Robert Altman
259
It is not my nature, when I see a people borne down by the weight of their shackles – the oppression of tyranny – to make their life more bitter by heaping upon them greater burdens; but rather would I do all in my power to raise the yoke than to add anything that would tend to crush them.
260
If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs.
261
Meditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action. To think that it is just to sit down and enjoy the calm and peace, is wrong.
262
Always speak the truth, think before you speak, and write it down afterwards.
263
And I have to work so hard at talking positively to myself. If I don’t, it’s just real hard to get through the day, and I’ll get really down, and just want to cry. My whole body language changes. I get more slumped over.
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If Everton were playing down the bottom of my garden, I’d draw the curtains.
Bill Shankly
265
I love to go down to the schoolyard and watch all the little children jump up and down and run around yelling and screaming. They don’t know I’m only using blanks.
266
I’ve been knocked down more than any heavyweight champion in history.
Floyd Patterson
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It’s OK to have up days. It’s OK to have down days. But especially remember it’s OK to talk to people and let them know you’re not OK. Don’t think it’s something you have to keep to yourself to fit in or to be normal. There’s no such thing as normal.
268
Rule number one in negotiating anything with Missy is never try and run me over. Never push me, because I am a very strong woman. I’m nice, but I’m very strong. When it gets down gritty, I can get grittier. Never, ever underestimate me.
269
When you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish. Whether it’s make good grades in school, be a good athlete, be a good person, go down and do some community service and help somebody who’s in need, whatever it is you choose to do, you’re investing your time in that.
270
The last time I saw him he was walking down lover’s lane holding his own hand.
271
Deep down inside, I am lazy.
272
When tulip mania dies down, all that remains are pretty flowers. When bubbles burst, nothing is left but soapy residue. But the Internet revolution, for all its speculative excesses, really is changing the world.
273
You have the right to kill me, but you don’t have the right to judge me. That’s life. There’s nobility in that. There’s focus. It’s genuine. It’s crystal and it’s pure and it’s available to everybody, so just shut your traps and put down your McDonalds, your vaccines, your Us Weekly, your TMZ and the rest of it.
274
Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o’clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.
275
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
276
In order to survive, I created a certain type of aura about myself that I was the baddest chick walking down the street. Anytime somebody underestimates me, Thug Rose comes out.
277
Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
278
My family’s lineage, we are warriors. The McGregor clan, we are warriors all through. We are famous all through the world for our fighting capabilities of all generations. So I have no doubt that’s stood to me and that led me down this path and gave me what I have.
279
My dad constantly tells me I should calm down, but I feel so sad when I see places I’ve known since I was a child closing. I burst out crying when a local pharmacy closed the other day; it’s just going to become a shop that nobody has much of a need for. But I am trying to move with the times.
280
We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
281
The vote is the most powerful instrument ever devised by man for breaking down injustice and destroying the terrible walls which imprison men because they are different from other men.
282
I feel safe in white because deep down inside, I’m an angel.
283
There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
284
What is sad for women of my generation is that they weren’t supposed to work if they had families. What were they going to do when the children are grown – watch the raindrops coming down the window pane?
285
I didn’t want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful.
286
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
287
I made a choice before I lost my legs that I was going to live the best life possible and that I wasn’t going to let this slow me down – and that choice has kept me moving forward.
288
The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
289
It’s fun being one of the boys. It’s fun to have a character that’s rough and gets down and dirty and not to be this precious girl who just sits in the corner and just sort of stands by the action.
290
One of my biggest thrills for me still is sitting down with a guitar or a piano and just out of nowhere trying to make a song happen.
291
It takes a certain level of maturity to get hit and get knocked down and get back up.
292
I’m like a ‘comeback kid’ – you can’t keep me down for long!
293
Monetary policy is like juggling six balls… it is not ‘interest rate up, interest rate down.’ There is the exchange rate, there are long term yields, there are short term yields, there is credit growth.
294
Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment.
295
It’s easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.
296
Humility is a super-important factor in all of our lives, and I try to remind myself every evening in front of the mirror, ‘Just calm down.’
297
Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not difficult.
Prem Rawat
298
Once you got a solar panel on a roof, energy is free. Once we convert our entire electricity grid to green and renewable energy, cost of living goes down.
299
Music speaks to people in a way that breaks down boundaries that words and actions sometimes can’t.
300
Honor is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.
Akhenaton
301
I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
302
Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.
Sam Rayburn
303
To me, if life boils down to one thing, it’s movement. To live is to keep moving.
304
As long as you keep a person down, some part of you has to be down there to hold him down, so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.
Marian Anderson
305
I think the moral majority and religious right have been shrinking and having not quite as loud a voice in America, and all of a sudden people are coming to their own realizations going, ‘Joe down the street is gay and he’s a great guy.’
306
Anytime you suffer a setback or disappointment, put your head down and plow ahead.
307
Everybody seems to live rather well down here in Monaco!
308
There is absolutely no one, apart from yourself, who can prevent you, in the middle of the night, from sneaking down to tidy up the edges of that hunk of cheese at the back of the fridge.
309
My goal is just to be respected as a man when I walk down the street with my family. I don’t care what your job is, you’re not gonna talk down to me, you’re not gonna try to get a rise out of me. I’m a man first. And in establishing that, some interesting things have happened.
310
I never plan to run at a certain pace. All my career my motto has been ‘no limits.’ I don’t try to run with a set time in mind, sticking to set splits, because what happens if you’re ahead of your splits – are you going to slow down?
311
Let’s be under no illusions: There are attacks on, for example, transgender Americans from the Oval Office, picking on troops – people willing to lay down their lives for this country – not to mention teenagers in our high schools. So we’ve got to end the war on trans Americans.
312
In levying taxes and in shearing sheep it is well to stop when you get down to the skin.
Austin O’Malley
313
Black men struggle with masculinity so much. The idea that we must always be strong really presses us all down – it keeps us from growing.
314
I go feminine, I go masculine. I am both, actually. I think the male side is a bit stronger in me, and I have to tone it down sometimes. I’m not like a normal woman, that’s for sure.
315
You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down.
Stanislaw Lem
316
People who work crossword puzzles know that if they stop making progress, they should put the puzzle down for a while.
317
The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down.
318
I have so much chaos in my life, it’s become normal. You become used to it. You have to just relax, calm down, take a deep breath and try to see how you can make things work rather than complain about how they’re wrong.
Tom Welling
319
The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.
320
It’s been a long journey. Continued to work through my rookie year. I was hurt a lot. Up and down.
321
If you get down and quarell everyday, you’re saying prayers to the devil, I say.
322
I like to turn things upside down, to watch pictures and situations from another perspective.
Ursus Wehrli
323
Everything that slows us down and forces patience, everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature, is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.
May Sarton
324
If you’re going to tear down a hero, you should never forget that you’re tearing down someone else’s hero. You’re tearing down somebody else’s son. You might have to face her one day.
325
Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.
Al Hirschfeld
326
Passion and strife bow down the mind.
327
Slow down, everyone. You’re moving too fast.
Jack Johnson
328
I had to bring myself back down to being a normal person again.
Aidan Quinn
329
Lithium prevents my seductive but disastrous highs, diminishes my depressions, clears out the wool and webbing from my disordered thinking, slows me down, gentles me out, keeps me from ruining my career and relationships, keeps me out of a hospital, alive, and makes psychotherapy possible.
330
I’m not trying to get myself up a notch on the ladder by shoving somebody else down on the ladder, whether it’s a candidate or the president of the United States or anybody else. I just don’t believe that’s the way one oughta campaign, I’ve never done that.
331
Brotherhood means laying down your life for somebody, really willing to sacrifice yourself for somebody else.
Tim Hetherington
332
There are half a dozen subjects that I return to time and time again, and that doesn’t bother me. Because most of my favorite writers do that, to hunt down the same topic or theme from different directions each time.
333
I consider music to be storytelling, melody and rhythm. A lot of hip-hop has broken music down. There are no instruments and no songwriting. So you’re left with just storytelling and rhythm. And the storytelling can be so braggadocious, you’re just left with rhythm.
334
Just really, really believe in what you’re trying to do. Don’t let people alter that. Let people advise you and lead you down paths to make smart business decisions. But trust your instinct and trust that overwhelming drive that made you put all your dreams and everything on the line.
335
To be hopeful means to be uncertain about the future, to be tender toward possibilities, to be dedicated to change all the way down to the bottom of your heart.
336
Never forget: This very moment, we can change our lives. There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny. This second, we can turn the tables on Resistance. This second, we can sit down and do our work.
Steven Pressfield
337
All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper – just running down the edges of different countries and continents, ‘looking for something’.
Elizabeth Bishop
338
Instead of letting the hard times get me down, I’ve learned to keep going at to look for the hidden good.
Paul J. Meyer
339
I’m most proud of the blessings that God has bestowed upon me, in my life. He’s given me the vision to truly see that you can fall down, but you can still get back up. Hopefully I’ll learn from my mistakes and have the opportunity to strengthen and improve the next thing I do.
Martin Lawrence
340
I look at you and I write down what I hear.
Virgil Thomson
341
I used to have terrible acne on my face: red, splotchy discoloration. And mucus – I was constantly blowing my nose. Then one day, this woman sits down next to me on a bus, and says, ‘You’re lactose-intolerant.’ It all cleared up in three days. That changed my life. Doctors couldn’t figure it out.
342
Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you’re growing up, you’re walking down the street, you’ve got to tell everybody good morning. Everybody. You can’t pass one person.
343
Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that’s where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.
344
I read in one of the scandal sheets that there are UFO aliens living right now down deep in the Antarctic. I believe those things.
345
My belt holds my pants up, but the belt loops hold my belt up. I don’t really know what’s happening down there. Who is the real hero?
346
Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.
Anne Sexton
347
If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that’s concentration.
348
I really don’t think in the past. I sit down with many friends at dinner, and they like to talk about the good old days. I’m respectful of the good old days, but I find myself spending very little time reminiscing. I’m really looking forward.
Donald Bren
349
I’m in the game of spinning plates. I’m spinning a boxing plate. I’m spinning a Tae Kwon Do plate. I’m spinning a Jujitsu plate. I’m spinning a freestyle wrestling plate. I’m spinning a karate plate. If I was to put all them down and have one boxing plate spinning, it would be like a load off my shoulders.
350
Be nice to people on your way up because you’ll meet them on your way down.
351
There is nothing as sweet as a comeback, when you are down and out, about to lose, and out of time.
352
Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.
353
I will go down as the voice of this generation, of this decade, I will be the loudest voice.
354
I would trade 20 white babies for an Asian baby. If I’m ever rich, I want a closet full of Asian babies. And I’ll just pull them out whenever I’m feeling down, you know? All kinds. Korean ones. Chinese ones. Vietnamese – not so much. My dad was in the war, and I hold a grudge.
355
Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?
356
With their souls of patent leather, they come down the road. Hunched and nocturnal, where they breathe they impose, silence of dark rubber, and fear of fine sand.
Federico Garcia Lorca
357
I am well-nigh resolv’d to write no more tales but merely to dream when I have a mind to, not stopping to do anything so vulgar as to set down the dream for a boarish Publick.
358
All loose things seem to drift down to the sea, and so did I.
359
I’ve had some wins. And been knocked down with defeats. Glimpsed views from the top of the mountain. And walked through the darkest of valleys. But through this entire ride called ‘a life’ – I’ve refused to give up.
360
My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.
361
On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of decision, sat down to wait, and waiting died.
George W. Cecil
362
Life is like the ocean, it goes up and down.
363
In Einstein‘s equation, time is a river. It speeds up, meanders, and slows down. The new wrinkle is that it can have whirlpools and fork into two rivers. So, if the river of time can be bent into a pretzel, create whirlpools and fork into two rivers, then time travel cannot be ruled out.
364
I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy.
365
If a leader doesn’t convey passion and intensity then there will be no passion and intensity within the organization and they’ll start to fall down and get depressed.
366
The time to save is now. When a dog gets a bone, he doesn’t go out and make a down payment on a bigger bone. He buries the one he’s got.
367
I need to celebrate life because I’m in a good spot, I work hard, and I am happy with who I am and happy with what I do for a living, and sometimes I just focus and overwhelm myself so much with the fights and getting better, that I just need to slow it down and enjoy life and enjoy training.
368
If someone is going down the wrong road, he doesn’t need motivation to speed him up. What he needs is education to turn him around.
369
Two things are bad for the heart – running up stairs and running down people.
370
I am opposed to the laying down of rules or conditions to be observed in the construction of bridges lest the progress of improvement tomorrow might be embarrassed or shackled by recording or registering as law the prejudices or errors of today.
Isambard K. Brunel
371
Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.
372
I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.
373
Every author really wants to have letters printed in the papers. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.
P. G. Wodehouse
374
It seems that it had been destined before that I should occupy myself so thoroughly with the vulture, for it comes to my mind as a very early memory, when I was still in the cradle, a vulture came down to me, he opened my mouth with his tail and struck me a few times with his tail against my lips.
375
Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.
376
India will have to hang down her head in shame if even one person is left who is said in any way to be untouchable.
377
Most of life is routinedull and grubby, but routine is the momentum that keeps a man going. If you wait for inspiration you’ll be standing on the corner after the parade is a mile down the street.
Ben Nicholas
378
We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
379
Way down deep, we’re all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them.
Jim Davis
380
I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving.
381
Popularity is a bubble. It’s a mountain: you can go up really hard but walk down really fast.
382
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
383
I love a nice tailored suit, but I also like to dress down. It all depends on what mood I’m in.
384
My public life is before you; and I know you will believe me when I say, that when I sit down in solitude to the labours of my profession, the only questions I ask myself are, What is right? What is just? What is for the public good?
Joseph Howe
385
There’s a lot of ‘Silent Hill’ in the Upside Down, which people have noticed.
386
When you’re doing good, everybody praises you. But when everything’s all gone, a lot of people are nowhere to be found. So you always just believe in yourself, do it yourself and you won’t be let down.
387
You got to go down a lot of wrong roads to find the right one.
Bob Parsons
388
A lot of the problems in society nowadays are down to diet and lifestyle – be that obesity, diabetes, asthma caused by smoking or drinking.
389
There is nothing I can do to undo what I did. I can only say again how sorry I am to those I let down and then strive to go forward with a greater sense of humility and purpose, and with gratitude to those who stood with me during a very difficult chapter in my life.
390
When you have heartbreak, what’s important is that you don’t go halfway. Go all the way down. Don’t take pills that keep you in limbo. Cry out all the feelings. Then your own energy for life will put you up again. You become stronger.
391
The public has always expected me to be a playboy, and a decent chap never lets his public down.
Errol Flynn
392
That inner voice has both gentleness and clarity. So to get to authenticity, you really keep going down to the bone, to the honesty, and the inevitability of something.
Meredith Monk
393
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.
394
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
395
Let me go to hell, that’s all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
396
No matter how successful you are, no matter how good you are at what you do, even if a golden path rolls out in front of your feet your whole life, there will come one particularly bleak Tuesday when you glance over at Facebook and notice that Jen From Down The Hall has just won an Oscar.
397
We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run down.
Aneurin Bevan
398
Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.
Thomas Moore
399
As we grow in our consciousness, there will be more compassion and more love, and then the barriers between people, between religions, between nations will begin to fall. Yes, we have to beat down the separateness.
400
It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.
401
A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation.
402
You know, failure hurts. Any kind of failure stings. If you live in the sting, you will – undoubtedly – fail. My way of getting past the sting is to say no, I’m just not going to let this get me down.
403
If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
404
Words cannot express quite a lot of feelings, whereas a noise or tone or drone or sound, an accordion falling down a staircase, can somehow capture an emotion much better.
405
What you need to do is get that tape measure out, and start measuring that gut. Then you start working out and you start eating properly till that gut gets down close to it was when you were in your 20’s. Then you’ll find out what your weight should be.
406
The world is wrong side up. It needs to be turned upside down in order to be right side up.
407
When it comes to social media, there are just times I turn off the world, you know. There are just some times you have to give yourself space to be quiet, which means you’ve got to set those phones down.
408
But when I wasn’t working, I was usually at a window looking down at Earth.
409
Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.
Marya Mannes
410
A man cannot lay down the right of resisting them that assault him by force, to take away his life.
411
If you get down and quarell everyday, you’re saying prayers to the devil, I say.
412
I don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.
413
On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.
414
Work hard for what you want because it won’t come to you without a fight. You have to be strong and courageous and know that you can do anything you put your mind to. If somebody puts you down or criticizes you, just keep on believing in yourself and turn it into something positive.
415
Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.
416
If you don’t have humour, then you may as well nail the coffin lid down now.
417
You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I’ll rise.
418
I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me – shapes and ideas so near to me – so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn’t occurred to me to put them down.
419
I am not a politician. I am just a simple person who has come to break down this system.
420
The traveller who aspires to reach the highlands of Tibet from Kashmir cannot be borne along in a carriage or hill-cart. For much of the way, he is limited to a foot pace, and if he has regard to his horse, he walks down all rugged and steep descents, which are many, and dismounts at most bridges.
421
It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.
Arnold Bennett
422
Given a fair shot, given a fair chance, Americans have never, ever, ever, ever let their country down. Never. Never. Ordinary people like us. Who do extraordinary things.
423
This Bitcoin currency is a voluntary decentralized currency, anonymous. It can’t be shut down by anyone; there are no central servers.
Jeff Berwick
424
When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.
425
And yeah, my handicap was down to a 10 when we were at the thick of it. I trained for six or seven months, golfing every day for six hours, seven days a week, with eight trainers. It was intense.
426
Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got to keep going.
427
Don’t give up, no matter how hard it is. Things are going to be tough down the road, but the more work you put in, the more achievement you’re going to get out of it.
428
I’m interested when things are upside down – because there are so many possibilities in that one moment. There is a lot that is exposed.
429
Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.
430
What really broke it down was I had my son while I was locked up, so that really affected me. I can’t really have this, knowing my father was locked up when I was small. So that really out of everything – through the fame, the money, everything – that really put the toll on me: ‘Oh yeah, I gotta change.’
431
The biggest competition is myself. I am not looking to follow others or pull them down. I’m planning to test my own boundaries.
Rain
432
One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
Booker T. Washington
433
Life is designed to knock you down. It will knock you down time and time again, but it doesn’t matter how many times you fall – it matters how many times you get back up.
434
If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.
435
I think people should have fun. And don’t get so down on yourself. Enjoy life and be the best person you can be.
436
I guess I’ve always lived upside down when I want things I can’t have.
437
If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.
438
Starting a business and building a product are not for the faint of heart. You have to learn to not let little disappointments get you down and to stay focused on the big picture.
439
I learned a long time ago that you need to bury the hatchet. No need to hold grudges. That only weighs you down.
440
I hate going out for lunch during a workday because it slows down my pace and ruins my rhythm. I prefer to eat at my desk. Actually, I wander around the design studio with a plate in my hand as I dine on, for example, salmon sashimi and a salad of tomatoes and mozzarella. I often have a bit of dark chocolate after lunch.
441
Go right straight down the road, to do what is best, and to do it frankly and without evasion.
George C. Marshall
442
443
I’m always disappointed when people don’t live up to their potential. I know that a number of people look down on themselves and consequently on everybody who looks like them. But that, too, can change.
444
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
445
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me – shapes and ideas so near to me – so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn’t occurred to me to put them down.
446
Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got to keep going.
447
Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.
448
It’s well known that many girls have a tendency to dumb down when they’re in middle school.
449
People will try to pull you down, but you need to fight the negativity in your life. It’s always good to stay positive and think positive.
450
A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before lying down.
451
I love to go to the playground and watch the children jumping up and down. They don’t know I’m firing blanks.
452
A country without a strong leader will go down.
453
There’d never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition. At a stroke, the American government closed down the fifth largest industry in the United States – alcohol production – and just handed it to criminals – a pretty remarkable thing to do.
454
Food is your body‘s fuel. Without fuel, your body wants to shut down.
Ken Hill
455
I’m a designer, and I work very hard at that. People sometimes want to put down fashion by saying it’s frivolous or superficial, but it’s not that way at all. It’s actually very hard work.
456
You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that.
457
I think the biggest misconception about me is people really don’t know who I really am. They see the party side of me, they see the crazy side of me. But I also have a laid-back side. You know, I’m chill, down to earth. If you want to grab a cup of coffee and just talk about life, I can do that.
458
Sometimes I wish that I could go into a time machine right now and just look at my self and say, ‘Calm down. Things are gonna be fine. Things are gonna be all great. Just relax.’
Tristan Wilds
459
It’s like trying to pin down a kangaroo on a trampoline.
460
For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.
461
We need to believe that we can achieve progress in fixing our broken immigration system, prioritizing smart border security investments, cracking down on those who are trafficking and smuggling, and relieving the ongoing humanitarian crisis at our southern border.
462
Any fool can destroy trees. They cannot run away; and if they could, they would still be destroyedchased and hunted down as long as fun or a dollar could be got out of their bark hides, branching horns, or magnificent bole backbones.
463
Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the drug store, but that’s just peanuts to space.
464
If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win.
465
You have to know the forces that are against you and that are trying to break you down. We talk about the problems facing the black community: the decimation of the black family; the mass incarceration of the black man; we’re talking about the brutality against black people from the police. The educational system.
466
Start with God – the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.
King Solomon
467
It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.
468
A happy woman is one who has no cares at all; a cheerful woman is one who has cares but doesn’t let them get her down.
469
Whenever I’m feeling down, I remind myself that my flaws make me perfect, because in reality there is no perfect.
470
The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down.
Helen Hunt Jackson
471
I started out printing silk screen t-shirts. I sold ink pens. I worked construction. I worked at a gas station. I pumped gas. I was a mechanic for a little bit. I went into sewers, down into sewer lines. I had a lot of somewhat unpleasant gigs for a time there.
472
It is one of the most effective attitudes of the neurotic to measure thumbs down, so to speak, a real person by an ideal, since in doing so he can depreciate him as much as he wishes.
473
If we pursue organic farming as our healthy food style, we can bring down cost of treatment to a great extent.
Sulaiman Abdul Aziz Al Rajhi
474
Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.
475
The cry of equality pulls everyone down.
476
Ali’s got a left, Ali’s got a right – when he knocks you down, you’ll sleep for the night; and when you lie on the floor and the ref counts to ten, hope and pray that you never meet me again.
477
The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
478
Fashion is kinda a joke. I don’t get too bogged down in the clothes. For me, it’s one big art project, just a canvas to show that fashion should have a brand which has someone behind it who cares about different contexts. Social things.
479
I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else’s whim or to someone else’s ignorance.
480
My point was very simple, and it was that it is absolutely absurd for the United States of America to continue to urge us further down the line towards a federal superstate when the U.S. has not even signed up to the U.N. Convention on Human Rights.
481
The most important thing we have to do first of all in a war with the U.S., I firmly believe, is to fiercely attack and destroy the U.S. main fleet at the outset of the war so that the morale of the U.S. Navy and her people goes down to such an extent that it cannot be recovered.
482
It’s very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.
483
Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down.
484
My wheelchair is like the Cadillac of wheelchairs; it goes up and down and back, and I can lay down in it.
485
Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver.
486
I have a Woody Allen Jewish attitude to life: that it’s all going to be disastrous. That it hasn’t all been that way is simply down to some random quirk of fate.
Antony Sher
487
This life is a test, and we’re put down here to make choices. The truth is, the bad choices of other people can hurt us.
488
Anyone with a child knows that children learn about the world through binary options: up or down, hot or cold, big or little, inside or outside, wet or dry, good or bad, boy or girl, man or woman.
489
Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down you’d treat if met where any bar is, or help to half-a-crown.
490
Student life taught me a lesson – never bow down your head. Be straightforward and bold in whatever you do.
491
I love being in the woods, when I can just walk barefoot in the grass and just sit down and breathe. I love that so much.
492
It’s been a long road for me, with a lot of ups and downs. Thankfully there have been more ups than there have been downs. For me, what brings me down has only made me stronger because of it.
493
When my time on earth is gone, and my activities here are passed, I want they bury me upside down, and my critics can kiss my ass!
494
The more you mow us down, the more numerous we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.
495
If you look at it ecologically, deforestation is high on the list of things which bring devastation. You cut down trees to build homes, for fuel, and you end up with no trees left, and you have to move on. If you take the earth as a whole, eventually there’s nowhere to move on to.
496
If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair. We’d never have a friendship. We’d never go into business, because we’d be cynical. Well, that’s nonsense. You’ve got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.
497
Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
498
At some stage in most people’s lives, things turn upside down, and nothing is as you expected it to be.
499
Yes, you can lose somebody overnight, yes, your whole life can be turned upside down. Life is short. It can come and go like a feather in the wind.
500
Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
501
Smoking calms me down. It’s enjoyable. I don’t want politicians deciding what is exciting in my life.
502
I think Ray Charles did as much as anybody when he did his country music album. Ray Charles broke down borders and showed the similarities between country music and R&B.
503
When real people fall down in life, they get right back up and keep walking.
504
At the Sahara, the seats are banked and most of the audience is looking down at the stage. Everybody in the business knows: Up for singers, down for comics. The people want to idealize a singer. They want to feel superior to a comic. You’re trying to make them laugh. They can’t laugh at someone they’re looking up to.
Buddy Hackett
505
I never think of yesterday. Can’t do anything about it. I’m a positive guy. When you really deep down look at it, we go to bed every night, get up every morning, stay here for 70 or 80 years, and then we die.
506
Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.
507
I suppose the only thing at 50 you can really start to look forward to is just total irresponsibility. As you get older, you can just sit in a chair, wear anything you want, you know you can walk down; old people dress cool. You know they wear sweatpants. The elderly have it down.
508
When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, ‘Why god? Why me?’ and the thundering voice of God answered, ‘There’s just something about you that pisses me off.’
509
Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that’s down can come up.
510
There’s too much darkness in the world. Everywhere you turn, someone is tryin’ to tear someone down in some way; everywhere you go, there’s a feeling of inadequacy, or a feeling that you’re not good enough. I want to bring a certain light to the world.
511
Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.
Madam C. J. Walker
512
In dreams, anything can be anything, and everybody can do. We can fly, we can turn upside down, we can transform into anything.
513
I can’t tone it down. I’m being me and being myself.
514
For me, I try not to set any goals or try and see what’s gonna happen, because I don’t wanna be let down or disappointed that something didn’t happen the way I thought it was gonna happen.
515
I’m getting older. That’s realistic. I can’t reverse time. I can slow it down a little bit.
516
And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.
517
The world is like a grand staircase, some are going up and some are going down.
518
In 2008, when the real estate market blew up, it principally hurt older people who saw the value of their houses go down, along with their pension plans.
519
I like to think that even if we make some really bad choices and go down some bad paths, we’ll eventually emerge from it.
520
The ‘means of grace’ are such as Bible reading, private prayer, and regularly worshiping God in Church, wherein one hears the Word taught and participates in the Lord’s Supper. I lay it down as a simple matter of fact that no one who is careless about such things must ever expect to make much progress in sanctification.
521
Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can’t be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.
522
There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.
Huey Newton
523
First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.
524
Spreading manure is a great way of bringing yourself down to earth.
Steven Ford
525
A friend is always good to have, but a lover’s kiss is better than angels raining down on me.
526
Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.
527
My greatest trouble is getting the curtain up and down.
528
My lighter, more superficial side will always steal a march on the deeper side and therefore always win. You can’t imagine how often I’ve tried to push away this Anne, which is only half of what is known as Anne – to beat her down, hide her.
529
Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who’ve never done anything because if you haven‘t been successful, then you don’t know how it feels to lose it all. You don’t have that fear. So why do you think people get stuck in those boxes? It’s that fear of going back down.
530
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.
531
You can count on Errol Flynn, he’ll always let you down.
David Niven
532
Perhaps one of the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given was that supplied by an old courtier who observed: Only two rules really count. Never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself; never miss a chance to sit down and rest your feet.
Edward VIII
533
There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
534
But there, everything has its drawbacks, as the man said when his mother-in-law died, and they came down upon him for the funeral expenses.
Jerome K. Jerome
535
No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not knock those who work with him. Don’t knock your friends. Don’t knock your enemies. Don’t knock yourself.
536
People who look down on other people don’t end up being looked up to.
Robert Half
537
When asked to explain this space, I often ask people to forget pretty much everything you’ve heard about blockchains, crypto-currencies, and bitcoin, and instead dumb it down a lot and think about something no more complex or intimidating than good old-fashioned database technology.
538
The beauty of the game is strength, stamina and technique and when you shorten the game, technique goes for a toss and the quality of badminton will surely go down in this system.
539
The desire to fly is an idea handed down to us by our ancestors who… looked enviously on the birds soaring freely through space… on the infinite highway of the air.
Wilbur Wright
540
Things go up and down. If you can survive the down, it will come back.
John Denver
541
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
542
I wish I looked more like my mother, but I think I look like my father. I wish I had one of those naturally beautiful faces. Or a more quirky face. I’m right down the middle: not interesting enough, not pretty enough.
543
To stop smoking was actually really easy because I had already started to cut down. My husband is asthmatic, and he just can’t for the life of him imagine why anybody would put smoke in their mouth, so he really helped me to start cutting down.
544
It is not up to me whether I win or lose. Ultimately, this might not be my day. And it is that philosophy towards sports, something that I really truly live by. I am emotional. I want to win. I am hungry. I am a competitor. I have that fire. But deep down, I truly enjoy the art of competing so much more than the result.
545
In the U.K., classical music is composed by individuals and written down. Indian music is based on certain sequences called ragas. When I perform live, 95% of the music is improvised: it never sounds the same twice.
546
There is nothing deep down inside us except what we have put there ourselves.
Richard Rorty
547
As the evening progressed, Scott said that he was looking forward to settling down, but that he hadn’t yet found the right person. The way he looked at me when he said that made me feel he might be wondering whether I was that person.
Amber Frey
548
Hating people is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.
549
If you’re going to hold someone down you’re going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.
550
Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea.
G. Stanley Hall
551
Truth cannot be brought down; rather, the individual must make the effort to ascend to it. You cannot bring the mountaintop to the valley. If you would attain to the mountaintop, you must pass through the valley, climb the steeps, unafraid of the dangerous precipices.
552
When you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.
Jean Harlow
553
The man who has done his level best… is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
B. C. Forbes
554
I think if everyone would write down the funny stories from their own childhoods, the world would be a better place.
555
John Lennon was definitely my favorite Beatle, hands down.
556
I don’t generally like running. I believe in training by rising gently up and down from the bench.
Satchel Paige
557
Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder about what makes the universe exist. Be curious.
558
A lot of people seem to feel that joy is only the most intense version of pleasure, arrived at by the same road – you simply have to go a little further down the track. That has not been my experience.
559
When you design a building, you start from a general philosophy, and you come down, and you start from detail and come up. Only the theoretical architect believes that you can make the concept and then sometime, somebody will come to build it.
560
While acting in ‘W,’ my worries about the way I act settled down. I also discovered another side of myself. It was a turning point.
Lee Jong-suk
561
I would like to leave the world a better place than when I entered it. I would hope that by the time I die I could have learned from the years of living and hand something down.
562
Be kind to people on the way up – you’ll meet them again on your way down.
Jimmy Durante
563
No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.
564
A good society is characterised not just by liberty but by mutual respect and responsibility. When this breaks down it takes a lot more than police officers to put things right.
565
I don’t journal to ‘be productive.’ I don’t do it to find great ideas or to put down prose I can later publish. The pages aren’t intended for anyone but me. It’s the most cost-effective therapy I’ve ever found.
566
When the Berlin Wall came down the Americans cried, ‘Victory,’ and walked off the field.
567
It was the winter of war, in 1939. It felt completely pointless to try to create pictures… I suddenly felt an urge to write down something that was to begin with ‘Once upon a time.’
Tove Jansson
568
For most people, creativity is a serious business. They forget the telling phrase ‘the play of ideas’ and think that they need to knuckle down and work more. Often, the reverse is true. They need to play.
569
We’re always in the middle of two energies. Gravity is sinking you down; inspiration is pulling you up.
570
I can’t put this down. I’m reading it in Spanish but I am still having English lessons. It is a motivational book about basketball legend Michael Jordan. His determination was inspiring. It helps me focus and drives me on.
571
I’m a forgiver. I might not forget, but I forgive. My mother, father and older brother always told me: ‘Don’t hold grudges. If you do that, you don’t lower yourself down to your adversary. Just treat people the way you want to be treated.’ I honestly think that’s why I was able to survive and have some success.
572
If someone says something hurtful to you or makes you feel down on yourself, then you just gotta stay positive and keep moving forward because they might not know much about you, or they may not understand the situation.
573
When I play bad, I don’t get too down on myself. When I play good, I don’t get too hot.
574
Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.
575
Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
576
All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.
577
I’ve had this terrible stomach problem for years, and that has made touring difficult. People would see me sitting in the corner by myself looking sick and gloomy. The reason is that I was trying to fight against the stomach pain, trying to hold my food down. People looked me and assumed I was some kind of addict.
578
We need men and women to sit down and talk to each other about sex honestly and openly. That would help us fight Aids so immediately. But our lack of communication is hugely problematic.
579
Pride is an independent, me-oriented spirit. It makes people arrogant, rude and hard to get along with. When our heart is prideful, we don’t give God the credit and we mistreat people, looking down on them and thinking we deserve what we have.
580
Don’t run if you can walk. Don’t walk if you can stand. Don’t stand if you can sit. Don’t sit if you can lie down.
581
Surfing big waves is not an extreme sport to me. I fall off, tumble down, and come up. My heart’s racing because I’m thinking I almost drowned, and I thank God I can breathe again, but I always think, ‘What am I hitting?’ Water.
582
If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms never never never!
William Pitt
583
Experience demonstrates that there may be a wages of slavery only a little less galling and crushing in its effects than chattel slavery, and that this slavery of wages must go down with the other.
584
You played ‘Snake’ on it. That’s what we had a cell phone for, when my mother would let us use it. When you had it, you set it down at the table, you set it down in the other room, we ate, and you enjoyed your time with your family.
585
I think I lived those years very impersonally. It was almost as though I had erected someone outside myself who was the president’s wife. I was lost somewhere deep down inside myself. That is the way I felt and worked until I left the White House.
586
Economy’s got to get moving, we’ve got to get the unemployment rate down. That may be the defining issue of the campaign.
587
When I am brushing my teeth, I’m bending my leg behind me, or I’m lifting my leg up and holding it in that position so I’m squeezing my butt in. I can do that while I’m washing or slicing vegetables, too. Or I go up and down on my toes, working my calves a little bit.
588
I vent my anger in the gym, and it calms me down.
589
It’s a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn’t think of a better way to forgive us our sins than to come down to Earth in his alter ego as his son and have himself hideously tortured and executed so that he could forgive himself.
590
Why was the amendment, expressly declaring the right of the people to exclude slavery, voted down? Plainly enough now, the adoption of it would have spoiled the niche for the Dred Scott decision.
591
Cyberbullying isn’t real. But bullying and harassment certainly are real. Trust me, friends, I went to school in England. They’ve got bullying down to a fine art. I know, because I was one of its chief architects. I was awful to my fellow schoolboys.
592
All that is not perfect down to the smallest detail is doomed to perish.
593
I still eat a burger at a counter with ketchup dripping down my face.
594
No trooper, no special forces operative wants to sit behind a desk. We joined up to kick some doors down.
595
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.
596
I don’t go off and sit down and try to write material, because then it’s contrived and forced. I just live my life, and I see things in a word or a situation or a concept, and it will create a joke for me.
597
Biology sets the context, and that is critical, but obesity still boils down to whether a person eats too much or exercises enough.
598
Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
599
If people take anything from my music, it should be motivation to know that anything is possible as long as you keep working at it and don’t back down.
600
One of the processes of your life is to constantly break down that inferiority, to constantly reaffirm that I Am Somebody.
Alvin Ailey
601
When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street… except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened.
Wally Lamb
602
Nature is ever at work building and pulling down, creating and destroying, keeping everything whirling and flowing, allowing no rest but in rhythmical motion, chasing everything in endless song out of one beautiful form into another.
603
A sense of humor… is needed armor. Joy in one’s heart and some laughter on one’s lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.
Hugh Sidey
604
I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down. That’s the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty… you fall half in love with them, and then you never know where the hell you are.
605
The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
606
The headline is the ‘ticket on the meat.’ Use it to flag down readers who are prospects for the kind of product you are advertising.
607
I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven’t put it down since.
608
When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that’s Memoirs.
609
Find enough clever things to say, and you’re a Prime Minister; write them down and you’re a Shakespeare.
610
It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down.
George MacDonald
611
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
612
In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.
613
Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.
614
Work hard. Treat everybody with respect. That’s really what it comes down to.
615
In this media-drenched, multitasking, always-on age, many of us have forgotten how to unplug and immerse ourselves completely in the moment. We have forgotten how to slow down. Not surprisingly, this fast-forward culture is taking a toll on everything from our diet and health to our work and the environment.
616
If you… scaled down human beings, scaled down society, if you land with a group of little boys, they are more like a scaled-down version of society than a group of little girls would be.
617
I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
618
And New York is the most beautiful city in the world? It is not far from it. No urban night is like the night there… Squares after squares of flame, set up and cut into the aether. Here is our poetry, for we have pulled down the stars to our will.
619
If someone asks me what cloud computing is, I try not to get bogged down with definitions. I tell them that, simply put, cloud computing is a better way to run your business.
620
Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
621
From the neck up is where you win or lose the battle. It’s the art of war. You have to lock yourself in and strategise your mindset. That’s why boxers go to training camps: to shut down the noise and really zone in.
622
The people who despise America are the editors of the ‘New Statesman.’ Their green-card applications must have been turned down.
623
From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
624
I’m so down to earth, I’m bringing gravity back.
625
Slow down and think about the lessons of the elders.
626
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.
627
Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
628
People think being alone is a luxury, but it’s crucial: Whatever you’re not down with about yourself gets loud and in your face.
629
Most people don’t know that I’m down to earth until they meet me.
630
As abhorrent as some of this content can be, I do think that it gets down to this principle of giving people a voice.
631
Mathematics are the result of mysterious powers which no one understands, and which the unconscious recognition of beauty must play an important part. Out of an infinity of designs a mathematician chooses one pattern for beauty’s sake and pulls it down to earth.
Marston Morse
632
I need to celebrate life because I’m in a good spot, I work hard, and I am happy with who I am and happy with what I do for a living, and sometimes I just focus and overwhelm myself so much with the fights and getting better, that I just need to slow it down and enjoy life and enjoy training.
633
I consider any gun that can chamber a round and send a projectile down its barrel at a high rate of speed into my body – causing me injury or death – to be an assault weapon.
634
Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
635
Whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof.
636
The unsuccessful person is burdened by learning, and prefers to walk down familiar paths. Their distaste for learning stunts their growth and limits their influence.
637
I believe that you are not stuck with a pre-destiny. I believe that there is ways to see all these things that are laid down in front of you and where you belong and to smack yourself in the face when you realize that you’ve strayed off your path and get back to where your path is.
638
I hate letting my teammates down. I know I’m not going to make every shot. Sometimes I try to make the right play, and if it results in a loss, I feel awful. I don’t feel awful because I have to answer questions about it. I feel awful in that locker room because I could have done something more to help my teammates win.
639
My relationship with the mountains actually started when I was 16. Every year, a group used to be taken from Auckland Grammar down to the Tangariro National Park for a skiing holiday.
640
Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping him up.
641
My best background is, like, smash opponents. I all the time go forward. I all the time try to take down somebody. Make him give up. This is my style, you know. This is what I do all my life.
642
I learned that life will go through changes – up and down and up again. It’s what life does.
643
Banks have a new image. Now you have ‘a friend,’ your friendly banker. If the banks are so friendly, how come they chain down the pens?
644
Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their feedback and understand their needs.
645
If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character, would you slow down? Or speed up?
646
I had a house burn down once, and everything in life burned, except my family, and it was so liberating. I didn’t have a bad moment about it. It sort of reinvigorated my interest in a lot of things.
647
I always say just stay positive. If you ever get down on yourself, try to find something that takes away that negative. Always find that positive area.
648
My life is like driving down a road. I occasionally glance in the rearview mirror, but I’m not focused on the past or looking back anymore.
649
A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country.
Texas Guinan
650
I know that I’m not perfect. While we all have our prejudices and bigotries, we have to learn that it’s an issue that we have to control, that it’s part of my responsibility as an entrepreneur to try to solve it, not just to kick the problem down the road.
651
Somewhere deep down there’s a decent man in me, he just can’t be found.
652
The most important thing, in anything you do, is always trying your hardest, because even if you try your hardest and it’s not as good as you’d hoped, you still have that sense of not letting yourself down.
653
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
654
My skin is hard when it comes to my music. But with my movies, I’m still a virgin in a lot of ways. I’m not used to being shot down for no reason.
655
Believe deep down in your heart that you’re destined to do great things.
656
Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind.
657
Education is the process of driving a set of prejudices down your throat.
Martin H. Fischer
658
I don’t like country music, but I don’t mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means ‘put down’.
659
As a kid we moved around a fair bit as a family. It was difficult to make friends but sport helped. Once people saw you kick a football it broke down barriers. Instead of being the new skinny black kid you were the kid everyone wanted on their team.
660
We’re made for the light of a cave and for twilight. Twilight is the time we see best. When we dim the light down, and the pupil opens, feeling comes out of the eye like touch. Then you really can feel colour, and experience it.
661
Deep down I have this atavistic feeling that really I should be in the country.
662
The next time you see an outside day with a down close lower than the previous day, don’t get scared, get ready to buy!
Larry Williams
663
I’ve worked too hard and too long to let anything stand in the way of my goals. I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.
664
Supply chains cannot tolerate even 24 hours of disruption. So if you lose your place in the supply chain because of wild behavior you could lose a lot. It would be like pouring cement down one of your oil wells.
665
The real truth is that the Obama administration is professional at bullying, as we have witnessed with ACORN at work during the presidential campaign. It seems to me they are sending down their bullies to create fist fights among average American citizens who don’t want a government-run health care plan forced upon them.
666
Zayn’s good to just sit down and chat to about pretty much anything. At the end of the night, we just sit around and talk about our life before One Direction, or anything at all, really.
667
If you’re lucky enough to do well, it’s your responsibility to send the elevator back down.
668
No matter how far life pushes you down, no matter how much you hurt, you can always bounce back.
669
I don’t like the idea that in music, clothes, taste or anything, we are limited to a certain style, because we need to maintain an identity, maybe between some subculture group. Hopefully, all those walls break down, and music is just music.
670
If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
671
When you’re down, are you going to be mentally down and make it last longer, or are you going to stay positive, keep an even keel?
672
Every government says they love small businesses, but what have they done for them? We should pull down all the barriers.
673
Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.
674
I’m trying to cut down a little on eating, on sodium, keep my blood pressure down, which is tough. Because I love food! I do, but it’s unfair how everything that’s bad for you tastes so good, and all the good stuff, veggies and green things, doesn’t match up.
675
I still get wildly enthusiastic about little things… I play with leaves. I skip down the street and run against the wind.
676
You can tell the tree by the fruit it bears. You see it through what the organization is delivering as far as a concrete program. If the tree’s fruit sours or grows brackish, then the time has come to chop it down – bury it and walk over it and plant new seeds.
Huey Newton
677
I can hear you, the rest of the world can hear you and the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon.
678
It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.
679
We all have our down days, but it’s not hard to smile and say, ‘Thank you.’
Yvette Nicole Brown
680
I’d be satisfied just coaching in high school. I turned down a number of colleges when I was teaching in South Bend, Indiana, before I went into the service. I honestly believe that if I hadn’t enlisted in the service, I would never have left high school teaching. I’m sure I would have never left.
681
Life stuff happens. You get knocked down, and you get back up. That’s just always been my mentality. I’m not really fazed by anything. It’s in the past. There’s nothing I can really do about it now. You learn from it, and you move on.
682
Anything that reduces fuel consumption and cuts down on greenhouse gasses is good news.
683
A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I’ll be able to do that. I get for some reason somewhat stronger when the sun starts to go down. Dusk is a good time for me. I’m crepuscular.
684
Do not look down upon any Muslim, for even the most inferior believer is great in the eyes of God.
685
When you’re playing upside down, it takes twice the strength.
686
Sometimes I’ll jot a clever turn of phrase down. Sometimes I’ll just remember it.
687
He piled upon the whale‘s white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart’s shell upon it.
688
Geese always support each other. When a goose gets injured two birds always accompany it down to the ground. Just as geese do, we must support each other.
689
When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.
690
I’m always trying to turn things upside down and see if they look any better.
Tibor Kalman
691
Everyone’s a critic: when you are doing something good, everybody wants to bring you down, and that’s something I’ve been told. People want to see you do good, but not too good.
692
Once you get a taste of success, it’s a hard thing to turn down.
693
You know you’re getting old when you stoop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you’re down there.
694
I’ve learned to not have expectations. If you don’t expect things from anyone, you can’t get let down.
695
As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
Ben Hogan
696
It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn’t hear the barbarians coming.
697
Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he’s not down for his homeboys, I don’t wanna be a part of him or around him.
698
Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down.
699
I do this ‘Walker shake.’ You got to get knocked down many times, shake it off. Life is about ups and downs, and you got to keep standing up.
700
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
Stella Adler