Top 1200 Lower Class Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

I'm very clumsy, so there's been a lot of times I've tripped in front of girls I'm in love with, or spilled food all over myself. My friends and I were the class clowns in high school, so one day we were showing off at our seats and I fell off my chair! I had to get stitches, and I had a bloody lip. I was trying so hard to be a cool class clown!

We owe to democracy, at least in part, the regime of discussion with which we live; we owe it to the principal modern liberties: those of thought, press and association. And the regime of free discussion is the only one which permits the ruling class to renew itself... which eliminates that class quasi-automatically when it no longer corresponds to the interests of the country.

My tagline is ‘Less sex, more romance, lower body count.’

I'm a working-class person, working with class.

For me there is no reason why to go up in weight class, because when you go up in weight class you have to fight bigger guys - then you have to train against bigger guys. The guys are not better, they're heavier, but it means you have more chance to get hurt.

A lower-paying job can still help you advance your career.

Most middle-class people I know don't really live like me. Middle-class people worry a lot about money. They worry a lot about job security, and they do a lot of nine-to-five stuff.

When faced with writer's block, lower your standards and keep going.

Nobody told me when I became a Democrat that that involved opposition to lower taxes.

When yields on corporate bonds are lower than dividends on stocks, that unnerves me.

That's what the Romney plan is all about, how to get jobs created, how to get this debt and deficit under control, how to revive small businesses so we can create jobs, and how to bring growth and opportunity to society instead of this class warfare, instead of speaking to people like they're stuck in some class or station in life.

Let's lower costs for health care. Let's put patients in charge of their solutions.

Luckily, I remembered something Malcolm Cowley had taught us at Stanford - perhaps the most important lesson a writing class (not a writer, understand, but a class) can ever learn. 'Be gentle with one another's efforts,' he often admonished us. 'Be kind and considerate with your criticism. Always remember that it's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.'

Acts of the devil revealed and reveled, designed to recline the mind to lower level.

As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them.

Never stand so high upon a principle that you cannot lower it to suit the circumstances.

I shook myself; I was dreaming. As I went to bed the words of the eighth-grade class's teacher, when the class got to Evangeline , kept echoing in my ears: "We're coming to a long poem now, boys and girls. Now don't be babies and start counting the pages." I lay there like a baby, counting the pages over and over, counting the pages.

It is not possible for you to sink lower than the infinite light of Christ's Atonement shines.

Medicare should be allowed to negotiate with drug companies for lower prices on prescriptions.

We do not have the transportation infrastructure that all you in the lower 48 have. We don't have energy grids that tie us in.

Being in ballet class, being on the stage, being surrounded by my peers at American Ballet Theater every day, keeps me so humble and grounded. Being in ballet class, I feel, is like this meditation for me every morning.

I have everything I had twenty years ago, only it's all a little bit lower.

I find my life is a lot easier the lower I keep everyone's expectations.

I have no problem with military and entitlement reform, lower costs raise freedom.

That man is but of the lower part of the world that is not brought up to business and affairs.

I am very happy making lower budgeted horror movies.

Remember 'The Brady Bunch' TV show? That 1970s family had a full-time live-in housekeeper called Alice. Mrs. Brady worked at the PTA and did community work. She didn't clean her own house. That was middle class. Now you have to be very rich to employ a housekeeper. Everything it meant to be middle class has changed dramatically.

Be loyal and trustworthy. Do not befriend anyone who is lower than yourself in this regard.

When you don't have work for a year or two, you lower your standards a bit for survival.

No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver.

I grew up in a super suburban place where the mundane middle-class issues were similar to what Ray Davies was singing about. All the topics he was singing about were middle-class woes and humanitarian woes - human-being woes.

The answers to feeding hungry children is not fewer dollars to feed hungry children, it's to do more. It is to raise the minimum wage. It is to increase, not dismantle, the earned income tax credit. It is to make college more affordable for more middle class families, not more expensive. These are the things that grow our middle class.

To become a world-class university takes a lot of time. There are simply no shortcuts. People tend to assume, and I have encountered this sort of thinking all over the world, that if they just sink enough money into a university, it will emerge in a few years as a first-class institution. But such rapid growth never happens. It takes time; it takes generations.

It's exciting having a student who is not used to expressing their emotional side and bringing that out in them and see that developing and helping to nurture that. That's an exciting thing. In a class of fifteen there are usually two very good writers, equal to good student writers anywhere in the country. Those two make the class wonderful.

The key to becoming world-class in your endeavors is to build your performance around world-class routines. It can be difficult, even futile, to predict or control what will show up in the middle of your workday. But you can almost always control how your day starts and ends. I have routines for both.

The way the Democrats go about seeking equality is to lower people at the top.

Middle class was defined by having certain values and only a certain amount of money. But this new middle class seems to have absolutely no values and an unlimited amount of money.

I was going to be a storybook illustrator or an editorial illustrator. I ended up in a comics class by mistake because all the others were full, so I was like 'I'll stay for one class, and then I'll go take something else, because I don't care about comics.' I got pulled in really fast; I discovered I had a voice in comics that I didn't know I had.

Prosperity of the middling and lower orders depends upon the fortunes and light taxes of the rich.

In Maryland, I didn't grow up around poor white people. Where I grew up, the white people were middle class or upper-middle class. It's interesting how screwed up it is in reality, because most people who receive assistance from the government are white, but not in my head or in my experience.

A better domain name will lower your lifetime marketing costs.

My brother, Ajay, who plays lower-division games, and I discuss cricket often.

Even if you're ill, physical activity at a lower level will help you beat it.

The problem with a group is, the more people you add, the lower the average IQ.

For me, if I can design beautiful things that have the price be lower, I am thrilled.

In general, more affordable housing correlates with lower income inequality.

Character and class are character and class. Either you have it or you don't.

We have to lower our guard and know saying something's wrong isn't a bad thing.

A writer should tend to lift people up, not lower them down.

Sir, I didn't deserve the grade you gave me on this test. Do you know a lower one?

If we lower the payroll tax, will Americans let us raise it again? I don't think so.

My teacher told my mum, 'I think William has dyspraxia,' and Mum asked what that meant. She said, 'Well, if I put a chair in the middle of the room and asked every child in the class to walk around it, William would be the only child in the class to walk into it.' Mum was like, 'Yeah, that's my boy'.

I had a public school education - 3,000 kids when I was there. And there were a lot of teachers who would just sit there. You'd come in and sign your name and the teacher would just sit there at the head of the class and you would literally just have to stay in your seat for 40 minutes and that was the only thing you'd have to do in class.

Tuesday—we had school for the first time. Madame O’Malley had a moment of silence at the beginning of French class, a class that was always punctuated with long moments of silence, and then asked us how we were feeling. “Awful,” a girl said. “En français,” Madame O’Malley replied. “En français.

All streams flow to the sea because it is lower than they are. Humility gives it its power.

Upon arriving in the capital-F Future, we discover it, invariably, to be the lower-case now.

Fewer people working means permanently lower tax revenues.

The number of business leaders who asked me to lower their taxes can be counted on one hand.

Any flights would be taken business class, since Roger thought that the whole point of having money, if it had to be summed up in a single point, which it couldn't, but if you had to, the whole point of having a bit of money was not to have to fly scum class.

Never lower your sight - always look at people at eye-level.