Top 1200 Dumbing Down Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

As I have said a thousand times, no manipulation can put stocks down and keep them down.

When life knocks you down you have two choices- stay down or get up.

Wages for the ninety-nine percent have gone down, steadily, since 2008. They've gone down especially for the bottom twenty-five percent of the population. This means that they've gone down especially for Blacks and Hispanics and other blue-collar workers. Their net worth has actually turned negative, and they don't have enough money to get by.

I’m not just taking trips down memory lane; I’m broken down on it.

When I am driving my car down the street, I try not to go down the potholes.

He described how, as a boy of 14, his dad had been down the mining pit, his uncle had been down the pit, his brother had been down the pit, and of course he would go down the pit.

'Sunday Morning Coming Down' is probably the most directly autobiographical thing I'd written. In those days, I was living in a slum tenement that was torn down afterwards, but it was $25 a month in a condemned building, and 'Sunday Morning Coming Down' was more or less looking around me and writing about what I was doing.

I had a nightmare about being on a cruise ship and the ship going down. It was an arduous process of the ship going down and we knew it was going down. There was everyone I know and love on the ship.

But that is the only thing that slows me down is the system. No one, two or three was big enough to slow me down, only the system. It was the system that slowed me down to make my numbers fall. Not because I am older.

At the age of two-and-a-half, I was run down by a truck. I had gone rogue in the house while my mother was bathing my sister. I went outside and met a friend who promised me candy. Afterward, I walked back by myself across the road where I fell down in the street. A 15-year-old boy delivering bread struck me down.

I have turned down playing the most despicable people on Earth. I turn it down all the time.

What happened in Cuba, just to cut to the chase, their death rate from diabetes went down 50%, their death rate from heart attacks and stroke went down approximately 30% and all-cause mortality went down 18% while they adhered to the system. Then they opened up their pipeline again from Venezuela, and their health improvements went away.

Possessions and concessions are not often what they seem, they drag you down and load you down in disguise of security.

Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down.

I see people allowing their lives to diminish, to become shallow, so they can't enjoy the deep wells of experience. Maybe it's always been this way, when the heart tends to shut down. If only the heart shut down and there were no repercussions, it would be O.K., but when the heart shuts down, the whole system goes into a kind of despair that is intolerable.

I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn't, So I jumped in and sank.

I was lucky enough to be down at the studio the day John Paul Jones came down.

My wheelchair is like the Cadillac of wheelchairs; it goes up and down and back, and I can lay down in it.

There's nothing like sitting down and playing music with somebody. It breaks down all the barriers in life.

I think for a lot of guys when they get taken down it's like the end of the world and they freak out about it but training with the team I have here, I have been in a lot of bad positions before and I'm no slouch on the ground either, so if it goes down there, I'm comfortable and can win the fight down there or get back to my feet and end it there.

These people haven't seen the last of my face. If I go down, I'm going down standing up.

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

On the journey of the warrior-bodhisattva, the path goes down, not up, as if the mountain pointed toward the earth instead of the sky. Instead of transcending the suffering of all creatures, we move toward turbulence and doubt however we can. We explore the reality and unpredictability of insecurity and pain, and we try not to push it away. If it takes years, if it takes lifetimes, we let it be as it is. At our own pace, without speed or aggression, we move down and down and down. With us move millions of others, companions in awakening from fear.

When you're down, when you've been kicked down in the street and then kicked a few more times until you're bleeding and your teeth are out, then you only have up to go. You get reborn again, and expectations aren't so great because they've taken you away. It's beautiful to be down there. It's so beautiful!

It's kind of hard to sell 'trickle down,' so the supply-side formula was the only way to get a tax policy that was really 'trickle down.' Supply-side is 'trickle-down' theory.

The summer Night comes brooding down on Earth, As Love comes brooding down on human hearts, With bliss that hath no utterance save rich tears. She floats in fragrance down the smiling dark, Foldeth a kiss upon the lips of Life-- Curtaineth into rest the weary world-- And shuts us in with all our hid delights.

The fact that you have been knocked down is interesting, but the length of time you remained down is important.

If we go down in flames, we will be laughing on the way down, believe me.

Don't write anything down, but save everything that anyone else writes down.

Despite deficit rains, we have been successful in bringing down the inflation down from double digits to 3-4%

If you don't want to grow old, then slow down the slowing down process.

I'm up in the woods, I'm down on my mind. I'm building a still, to slow down the time.

Whether I win or not, it won't be down to inexperience and hopefully it won't be down to some sort of mental misjudgment.

As demand goes down, you will see prices come down.

Slow down. Calm down. Don't worry. Don't hurry. Trust the process.

When I first came down stairs, for two or three minutes I went down cellar to the water closet.

The stiff rails were softened to swan's-down, and still fluttered down the snow.

A microphone pack once fell down my knickers and nearly pulled my pants down.

With a film, you have to pare down and take stuff out and squish it all down into a 110 page script.

I don't like the idea of talking down to kids. I think I was talked down to, and you rebel against that.

The thing is to appreciate the fragile wonder of it all, down to the last breath, down to the dying embers of consciousness.

I think I had the smallest handle around. When I got my bats, I even trimmed them down. I used to scrape them. Some years later when I started getting older, I used to start with a 33 and in the summer it got down to 31 and then probably in September got down to 30.

Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?

I don't know that anybody has walked up to me in the street or in a store or in the grocery and said to me, 'I hope you bomb Assad.' Certainly plenty have said, 'No; thumbs down, thumbs down, thumbs down.'

It is not a shame to be knocked down by other people. The important thing is to ask when you're being knocked down, 'Why am I being knocked down?' If a person can reflect in this way, then there is hope for this person.

There is a strange pecking order among actors. Theatre actors look down on film actors, who look down on TV actors. Thank God for reality shows, or we wouldn't have anybody to look down on.

And all those who look down on me I'm tearing down your balcony.

When you are knocked down you have two choices - stay down or get back up, stronger.

When they knock you down, you not only have to get up, but you have to make it clear that you won't be knocked down a second time.

Things go up and down. If you can survive the down, it will come back.

Living down your own past was hard enough. You shouldn't have to live down someone else's.

I'm very reactive, I think. I'm down to throw down with people. Online, of course. Not in person.

Georges St. Pierre, if he wants to take you down, you're going down.

The top is not forever. Either you walk down, or you are going to be kicked down.

You write it down because finally, when it's written down you do get it out of your system somewhat.

So, when you come down a big wave and everything's perfect, you make it to the shoulder and you kick out. But, when you come down and it closes out or you fall on the way down, then this massive, basically like an avalanche. just lands on you and it feels like a ton of bricks.

I came down to Orange because I sold the Smothers Brothers a song called 'Chocolate,' and that gave me enough money to move down here. I was washing windows down in Orange County when they called me up and said they wanted me to do their TV show.

I wouldn't say I'm addicted, but I never, ever skip yoga. I use it to calm down and slow down.

If you must let someone down, be sure it isn’t the friend who helped you up when you were down.

I think it mostly comes down to trying to align with people who are down with a mission and will bring optimism.