Top 1200 Dropping Out Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

Peace is not weak. Standing up to a tank is harder than dropping a suicide bomb

A tender sadness drops upon my soul, like the soft twilight dropping on the world.

Dropping those atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki was a war crime.

I have seen extreme lows because of factors that were not in my hands - be it not having money to buy my first bike, dropping out of a prestigious engineering college without having a single rupee in my bank account, living with seven boys in a single-room kitchen in Mumbai, or eating nothing but khichdi every day. But I cherish all those moments.

I was only saying to the Queen the other day how I hate name dropping.

Affirmative action is not going to be the long-term solution to the problems of race in America, because, frankly, if you've got 50 percent of African-American or Latino kids dropping out of high school, it doesn't really matter what you do in terms of affirmative action. Those kids aren't going to college.

When I was about seventeen, I had a group called the Young Jazz Giants. We played all originals. When we would finish playing, people would be like, 'Oh my God, that was so nice, that was so great.' But Pops would never tell us we were the best. He would give it to us straight, like, 'You're out of tune. You're dropping beats.'

I have thought about dropping an atomic bomb on Sydney but I wouldn't gain anything from it.

Culture is a little like dropping an Alka- Seltzer into a glass- you don't see it, but somehow it does something

I listened to the pure crystalline notes of one of Mozart's concertos dropping at my feet like leaves from the trees.

If I made a joke about just dropping by, would you write me off as cliché?

Anyone can sell product by dropping their prices, but it does not breed loyalty.

I had a really bad running posture: like, I ran, literally, dropping on my face.

No mockery in this world ever sounds to me so hollow as that of being told to cultivate happiness. What does such advice mean? Happiness is not a potato, to be planted in mould, and tilled with manure. Happiness is a glory shining far down upon us out of Heaven. She is a divine dew which the soul, on certain of its summer mornings, feels dropping upon it from the amaranth bloom and golden fruitage of Paradise.

Dropping 25 pounds was something I was unsure about. It seemed like a pointless adventure, in a way.

Rafa Benitez was keen on defending - all dropping back together if you lose the ball.

I'm addicted to women. Believe me, as Shaggy, after every concert, there's drawers that are dropping.

I was typing away while everybody was dropping acid and smoking grass. I was known as my own square.

Most Americans are on a downward escalator. Median wage in the United States, adjusted for inflation, keeps on dropping.

The most dangerous part of the race is early evening and especially early morning. It's the twilight zone. Either you're going into darkness and the sun is dropping down, or you're coming out of the darkness and the sun is coming up. At the same time, you've got new drivers coming in and feeling their way around the circuit.

Don't do nothing halfway, else you find yourself dropping more than can be picked up.

I didn't know I would cry when I actually cut my hair, but I felt empty when something kept dropping and disappearing.

Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow.

I wanted to be a brain surgeon, but I had a bad habit of dropping things.

I'm not regretful about dropping acid, but I could have stopped it a little sooner.

I went to college to study drama where I discovered I had no talent and after a period of dropping out majored in cultural anthropology which of course meant more masks and dancing. I studied what interested me and so I had to become a writer because my education had left me unsuited for a decent well-paying job.

He groaned slightly and winced like Prometheus watching his vulture dropping in for lunch.

Calculus is one course you can come with to your parents and say, I am dropping it. And they'll understand.

I am 1,000 percent for Tom Eagleton and I have no intention of dropping him from the ticket.

Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

Even the simplest choice can make a jaw-dropping difference in our world.

What is compelling with 'War Horse' is the jaw-dropping, awe-inspiring craftsmanship in this movie.

Too often, the public can fall into the trap of investing when stock prices are rising, not dropping.

About 200 girls went into a room and there were two casting agents and they asked you to say your name and where you came from and then they picked two or three out of that. And they sent you into a room and I was really nervous and kept dropping things and I was going the wrong way and everything. Then she gave us a script and you had to learn it.

There were times when I thought of dropping skating completely and just focusing on baseball.

Vietnam, me love you long time. All day, all night, me love you long time. (...) Dropping acid on the Mekong Delta, smoking grass through a rifle barrel, flying on a helicopter with opera blasting out of loudspeakers, tracer-fire and paddy-field scenery, the smell of napalm in the morning. Long time.

I would love to work with Drake. I think he's such a pop star, and he's dropping amazing songs.

Where you really get in trouble is if the market is dropping and the economy's slowing down and you don't take action.

Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.

My uncle was almost hit by a sniper while dropping his son at basketball practice.

A friend of mine pointed out to me, "Why do you separate your writing and your music?" I got (writers) Rick Moody and Jonathan Ames to do the first one, and it just kind of gathered steam; then NPR picked it up. It is a nice way for me to marry both sides of my career, a move that's probably culminated in me dropping the name John Wesley Harding.

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

I felt very low. I had been unmasked only that morning by Jay Cee herself, and I felt now that all the uncomfortable suspicions I had about myself were coming true. After nineteen years of running after good marks and prizes and grants of one sort and another, I was letting up, slowing down, dropping clean out of race.

Donae'o is too cold; he's been dropping bangers since 2000.

Friends meddle with my plan of work. I resent people dropping in for a chat.

I don't want to be stuck in the same spot, just dropping mixtapes for no reason.

I felt ashamed about everything. Me dropping out of high school, me not, you know, just not being beautiful enough. I just didn't feel like I was smart enough or beautiful enough, you know, for years.

There's a reason why, outside of me dropping a few, people don't throw my way, man.

I don't think we have a surplus of fine educators in this country that we can just start dropping them for no reason whatsoever.

Now it will take a long time to scale biofuels, but I'm the only one in the world forecasting oil dropping in price to $35 a barrel by 2030. I'll put it on the record: Oil will not be able to compete with cellulosic biofuels. If you do it from food, the food will get so expensive you can't make fuel out of it.

Sincere repentance is continual. Believers repent until their dying day. This dropping well is not intermittent.

Was everybody seeing this stuff and acting as though they weren't? Was insanity just a matter of dropping the act?

I thought about dropping down to 135, started dieting down, but I didn't feel very good and started to get weak. I decided to give weightlifting and strength training another shot. The first few times I tried lifting weights I didn't like the way I felt, and we finally developed a way of working out where I wouldn't lose my speed.

In visions of the night, like dropping rain, Descend the many memories of pain.

If you are anxious, you can't learn. It's like dropping seeds on concrete. With a quiet mind, people take things in.

When you conceal inner reality, this pressure builds. You often don't expose yourself until it reaches extremity, a breaking point, and what emerges is a dramatic shift - at least in the eyes of others, from whom you've hidden the truth. So, dropping out of high school was like that for me. I was fine, I got straight As, I had friends, and then boom, I was like, I'm done.

For me, the hardest thing was dropping the whole Latino comic title.

But listen to me. For one moment quit being sad. Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you.

I've got a lot better at dropping emotions if something goes wrong, or right.

I think it's extremely unlikely that the European Union will fracture with nations dropping off the edge.