Top 1200 Dumbing Down Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

When it comes to politics, I sit down on a sofa and grab some popcorn - or sometimes I crouch down in order not to get shot.

A bird with a broken wing was beating the air above, reeling, fluttering, circling disabled, down, down to the water

I'm human, and we all make mistakes. But just because you're knocked down, you don't have to stay down. Get up and fight.

I've spent a fair amount of time down at the worlder. I've been down there and helped arrest people that are smuggling drugs in.

Scientists do not join hands every Sunday and sing "Yes gravity is real! I know gravity is real! I will have faith! I believe in my heart that what goes up, up, up must come down, down, down. Amen!" If they did, we would think they were pretty insecure about the concept.

Defense doesn't break down on the help, it breaks down on the recovery.

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down.

Down in the water, Octavian yelled, “Get me out of here! I’ll kill you!” “Tempting,” Percy called down.

My beard grows down to my toes, I never wears no clothes, I wraps my hair Around my bare, And down the road I goes.

we might also call vertigo the intoxication of the weak. aware of his weakness, a man decides to give in rather than stand up to it. he is drunk with weakness, wishes to grow even weaker, wishes to fall down in the middle of the main square in front of everybody, wishes to be down, lower than down.

I think there's an unfortunate thing where a lot of content geared towards kids and families is watered down, dumbed down.

Open this notebook every day and write down half a page at the very least. If you have nothing to write down, then at least, following Gogol’s advice, write down that today there’s nothing to write. Always write with attention and look on writing as a holiday.

Even if I don't want to slow down, I'm slowing down.

Father, you died once, salted down at fifty-nine, packed down like a big snow angel, wasn't that enough?

Do you believe this is simply trickle-down Machiavellianism in much the same way that Communism trickled down as an aberration of its original intent?

We simply cannot afford to give the reigns of government so someone who will double down on trickle down

To hold a man down, you have to stay down with him.

You know how we built the pyramids? You gotta ask yourself a question always flip the script. What if up was down and down was up? What if you looked down into space standing up on Earth? This is how we built the pyramids.

You know in cartoons, the way someone can run off a cliff and they're fine, they don't fall down until they look down? My mom always said that was the secret of life. Never look down. But it's more than that. It's not just about looking. It's about never realizing that you're in the middle of the air and you don't know how to fly.

I believe that the federal government should be laying down broadband like Eisenhower laid down interstates.

We're a competitive family - we compete in everything we do: playing cards; if we're walking down the street, we want to be the first one down the block.

Well, I started out down a dirty road Started out all alone And the sun went down as I crossed the hill And the town lit up, the world got still I'm learning to fly but I ain't got wings Coming down is the hardest thing Well, the good ol' days may not return And the rocks might melt and the sea may burn I'm learning to fly but I ain't got wings Coming down is the hardest thing Well, some say life will beat you down Break your heart, steal your crown So I've started out for God knows where I guess I'll know when I get there I'm learning to fly around the clouds But what goes up must come down

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.

I'm not the guy to get beat down when I shouldn't have gotten beaten down.

It's easy to let yourself down - it's tough to let other people down.

Race prejudice can't be talked down, it must be lived down.

For example, I wouldn't hesitate to sit somebody down if he wasn't performing, even if he was the No. 1 player in the world. I've been sat down before.

My work is that of keeping every operation down (in size) so that the farmer and the man farthest down can get hold of it.

The reason I'm in good form is not just down to myself: it's down to the manager and coaching staff improving my game.

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.

Your hair looks funny," Lief said, as soon as the Ugloids left. "It stands straight up!" No," said Nick, intensely irritated, "It's hanging straight down." Lief just gave him an upside-down shrug. "Up is down in China and you're part-Chinese.

I tell myself, every morning when I wake up, two things. Don't let the world down. Don't let our users down.

The father of democracy is Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister after our independence, who was assassinated under conditions that to this day nobody can clearly understand. So, for me, this title is not the most important thing. You can go down in history as the father of democracy, but you can also go down as the person who brought about chaos just by stepping down.

It brings me back to reality. The combine doesn't care if you're a senator or not. It breaks down whenever it wants to break down.

I respond, thoughts dropping away, like pebbles plopping one by one in water, sinking down, down into dark oblivion.

I think I sit down to the typewriter when it's time to sit down to the typewriter. That isn't to suggest that when I do finally sit down at the typewriter, and write out my plays with a speed that seems to horrify all my detractors and half of my well-wishers, that there's no work involved. It is hard work, and one is doing all the work oneself.

I'm down to bleach my eyebrows again. I tell you what, though - that didn't go down well with my boyfriend. Girls love it. Guys, not so into it.

My story, or my life or my legacy can hopefully show [fans] that once you’re down, that doesn’t mean you’re down forever. You never let up.

When I get down to my last dime I'll just walk over to skid row." "There are some real weirdos down there." "They're everywhere.

There's no way I'm goin' down. I don't go down for nobody.

Paris is a place where, for me, just walking down a street that I've never been down before is like going to a movie.

People are not doing well financially. I mean, wages are down from 2000. They're down from 2007. 2000 - down. Not going - they're below what they were in 2000. People are hurting. Things aren't going well for them.

I knew well that the only way I could get that door open was to knock it down; because I knocked all of them down.

The fatal flaw of gravity; when you are down, everything falls down on you.

When I let my hair down, I just let it down. It's more comfortable in my helmet.

Flow down and down in always widening rings of being.

It's very intimidating to be photographed, but if I kneel down and chat with you, so you're looking down at me, it makes you feel less threatened.

Oh! what waves of crime and bloodshed have swept like the waves of a deluge down the valley of the Rhine! War has laid his mailed hand on those desolate towers and ruthlessly torn down what time has spared, yet he could not mar the beauty of the shore, nor could Time himself hurl down the mountains that guard it.

They dared not peer down into their own natures, down into the feverish confusion that filled their minds with a kind of dense, acrid mist.

I've worked on products where they go down in the middle of the night, and no one notices. You get the 'site down' notice, but it doesn't matter.

We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in one's life when one has to close down just to regroup.

In therapy you sit down; in analysis you lie down.

Down in devil gate drive. I led the angel pack on the road to sin. Knock down the gates, let me in.

Once I slow down because I think I have reached my peak, then my skills will go nowhere but down

God's everywhere, but I gotta go down (to church) to see him? Really? And he's mad at me down there, and I owe you money?

I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity.

Sometimes, instead of going down the road less taken, you just charge down the beaten path.

You back me into a corner, I'm not going to lay down and die. I've been down that road too many years in my life.

My grandmother is the type of person, I'd be down playing cards in the park, and she'd take the dog and walk down to the park, like 10:30 or 11 at night. I was 12 years old. She'd come down yelling for me. I'd be embarrassed in front of my friends. She'd grab me by the hair on my head.

Humor is this great equalizer. It gets people's defenses down, and once they're down, you can discuss some really difficult topics.