Top 1200 Heads Down Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Blacks' problems lie not in the heads of white people but rather in the wasted and incompletely fulfilled lives of too many black people.

A friend of ours, the wife of a pastor at a church in Colorado, had once told me about something her daughter, Hannah, said when she was three years old. After the morning service was over one Sunday, Hannah tugged on her mom's skirt and asked. "Mommy, why do some people in church have lights over their heads and some don't?" At the time, I remember thinking two things: First, I would've knelt down and asked Hannah, "Did I have a light over my head? Please say yes!" I also wondered what Hannah had seen, and whether she had seen it because, like my son, she had a childlike faith.

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.

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

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

I was able to work with two heads. If anything, doing ads and other commercial work were at least exercises in discipline.

If nobody ever worried about what was in other people's heads, we’d all be 33 percent more effective in our lives and our jobs.

I want my guy to be very good looking. Heads should turns at him when he walks with me. He should be really charming.

It's cool to be nervous, and how the nerves come out sideways. That's why some actors scream their heads off, or it comes out in their hair.

Fighting is like champagne. It goes to the heads of cowards as quickly as of heroes. Any fool can be brave on a battlefield when it's be brave or else be killed.

Brains, like cabbages, are beautiful-but in a different way. Cabbage heads are dumb and sterile, whereas brains are personal, intelligent and vibrant.

Almost everyone who's been to primary school in Britain has had towels put on their heads to play the shepherds in the nativity play.

You think that the heads of state only have serious conversations, but they actually often begin really with the weather or, 'I really like your tie.'

I can't think of any musician or producer who has influenced me more than Brian Eno. From when he was in Roxy Music, producing Devo, the Talking Heads and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts.

Ever hear of the phrase, Banging you're head on a brick wall?" Ah, but you forget, Darren, vampires can break brick walls with their heads.

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

If we were to promise people nothing better than only revolution, they would scratch their heads and say: 'Is it not better to have good goulash?'

Most writers live in self-imposed exile, even when they don't leave their country. They prefer the undiscovered country inside their own heads.

Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don't realize the magic that can live inside their own heads. Better even then any movie.

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

In truth, the care and expense of our fathers aims only at furnishing our heads with knowledge; of judgement and virtue, little news.

He knew a lot about his grandparents - and perhaps he feels he's been endowed with abilities to go into people's heads who are long dead - but, to a certain extent, he's making it up.

Stories are how we learn best. We absorb numbers and facts and details, but we keep them all glued into our heads with stories.

I played with Barbies but I used to decapitate them. I used to take their heads off then dye their hair and do weird things.

Before we can leave our parents, they stuff our heads like the suitcases which they jam-pack with homemade underwear.

Just as there are rocks which receive the constant shock and spray, the battering of waves, so there are heads about which passions roar.

I believe that humans adapt to circumstance. The Internet is quite an unprecedented circumstance, so it's going to take people a while to get their heads around it.

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

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

Carli Fiorina thinks the answer for Social Security and Medicare is...zero-based budgeting! Christ. People of a certain age are all banging their heads on the table right now.

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

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

Some people are probably scratching their heads and saying, How did that happen? That's because some of the media didn't give the public the full story.

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

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

Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.

My greatest wish is that a certain way of looking at the world, a way I show in all of my books, gets into my readers' heads, and slowly alters their perception.

We humans are destined to live with our feet on the earth and our heads in the heavens, and we can never be at peace because we are pulled both ways.

Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.

Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men's heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings.

Some people simply bury their heads in the sand and refuse to think about the sorrow of the world, but this is an unwise course, because, if we are entirely unprepared, the tragedy of life can be devastating.

The irrepressible spirit that made his playing seem like good conversation is the Rubinstein legacy for pianists, if they can pick up their heads from the keyboard long enough to claim it.

Gavin saw a grave purely as a marker for the place where a corpse was decomposing; a nasty thought, yet people took it into their heads to visit and bring flowers, as though it might yet recover.

I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads off and keep them in bowls of water around the house.

The biggest problem in South Africa is that we have a disrupted timeline. Historically, politically, spiritually, economically, in people's minds, in people's heads.

I know a lot of women who embody what it means to be a feminist but do not want to use that word. The misperceptions about what it's all about have gotten into their heads.

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

In the stream.- Mighty waters draw much stone and rubble along with them; mighty spirits many stupid and bewildered heads.

They may be all comprehended under three heads - 1st, Superstition; 2d, Power; 3d, the common interests of society, and the common rights of man.

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

Great political questions stir the deepest nature of one-half the nation, but they pass far above and over the heads of the other half.

The motion of the stars over our heads is as much an illusion as that of the cows, trees and churches that flash past the windows of our train.

'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.

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

Mortals seldom know how greatly they are influenced by fairies, knooks and ryls, who often put thoughts into their heads that only the wise little immortals could have conceived.

It's hard for people who obey and respect the law to keep their heads from exploding in the face of affronts to common sense and the rule of law.

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

Think of me as the praying mantis of the supernatural world. Aren't those the bugs that bite the heads off the males? Link looked skeptical. Yes. Then they eat them

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.

There were so many years that were going by at a lightning speed that it was so hard to kinda put our heads around what was happening to us.