Top 1200 Life Knocks You Down Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Life is like a roller coaster. I like the ups and downs. Life is like a roller coaster with many ups and down. The faster the better. I picked a bad day to stop sniffing glue.

I'm on the phone 24/7 with my kids talking to them about the ups and down of life, schoolwork, bullying, the great times.

The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.

When the past has passed from you at last, let go. Then climb down and begin the rest of your life. With great joy.

Eventually, I realized that I would not have a life until I buckled down. Once I did, I auditioned for Juilliard - and that changed everything.

I have suffered two grave accidents in my life, one in which a streetcar knocked me down... The other accident is Diego.

In reading and writing, you cannot lay down rules until you have learnt to obey them. Much more so in life.

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community

Being established in my life, buttressed by my thinking nature, fastened down in this transcendental field which was opened for me by my first perception, and in which all absence is merely the obverse of a presence, all silence a modality of the being of sound, I enjoy a sort of ubiquity and theoretical eternity, I feel destined to move in a flow of endless life, neither the beginning nor the end of which I can experience in thought, since it is my living self who think of them, and since thus my life always precedes and survives itself.

I always look to people and think whether they seem well-loved or not well-loved. That's one way I walk through life. Do they have some core that withstands the ravages? Everyone gets pulled down in life and has good moments. But it always interests me how people withstand things.

I'm writing this down, because it is going to be hard for me to say it. Because this is probably our last time just us. See, I can write that down, but I don't think I can say it. I'm not doing this to say goodbye, though I know that has to be part of it. I'm doing it to thank you for all we have had and done and been for one another, to say I love you for making this life of mine what it is. Leaving you is the hardest thing I have to do. But the thing is, the best parts of me are in you, all three of you. You are who I am, and what I cherish in myself stays on in you.

history ... a sort of immortality turned upside down. Her life stretched backwards through ten centuries.

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.

My parents led this double life. They were in the underground movement to bring down the Nazis. My father was hanged for being a traitor.

For she was a child, throwing bread to the ducks, between her parents who stood by the lake, holding her life in her arms which, as she neared them, grew larger and larger in her arms, until it became a whole life, a complete life, which she put down by them and said, "This is what I have made of it! This!" And what had she made of it? What, indeed?

I do use social media as a gateway into my personal life, but only to a certain extent. When I don't want to, I pull the blinds down.

We talked about trying to create an image that would somehow, to an audience, create the sense of awe, wonder and shock that the troops must have felt that their monarch - and a female monarch - went to the frontline of battle and was prepared to lay down her life. This speech is so well known and has been done in virtually every version of the events of Elizabeth's life.

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!

I'm glad I lived such a full life before I settled down into a family because I got to enjoy it and get it out of my system.

Letting ourselves down in some fashion is such an integral part of daily life that the paucity of literature on the subject is baffling.

We must hunt the terrorists down and kill them. There is no other way to respond to those so committed to the destruction of life.

I look down the farthest side of the mountain, fulfilled and understanding all, and truly content that I lived a full life and one that was my own choice

The nonconformist here may be "beat down" by life but still has a beauty in his or her longing for freedom and for an awakening of the mind.

The darkest hour in any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

I learned to fall down early in life - I was like six - because I realized it was a way to make girls laugh.

Write down everything you want to do with your life and then spend the next 25 years doing them.

The guardian angels of life sometimes fly so high as to be beyond our sight, but they are always looking down upon us.

Unfortunately, my love life is nil. I'm working too much - but I would like to settle down at some point.

There are many things about my life that I wish had been different and that I still find difficult to live down.

Burn down the disco Hang the blessed D.J. Because the music that they constantly play It says nothing to me about my life

We living beings, right down to crickets, ants, mosquitoes , and flies, all possess life that is without beginning or end.

Beautiful and fresh, Girl Saves Boy is full of the absolute truth-life is complicated. I could not put it 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.

I can't give up that quick My life is a candle and a wick You can put it out, but you can't break it down In the end we are waiting to be lit

If I'm ever stuck on a respirator or a life support system, I definitely want to be unplugged -- but not until I'm down to a size eight.

When love exists, nothing else matters, not life’s predicaments, not the fury of the years, not a physical winding down or scarcity of opportunity.

The playing field of life is not level, and for you to compete in the game of life, you need an equalizer of some kind. In the old West, the equalizer was the six-shooter. It enabled a little guy to chop a bigger man down to size. Desire is also an equalizer--and nowadays is highly encouraged over a six-shooter!

Imagine this guy hits Mike Hammer over the head with a wooden coathanger and knocks him out. You hit Mike Hammer over the head with a wooden coathanger, he'll beat the crap out of you.

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.

Everybody wears an unseen sign that reads: Inspire me. Remind me that my life matters; call me to be my best self; appeal to whatever in me is most noble and honorable. Don't let me go down the path of least resistance. Challenge me to make my life about something more than the acquisition of money or success

All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom. I have been pouring van loads of information into that vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.

Feminine force is that inner strength, that power, that will to face down any negative circumstances in life and defeat them.

I don't want to think of life after competing. But if I were to do anything else I'd go down the psychology route. That's what interests me.

Student life taught me a lesson - never bow down your head. Be straightforward and bold in whatever you do.

For me everything in life is just basic - really simple, down-to-earth. I am a total family person.

Fall down seven times, stand up eight. - Chinese proverbWithout music, life would be a mistake.

The task we face is reorganizing the systems we depend on for daily life in a way that is consistent with the realities coming down at us.

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.'

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.

Simplify, slow down, be kind. And don't forget to have art in your life - music, paintings, theater, dance, and sunsets.

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.

You can fall out of a tree pose with ease, or with frustration and a sense of defeat. Just like you can take a spill in your life and decide to dust yourself off - with a chuckle or an annoyed grunt - and get back up, or you can stay down, lie there, and give up. It's entirely up to you. It's your life, and your practice.

The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accommodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed down in his community.

Life is full of wonderful passions that come and go over the years, but the only one that will never let you down is reading.

I'm just not a good reader, so I haven't been able to sit down and get myself through an entire book in my whole life.

Why waste your time being around people who drag you down? You don't live forever, at least in this life.

A great sorrow, like a mariner's quadrant, brings the sun at noon down to the horizon, and we learn where we are on the sea of life.

When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future.

One of the most important things about social media is knowing when to put the phone down and experience your life.

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.