Top 1200 Life Knocks You Down Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Hospitalizations in general are blurry. The days are the same, precisely the same. Nothing changes. Life melts down to a simple progression of meals. They become a way of life fairly quickly. You may welcome this transition. It may seem inevitable to you. You have been removed from the world. It is all right, in a way, because there is nothing so sure, so safe, as routine.

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

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

Flow down and down in always widening rings of being.

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

I would consider it the greatest experience of my life, it's the experience that made me a man, that taught me so many life lessons that you get from sport, ones that I've been able to pass down. (It was) invaluable, beyond words, got me through school, high school, and college, it was the greatest gift I gave myself.

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

When I play with the full band, you get to be larger than life, you feel larger than life, and that particular moment in the song where there's passion, you've got nine guys behind you, all driving that sound and that feeling with you. That's like surfing a huge wave, because once you start you really can't stop it, you got it going down a huge mountain.

That to me is the way any good romantic would look at his life: Live it first, then write it down before you go.

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

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.

Life and the Universe show spontaneity;Down with ridiculous notions of Deity!Churches and creeds are lost in the mists;Truth must be sought with the Positivists.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

When I think of ages past That have floated down the stream Of life and love and death, I feel how free it makes us To pass away.

How do we accomplish this matter of gathering life together in God? We must begin primarily by refocusing our attention keeping our minds and hearts directed toward God. The essence of the centered life is attention to God in all we think, say and do. It is the growing realization of His presence in our most down-to-earth living.

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

Our women are not incredible because they have managed to avoid the difficulties of life—quite the opposite. They are incredible because of the way they face the trials of life. Despite the challenges and tests life has to offer—from marriage or lack of marriage, children’s choices, poor health, lack of opportunities, and many other problems—they remain remarkably strong and immovable and true to the faith. Our sisters throughout the Church consistently “succor the weak, lift up the hands which hang down, and strengthen the feeble knees.

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

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

My friends and my family - the people who I love and who love me back. Whenever I get down, when I want to crawl under a rock, I just look around at them and I see how rich my life is. You have to remember what’s most important in life. I am loved by so many people and have a wonderful job. I know I’m incredibly blessed. I am a completely lucky human being.

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

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

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

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.

I think life would be so much funnier if every day you saw someone walking down the street getting hit in the head by a monkey.

I am an American, Chicago born – Chicago, that somber city – and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent. But a man's character is his fate, says Heraclitus, and in the end there isn't any way to disguise the nature of the knocks by acoustical work on the door or gloving the knuckles.

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

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

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

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

I'm amazed at how much my writing is improved when I step away from the computer, even in small amounts. If I'm stuck, I vacuum the living room or walk the dog. I'm amazed at what comes out of that... We have to realize that part of the writing life where we're sitting down at the computer is harvesting the crops, but you have to have planted them and watered them and created fertile soil - and that's a life.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

O your life, your lonely lifeWhat have you ever done with it,And done with the great gift of consciousness?What will you ever do before Death's knifeProvides the answer ultimate and appropriate?As I for my part felt in my heart as one who falls,Falls in a parachute, falls endlessly, and feels the vastDraft of the abyss sucking him down and down,An endlessly helplessly falling and appalled clown:This is the way the night passes by, thisIs the overnight endless trip to the famous unfathomable abyss.

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

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.

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

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