Top 1200 Standing Down Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

One of the most exciting moments was standing out on top of the world, 30 seconds before stepping off.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Say what you will about Leona Helmsley, when it comes to standing trial, she's twice the man Jim Bakker is.

The bridge fell away into the chasm, and the Cyclops howled ... with delight, because he was standing right next to us.

I was genuinely frightened when I saw the Daleks. These ridiculous-looking things absolutely get to the core of you when you're standing in front of one.

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.

I don't think one should be comfortable standing on a stage with people applauding and laughing at every stupid thing you say.

So to be standing here, this was really, truly, honestly never part of anything we even imagined in our wildest dreams.

It is very frightening to feel alone when you are standing against a rich and powerful person and all his attendant helpers.

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.

The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

I had a standing arrangement with God: I'd agree to believe in him—barely—so long as he let me sleep in on Sundays.

Challenge me, that'd be to my advantage I'm outstanding, like standing outside up in the twister, and walking out undamaged

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

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?

I wanted to show young people that taking a stand can be done by simply standing firm in your convictions.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back

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.

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

I suppose I'm like most coaches now, standing on the sideline hoping somebody asks them a question.

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.

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.

I can't tell you if one day I'll be standing up there with an Oscar or directing, but I am going to be the best human being I possibly can

To prevent the workers from going to their work by standing in front of them is pure violence and must be given up.

Some people achieve the top of the ladder and only then realise it was standing against the wrong wall.

I'm a country boy at heart. I love it when you've got your boots on and you're standing in three inches of cow muck.

There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.

They are all a rotten lot. Schmidt and the Americans and we are the only people who would do any standing up and fighting if necessary.

Anti-Americanism from abroad would not be such a problem if Americans were united in standing up for their own country.

I can't tell you if one day I'll be standing up there with an Oscar or directing, but I am going to be the best human being I possibly can.

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.

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

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.

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.

Professionally, South has contributed in whatever standing I have. And yes, personally, too, it has given the joy of my life, Sridevi.

Umpiring is best described as the profession of standing between two seven-year olds with one ice cream cone.

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

To me, punk is about being an individual and going against the grain and standing up and saying 'This is who I am'.

If you want to be rich, you need to develop your vision. You must be standing on the edge of time gazing into the future.

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

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?

Right now, I'm standing behind the glass, and I guess that's a metaphor for how my life will be going forward.

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

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.

Performing is just standing up there and doing something. Performance takes on an edge to it. It has a more dramatic context.

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.

To win that war [with radical Islamic extremists] we need a commander-in-chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern.