Top 1200 Turned Down Quotes & Sayings - Page 17

Several weeks of summer vacation in the Thirties I spent working at $15 a week in the FORBES office.... I worked in the mail cage, where envelopes were slit and subscription payments extracted. Dad used to come pounding down the office aisle and pause long enough to ask, How much today? Inevitably the answer was inadequate-except once. That day the controller said excitedly, Mr. Forbes, the ledger shows a slight profit this month! ... My father turned to him and said, Young man, I don't give a damn what your books show. Do we have any money in the bank?

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.

Flow down and down in always widening rings of being.

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.

Today I walked on the lion-coloured hills with only cypresses for company, until the sunset caught me, turned the brush to copper set the clouds to one great roof of flame above the earth, so that I walk through fire, beneath fire, and all in beauty. Being alone I could not be alone, but felt (closer than flesh) the presence of those who once had burned in such transfigurations. My happiness ran through the centuries in one continual brightness. Looking down, I saw the earth beneath me like a rose petaled with mountains, fragrant with deep peace.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

The N.R.A. has effectively turned itself into the Id of the Right.

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

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

I've never turned my back on country music.

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

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

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

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.

Trump walked into a media setting for which he was far better suited than the other contenders because he actually knows how to do reality TV and made them all look like pretenders. And I would argue that our news media has only gotten worse since Trump got in office. Trump is media crack. The ratings have never been higher. The reason CNN would run an hour of an empty podium waiting for him to show up during the campaign is because they were terrified if they turned away from Trump their rating would go down.

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

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

The Mediterranean will be turned into an Italian lake.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

The Lord has turned all our sunsets into sunrise.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

What I am most proud of with the book On to the Next Dream is how I turned an intensely emotional experience into art. Anyone can run up to a rooftop, tear off their clothes, and scream about how screwed up the world is. But for the people down below, all they see is a person losing their mind. I wanted to make something that channeled that emotion in a way that elicited an empathetic response from the reader. So that after you read this book, you would want to run up to the rooftop and scream about how screwed up the world is.

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.