Top 1200 Turned Down Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Think of it like running down a slope. If you attempt to slow down and choose your steps, you’re bound to trip up and stumble.

The way I write possibly shouldn't be turned on serious things.

South Tel Aviv has turned into the garbage can of the country.

Fact is stranger than fiction. You see people walking down the street that would never be allowed on television. You have to tone it down.

There is never an embarrassing silence that can't be turned into a regrettable conversation.

To see my story turned into a movie is mind-blowing.

I'm not trying to take New York by storm. I just want to sneak in there, keep my head down, batten down the hatches and cook.

I turned to punk because I didn't fit in anywhere else.

The elite media has been caught in so many lies because of false statements that its whole reputation has eroded, their circulation is down, and their profits are down.

It is as true for individuals as it is for the world itself: everything comes in waves. If you ride the waves of change, you succeed. If you ignore them, you fail. When the wave is down, most people resist it by trying to go up. When the wave goes up, you should go up with it. When it comes down, you go down.

25 million of Russian people suddenly turned out to be outside the borders of the Russian Federation. They used to live in one state; the Soviet Union has traditionally been called Russia, the Soviet Russia, and it was the great Russia. Then the Soviet Union suddenly fell apart, in fact, overnight, and it turned out that in the former Soviet Union republics there were 25 million Russians. They used to live in one country and suddenly found themselves abroad. Can you imagine how many problems came out?

I just turned 66, and I'm starting to work again.

I can draw pencil lines to show something is moving, but if I'm writing, I struggle with how to write it. The boy ran down the hallway? The boy ran quickly down the hallway? The boy ran down the marble hallway? I agonize over the words. So my editor works very hard. I'm lucky to have her.

Pale ink is better than the most retentive memory. If it's written down, you can look it up. Just be damn sure you write it down.

You have to sleep sometime. (Xypher) So do you. (Julian) Down, boys, down. Please, I just want to be free before I get testosterone poisoning. (Simone)

I definitely don't know why men are turned-on by lesbianism.

My thing is just cut down the easy baskets. Cut down the easy baskets, and cut down the other guys that are going to score.

We were sitting there on the couch together, and he pushed himself up to go but then fell back down onto the couch and sneaked a kiss onto my cheek. “Augustus!” I said. “Friendly,” he said. He pushed himself up again and really stood this time, then took two steps over to my mom and said, “Always a pleasure to see you,” and my mom opened her arms to hug him, whereupon Augustus leaned in and kissed my mom on the cheek. He turned back to me. “See?” he asked.

Overwhelm is, most often, a mindset. If you think about all the things you have to do, you'll be face down on the floor. It really helps to break it down into smaller pieces.

Washington turned a blind eye to Al-Qaeda.

I want to go down as a champion who redeemed himself, made up for letting everyone down and regained his self-respect.

My arms flew up of thier own accord knoking my bag down. I grabbed hold of the desk to keep myself from falling down.

He turned slowly like a fridge door opening.

I'm very pleased how my children have turned out.

I'm an engineer turned entrepreneur who's passionate about connection.

Jayalalitha has turned out to be a failure as chief minister.

I've done a lot of fighting in my time, and I'm down to do some more. I don't want to, but you know, there's just certain things that you can't sit down and take.

All the negativity that was once around me has turned into all this positivity.

Somebody can become a celebrity for being stupid. That is what it's turned into

I was point man, which meant I was the first through the door, hunting down Taliban commanders, knocking down forts every night.

I basically came from nothing and turned my life into something.

I am a dangerous man when turned loose with a typewriter.

Empathy occurs when we suspend our single-minded focus of attention and instead adopt a double-minded foucus of attention. When our attention lapses into single focus, empathy has been turned off. When we shift our attention to dual focus empathy has been turned on. Empathy is our ability to identify what someone else is thinking or feeling and to respond to there thought or feelings with an approriate emotion. Empathy makes the other person feel valued, enabling them to feel that their thoughts and feelings have been heard.

I try to build up people, not break them down, and in politics, it seems now the game is breaking down your opponents.

People get really turned off by feminism.

The elite media has been caught in so many lies because of false statements that its whole reputation has eroded, their circulation is down, and their profits are down

Old New York City is a friendly old town From Washington Heights to Harlem on down There's a-mighty many people all millin' all around They'll kick you when you're up and knock you when you're down It's hard times in the city Livin' down in New York town

You do not need to let anything get you down, but if you are down you certainly need not let anything keep you down.

As governor, there isn't a lot I can do beyond that to crack down on crime. Law enforcement is really a local issue. It's the cops' job to tighten down on criminals.

If you want to raise a man from mud and filth, do not think it is enough to stay on top and reach a helping hand down to him. You must go all the way down yourself, down into mud and filth. Then take hold of him with strong hands and pull him and yourself out into the light.

The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business is to shoot down enemy planes, not to get shot down.

When it comes to sitting down and composing, there is no hesitation, no concern, no critics breathing fire down my neck. For me, writing a song is the purest part of all. No one can mess with that.

We are stronger than we think. We have emotional, spiritual and even physical resources at our disposal. We may get knocked down, but we don't have to stay down.

I turned out to be a very good cement-mixer.

I'm happy to be where I am and how everything has turned out.

Often, when the last page is turned, it will haunt you.

He'd been let down so often His brow was on the floor But then they found A small hole in the ground And let him down some more

Fine, if you see no reason to worry about bisonbecks who do the bidding of Risto'-- he sat down on a log and pulled out his lunch--'or mordakleeps who team up with anything nasty and currently have a wonderful working relationship with that same evil wizard Risto, then why should I worry? Why should we warn Kale?' Leetu's scowl turned darker. Dar lifted his sandwich to his mouth, but had one more thing to say before he bit into it. 'Actually, I agree with you. Worrying now over an encounter that might occur later would only ruin our digestion.

I stand ready to lead us down a different path where we're lifted up by our desire to succeed, not dragged down by a resentment of success.

Through love scraps of copper are turned to gold.

When I'm not working, I'm down in North Carolina and we have a rather large yard, so I'm usually struggling with vines and pulling things down. I get plenty of exercise in the garden.

What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another? What broke when he could bring himself to thrust down the knife into the warm flesh, to bring down the axe on the living head, to cleave down between the seeing eyes, to shoot the gun that would drive death into the beating heart?

The main thing I look at is: Is it from the heart? If I know that you down with me, then we always gonna be down through whatever the thick and thin.

Here is my theory on this one. If you write things down, if there is a mystery and you try and explain it, once you've written it down for permanent, in due time, it'll be proven stupid.

There is not some secret formula, it comes down to completing passes, being efficient on first and second down and making plays when the ball is in your hands.

I did all my heavy partying before I turned sixteen.

Money must exist before it can be turned into capital.

You come in off the street, through the doors of the theater. You sit down. The lights go down and the curtain goes up. And you're in another world.

My life turned out to be beyond my greatest dreams.

You come in off the street, through the doors of the theater. You sit down. The lights go down and the curtain goes up. And you're in another world