Quotes and Sayings About Down And
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Everybody knows that I am not usually patient enough to actually sit down and watch one of my own films from the beginning to the end - I never do.
-- Abbas Kiarostami -
I’ve seen people where it rules their lives, you know, who want to be thinner or have bigger boobs, and how it wears them down. And I just don’t want that in my life.
-- Adele -
There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.
-- Adrienne RichSource : Adrienne Rich (1993). “Your Native Land, Your Life”, p.22, W. W. Norton & Company
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Fear is very often a part of the spiritual path. When people sit down and meditate it's not at all uncommon for fear to arise at some point.
-- Adyashanti -
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Then I did the simplest thing in the world. I leaned down... and kissed him. And the world cracked open.
-- Agnes de Mille -
You've got a big, big problem if you get caught up in what people say. If you're gonna live for what people say, you might as well lay down and forget it. Because it doesn't work that way.
-- Ahmad Jamal -
We been on the road for 18 hours... I need a bath, some chow... and then you and me sit down, and we talk about who dies,eh?
-- Al Capone -
The quarterback must go down, and he must go down hard
-- Al Davis -
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My own approach has always been to push intense emotions down and attempt to deal with them later.
-- Alanis Morissette -
Friends have suggested that I am the least qualified person to talk about happiness, because I am often down, and sometimes profoundly depressed. But I think that's where my qualification comes from. Because to know happiness, it helps to know unhappiness.
-- Alastair CampbellSource : "George Clooney Says He “Destroyed” The Role Of Batman, Weighs In On Ben Affleck’s Casting" by Kevin Jagernauth, www.indiewire.com. September 27, 2013.
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Why not touch things that we hate and turn them upside down and inside out?
-- Alber Elbaz -
Dreams don't always have to exist while the sun's down and your eyes are shut
-- Alex Gaskarth -
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I deeply wished I could make the stars all come down and breathe them; disappear in them
-- Alfred de Musset -
But thy strong Hours indignant work’d their wills, And beat me down and marr’d and wasted me, And tho’ they could not end me, left me maim’d To dwell in presence of immortal youth, Immortal age beside immortal youth, And all I was, in ashes. - Tithonus
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson -
There should be no distinction between what we write down, and what we really know.
-- Allen Ginsberg -
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.
-- Allyson Schwartz -
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I get so many ideas for songs, but I'm so seldom disciplined enough to sit down and crank them out.
-- Amanda Palmer -
Sometimes you have to get down and dirty. It feels good.
-- Amanda Righetti -
I sit down and draw from my lyric book. I sit down and start looking through it and see if there is anything that strikes me that I've written.
-- Amy Ray -
New York State is upside down and backwards; high taxes and low performance.
-- Andrew Cuomo -
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But to lose your life for another I've heard is a good place to begin Cause the only way to find your life is to lay your own life down And I believe it's an easy price for the life that we have found
-- Andrew PetersonSource : Song: Dancing In The Minefields, Album: Counting Stars, 2010
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Fear is that thing that keeps you up there on that other plateau. Fear is that thing that just keeps you closed down, and quite frankly, alone.
-- Andrew Shue -
We've got fuel prices coming down and good travel numbers coming out, so it's not surprising airline stocks are going up.
-- Andrew Sullivan -
Tell the negative committee that meets inside your head to sit down and shut up.
-- Ann B. Davis -
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To be able to have the space to sit down and write has always been my central policy.
-- Anne Enright -
Evangelical Christians and I can sit down and talk one on one about how much we love Jesus, and yet I'm not carried in Christian bookstores.
-- Anne Lamott -
I'd like to learn to meditate with more enthusiasm. I can sit down and get quiet for 20 minutes, but it just has not been a part of my Christianity at all.
-- Anne Lamott -
I think that sometimes the great changes in our lives, the ones that divide time, happen so deep down and silently that we don't even know when they occur......It frequently happens that the seasons of the greatest change are the times that feel the most tranquil, the most suspended, the most...timeless.
-- Anne Rivers Siddons -
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I am a delightfully evangelical guy about things I love. I am that annoying guy who sits everyone down and forces them to read some book I like. I'm looking across the full spectrum of genres.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
Great Music, it said, and Great Poetry would like quieten Modern Youth down and make Modern Youth more Civilized. Civilized my syphilised yarbles.
-- Anthony Burgess