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The cry of equality pulls everyone down.

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.

My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickl...

Given a fair shot, given a fair chance, Americans have never, ever, ever, ever let their country dow...

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there l...

Routine is a declivity down which many governments slide, and routine says that freedom of the press...

When it was suggested that I write a memoir I said, 'I'm not old enough. I'm not distinguished enoug...

Knowledge has always flowed upwards to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves.

It seems to me we have been in a rhetorical arms race in this country, with each side unwilling to l...

Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

Most theorists suspect that space has an intricate structure - that it is 'grainy' - but that this s...

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.

Readers probably haven't heard much about it yet, but they will. Quantum technology turns ordinary r...

Authors want their names down in history I want to keep the smoke coming out of the chimney.

I wear a necklace, cause I wanna know when I'm upside down.

I've always been into guitars... we want to put keyboards on, but keyboard players don't look cool o...

We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.

We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.

We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.

We need leadership. We don't need a doubling down on the failed politics of the past.

Life is a tide; float on it. Go down with it and go up with it, but be detached. Then it is not diff...

I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is...

I've just concluded - since President Obama endorses the same-sex marriage, advocates homosexual peo...

I hate to say it, but there seems to have been some sort of dumbing down as far as movies go.

The break down for kids is communication. Music helps bring that bond.

I turned down many chances to be on TV before 'Pop Idol' because I really wasn't interested in being...

It's sad that the BBC is toning down Dennis the Menace for a cartoon series. He is losing his weapon...

We were made to get along, to be together, andit’s a truth that’s medically attested... Love and dan...

When the world is running down, you make the best of what's still around.

If I took the 40 years of my dad talking to me about war and battles and taking me to battlefields a...

I'm only up when you're not downDon't wanna fly if you're still on the ground

Every few seconds it changes - up an eighth, down an eighth - it's like playing a slot machine. I lo...

Famous old houses seem to have an intuitive perception of the value of corner lots. If it is a possi...

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade.

I have turned down a lot of money for things that would have made me feel cheesy.

When you're playing upside down, it takes twice the strength.

Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys, I don't wanna be a...

It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down.

Society is a republic. When an individual tries to lift themselves above others, they are dragged do...

I look at you and I write down what I hear.

The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.

What we call a democratic society might be defined for certain purposes as one in which the majority...

I loathe computers more and more, so I have one I can shut down and shelve like a book.

If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I neve...

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .

The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build o...

There's a lot of music that sounds like it's literally computer-generated, totally divorced from a g...

Teen pregnancy went way down in the '90s, and 75 percent of it was because of increased use of contr...

To a shameful extent, the charm of marriage boils down to how unpleasant it is to be alone.

Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go u...

I think Jerry Lee is sad. As a musician, he was far more talented than Elvis Presley. Everybody down...

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

Nullification means insurrection and war and the other states have a right to put it down.

Taxes are like abortion, and not just because both are grotesque procedures supported by Democrats. ...

In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.

You can't kick me down, I'm already on the ground. No, you can't, but you couldn't catch me anyhow.B...

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but...

If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls...

It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice th...

We are coming down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room.

Satire is fascinating stuff. It's deadly serious, and when politics begin to break down, there is a ...

What some of us believe is that it is possible that if chemicals are related to Gulf War illness tha...

By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down ...

Ruthless trust ultimately comes down to this: faith in the person of Jesus and hope in his promise.

I don't like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I ...

I can't sit down long enough to absorb any kind of learning.

Space is not just going up and coming back down again. Space is getting into orbit and being there, ...

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

I certainly derived my skills as a prose writer from my scrutiny of poetry and of the individual wor...

When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where...

We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but tw...

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expectin...

Even if one tree falls down it wouldn't affect the entire forest.

The Democrats just don't have a foreign policy that they're willing to defend, that they're willing ...

Maybe humans are just the pet alligators that God flushed down the toilet.

Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego...

Young people today are deeply passionate and crave authentic life based on truth. They're hungry to ...

Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down.

Through Kurt I saw the beauty of minimalism and the importance of music that's stripped down.

Yet, in spite of this world-wide system of linkages, there is, at this very moment, a general feelin...

When it comes down to it, glam rock was all very amusing. At the time, it was funny, then a few year...

We've gotten a long way on missile defense. We know how to do it. We know how to take down incoming ...

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the...

Aliens didn't come down to Earth and give us technology. We invented it ourselves. Therefore it can ...

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

I don't have to get up in the morning and go beat up my body like I used to. I don't have to be out ...

Are you an angel or a devil, sir? I need to know. Are you taking me up or down?

I wake up in the morning and my mind starts making sentences, and I have to get rid of them fast - t...

But it all comes down to friendship, treating people right.

Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.

We're coming down to an extremely unethical society. Very few colleges offer courses in ethics, and ...

The last time I saw him he was walking down lover's lane holding his own hand.

The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversa...

Humor can inform and break down stigma, which is a huge issue in the military.