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Newman's first law: It is useless to put on your brakes when you're upside down.

When someone screams at me to hurry up, I slow down.

I don't believe in God, but I have this idea that if there were a God, or destiny of some kind looking down on us, that if he saw you taking anything for granted he'd take it away.

The mercy of God is an all-embracing mercy and it breaks down the barriers that man erects.

There should be no distinction between what we write down, and what we really know.

I find you can often find humor just by turning something upside-down. Like a... small child.

The two most radical things you can do in America are to slow down, and to talk to each other. If you do these things, you will improve your country.

I have ever found it, when I have thought the battle was over and the conquest gained, and so let down my watch, the enemy has risen up and done me the greatest injury.

I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something.

If there is time to reflect, slowing down is likely to be a good idea.

I've found that when the market's going down and you buy funds wisely, at some point in the future you will be happy. You won't get there by reading 'Now is the time to buy.'

If we don't empower ourselves with knowledge, then we're gonna be led down a garden path.

The Internet is for haters. Everyone wants to knock somebody down, but it's cool.

In dreams, anything can be anything, and everybody can do. We can fly, we can turn upside down, we can transform into anything.

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

Democritus says, "But we know nothing really; for truth lies deep down".

People really feel that, when they go to the gas pump now, that the oil cartel is holding them by the legs and tipping them upside down and shaking money out of their pockets.

Sometimes in life, you will get knocked down.

It's in my interest, in ours perhaps, or maybe the interests of the greater good, for me to smoke a joint, and calm down.

We're on record. We're part of the crusade. We're not backing down.

There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep.

Giggle potential is everywhere; we just need to slow down long enough to see it.

When I sit down and play the guitar, Im 20 years old again.

Now it's just sharp elbows, and instead of having a caucus where you sit down and say, 'What are you doing for your country?' you sit figuring out how to screw the other side.

Comedy is a socially acceptable form of hostility and aggression. That is what comics do, stand the world upside down.

The goldenrod is yellow, The corn is turning brown, The trees in apple orchards With fruit are bending down.

When I see a new face, something sets off an alarm bell inside me. 'slow down! Danger!' Even when the attraction is strongest, I am on my guard.

Reading dreams. That's what started her walking down the road. Every day she'd walk a little further: a mile, and come home. Two miles, and come home. One day she just kept on.

It takes courage to live your dream and bounce back up when you have been knocked down. Your dreams give you the energy and inspiration to live a great life.

When you can't climb your way out of such a hole, you tend to crouch down and call it home.

The ultimate role of photography as a contemporary language of visual communication consists of its capacity to slow down our fast and chaotic way of reading images.

Sometimes you need to slow down to go fast.

You've got to put your head down and do the work. There are no shortcuts.

I'm not even worried about settling down. I think it's way too early. I'm 25 and I'm in show business. I mean, if things go well, my wife hasn't even been born yet.

If you can look up, you can get up.

I've been knocked down more than any heavyweight champion in history.

I didn't work hard to sit down and not work.

I think baseball has such a way of humbling you. You can go 20-for-20, and before you know it, you're going to go through an 0-for-30. It has that way of knocking you back down to earth.

Deep down inside we're all the same. We all have the same emotions.

On the pitch and for life generally, I keep my center by remembering that I am part of a team and if I don't do my part, I let down not just my team but everyone who follows it.

Go right straight down the road, to do what is best, and to do it frankly and without evasion.

If I were sitting down with George Steinbrenner (to discuss a salary) and based on what Dave Winfield got for his statistics, I'd have to say, 'George, you and I are about to become partners.'

I will not let my teammates down and I will not let myself down.

When you fall down, just get up again.

Everybody laughs when fatty falls down.

Failure doesn't come from falling down, failure comes from not getting up

It is good advice to slow down a little, steady the course, and focus on the essentials when experiencing adverse conditions.

Usually, I create tunes that are fragmented. I think the biggest obstacle for people with their creativity is that they feel they have to sit down and create this finished, polished product.

An object painted upside down is suitable for painting because it is unsuitable as an object.

There are times when you have to face your enemies, sit down and deal with it.