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We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.

I'd rather let the world down than to allow the world to let me down.

Love is not a feeling in your chest; it is bending down to wash another's feet.

The question in life is not whether you get knocked down. You will. The question is, are you ready to get back up... And fight for what you believe in?

We also want to try and slow down all this foolishness that's going on between the East and West. We gotta understand that Hip Hop is now universal. Hip Hop is not East coast or West coast.

We try to give a birthing woman freedom to find the right position for her own needs and comfort. Unfortunately, in our society we think of birthing as something done while lying down.

Whenever the cloud of ego threatens to engulf me, I remind myself of my roots. It helps keeping my feet on the ground.

Real family values have gone down the drain in modern families.

Fundamentals are right down to earth. And one fundamental is: You have to make calls. Nothing happens until you make a call. It’s that fundamental!

You can only succeed when people are communicating, not just from the top down, but in complete interchange. Communication comes from fighting off my ego and listening.

A formula for comedy is comedy equals tragedy plus time. A difficult or uncomfortable situation takes place, and then you laugh about it later down the road.

For me, when I get knocked down, I really try to get back up and go at it again. I don't like to give up.

When we stand up and we sing O Canada, we pledge to stand on guard for thee. If that doesn't include our water, we might as well sit down and give up.

If you just keep your head down and just try and do your thing, sometimes magic happens.

I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.

Sometimes, when I'm feeling down because nothing seems to be going right, I like to take a home pregnancy test. Then I can say, 'Hey, at least I'm not pregnant.'

To be hopeful means to be uncertain about the future, to be tender toward possibilities, to be dedicated to change all the way down to the bottom of your heart.

He put a ring in the toe of a stocking. On Christmas Eve, we opened our stockings and it was there at the bottom of the toe. Then he got down on his knees and he was shaking.

I concentrate on exercises from the waist down, since that is the laziest part of a woman's body.

The dumbing down of America is evident in the slow decay of substantive content, a kind of celebration of ignorance.

What matters in this life is more than winning for ourselves. What really matters is helping others win too. Even if it means slowing down and changing our course now and then.

I have to wake up and drink chamomile tea to slow down.

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.

You know your girlfriend is too young when she'll do everything in bed but go upside down because it's too scary.

It is very rewarding to feel and see progress. I am going to put my head down and keep plugging away. I believe the best is yet to come.

I like down-to-earth people.

The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist.

If you want to draw comics, you really have to love to draw, as you will be spending many hours sitting down with a pencil or pen in your hand.

When a pianist sits down and does a virtuoso performance he is in a technical sense transmitting more information to a machine than any other human activity involving machinery allows.

Writing has always been my go-to form of expression. Whenever I was going through something as a kid, I would write it down and I would turn it into a poem.

If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.

The Fire Department has traditionally considered architecture a priority only when it’s burning down.

Failing forward is the ability to get back up after you've been knocked down, learn from your mistake, and move forward in a better direction.

Slow down, especially at the beginning of a speech. You'll get the audience's attention by pausing.

This is the way the world ends; not with a bang or a whimper, but with zombies breaking down the back door.

Compassion and pity are not the same: pity is looking down on someone, feeling sorry for them and offering nothing; compassion is seeing their pain and offering them understanding.

Whenever you're feeling down..And I am not around let the sight of me be the reason you smile

That's the beautiful thing about food, it breaks down the barriers.

Don't settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon.

It's not about breaking down borders. It's about pushing off of them, and seeing what amazing places they might bring us.

One key symptom of alcoholism is that the individual comes to need a drink for every mood-one to calm down, one to perk up, one to celebrate, one to deal with disappointment, and so on.

I can't help but to write, I have a inner need for it. If I'm not in the middle of some literary project, I'm utterly lost, unhappy and distressed. As soon as I get started, I calm down.

Frank called me one day and said, 'I have an idea for a movie, why don't you come over and I'll tell you?' So I went over and we sat down and he said, 'This picture starts in heaven'. That shook me.

One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.

I wish I had the power to flip my reality upside down like an hourglass, and that life wasn't a finite affair, but rather a perpetually recurring passage through a hole in time.

Sometimes it's good to fall down to see who will pick you up.

Deep down, fundamentally, we are the 'unborn'. We never came into being and we never go out of being. All of these coming and goings are just pulses in the pattern

Pessimists are second rate people. They do not believe in life. ... All they want to do is drag you down and appease their own feelings of mediocrity and fear.

A Christianity without a passion to turn the world upside down is not reflective of apostolic Christianity