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My parents live right down the street from the house I grew up in.

Understand that it is often unwise to forgive face to face. This tends to make the other person feel 'put down' and make you look holier-than-thou.

The Normans came over, lance in hand, burning and trampling down every thing before them, and cutting off the Saxon dynasty and the Saxon nobles at the edge of the sword; but the right of petition remained untouched.

In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

I just think that there are those people that their resolve is strengthened by what it is that's keeping them down, and there are some people that will buckle under it. You never know which one is which until you get into the eighth or ninth round of the fight.

In fact, when you get right down to it, almost every explanation Man came up with for anything until about 1926 was stupid.

You don't become a Republican until you lose all your baby teeth and fall down a lot and get the croup and then become angry and bitter.

We can't cross that bridge until we come to it, but I always like to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.

Lyrics have become so dumbed down nowadays. People don't want to have to think about lyrics anymore, they just want to be told something. Until these great things started happening with us, I'd really given up on reaching people like that.

No matter how deep a study you make. What you really have to rely on is your own intuition and when it comes down to it, you really don't know what's going to happen until you do it.

It's never over. You don't want to be in the position to be down four runs in the ninth inning, but it's not over until the last out.

When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away.

With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own.

Bulgaria is fascinating. Because it had been a Communist country until the mid-80s, so it had just recently transitioned. And there were still the police towers on the street corners, where they look down - they were still there, although no one was in them.

Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

Women were quite terrifying until I was older. I think that's partly down to confidence.

Donald and I still really wanted to be together, but I was fighting to keep what we had privately, and once the world gets involved in your life, little by little it breaks it down until you forget what it was in the first place.

I find that most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.

What kind of America do people want to leave for their children? What horrors are down the road, stuff that was unthinkable 30 years ago?

The phenomenon develops calmly, but it is invisible, unstoppable. One feels, one sees it born and grow steadily; and it is not in one's power to either hasten or slow it down.

O friend unseen, unborn, unknown, Student of our sweet English tongue, I never indulge in poetics - Unless I am down with rheumatics.

In the absence of sound oversight,responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class families, or threaten to bring down the entire financial system.

To a contrarian like me, constant advice not to do something almost always starts me quickly down the risky, unpopular path.

They, that unnamed "they," they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up-and I swear when I went down quite often I took the fall; nothing moves a mountain but itself. They, I've long ago named them me.

Honest honey, I feel like crying every time I sit down to write you a letter... I am so unlucky.

Because if you're trying to write and you have unlimited time, you can procrastinate an unlimited account, but if you have limited time, you rush to the page trying to get something down in the little bit of fragment of time that you have, and you may write a great deal that way.

I have observed that baseball is not unlike a war, and when you come right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.

I'm a working actor so I never really pick a film because of a genre, and I don't really turn them down because of genre. Anything that's unlike the picture I just finished is always more interesting.

They don't allow you to go any further unless you can do this bomb suit training, because it puts such a mental strain on your spirit. It dumbs you down about 25 to 30 IQ points. You start to hallucinate in the heat inside the suit after 20-30 minutes. So you try not to stay in it too dang long. So the preparation for that - it's either you have it, or you do not.

Don't jump on a man unless he is down.