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Maybe that's what being alive is about: so we can track down those movments that are dying. — Muriel Barbery

Nothing feeds the center of being so much as creative work. The curtain of mechanization has come down between the mind and the hand. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I feel worn down as a human being who has to constantly justify their existence to other human beings because I'm a minority — Killer Mike

Being perfect is about being able to look your friend in the eye and know that you didn't let them down, because you told them the truth. — Heidi Ayarbe

Being held down and secured just made me all the harder. I'll probably be speaking in tongues by the time this is over. — John Ellison

In the end, I think it comes down to being comfortable with who you are versus where you are. — Eileen Cook

As for being young," I said, kneeling down, "yeah, I'm aware. Doesn't mean I haven't figured out a few things. — Brandon Sanderson

Right through to the end of the last World Cup game, I still couldn't bear the thought of not being perfect or letting people down. — Jonny Wilkinson

True genius walks along a line, and, perhaps, our greatest pleasure is in seeing it so often near falling, without being ever actually down. — Oliver Goldsmith

I sat down to take a break from writing a book and wrote a spec feature that would end up being the movie 'Lies & Alibis' with Steve Coogan. — Noah Hawley

I don't advocate senseless violence of any human being. I'm the one who's been beat down. But I will not be a victim again. — Tupac Shakur

When deep down in the core of your being you believe that your soul mate exists, there is no limit to the ways he or she can enter your life. — Arielle Ford

I've been shut down, run down, talked about, dogged out, but that never stopped me from the being the true me that's here and will be here. — Patti LaBelle

Courage doesn't mean never being afraid. We're all afraid sometimes. Bravery means doing the right thing anyway. That's true strength. — Gwenda Bond

When it comes down to it you have to be true to yourself and the rest falls into place. — Austin Dillon

Hurting someone you loved was even worse than being hurt. That stayed with you longer, and weighted you down all through the night into dawn. — Claudia Gray

I don't like being too looked up at or too looked down on. I prefer meeting in the middle to being worshiped or spat out. — Joni Mitchell

It may not be your fault for being down, but it is your fault for not getting back up — Steve Davis

Bushido. The sense of honor which cannot bear being looked down upon as an inferior power, - that was the strongest of motives. — Inazo Nitobe

From such experiments Christians have learned that the gospel grows best from the bottom up rather than being imposed from the top down. — Philip Yancey

I have a big ego, and I'm a confident person, but when it comes down to being a jerk, that doesn't work for me, I tried it ... for about ten years. — Harry Connick Jr.

History becomes fiction in the ... act of being written down — Jack Kerouac

They put us low, and then blame us for being down there and say that since we are low, we can't deserve our rights." Others — John Howard Griffin

Was it happiness I'd found in my long marriage? Or capitulation? Or is that all happiness is, capitulation? — Maria Semple

The thing with brothers is, you're supposed to take turns being the keeper. Sometimes you get to sit down and be the brother who is kept. — Orson Scott Card

Give the woman what she wants and maybe her rebellion will subside and she will get down to the business of being a human incubator! — Natasha Anders

Be positive. Stay happy and don't let the negativity of the world get you down. — Germany Kent

Being a writer involves writing. You've got to commit to sitting down and writing instead of Xbox or Netflix. — Brian Keene

Im not sure which is more insulting, being offered in a trade or having it turned down. — Claude Osteen

My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure. — Gary Hume

If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don't stop, don't put it down. — Taylor Swift

Emily mostly perceived her habit to write down notes as being one of the ways she could use to preserve moments of life. — Sahara Sanders

Being prepared helps you feel more confident at the doctor's office. Think about what you want to ask and write those questions down. — Andie MacDowell

The best part of being married is that now when we walk down the street, people won't just see two guys and a kid, they'll have to see a FAMILY. — Patricia A. Gozemba

It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat. — Ingrid Newkirk

Let the bucket of memory down into the well, bring it up. Cool, cool minutes. No one stirring, no plans. Just being there. — William Stafford

I won't back down. I get a satisfaction from being tested and defeating the test. — Ashton Eaton

As much as I love being a singer-songwriter, I love throwing down on stage and letting it all out. — Tift Merritt

Who am I then? Tell me that first, and then, if I like being that person, I'll come up; if not, I'll stay down here till I'm someone else. — Lewis Carroll

I don't find inspiration by just sitting down with a guitar anymore. I lost that. I started being so interested in other kinds of music. — Justin Vernon

When you see the orbiter headed out the launch pad and then crawling up the hill and being hard down on the pad, it does something to you. — Alan G. Poindexter

The dream of my life is to lie down by a slow river and stare at the light in the trees - to learn something by being nothing — Mary Oliver

Being able to write an idea down succinctly doesn't make that idea any better than one which rambles on a bit. It just comes to the point sooner. — Simon Travaglia

Acting on television is like being asked by the captain to entertain the passengers while the ship goes down. — Peter Ustinov

I allowed an uncertain smile to cross my face, though it did so with a little reluctance, wary of being run down by some more powerful expression. — Ian Barker

Life has its ups and downs. When you are up, enjoy the scenery. When you are down, touch the soul of your being and feel the beauty. — Debasish Mridha

We're being taxed to blow up bridges in Iraq and rebuild them, while ours at home are falling down — Ron Paul

Strange, what being forced to slow down could do to a person. — Nicholas Sparks

Drink it down, baby, and look forward to being sick. — Ernest Hemingway,

I didn't want to let women down. One of the stereotypes I see breaking is the idea of aging and older women not being beautiful. — Annie Leibovitz

Concetta is being duped. But you should never look down on someone for trusting the wrong person. It could happen to any of us. — Adriana Trigiani

It was very, very challenging being on this thing called the gimbal. It would throw you around, give you whiplash, and they'd tie you down. — Emile Hirsch

The world screams, 'Stay down, it's safer.' My soul screams, 'So is being dead. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

People who look down on other people don't end up being looked up to. — Robert Half

I was always getting run-down from jet lag and being in strange towns where I didn't speak the language or know what the food was like. — Molly Sims

I like down-to-Earth characters, but I also like being able to get outside my box of knowledge. — Britt Robertson

I have the confidence of a killer whale, but being shot down by these losers stings. — Victoria Scott

Being funny is one of my greatest strengths. I can make girls smile when they're down, and when they're having a good time, I can carry on the joke. — John Krasinski

Britney [Spears]'s actually kind of like a broken-down shell of a human being, that's what makes her so endearing and compelling. — Moby

Madness does not come by breaking out, but by giving in; by settling down in some dirty, little, self-repeating circle of ideas; by being tamed. — G.K. Chesterton

There has never been a time in my life when I felt that I could take a gun and shoot down a fellow-being. In this respect I am a Quaker. — D.L. Moody

I used to get made fun of for being either too provocative or too eccentric, so I started to tone it down. I didn't fit in, and I felt like a freak. — Lady Gaga

True strength isn't being able to knock your enemies down, it's being able to hold yourself upright against their blows. — Toni Sorenson

You can only really appreciate being up when you know what it's like to have been down. — Christina Engela

Part of my music is being alone, having that time to shut down all other noises to hear the tune underneath. — David Levithan

No one is depressed when they're asleep, which is why being in bed is such a safe place if you're really down. — Michael Redhill

You may not be responsible for being down, but you must be responsible for getting up. — Jesse Jackson

A nation who sits like cows on the fields while the country's trees are being cut down ruthlessly deserves the emptiest deserts thousands of times! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

I still don't believe this craziness for being skinny, but I eat sensibly and I don't stuff down chocolate biscuits — Kate Winslet

Wherever the intention of each might lie, we are together being carried along at the same speed down the same river of time. — Haruki Murakami

... -- the periwinkles looked exactly as if they were being poured down each side of the steps -- ... — Elizabeth Von Arnim

Sometimes buying early on the way down looks like being wrong, but it isn't. — Seth Klarman

We learn to become more empathic when we slow down, become present, and are fully committed to understanding another person's uniqueness. — Arthur P. Ciaramicoli

You know what it's like to move from being happy to being not? It's like swinging as high as you can and someone stops you as you come back down. — Joan Bauer

When people say - 'Well, do you miss being a judge since you're in Congress,' I go - 'Only when I want people to sit down and shut up.' — Louie Gohmert

It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves. — C.S. Lewis

Closed systems run down and get more chaotic over time. Always get better by being 'open' to outside energy and templates of better ways to function. — Henry Cloud

Anyone hurts my family, I slap them down. A man does for family. That's one of the rules I got from my pa. His rules for being a man. — Allan Dare Pearce

Buddhism has in it no idea of there being a moral law laid down by somekind of cosmic lawgiver. — Alan Watts

When the work is the best work, it's more like being a secretary than it is a creative person, you just sort of take the stuff down. — Stephen King

Deep down the fear of a man who lives in a world not made for him, whose own world is slipping away, dying, being destroyed, beyond any recall. — Alan Paton

My heart raced. He needs you, I thought. Don't let him down. I couldn't remember ever being so happy ... or so scared. — Ann Aguirre

I don't think about being famous, really. Being an author, I don't generally get stopped as I walk down the street. It's not like being a movie star. — Rick Riordan

I know how Lupe Velez felt. You fight just so long and then you begin to worry about being washed up. You fear there's one way to go and that's down. — Carole Landis

When I'm on stage the savage in me is released. It's like going back to being a cave man. It takes me six hours to come down after a show. — Angus Young

So ask yourself, you swirling tornado of a human being, in a world of disoriented honeybees, do you want to look locked out the minute you sit down? — Naomi Shihab Nye

Flow down and down in always widening rings of being. — Rumi

Being 15, I feel like people want me to go down the Justin Bieber, Cody Simpson sort of genre. — Shawn Mendes

Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you. — E. Stanley Jones

Being always right is not always right in the wrong places. — Michael Bassey Johnson

The feelings he aroused in her were like a complete realignment of her being, right down to the molecular level. — Lisa Marie Rice

It's a juggling act. Every time I get going on the album stuff or being musical, acting kicks in and I book a job. It comes down to a money thing. — Tinsel Korey

I'm tired of screwing up. I'm tired of being down. I'm tired of myself. I'm tired of bein' down. — Tom Petty

She was smart and funny and vulnerable and just so goddamned beautiful, the kind of beautiful that was worth being shot down over. — Jonathan Tropper

Being edited is like falling face down into a threshing machine. — Margaret Atwood

After being dry for a couple a weeks, three cocktails went down quicker than a boner in a busted rubber. — Brian Azzarello

Being in a floodplain is like sitting down in a bathtub. — Robert Hunter

I have become down-hearted, I have become discouraged, I have become depressed. I'm just like you. I'm a human being and I have my problems. — Dyan Cannon

I believe that when we write things down, we being the process of activating the fundamentals in our lives. — Jim Tressel

Critical in this process of wisdom being passed down is that you also need to take it in; you need to listen to it. — Andrew Zuckerman