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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.
John Lubbock

Suffering, Worry, Often

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

Funny, Time, Good

Amidst all the clutter, beyond all the obstacles, aside from all the static, are the goals set. Put your head down, do the best job possible, let the flak pass, and work towards those goals.
Donald Rumsfeld

Work, Best, Job

I will not have my life narrowed down. I will not bow down to somebody else's whim or to someone else's ignorance.
Bell Hooks

Life, Ignorance, Someone

When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

Help, Person, Preaching

My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much.
Gwyneth Paltrow

Life, Death, Husband

The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.
Lee Iacocca

Writing, Happen, Making

Blessed be childhood, which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Blessed, Heaven, Childhood

You've got to give loyalty down, if you want loyalty up.
Donald T. Regan

If I'm gonna go down I'm gonna do it with style. You won't hear me surrender, you won't hear me confess cause you've left me with nothing but I have worked with less.
Ani DiFranco

Nothing, Less, Won

I let the American people down.
Richard M. Nixon

If your stomach disputes you, lie down and pacify it with cool thoughts.
Satchel Paige

Cool, Lie, Thoughts

Peace comes when you talk to the guy you most hate. And that's where the courage of a leader comes, because when you sit down with your enemy, you as a leader must already have very considerable confidence from your own constituency.
Desmond Tutu

Peace, Courage, Hate

On the plains of hesitation bleach the bones of countless millions who, at the dawn of decision, sat down to wait, and waiting died.
Sam Ewing

Waiting, Decision, Wait

There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.
Henry Van Dyke

Ambition, High, Stand

I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.
Richard M. Nixon

Resigning, Brought, Impeached

I don't ever remember them telling us or teaching us that the only way we could be more successful is if other people were less successful. They never inculcated the belief that somehow, in order for us to climb the ladder, other people have to come down from the ladder.
Marco Rubio

Successful, Remember, Less

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?
Virginia Woolf

Human, Him, Written

Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.
Joan Didion

Life, Changes, Fast

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.
Anne Sexton

Hard, Soul, Put

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

Truth, Hurry, Scientists

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

Storm, Until, Sound

President Obama clearly cannot run on his record. All he's offering is more of the same. That's not good. Look at the economy. It's stagnating. And so, what they're now going to try and do is bring this campaign down to little things, distractions, distortions, smear, fear, anger, frustration.
Paul Ryan

Good, Fear, Anger

I would get records by Earl Scruggs... I would tune my banjo down and I'd pick out the songs note by note. Learned how to play that way. I persevered. There was a book written by Pete Seeger, who showed you some basic strumming and some basic picking... And I kind of worked out my own style of playing.
Steve Martin

Book, Play, Learned

Having experienced everything you don't want in a partner over time, it starts to narrow down to what you actually do want.
Jennifer Aniston

Time, Actually, Partner

Years ago, we all talked about recycling and not dumping things down your drain and all of that, but talking doesn't help much. Basically, it's going to have to be legislation because the impact is so huge and diversified.
Ted Danson

Help, Talking, Impact

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

Stupid, Fact, Until

Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.
Russell Baker

Work, Lost, Three

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

Best, Road, Straight

The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our faces, nor slander us behind our backs, nor intrude upon our privacy, nor quit their shelves until we take them down.
Charles Caleb Colton

Society, Living, Dead

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