Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit.
Aristotle

Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.
Margaret Thatcher

Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.
Aristotle

A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.
Arnold H. Glasow

If you get down and quarell everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say.
Bob Marley

I don't go down the road of condemning.
Joel Osteen

Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things.
Joe Paterno

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
Barack Obama

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.
Barack Obama

Now, anybody who thinks that we can move this economy forward with just a few folks at the top doing well, hoping that it's going to trickle down to working people who are running faster and faster just to keep up, you'll never see it.
Barack Obama

When BP was not moving fast enough on claims, we told BP to set aside $20 billion in a fund - managed by an independent third party - to help all those whose lives have been turned upside down by the spill.
Barack Obama

It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.
Barack Obama

I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.
Tupac Shakur

White collar conservative flashin down the street, pointing that plastic finger at me, they all assume my kind will drop and die, but I'm gonna wave my freak flag high.
Jimi Hendrix

In our personal ambitions we are individualists. But in our seeking for economic and political progress as a nation, we all go up or else all go down as one people.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

In our seeking for economic and political progress, we all go up - or else we all go down.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

It's the game of life. Do I win or do I lose? One day they're gonna shut the game down. I gotta have as much fun and go around the board as many times as I can before it's my turn to leave.
Tupac Shakur

It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down.
Tupac Shakur

Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys, I don't wanna be a part of him or around him.
Tupac Shakur

From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us.
Napoleon Bonaparte