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Letter "D" » die down
«Man is mortal. Everyone has to die some day or the other. But one must resolve to lay down one's life in enriching the noble ideals of self-respect and in bettering one's human life. We are not slaves. Nothing is more disgraceful for a brave man than to live life devoid of self-respect.»
Author: B. R. Ambedkar
(Politician)
| Keywords:
bettering, devoid, devoid of, die down, disgraceful, enriching, ideals, lay down, mortal, mortal man, resolve, self respect, slaves
«Bunny slippers remind me of who I am. You can't get a swelled head if you wear bunny slippers. You can't lose your sense of perspective and start acting like a star or a rich lady if you keep on wearing bunny slippers. Besides, bunny slippers give me confidence because they're so jaunty. They make a statement; they say, 'Nothing the world does to me can ever get me so far down that I can't be silly and frivolous.' If I died and found myself in Hell, I could endure the place if I had bunny slippers.»
«Every man ought to be inquisitive through every hour of his great adventure down to the day when he shall no longer cast a shadow in the sun. For if he dies without a question in his heart, what excuse is there for his continuance?»
Author: Frank Moore Colby
| Keywords:
cast, continuance, continuances, die down, excuse, inquisitive
«[Eventually the] hoopla will die down [and people will] run the same way we brush our teeth-every day, without a fuss.»
«Guys die down here on a regular basis-that's the reality. They die here for a nickel. They are killed for a piece of change or because somebody looks at somebody wrong.»
Author: Mark Holthaus
| About:
Death and dying,
Killing,
Men,
Reality
| Keywords:
die down, nickel, nickels, on a regular basis, regular
«When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then you are grown old, even at twenty, but as long as your aerials are up, to catch the waves of optimism, there is hope you may die young at eighty.»
«Without wood a fire goes out; without gossip a quarrel dies down»
«Why does a person even get up in the morning? You have breakfast, you floss your teeth so you'll have healthy gums in your old age, and then you get in your car and drive down I-10 and die. Life is so stupid I can't stand it.»
Author: Barbara Kingsolver
(Activist, Writer)
| Keywords:
breakfast, die down, floss, flossing, get in, gums, old person, stupid person, teeth
«And down his mouth comes to my mouth! and down His bright dark eyes come over me, like a hood Upon my mind! his lips meet mine, and a flood Of sweet fire sweeps across me, so I drown Against him, die, and find death good»
«After the cheers have died down and the stadium is empty, after the headlines have been written and after you are back in the quiet of your room and the championship ring has been placed on the dresser and all the pomp and fanfare has faded, the endu»
Author: Vince Lombardi
(Coach)
| Keywords:
back room, championship, championships, cheers, die down, dresser, dressers, faded, fanfare, have died, headlined, headlines, placed, pomp, ring, stadium, stadiums, The Championship, The Dresser, The Quiet
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