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“We have to take care of the cure. That will make the problem worse, no matter what. No matter what. We know what has to be done. We know you have to — you're tired of hearing the phrase, you got to flatten that curve where it's going up like this, people getting it, and then it comes down.”

Joe Biden (1942) 47th Vice President of the United States (in office from 2009 to 2017)

2020, March 2020

People, Problem

“When I was bleeding to death in my Black Hawk helicopter after I was shot down, I didn't care if the American troops risking their lives to help save me were gay, straight, transgender, black, white or brown.”

Tammy Duckworth (1968) United States senator from Illinois

Tammy Duckworth in "White House to instruct Pentagon on how to implement president's transgender ban in the military" http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-transgender-ban-20170824-story.html by Brian Bennett and David S. Cloud, LA Times, (August 24, 2017)

Death, Help

“Everyone is an artist. Everyone is creative in their own way and that that creativity is a great thing. It's a human thing and it needs to be nurtured and it can help us go down life's path and help us to become deeper, richer, more satisfied human beings.”

Rainn Wilson (1966) actor

Life, Way, Help

“I always value quality over quantity and keep a few very trustworthy friends and mentors who I share all my ups and downs with while on the go.”

Jessica Minh Anh (1988) Vietnamese model

Jessica Minh Anh (2018) cited in: " Meet Jessica Minh Anh, the fashion sensation with a flair for the dramatic https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/watches/article/2177106/meet-jessica-minh-anh-fashion-sensation-flair-dramatic" in SCMP, 20 December 2018.

“The reason laziness is rarely pushed as a lifestyle option is down to one simple reason: money. There are fortunes to be made out of active lifestyles. Gyms charge fees. But no one is going to make money out of sleep. It is free.”

Tom Hodgkinson (1968) British writer

free of charge sayings https://quotestats.com/topic/free-of-charge-sayings/ (?)

Money, Sleep

“That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be twelve years old. They patronize; they treat children as inferiors. I won't do that. I'll temper a story, yes. But I won't play down, and I won't patronize.”

Walt Disney (1901–1966) American film producer and businessman

From Walt Disney World: Then, Now, & Forever: Too many people grow up. That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be 12 years old. They patronize, they treat children as inferiors. Well, I won't do that. I won't do that. I'll temper a story, yes. But I won't play down, and I won't patronize.
Year unknown, published in 2001, The Quotable Walt Disney (2001)

Children, People, World, Forgetting

“One can have different attitudes to it, one can believe that the horsemen of the Apocalypse are already on their way and all hope is in Almighty God. However, one can still try to tone down this international situation.”

Dmitry Medvedev (1965) Russian Prime Minister and former president

"Putin crony invokes ‘Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse’ amid Ukraine war" https://nypost.com/2022/06/03/dmitry-medvedev-invokes-apocalypse-amid-ukraine-war/, New York Post, 3 June 2022

God, Hope, Way

“There is such a thing as the freedom of exhaustion. Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up. A few years ago in the slum areas of Atlanta, a Negro guitarist used to sing almost daily: "Been down so long that down don't bother me." This is the type of negative freedom and resignation that often engulfs the life of the oppressed.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

1950s, Three Ways of Meeting Oppression (1958)

Life, People, Freedom, Singing

“Now there is a final reason I think that Jesus says, "Love your enemies." It is this: that love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals. That's why Jesus says, "Love your enemies." Because if you hate your enemies, you have no way to redeem and to transform your enemies. But if you love your enemies, you will discover that at the very root of love is the power of redemption. You just keep loving people and keep loving them, even though they're mistreating you. Here's the person who is a neighbor, and this person is doing something wrong to you and all of that. Just keep being friendly to that person. Keep loving them. Don't do anything to embarrass them. Just keep loving them, and they can't stand it too long. Oh, they react in many ways in the beginning. They react with bitterness because they're mad because you love them like that. They react with guilt feelings, and sometimes they'll hate you a little more at that transition period, but just keep loving them. And by the power of your love they will break down under the load. That's love, you see. It is redemptive, and this is why Jesus says love. There's something about love that builds up and is creative. There is something about hate that tears down and is destructive. So love your enemies.”

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement

1950s, Loving Your Enemies (November 1957)

Love, Hate, People, Way

“When you got right down to it, every important decision in life was made with inadequate information.”

Charles Sheffield book Proteus In The Underworld

Source: Behrooz Wolf (aka The Proteus Trilogy), Proteus In The Underworld (1995), Chapter 14 (p. 190)

Life, Decision

“I put on my best shirt and shorts,
wear my hair down to make him want me more,
watch my words so I linger in his thoughts,
let my heart blind me to his flaws.”

Marian Renta

Music lyrics, Candy-coated Pill (2022) —"Candy-coated Pill"

Heart

“You have to remain calm. You can’t make precipitous decisions. You just have to sit down and be very thoughtful and deliberative in everything you say and do.”

Gary Locke (1950) American politician

"An Interview with Gary Locke, Former U.S. Ambassador to China" in The Yale Politic https://thepolitic.org/an-interview-with-gary-locke-former-u-s-ambassador-to-china/ (5 June 2017)

Decision

“If in order to help the needy one is able, without ill-will, to strip the rich down to their shirts, one is not doing wrong, especially if they are heartless skinflints.”

John the Merciful Patriarch of Alexandria

in Saints of the East (1963), p. 78

Help

“Sensing the approaching danger, the snail flees. But in a world of snail paces, the conch is something of a Ferrari. It calls for desperate measures. Exhausted by the effort of its last-ditch attempt, the tulip snail is slowly... gunned... down.”

David Attenborough (1926) British broadcaster and naturalist

"Tidal Seas"
Blue Planet (2001)

World, Sense, Effort

“I am starting to talk fast now, and I have to remember to slow down because when I get excited, I start to sound like myself and my American accent goes away.”

NoViolet Bulawayo book We Need New Names

We Need New Names (2013)

“I'm traveling alone
Up the highway of sight
The blue shadows fall
On the graveyard of stone
The mild afternoon
Puts the coffee cup down
My eyes see the moon... rise
And all I am is energy
And now I'm in this form
I came shooting down the universe at birth”

Steve Forbert (1954) American singer-songwriter

A Visitor
Song lyrics, Little Stevie Orbit (1980)

Travel, Coffee, Birth, Universe

“There's a light
There's a fire shining
Day and night
It came burning through
Shine on me
Shine on down you keep me
High and dry
I'm in love with you”

Steve Forbert (1954) American singer-songwriter

I'm in Love With You
Song lyrics, Jackrabbit Slim (1979)

Love, Light, Night

“I've been down this road before
I remember every tree
Every single blade of grass
Holds a special place for me
And I remember every town
And every hotel room
Every song I ever sang
On a guitar out of tune”

John Prine (1946–2020) American country singer/songwriter

Song lyrics, I Remember Everything (2020)

Tree, Grass

“Divine Love came down to take on itself our sins, but there is no Saviour to do the like for our mistakes.”

Jean Ingelow (1820–1897) British writer

Source: Sarah de Berenger: A Novel (1879), Ch. 1, p. 15.

Love

“The atmosphere of desperate, ignorant terror essential to healthy rumors seeps away, replaced by a silent, wary paranoia. People bunker down, jealously keeping what they know, which is nothing, to themselves.”

Max Barry book Company

Source: Company (2006), p. 174

People

“This was the home of the great god Pain, and for the first time I looked through a devilish chink into the depths of his realm. And fresh shells came down all the time.”

Ernst Jünger book Storm of Steel

Storm of Steel (1920)

God, Pain, Home, Time

“Being a vegetarian always made me feel healthy. I've always felt light. Every time I sit down to eat, I'm helping the environment. I'm proud to be a vegetarian.”

Dhanush (1983) Indian actor, singer, born 1983

"Dhanush, Mallika named hottest vegetarians" https://www.ndtv.com/entertainment/dhanush-mallika-named-hottest-vegetarians-623139, NDTV.com (20 January 2012).

Feeling, Light, Time, Help

“This is a stick-up, everybody get face-down. Ren, gag their mouths so they can't make a sound. Tie em up for the fact that I'm kickin ass”

Eazy-E (1963–1995) American rapper and producer

Source: Nobody Move, Eazy-Duz-It (1988, «Nobody Move».jooov.net http://www.jooov.net/text/144917905/Jennifer_Rush-Nobody_Move.htmls

“Lying, robed in snowy white
That loosely flew to left and right —
The leaves upon her falling light —
Thro' the noises of the night,
She floated down to Camelot:
And as the boat-head wound along
The willowy hills and fields among,
They heard her singing her last song,
The Lady of Shalott.

Heard a carol, mournful, holy,
Chanted loudly, chanted lowly,
Till her blood was frozen slowly,
And her eyes were darkened wholly,
Turn'd to tower'd Camelot.
For ere she reach'd upon the tide
The first house by the water-side,
Singing in her song she died,
The Lady of Shalott.”

Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Lady of Shalott

The Lady of Shalott (1832)

Lying, Light, Water, Singing

“My nighttime attitude is, anyone can run you down and get away with it. Why give some drunk the chance to plaster me against a car? That's why I don't even own a bike light, or one of those godawful reflective suits. Because if you've put yourself in a position where someone has to see you in order for you to be safe — to see you, and to give a fuck — you've already blown it.”

Neal Stephenson book Zodiac

Source: Zodiac (1988), Chapter 5 (Taylor on riding a bike at night)

Cars, Light, Chance

“After that night on lake Gosser, I turned into a zesty 27-year-old ze/zir. after the funeral for my pops and my uncle Jonny, I went down to the bait shop to do a little fishin after I hada taco or two and did my hurdles for "cross country" (wink wink im mexican). I then put a roof on my penitas house and went to sleep in the fortress of dreams with a mecican flag above my head.”

Henry_toth

Dreams, Sleep, Housing, Night

“If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.”

Unknown author

“When life challenges you… and with time, patience, resistance and courage you will break down all the difficulties, she it will equalize its accounts: giving you the impossible.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Quando la vita ti sfida... e con il tempo, la pazienza, la resistenza ed il coraggio abbatterai tutte le difficoltà, lei pareggerà i suoi conti: donandoti l'impossibile.
Source: prevale.net

Life, Courage, Time, Patience

“I spoke the other day to the art historian Vanni Scheiwiler who publishes in Milan. But Signor Scheiwiler is pessimistic; he says that under the influence of the new conformism the city, after all the cultural centre of Italy, has been undergoing a decline in intellectual vitality. Anyone who comes up with something that does not fit in with the line is promptly put down by being called a Fascist. The word Fascist is reported so often that one wonders whether it hasn’t lost all meaning! This reminded me of what Ignazio Silone said in 1945 soon after he returned to Italy from his Zurich exile: “The fascism of tomorrow will never say ‘I am Facism’. It will say: ‘I am anti-Facism’.””

Ignazio Silone (1900–1978) Italian author and politician

Source: https://books.google.de/books?id=CPdKDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT250 PT250 books.google <br class="br">Source: François Bondy: Italian Censorship (European Notebook). Encounter Band 47, No. 2 (1976) August, p. 51 books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=iS0dAQAAMAAJ&q=silone; Reprint in: European Notebooks 1954-1985, Routledge, New York 2017,

Art

“Enjoy every minute of the process that leads you to goodness, to success. No matter how difficult the challenges, obstacles and trials you have to face. If you fail, try again! Fall down, get up again! When you succeed, what you have gone through will be a great story.”

Titon Rahmawan

Success

“A person who truly thinks in a wise way will never put others down just to be considered great.”

Titon Rahmawan

Way, Thinking, Personality

“More than all the thoughts and feelings I have written down. I don't pretend to be a poet. I feel happy enough when someone is willing to read what I have written.”

Titon Rahmawan

Happiness, Feeling, Reading

“The warriors know that at any time they must be ready to enter into battle. That's why they were always on alert so that they never let their guard down. When the time comes they are ready. And they also know that one of the hardest battles is to defeat oneself.”

“If we are going to use this top-down approach, we are going to have to be bold. We are going to have to be speculative, but there is good and bad speculation, and this is not an unparalleled activity in science. … Those scientists who have no taste for this sort of speculative enterprise will just have to stay in the trenches and do without it, while the rest of us risk embarrassing mistakes and have a lot of fun.”

Daniel Dennett (1942) American philosopher

Science

“Cast down fears and with unwavering conviction proceed with your intention.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Abbattete le paure e con incrollabile convinzione procedete con la vostra intenzione.
Source: prevale.net

Fear

“When you notice anger kick in, you must slow way down and attend to the vulnerability, the pain and the fear and the perceived powerlessness underneath it.”

Teal Swan (1984) American spiritual teacher

Pain, Fear, Way, Anger

“Apologizing by acknowledging your mistakes breaks down all forms of pride, often the root cause of the interruption of many friendly, sentimental and professional relationships.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Scusarsi riconoscendo i propri errori abbatte ogni forma di orgoglio, spesso causa principale dell'interruzione di molte relazioni amichevoli, sentimentali e professionali.
Source: prevale.net

“Always be the novelty that breaks down every habit.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Siate sempre la novità che abbatte ogni abitudine.
Source: prevale.net

“Only an ignorant person does not know the difference between criticism and humiliation. All attempts to demean, hurt, and put down with sarcasm, harsh words, curses, and mockery that deny manners and politeness. All actions that provoke anger, irritation and cause hurt feelings are not a form of criticism but humiliation.”

Titon Rahmawan

Feeling, Hurt, Personality, Anger

“Never ask for advice from someone with whom you have interests in common. At best, they will point you down the most difficult path to take, at worst… the wrong one.”

Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer

Original: Non chiedere mai consiglio a qualcuno con il quale hai interessi in comune. Nella migliore delle ipotesi, ti indicherà la strada più difficile da percorrere, nella peggiore... quella sbagliata.
Source: prevale.net

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