Kicking A Person When They Are Down Quotes & Sayings

I think the high-tech industry is used to developing new things very quickly. It's the Silicon Valley way of doing business: You either move very quickly and you work hard to improve your product technology, or you get destroyed by some other company. — Elon Musk

All's fair in love and dialectical materialism, — James K. Morrow

Esprit de l'escalier: spirit of the staircase, wishing you'd said, wishing you'd done. Yet how much more indelible it was when the staircase was the staircase that led to the bedroom. — Martin Amis

Go to k the ant, O l sluggard; consider her ways, and m be wise. 7 n Without having any chief, o officer, or ruler, 8 she prepares her bread p in summer — Anonymous

How was it that such effort, such plain virtue, could overnight be reduced to this - smoke, thinning as it rose and was received by the big, annihilating sky? — Truman Capote

Wherever life takes us, there are always moments of wonder. — Jimmy Carter

We are all drifting reefwards now, and faith is our only anchor. — Bram Stoker

Archetypal images decide the fate of man. — C. G. Jung

American exceptionalism is the recurring character in the nation's narrative. — Ron Fournier

I am too dark in my heart tonight. — Philippa Gregory

The Reformation has been called in a biting epigram "a rising of the rich against the poor." — Hilaire Belloc

Using guilt, fear or any other negative emotion to try to change someone's behavior backfires 100% of the time. If you want someone to do something for you or for themselves, the most important thing to remember is they have to want to do it. No positive outcome will ever be achieved by tearing another person apart or kicking them while they are down. If you truly want to help someone, conveying to them what a positive impact they've had in your life, is a great place to start. — D.S. Luca

A low-cost index fund is the most sensible equity investment for the great majority of investors. My mentor, Ben Graham, took this position many years ago, and everything I have seen since convinces me of its truth. — Warren Buffett

Marital intercourse is certainly holy, lawful and praiseworthy in itself and profitable to society, yet in certain circumstances it can prove dangerous, as when through excess the soul is made sick with venial sin, or through the violation and perversion of its primary end, killed by mortal sin; such perversion, detestable in proportion to its departure from the true order, being always mortal sin, for it is never lawful to exclude the primary end of marriage which is the procreation of children. — Saint Francis De Sales

As he satin the tree he looked down at the girl in the floral dress and felt his heart miss a beat. — Isabella Kruger

We're all ghosts. We all carry, inside us, people who came before us. — Liam Callanan