After the Meiji restoration in 1868, Japan adopted an expansionist and colonial attitude towards its neighbours. It sought to identify itself with the West and looked down upon the Asian continent as backward and inferior. For most of the next 70 years, Japan was at war, mainly with its neighbours.
~ Martin Jacques
Masculinity comes from your look, all the way down to your attitude. It's a big part of being a tennis player. Even though tennis is a fairly friendly sport, intimidation is still a big part of it.
~ Milos Raonic
I have a Woody Allen Jewish attitude to life: that it's all going to be disastrous. That it hasn't all been that way is simply down to some random quirk of fate.
~ Antony Sher
Ruthless trust ultimately comes down to this: faith in the person of Jesus and hope in his promise.
~ Brennan Manning
You've gotta dive into the abyss if you wanna get anything good. Every record, you've gotta go down in the abyss and hope that you come out of it alive.
~ King Tuff
To get down to the quick of it, respect motivates me - not success.
~ Hugh Jackman
I respect Billy Joel, but I'm not a guy who's gonna sit down and listen to the entire 'Essential Billy Joel.'
~ Garth Risk Hallberg
I turned down twelve films last year... Huge money films, but I had no respect for the writer or the work.
~ Shia Labeouf
Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm.
~ Jean Paul
In dreams, anything can be anything, and everybody can do. We can fly, we can turn upside down, we can transform into anything.
~ Twyla Tharp
In Australia, even the darkest subject matter has a little pinch of humor. A little sweet to make the sour go down.
~ Ben Mendelsohn
When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the event: Humor diverts our attention and lifts our sagging spirits.
~ Allen Klein
Humor can inform and break down stigma, which is a huge issue in the military.
~ Garry Trudeau
They don't make you pay for the humor. It's up and down, but they're trying to give you as many laughs as possible in 2 minutes. They are the most honest comedians ever.
~ Mike Judge
If you don't infuse humor into a subject matter, no matter how dark, the audience can't accept the message of a film. It closes them down. Humor can open them up.
~ Theodore Melfi
What some of us believe is that it is possible that if chemicals are related to Gulf War illness that some of the more severe symptoms may not erupt until 10 or 20 years down the line.
~ Bernie Sanders
Once the troops move into Cambodia, the colleges and universities of this country were on the verge of civil war. Many closed down. The students were up in arms. And it looked very much like there were going to be real problems in this country.
~ William Kunstler
You can't let a failure keep you down, because if you stay down after you fail, you are going to stay down for good.
~ Heidi Roizen
Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.
~ Euripides
If it is your time, love will track you down like a cruise missile.
~ Lynda Barry
The Internet is for haters. Everyone wants to knock somebody down, but it's cool.
~ Andy Cohen
I've always been into guitars... we want to put keyboards on, but keyboard players don't look cool onstage, they just keep their heads down. There has never been a cool keyboard player, apart from Elton John.
~ Noel Gallagher
After a Saturday game, we're in on a Sunday to cool down and make sure we're fully back at it again. But it doesn't really affect things too much. It's basically like you've had a game on the Saturday, and then you're in the cup on a Tuesday.
~ Jamie Vardy
Yet, in spite of this world-wide system of linkages, there is, at this very moment, a general feeling that communication is breaking down everywhere, on an unparalleled scale.
~ David Bohm
The break down for kids is communication. Music helps bring that bond.
~ Sheila E.
Bowling is all physics and energy distribution. It's F = ma. So it is actually one of the most science-y sports, because it literally is just a ball and a surface and objects to knock down.
~ Chris Hardwick
Sports gives us the grandest opportunity of all to talk about reaching down and helping up or getting on somebody else's shoulders.
~ Jerry Jones
I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
~ Robert Frost
I was into sports and swimming as a kid and didn't spend a whole lot of time sitting down. I was a gymnast.
~ Mads Mikkelsen
If you look at all aspects of all sports, everything comes down to basics and fundamentals.
~ Robbie Lawler
The NFL is one of the few sports where it's possible to tear things down and start again.
~ Shahid Khan
If you are going to throw a club, it is important to throw it ahead of you, down the fairway, so you don't have to waste energy going back to pick it up.
~ Tommy Bolt
Realizing this, I knew that the actual space of a room could be broken down and played with by planting illusions of real light (electric light) at crucial junctures in the room's composition.
~ Dan Flavin
Space is not just going up and coming back down again. Space is getting into orbit and being there, living there, establishing a presence, a permanence.
~ Buzz Aldrin
Most theorists suspect that space has an intricate structure - that it is 'grainy' - but that this structure is on a much finer scale than any known subatomic particle. The structure could be of an exotic kind: extra dimensions, over and above the three that we are used to (up and down, backward and forward, left and right).
~ Martin Rees
Managerial and professional people hadn't really used computers, hadn't sat down at keyboards, until personal computers. Personal computers have a totally different feel.
~ Mitch Kapor
I loathe computers more and more, so I have one I can shut down and shelve like a book.
~ Will Self
Bounty hunters these days - because everything is so sophisticated with computers and surveillance, it doesn't have to be a one-man-army-type guy who goes in and kicks a door down.
~ Mickey Rourke
I'm not on Twitter or Facebook and don't even use email. I don't trust computers: one day they'll all break down, and everyone will be knackered.
~ Eric Bristow
In computers, we do all kinds of manual manipulations. We grab and drag icons. We click on and open windows. We pull down a screen. We stretch a screen. We scroll up and down.
~ Louis B. Rosenberg
