Blackhawk Down Quotes

The world, finally, tries to rob us in lots of ways. I like poems to do a bit of taking back for us. ~ Terry Blackhawk

We still name our military helicopter gunships after victims of genocide. Nobody bats an eyelash about that: Blackhawk. Apache. And Comanche. If the Luftwaffe named its military helicopters Jew and Gypsy, I suppose people would notice. ~ Noam Chomsky

Our MANDATE at Blackhawk is to create mega-millionaires. Period. More wealth for our clients, more power for all of us ... the People. ~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

Hand-to-hand combat with three hundred pounds of screaming monkey menace is not my idea of a fair fight. My idea of a fair fight is one unarmed, toothless, nearsighted old monkey versus me with a Blackhawk attack helicopter. ~ Dean Koontz

So down and down and down and down
And down and down we go
Hurry my darling we mustn't be late
For the show
Neptune champion games to an aqua
World so very dear
Right this way smiles a mermaid
I can hear Atlantis full of cheer. ~ Jimi Hendrix

When you get knocked down, don't stay down; get back up again. Nothing good is going to happen as long as you're down on yourself. ~ Joel Osteen

It is so easy to break down and destroy.
The heroes are those who make peace and
build. ~ Nelson Mandela

When you've been battered down and battered down and battered down, your spirit gets broken. ~ Suze Orman

As I have said a thousand times, no manipulation can put stocks down and keep them down. ~ Edwin Lefevre

We simply cannot afford to give the reigns of government so someone who will double down on trickle down ~ William J. Clinton

Paul Jewell's sides are always hard to break down, although Manchester United have a habit of breaking his sides down pretty easily. ~ Charlie Nicholas

We are speeding up our lives and working harder in a futile attempt to buy the time to slow down and enjoy it. ~ Paul Hawken

Failure is not falling down but staying down. ~ Harvey MacKay

Story should be a descent
the feeling that there is an intense gravity to the narrative that draws you down, down, down. ~ Chuck Wendig

You use to drive me wild, but lately you get your kicks from just knocking me down, down, down. ~ Bruce Springsteen

Officer down. Officer down."
"I'm an officer now, am I? That's insult to injury. ~ J.D. Robb

The world has a way of dragging down our mood. ~ Dan Groat

She was still doing forty knots, driving in under the guns of the enemy, guns at maximum depression, when "A" magazine blew up, blasted off the entire bows in one shattering detonations. For a second, the lightened fo'c'sle reared high into the air" then it plunged down, deep down, into the shoulder of a rolling sea. She plunged down and kept on going down, driving down to the black floor of the Arctic, driven down by the madly spinning screws. The still thundering engines her own executioners. ~ Alistair MacLean

If you go out for several hours into a place that is wild, your mind begins to slow down, down, down. What is happening is that the clay of your body is retrieving its own sense of sisterhood with the great clay of the landscape. ~ John O'Donohue

Don't stand up when you can sit down and don't sit down when you can lie down. ~ Kenneth Branagh

I start to run down the hill, but did I mention I can't feel my feet? They slip out from under me. I tumble head over heels, down, down, down until I splash into a stream. The icy water soaks through my clothes and bites into my skin. Why couldn't Elsa have had warm magical powers? ~ Elise Allen

Once I slow down because I think I have reached my peak, then my skills will go nowhere but down ~ Bruce Lee

Spread ya legs, arch your back. Go up and down, and make it clap. ~ Diplo

And I am perhaps confusing several different occasions, and different times, deep down, and deep down is my dwelling, oh not deepest down, somewhere between the mud and the scum. ~ Samuel Beckett

And all those who look down on me I'm tearing down your balcony. ~ Eminem

There's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over. ~ Frank Zappa

Of course I don't want to get knocked down. But the single and sole solution to that fear is to not go anywhere where I can be knocked down. And is that not already being knocked down? ~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Mr Churchill, to what do you attribute your success in life?
Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down. And never sit down when you can lie down. ~ Winston S. Churchill

Look at your neck turning radius. Its designed to look 180 deg forward side only.
Looking back slows you down. Always look forward in life. ~ Manoj Arora

I can't describe the feeling when I go down – it's down down down and there's never going to be an up again. And whatever was good isn't good any more; white becomes grey, music becomes dictionaries, honey becomes beer and the sky a curdled lemon. There's no caramel anymore. ~ John Marsden

Here is my room, in the yellow lamplight and the space heater rumbling: Indian rug red as Cochise's blood, a desk with seven mystic drawers, a chair covered in material as velvety blue-black as Batman's cape, an aquarium holding tiny fish so pale you could see their hearts beat, the aforementioned dresser covered with decals from Revell model airplane kits, a bed with a quilt sewn by a relative of Jefferson Davis's, a closet, and the shelves, oh, yes, the shelves. The troves of treasure. On those shelves are stacks of me: hundreds of comic books- Justice League, Flash, Green Lantern, Batman, the Spirit, Blackhawk, Sgt. Rock and Easy Company, Aquaman, and the Fantastic Four ... The shelves go on for miles and miles. My collection of marbles gleams in a mason jar. My dried cicada waits to sing again in the summer. My Duncan yo-yo that whistles except the string is broken and Dad's got to fix it. ~ Robert McCammon

Scientists have been struck by the fact that things that break down virtually never get lost, while things that get lost hardly ever break down. ~ Russell Baker

I don't worry about inspiration, or anything like that. It's a matter of just sitting down and working. ~ Frank Herbert

His eyes re-focused on the page. He discovered that while he sat helplessly musing he had also been writing, as though by automatic action. And it was no longer the same cramped, awkward handwriting as before. His pen had slid voluptuously over the smooth paper, printing in large neat capitals
DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER
DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER
DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER
DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER
DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER ~ George Orwell

You shut down a library Louisa, you don't just shut down a building, you shut down hope. ~ Jojo Moyes

Slow down and remember this: Most things make no difference. ~ Tim Ferriss

So many people representing different sections of our community are taken down one way or another. The system was designed to break us down. The three-strike rule is to break down a black man. ~ Snoop Dogg

You fell down? Get up! You fell down again? Get up again? You keep falling down? Keep getting up! Refuse the direction towards the ground! Up and forward, that is the direction! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

According to Beckett's or Kafka's law, there is immobility beyond movement: beyond standing up, there is sitting down, and beyond sitting down, lying down, beyond which one finally dissipates. ~ Gilles Deleuze

That pitch wasn't down and in, that pitch was down and up. ~ Tim McCarver

It's all perfect, this Universe we are in. Slow down and enjoy it all. ~ Wayne Dyer

The world is wrong side up. It needs to be turned upside down in order to be right side up. ~ Billy Sunday

I don't think any woman in power really has a happy life unless she's got a large number of women friends ... because you sometimes must go and sit down and let down your hair with someone you can trust totally. ~ Margaret Thatcher

you might go down in history ,but every thing gose down eventually. ~ Lecrae Moore

To lay down one's life for the truth. ~ Juvenal

world was dripping down his eyeballs like wet oil paint down a canvas. ~ Eoin Colfer

I'm not just taking trips down memory lane; I'm broken down on it. ~ Pete Wentz

I have to wonder if it isn't more accurate to say that life is a series of trap doors, and you fall through them, one by one, tumbling down and down and down, one hole to the next. ~ Ben H. Winters

Stop in somebody's shadow to rest and cool down, and you are lost. No one can make anyone else happy. ~ Peter Deunov

It took teams of LEP warlocks to slow down time for a few hours; the magic required to open a door to the tunnel was stupendous. It would be easier to shoot down the moon.
Opal tapped this into her notepad.
Reminder. Shoot down the moon? Viable? ~ Eoin Colfer

I love to go down to the schoolyard and watch all the little children jump up and down and run around yelling and screaming. They don't know I'm only using blanks. ~ Emo Philips

That which goeth up must needs come down; and that which is down must needs go up. But Brahma has ordained that the that that goeth up is seldom the same as the that that hath gone down. ~ Gautama Buddha

I sit down religiously every morning, I sit down for eight hours every day - and the sitting down is all. ~ Joseph Conrad

Music drew an angel down, said the poet: but what is that to drawing down worlds! ~ Thomas Hardy

That's right! Run him down! Run down everybody! Everyone is a fake to you! ~ Eugene O'Neill

when life goes down, don't worry. sometimes you have to go down to learn the things that are down ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Down they went, into the darkness. Down ancient, worn steps coated in slippery mildew. Down into the deep recesses of the earth, far beneath the corridors of Deep-Spire. ~ Sam J. Charlton

What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly. ~ Albert Camus

I was down after divorce - I was all the way down. And I just felt like, "God, I gotta turn this around. I can't go down like this. I have to know that this is happening for a reason." And I knew that I had to turn to music. ~ Gwen Stefani

I took off my glasses and threw them down the street. They landed near a cracked-out-looking homeless man pushing a shopping cart. He bent down, picked them up, and crowed, "All right! Sunglasses coming down from the sky! Everything's coming up Dave!" He put them on and started whistling as he pushed his cart down the sidewalk ~ T.J. Klune

Mr. Churchill, sir, to what do you attribute your success in life?" Without pause or hesitation, he replied: "Conservation of energy. Never stand up when you can sit down, and never sit down when you can lie down." He ~ Paul Johnson

Hold your head down and keep those fists down. ~ Harper Lee

Failure isn't falling down, it's staying down. ~ James Patterson

And there I was, trudging through the same old nowhere, day after day, always wanting to slow down, to sit down, to lie down, with my father walking on ahead, no doubt a little desperate, as he had every right to be. ~ Marilynne Robinson

We've had trickle down economics in the country for ten years now, and most of us aren't even damp yet. ~ Molly Ivins

The rivers rose, and, when they receded, sucked more of the fertile soil back down with them, to run down the Pedernales to the Colorado, down the Colorado to the Gulf. And ~ Robert A. Caro

Slow down. Enjoy life. It's tough to slow down if your mind is going a million miles a second. It's tough to slow down if you think what these people do here matters. ~ Frederick Lenz

By putting people around me who will calm me down and slow me down and make sure I work through an issue. ~ Donna Shalala

My favorite Aspen memory is saving an upside-down cake that had exploded from the high altitude. ~ Emeril Lagasse

Pranking is ultimately turning the world upside down. It's in good fun. ~ Jory John

If the system breaks down the consequences will still be very painful. But the bigger the system grows the more disastrous the results of its breakdown will be, so if it is to break down it had best break down sooner rather than later. ~ Theodore Kaczynski

Freedom carries sacrifice, ~ 3 Doors Down

I fled Him down the nights and down the days
I fled Him down the arches of the years
I fled Him down the labyrinthine ways
Of my own mind, and in the midst of tears
I hid from him, and under running laughter. ~ Francis G. Thompson

A tear rolled down my cheek
And more came down
Until tears rolled down like a stream.
My eyes were blind with tears for you.
They washed my eyes till I could see. ~ Calvin O'John

It's no good pacing up and down. It won't make the plane arrive any faster. Just sit down and accept that we're delayed. You're just making a fool of yourself. ~ Noel Coward

Women are supposed to want to settle down and have a family. That's not for me. ~ Poppy Montgomery

I cannot read a fortune cookie without breaking down and crying. I am sensitive. ~ Thom Yorke

It would be so good to settle down and become part of somewhere again, instead of constantly passing through ~ Paul Torday

Love was a terrible thing. You poisoned it and stabbed at it and knocked it down into the mud - well down - and it got up and staggered on, bleeding and muddy and awful. Like - like Rasputin. ~ Jean Rhys

You do not need to let anything get you down, but if you are down you certainly need not let anything keep you down. ~ Norman Vincent Peale

I've always assumed that the abstract qualities of [my] photographs are obvious. For instance, I can turn them upside down and they're still interesting to me as pictures. If you turn a picture that's not well organized upside down, it won't work. ~ William Eggleston

He started down the staircase, but stopped a few steps down. He turned to me and said, "I must tell you again, I don't want you to come down here. I don't want to see you get hurt."
"A trapdoor has been discovered. It begs to be explored. Not going down those stairs will be the biggest regret of my life. ~ August Westman

I learned that life will go through changes - up and down and up again. It's what life does. ~ Ben Okri

God descends to re-ascend. He comes down; down from the heights of absolute being into time and space, down into humanity ... down to the very roots and sea-bed of the nature He has created. But He goes down to come up again and bring the ruined world up with Him. ~ C.S. Lewis

Then he kissed her so deeply and so completely that she felt like she was falling, floating, spiraling down, down, down, like Alice in Wonderland. ~ Liane Moriarty

I have had an experience which might perhaps be described as being shot down. At the same time, I call shot down only when one falls down. Today I got into trouble but I escaped with a whole skin. ~ Manfred Von Richthofen

Rather than double-down on the top-down economics that let a fortunate few play by their own rules, let's embrace an economic patriotism that says we rise or fall together, as one nation, and as one people. ~ Barack Obama

Slow down, totally. You have to slow down and pay attention to everything. ~ Norman Reedus

You dont lose if you get knocked down; you lose if you stay down. ~ Muhammad Ali

Look up and down and round about you.! ~ John Muir

Yo momma so poor that when I visited her house and tore down the cob webs, she screamed "Who's tearing down the drapes? ~ Various

As many roads down as up, and the roads down as slippery as the others. ~ Robert Jordan

I feel confident writing on my feet with improv, but it's different when you're sitting down and writing it out. ~ Amy Sedaris

I fell into the water with a large splash and sunk like a stone. My feet guided the way as I drifted further into the murky depths.
Down.
Down.
Down. ~ Brynn Myers

I just like to entertain myself by sitting down and writing songs. ~ Richard Thompson

The one thing sure about politics is that what goes up comes down and what goes down often comes up. ~ Richard M. Nixon

Lee threw down the tripod, and Trip dropped the FN MAG machine gun onto it ... Lee hunkered down behind the big weapon. Holly handed me an RPG. The heavy tube was reassuring in my hands. Everyone dug down into the ditch, prepared to fight. Nervous but competent. Scared but professional. We were ready to put some smack down. Not bad for an accountant, a librarian, a schoolteacher, and a stripper. ~ Larry Correia

He [the miser] falls down and worships the god of this world, but will have neither its pomps, its vanities nor its pleasures for his trouble. ~ Charles Caleb Colton

When it comes to sitting down and composing, there is no hesitation, no concern, no critics breathing fire down my neck. For me, writing a song is the purest part of all. No one can mess with that. ~ Rufus Wainwright

Once you have your character sitting right there in your head, all you really need to do is wind them up, put them down, and simply write down what they do, say, or think. ~ Terry Pratchett