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One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
Booker T. Washington
Man
Down
One-Man
Ditch
Remaining
Him
Another
Another Man
Without
Hold
Cannot
If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you.
Calvin Coolidge
You
Will
Before
Down
Nine
Run
See
Ditch
Ten
Troubles
Road
Reach
Sure
Coming
Down The Road
I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me... but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch.
Ty Cobb
Life
Me
Fight
My Life
Bastards
All My Life
Ditch
Beat
Had
Were
Left
Survive
Against
Them
To Survive
The man who has really won the love of one good woman in this world, I do not care if he dies in the ditch a beggar - his life has been a success.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Life
Success
Love
Good
Man
Woman
World
Care
Has-Been
Ditch
He
Been
His
Won
Beggar
Dies
Really
Who
I have three phobias which, could I mute them, would make my life as slick as a sonnet, but as dull as ditch water: I hate to go to bed, I hate to get up, and I hate to be alone.
Tallulah Bankhead
Life
Alone
Hate
Water
Three
My Life
Slick
Phobias
Would
Mute
Ditch
Could
Sonnet
Make
Bed
Go
Dull
Up
Get
Which
Them
Each year of life brings us nearer to our decline, but I will continue to seek a listener until I'm dead in a ditch.
Morrissey
Life
Will
Year
Our
Seek
Ditch
Until
Dead
Continue
Listener
Decline
Us
Each
Each Year
Nearer
Brings
I say we are climbing out of a ditch and we are climbing up.
Tim Kaine
Say
Out
Ditch
Climbing
Up
Only when you're in that ditch, lying there in the muddy runoff you've made of your life, gazing up at the peak you fell from, do you truly know how small you are and understand how tall you used to be.
Artie Lange
Life
You
Made
Lying
Gazing
Ditch
Only
Small
Know
Fell
Tall
Understand
How
Truly
Up
Muddy
Your
Used
Peak
We own the economy. We own the beginning of the turnaround and we want to make sure that we continue that pace of recovery, not go back to the policies of the past under the Bush administration that put us in the ditch in the first place.
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
First
Past
Beginning
Own
Back
Administration
Ditch
Recovery
Put
Economy
Make
Policies
First Place
Sure
Go
Continue
Want
Pace
Place
Bush
Bush Administration
Turnaround
Us
What we collectively decide about how to bail out our economy, how to pull our economy out of a ditch and what rules we put in place to make sure this problem does not happen again, will shape our country for the next 50 years. This is it.
Elizabeth Warren
Problem
Will
Country
Our
Rules
Out
Collectively
Ditch
About
Shape
Put
Bail
Economy
Make
Sure
Does
How
Years
Happen
Decide
Place
Again
Next
Pull
We need to ditch the idea that there is any value in the strong and silent man being in any way attractive. Being silent isn't being strong, it's being a victim.
Jane Powell
Man
Strong
Value
Victim
Way
Silent
Ditch
Idea
Attractive
Any
Being
Being Strong
Need
You cannot expect the guy who drove the car into the ditch to navigate it out of the ditch. You have to put a new driver in the seat. I'm not saying the new driver is going to be any better, but we need a new driver. Kerry is the only choice.
John Mellencamp
Saying
You
Better
Car
Out
Ditch
Guy
Only
Driver
Put
Drove
New
Expect
Any
Going
Cannot
Choice
Who
Navigate
Seat
Need
Kerry
Try to write at least 500 words a day. You may ditch 499 of them tomorrow, but you will still be moving forward.
Jojo Moyes
Day
You
Moving Forward
Words
Try
Tomorrow
Will
Ditch
Write
Least
Still
May
Moving
Them
Forward
My work is very carefully researched. Sometimes I have to ditch an idea because I can't prove it.
Kerry Greenwood
Work
Sometimes
Carefully
Ditch
Idea
Because
Prove
Very
I would die in a ditch for the impartiality of the BBC.
Laura Kuenssberg
Would
Ditch
Impartiality
Die
I'd rather dig a ditch than go to a dinner party with people I don't know.
Marian Keyes
People
Dinner
Party
Dig
Dinner Party
Ditch
Rather
Know
Go
Than
Why would one ever be so insane as to ditch a perfectly beautiful metaphor? Cut back, of course, prune if you like, so that the best metaphors are clear and sparkling. But I will throw out unread the book that promises me no metaphors inside.
Marie Rutkoski
Beautiful
Best
Me
You
Book
Will
Promises
Back
Insane
Out
Would
Inside
Ditch
Unread
Throw
Clear
Perfectly
Like
Course
Metaphor
Metaphors
Prune
Cut
Sparkling
Why
Ever
When you're a short actor you stand on apple boxes, you walk on a ramp. When you're a short star everybody else walks in a ditch.
Michael J. Fox
You
Walk
Walks
Everybody
Everybody Else
Else
Ramp
Ditch
Boxes
Short
Stand
Star
Actor
Apple
Oppositions usually say ridiculous things and must embarrassingly then ditch untenable positions.
Michael Portillo
Positions
Say
Must
Ditch
Untenable
Then
Ridiculous
Things
The books that stuck with me most as a child were 'A Wrinkle In Time', 'Dracula', 'Hatchet', 'Bunnicula', 'White Fang', and this YA/kids' book called 'Nobody's Fault' where a kid drowns one weekend as friends play around a flooded ditch.
Nate Powell
Time
Me
Book
Fault
White
Books
Kid
Ditch
Wrinkle
Weekend
Stuck
Nobody
Most
Around
Were
Friends
Child
Where
Fang
Flooded
Play
Dracula
Acting is the hardest job in the entire world. By far. Harder than ditch digging.
Paul Thomas Anderson
World
Job
Digging
Ditch
Entire
Entire World
Than
Far
Acting
Harder
Hardest
It's important not to ditch your mates when you're in a relationship. Lots of girls do it, but you need to remember they will always be there for you.
Rachel Bilson
Relationship
You
Remember
Will
Girl
Important
Ditch
Always
Mates
Lots
Your
Need
Whether or not all this came to pass in an East African ditch, I wouldn't like to say. Perhaps it happened in North Africa or further west, but Africa was definitely the place.
Richard Leakey
Say
Further
Definitely
East
Ditch
Like
Perhaps
Pass
Came
West
North
North Africa
Africa
African
Happened
Whether
Place
I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.
Sam Donaldson
You
Farm
Down
Drainage
Typical
Ditch
Cotton
Pick
Liked
Look
Boy
Fish
Go
Little
Enjoyed
Things
I've been a DJ, janitor, ditch digger, waitress, computer instructor, programmer, mechanic, web developer, clerk, manager, marketing director, tour guide and dorm manager, among other things.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Director
Mechanic
Other
Guide
Marketing
Ditch
Web
Computer
Tour
Developer
Clerk
Instructor
Been
Waitress
Manager
Dorm
Janitor
Among
Things
Programmer
Borders had lousy management and made bad corporate decisions, so its fate is less like a terrible accident than a slow-motion slide into a ditch, but it's hard to be happy about a bookseller's demise.
Susan Orlean
Be Happy
Happy
Management
Fate
Made
Accident
Corporate
Slide
Bad
Borders
Ditch
About
Had
Like
Demise
Terrible
Than
Lousy
Decisions
Hard
Less
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