Quotes about Descend

In visions of the night, like dropping rain, Descend the many memories of pain. Votes: 3

It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see the stars. Votes: 3

SCIENCE! thou fair effusive ray From the great source of mental Day, Free, generous, and refin'd! Descend with all thy treasures fraught, Illumine each bewilder'd thought, And bless my labour'g mind. Votes: 3

Whenever conscience speaks with a divided, uncertain, and disputed voice, it is not the voice of God. Descend still deeper into yourself, until you hear nothing but a clear, undivided voice, a voice which does away with doubt and brings with it persuasion, light, and serenity. Votes: 3

Ambition aspires to descend. Votes: 2

Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me? Votes: 2

We can't allow ourselves to descend down the rabbit hole of unbridled partisanship for partisan sake. Votes: 2

O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams. Votes: 2

Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts. Votes: 2

There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man. Votes: 2

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach. Votes: 2

Who knows but I shall grow reasonable at last, descend from my ideal heaven to the real earth, marry, and - Oh Plato! - make a pudding? Votes: 2

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed. Votes: 2

There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight. Votes: 2

I am an international leader, the dean of the Arab rulers, the king of kings of Africa and the imam of Muslims, and my international status does not allow me to descend to a lower level. Votes: 2

Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it. Votes: 2

Darwin wasn't just provocative in saying that we descend from the apes - he didn't go far enough. We are apes in every way, from our long arms and tailless bodies to our habits and temperament. Votes: 2

Concerned that others were not coming onto the summit and because I had no radio link to those below me, I began to wonder if there were difficulties down the mountain. I made the decision to descend. Votes: 2

Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class. Votes: 2

It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion. Votes: 2

Just as we descend into our consciences to judge of actions which our minds can not weigh, can we not also search in ourselves for the feeling which gives birth to forms of thought, always vague and cloudy? Votes: 2

If you feel uncomfortable on stage, you can very easily descend into a sort of abyss, convinced you're the worst actor ever, that you're a disgrace to the profession, that you're a disgrace to yourself. It's an awful feeling. Votes: 2

You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm. Votes: 2

I descend from both Philadelphia Quakers and Carolina colonists whose families were separated by the Revolutionary War. That helped give me insight into the agony of Patriots who, until the British government denied their claims, had always, like Ben Franklin himself, thought of themselves as free-born Englishmen. Votes: 2

To mourn is to wonder at the strangeness that grief is not written all over your face in bruised hieroglyphics. And it's also to feel, quite powerfully, that you're not allowed to descend into the deepest fathom of your grief - that to do so would be taboo somehow. Votes: 2

I see no faults in the Church, and therefore let me be resurrected with the Saints, whether I ascend to heaven or descend to hell, or go to any other place. And if we go to hell, we will turn the devils out of doors and make a heaven of it. Votes: 2

I wouldn't recommend people to go up and ride their road bikes in Kenya. Bikes are not meant to be on the roads. But the mountain biking is fantastic. You can go right up into the tea and coffee plantations up in the highlands. You can descend the great Rift Valley. Votes: 2

A farmer travelling with his load Picked up a horseshoe on the road, And nailed if fast to his barn door, That luck might down upon him pour; That every blessing known in life Might crown his homestead and his wife, And never any kind of harm Descend upon his growing farm. Votes: 2

In some of the great cities of Europe - Paris, Vienna, Prague, and Brussels - tourists bored with life above ground can descend below. All these cities have sewer museums and tours, and all expose their underbelly willingly to the curious. But not London, arguably the home of the most splendid sewer network in Europe. Votes: 2

Ambition aspires to descend Votes: 0

Don`t descend to the lowest ebb. Votes: 0

Justice does not descend from its own pinnacle. Votes: 0

I will not descend among professors and capitalists. Votes: 0

Ambition, having reached the summit, longs to descend. Votes: 0

The blessings we evoke for another descend upon ourselves. Votes: 0

Let us descend now therefore from this top Of speculation. Votes: 0

To write is to descend, to excavate, to go underground. Votes: 0

The world has raised its whip; where will it descend? Votes: 0

The victory of socialism will not descend like fate from heaven. Votes: 0

Fischer is the greatest genius to descend from the chess heavens. Votes: 0

We rise to fortune by successive steps; we descend by only one. Votes: 0

When the gender role starts to descend, boys get into the masculine box. Votes: 0

The more desperate you are to reach heaven, the deeper you descend into hell. Votes: 0

Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to Liberty. Votes: 0

The richest grace of ahimsa will descend easily upon the owner of hard discipline. Votes: 0

No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver. Votes: 0

Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend. Votes: 0

I cannot, whilst President of the United States, descend to enter into a newspaper controversy. Votes: 0

Most Americans descend from the very people who built this country with their bare hands. Votes: 0

Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost. Votes: 0

When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there. Votes: 0

Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual. Votes: 0

Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me~? Votes: 0

Tragedies are about the depths that call up to certain men and insist that they descend. Votes: 0

If we from wealth to poverty descend, Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend. Votes: 0

Women will not, for many a year, perhaps never, descend again to the status of toys. Votes: 0

Time deals gently with me; and though I feel that I descend, the slope is easy ... Votes: 0

You have been called to a life of blessing, don`t descend to that of curses. Votes: 0

If you don't hear His voice so let Him hear yours. When prayers go up blessings descend. Votes: 0

The less you know, the more I comprehend. You don't have to drag me down, I descend. Votes: 0

Retirement accords with the tone of my mind; I will not descend to a world I despise. Votes: 0

Earlier lives drift by on silver soles, and the shadows of the damned descend into these sighing waters. Votes: 0

If you descend into somebody else's private hell and stand there with them, it ceases to be hell. Votes: 0

The Mexicans descend from the Aztecs; the Peruvians descend from the Incas; the Argentineans descend from the boats. Votes: 0

A calamity does not descend except due to a sin and it is not lifted except with repentance. Votes: 0

If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would. Votes: 0

Climb the ladder only if it takes you to somewhere high! Some ascents may descend you to low places! Votes: 0

No woman allows her lover to descend from his pedestal. Even a god is not forgiven the slightest pettiness. Votes: 0

The pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine Persons descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance. Votes: 0

After the golden age of Latinity, we gradually slide into the silver, and at length precipitately descend into the iron. Votes: 0

One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world. Votes: 0

No man can attain to the knowledge of God but by humility. The way to mount high is to descend. Votes: 0

If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth. Votes: 0

If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth. Votes: 0

It is a lively spark of nobleness to descend in most favour to one when he is lowest in affliction Votes: 0

The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it. Votes: 0

There is simply no limit to the tyrannical snobbery that otherwise decent people can descend into when it comes to music. Votes: 0

Sometimes I wish I had never saved your neck from decapitation in Faroe. Then I could just descend into lewdness in peace. Votes: 0

O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams. Votes: 0

Prayer is the key that opens heaven; the favors we ask descend upon us the very instant our prayers ascend to God. Votes: 0

Men who have worked together to reach the stars are not likely to descend together into the depths of war and desolation. Votes: 0

Let my teaching fall like rain and my words descend like dew, like showers on new grass, like abundant rain on tender plants. Votes: 0

One can descend by imperceptible degree from the most perfect creature to the most shapeless matter, from the best-organised animal to the roughest mineral. Votes: 0

The autumn leaf falls faster than the trees grow faster. (La feuille d'automne descend plus vite - Que les arbres ne grandissent plus vite.) Votes: 0

The final words of a domestic bully: If you leave me now furious angels will descend upon you and bring you back to me. Votes: 0

I would not have you descend into your own dream. I would have you be a conscious citizen of this terrible and beautiful world. Votes: 0

I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful. Votes: 0

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life. Votes: 0

The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach Votes: 0

Thou shall know by experience how salt the savor is of others' bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs. Votes: 0

To pray is to descend with the mind into the heart, and there to stand before the face of the Lord, ever-present, all seeing, within you. Votes: 0

Opinions, like showers, are generated in high places, but they invariably descend into lower ones, and ultimately flow down to the people as rain unto the sea. Votes: 0

Not in the state of unconsciousness, but in full awareness when the higher Power will descend into and direct us, then only the yogic life will begin. Votes: 0

There are mountainous, arduous days, up which one takes an infinite time to climb, and downward-sloping days which one can descend at full tilt, singing as one goes. Votes: 0

Attention, must be devoted principally to raising the workers to the level of revolutionaries; it is not our task to descend to the level of the 'working masses'. Votes: 0

Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages. Just because the rains descend, and the winds blow, we cannot afford to build on shifting sands. Votes: 0

If mankind is to escape its programmed self-extinction the God who saves us will not descend from the machine: he will rise up again in the human soul. Votes: 0

Grace means God sending his only Son to the cross to descend into hell so that we guilty ones might be reconciled to God and received into heaven. Votes: 0

We can either build a Star Trek future, in which our civilization rises to new heights, or descend into a Mad Max world. It is up to us. Votes: 0

Breast feeding activists plan to descend on Washington for a public breast feeding demonstration. Also descending on Washington, thousands of men saying, 'What? I'm looking at the baby.' Votes: 0

The more we see the unconscionable ends to which the human spirit can descend when it is determined to remain autonomous, the more our confidence in human methods diminishes. Votes: 0

The idea of beauty does not descend into matter unless this is prepared as carefully as possible. This preparation consists of three things: arrangement, measure, and aspect or form. Votes: 0

Religion! Is what you hear at church religion? Is that which can bend and turn, and descend and ascend, to fit every crooked phase of selfish, worldly society, religion? Votes: 0

If your kids are realizing that they descend from something, that's really great. The more you're able to inculcate that the greater amount of pride they're gonna have. That's incredible. Votes: 0

If your kids are realizing that they descend from something, that's really great. The more you're able to inculcate that the greater amount of pride they're gonna have. That's incredible. Votes: 0

That was the idea behind glam clubs like Seven and The New Eve. You could eat and dance to live music. To enter you had to descend a grand staircase. Votes: 0

There exists in man a mass of sense lying in a dormant state, and which, unless something excites it to action, will descend with him, in that condition,to the grave. Votes: 0

But I wasn't sure. I wasn't sure at all. How did I know that someday"•at college, in Europe, somewhere, anywhere"•the bell jar, with its stifling distortions, wouldn't descend again? Votes: 0

That subtle knot which makes us man So must pure lovers souls descend T affections, and to faculties, Which sense may reach and apprehend, Else a great Prince in prison lies. Votes: 0

Donald Trump's message to people is that he's a disruptive force that can descend into Washington as a nonpolitician and try to change some of the morass that happens in Washington. Votes: 0

Refuse to deny what you know but consent to how little that will always be, and, when the moment comes, the sky will open and the liberating intrusion will descend upon you. Votes: 0

To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.(Letter to Muriel St. Clare Byrne, 8 September 1935) Votes: 0

I met my wife in Washington, D.C. I was a senior in college. WW II was about to descend upon us. Jobs were starting to open up after a prolonged depression. Votes: 0

Know thyself as the pride of His creation, the link uniting divinity and matter; behold a part of God Himself within thee; remember thine own dignity nor dare descend to evil or meanness. Votes: 0

A nickname a man may chance to wear out; but a system of calumnity, pursued by a faction, may descend even to posterity. This principal has taken full effect on this state favorite. Votes: 0

And indeed there will be time To wonder, "Do I dare?" and, "Do I dare?" Time to turn back and descend the stair, With a bald spot in the middle of my hair. Votes: 0

It must descend, as the dew, upon the tender herb, or like melting flakes of snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind. Votes: 0

Your job is to preserve yourself, not to descend into their hole. It's a relief when you arrive at this place, the point of absurdity, because then you are free, you owe them nothing. Votes: 0

It would be easy to descend into despair, not only about the state of journalism, but the future of American democracy. But giving up is not an option. There is too much at stake. Votes: 0

It is absurd to expect governments to descend gradually, step-by-step into barbarism - as if there was a train schedule to political hell and people could get off at any stop along the way. Votes: 0

...we should be grateful for them because without our family—the ancestors we descend from, the cousins we see once a year, the loves our lives we see every day—life is pretty boring. Votes: 0

No achievement can be higher than that of working in harmony with other nations so that the lash of war may be lifted from our backs and a peace of lasting friendship descend upon us. Votes: 0

Still, compared to him, compared to the people we descend from, I am free of history. I'm so free of history I have to get in a car and drive seven states to find it. Votes: 0

We do have intellects and Plotinus controversially thought that even though we might not be aware of it, our souls are always connected to the intellect. They never fully descend as he would put it. Votes: 0