An Angel who did not so much Fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards. Votes: 3
Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards. Votes: 0
A fall from such a height is rarely straight downwards. Votes: 0
A vow must lead one upwards, never downwards towards perdition. Votes: 0
You're only a rebel from the waist downwards,' he told her. Votes: 0
I don't do close-ups any more. I am better looking from the waist downwards. Votes: 0
I started my career at the top and have been working my way downwards ever since. Votes: 0
If you ever take your foot off the gas pedal, things will spiral out of control, snowball downwards. Votes: 0
An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards. Votes: 0
Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending downwards. Votes: 0
The Strange Loop phenomenon occurs whenever, by moving upwards (or downwards) through levels of some hierarchial system, we unexpectedly find ourselves right back where we started. Votes: 0
Aspire higher to attain excellence in whatever you do. But be careful when you reach the peak, where the only way is the way downwards. Maintain your standard! Votes: 0
The meaning of conservatism is not that it impedes movement forward and upward, but that it impedes movement backwards and downwards"to chaotic darkness and the return to a primitive state. Votes: 0
If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil . He cannot stop at the beast. The most savage of men are not beasts; they are worse, a great deal worse.
The river has taught me to listen; you will learn from it, too. The river knows everything; one can learn everything from it. You have already learned from the river that it is good to strive downwards, to sink, to seek the depths.
In truth, no men on earth can cheer like Englishmen, who do so rally one another's blood and spirit when they cheer in earnest, that the stir is like the rush of their whole history, with all its standards waving at once, from Saxon Alfred's downwards.
Where is the subject that does not branch out into infinity? For every grain of sand is a mystery; so is every daisy in summer, and so is every snowflake in winter. Both upwards and downwards, and all around us, science and speculation pass into mystery at last.
Water indeed will flow indifferently to the east or west, but will it flow indifferently up or down? The tendency of our nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downwards. There are none but have this tendency to good, just as all water flows downward.