If the ascent of women has been much exaggerated, so has the descent of men. — Stephanie Coontz Copy Share Image
Death was not to be a leap: it was to be a long descent under thickening shadows. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
In many ways the rise of the state was the descent of the world from freedom to slavery — Marvin Harris Copy Share Image
The descent to hell is easy and those who begin by worshipping power, soon worship evil. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent. — Simon Newcomb Copy Share Image
Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
In general, watching children's television is a dark and surreal descent into madness where the characters on the screen talk directly to… — John Green Copy Share Image
We all fall... so may I send you four blessings... Older Wine, Younger Lovers, Faster Cars, and a Slow Descent. — Drake Copy Share Image
In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth. — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
Easy is the descent to hell; all night long, all day, the doors of dark Hades stand open; but to retrace the… — Virgil Copy Share Image
Americanism is a question of principle, of idealism, of character. It is not a matter of birthplace, or creed, or line of… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The descent to the infernal regions is easy enough, but to retrace one's steps, and reach the air above, there's the rub. — Virgil Copy Share Image
Happy in all that ragged, loose collapse of water, the fountain, its effortless descent and flatteries of spray... — Richard Wilbur Copy Share Image
My grandfather is Portuguese. He betrayed what was expected of him and married my grandmother of African descent on my father's side. — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image
I do not wish upon anyone a descent into hell. But if your life has to be turned inside out in order… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
It sometimes happens that the town child is more alive to the fresh beauty of the country than a child who is… — Beatrix Potter Copy Share Image
Milton says, that the lyric poet may drink wine and live generously, but the epic poet, he who shall sing of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As Darwin puts it in The Descent of Man, 'Male snakes, though appearing so sluggish, are amorous.' Isn't that just like Darwin?… — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
The descent of Israel from the morally towering position of a 'light for the nations' to the lowest of the low and… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Racism is an attack on the very notion of the universality of human rights. It systematically denies certain people the enjoyment of… — Irene Khan Copy Share Image
In Prodigal Son, Christine Sutton has penned a tight, brutally honest portrait of a psychopath reminiscent of Theodore Sturgeon's 'Some of Your… — Joe Copy Share Image
As an actor, you have to have trust and believe that somebody is taking care of you or watching your back. With… — Jessica Lange Copy Share Image
I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the "lower animals" (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Our lives aren't even about doing real things most of the time. We think and talk about people we've never met, pretend… — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
Tanya Ward Goodman, writing with a big heart, clear eyes, and a light touch, allows us a privileged glimpse into the shabby,… — Michelle Huneven Copy Share Image
“Something ancient in us bends us toward the origins of the whole thing. We either drown in the splits and confusions of… — Michael Meade Copy Share Image
“Blessed are the poor, for theirs is the kingdom of God (Luke 6:20). I'm learning what it means to descend, which is… — Jen Hatmaker Copy Share Image
The study of eugenics had its beginning in Germany, sometime after the mid-19th century mark, stimulated by volkish concerns for Aryan racial… — Jim Keith Copy Share Image
Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom Between the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Twenty thousand thieves landed at Hastings. These founders of the House of Lords were greedy and ferocious dragoons, sons of greedy and… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
