I live for books that produce a mood of gathering creepy fascination, a true descent in the Weird. — Gemma Files Copy Share Image
“In united families, they might sleep with half filled stomach but no one sleeps with empty stomach.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
If the descent is thus sometimes performed in sorrow, it can also take place in joy. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
And sure enough, in seeking to become superhuman this foolhardy young man renders himself inhuman. The heart that he has locked away… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love writing for other actors, women of African descent and people who are generally underrepresented. — Danai Gurira Copy Share Image
Even as the nineteenth century had to come to grips with the notion of human descent from apes, we must now come… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I don't like coming home. It keeps me from being nostalgic, which by nature I am. Even before the plane begins its… — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
The path of descent is the path of transformation. Darkness, failure, relapse, death, and woundedness are our primary teachers, rather than ideas… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Let no man trust the first false step of guilt; it hangs upon a precipice, whose steep descent in last perdition ends. — Edward Young Copy Share Image
Something is very, very wrong with American culture. The signs are everywhere. I think the country is in almost terminal descent. — Randall Robinson Copy Share Image
It?s a beautiful descent in a 737, into the Bitterroot Valley, following the Clark Fork River, on a perfect golden autumn day . — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
My father came from a country called Bolivia. He was of Spanish descent. I never went to Bolivia until I was 60… — Raquel Welch Copy Share Image
A total spiritual direction given to the whole life and the whole nature can alone lift humanity beyond itself. . . It… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Weirdly, some of the middle stuff of the descent into something going wrong were the hardest, tonally. You don't want to jump… — Harry Treadaway Copy Share Image
All sorts of other lies are being spread today, I do not know what else they will invent. I've heard that I'm… — Franjo Tudjman Copy Share Image
Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
The question now at issue, whether the living species are connected with the extinct by a common bond of descent, will best… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
But I lie. I embellish. My words are not deep enough. They disguise, they conceal. I will not rest until I have… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Contrary to what certain governments say, human rights are universal. Arbitrary detention, torture and discrimination hurt the human dignity of anybody, whatever… — Shirin Ebadi Copy Share Image
The God-image in man was not destroyed by the Fall but was only damaged and corrupted (“deformed”), and can be restored through… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
If you know the history of the whole concept of whiteness if you know the history of the whole concept of the… — Tim Wise Copy Share Image
The result of the revolution in Germany has been to establish a democracy in the best sense of the word. We are… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Every time a crime was committed by a Muslim, that person's faith was mentioned, regardless of its relevance. When a crime is… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
So here I am, sending a two-ounce mouse down into a dungeon with a sewing needle to save a human princess, and… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I'm so alive. As I stand facing the beauty of the never-ending Pacific Ocean, a late afternoon breeze blows down from the… — Dave Pelzer Copy Share Image
The balance is the penalty of being human: the danger of allowing yourself to feel. For this we walk a narrow path… — Peter F. Hamilton Copy Share Image
As to those other things which we hold on the authority, not of Scripture, but of tradition, and which are observed throughout… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
The Dr. King holiday is not just for black people, African-Americans or people of African descent. — LZ Granderson Copy Share Image
Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed. — Horace Copy Share Image
“THE DESCENT SEEMED faster than the ascent: standard in travel as well as in life.” — Faye Kellerman Copy Share Image
“In your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts.” — Amit Kalantri Copy Share Image
Of great interest to students and teachers of immigrant history as well as to those of Polish descent. — Florian Znaniecki Copy Share Image
Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
