History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below. — Voltaire Copy Share Image
To trace the history of a river . . . is to trace the history of the soul, the history of the… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
He that contemns a shrew to the degree of not descending to words with her does worse than beat her. — Roger L'Estrange Copy Share Image
Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Being or nothing, that is the question. Ascending, descending, coming, going, a man does so much that in the end he disappears. — Raymond Queneau Copy Share Image
At college my three main interests were - in descending order of importance - a steady supply of recreational drugs, a 2-S… — Garry Trudeau Copy Share Image
William Carlos Williams, late in his long life, had a dream: He saw an enormous spiral staircase in empty space, and his… — Eliot Weinberger Copy Share Image
To trace the history of a river or a raindrop is also to trace the history of the soul, the history of… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Obviously this is the world descending into worse and worse standards of targeting civilians both in state violence in Iraq, Gaza and… — Clare Short Copy Share Image
Although things seem to be sometimes going up and sometimes descending, sometimes slipping away, nevertheless there is a reality, the same today… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Oh God, Mae," said Jamie in a hollow voice, descending the stairs. "I will never drink again. I'm only seeing in black… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
Yet the story of Orpheus, it occurs to me, is not just about the desire of the living to resuscitate the dead… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
What comes from outside, one mistakes it as coming from inside. So many thoughts etc. move about outside in the universal -… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
“He thought proudly that many people in his position could not have adjusted, would have gone mad. Of course, he was descending.…… — Thomas M. Disch Copy Share Image
Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence. The most exact… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There are truckloads of broccoli at this very minute descending on Washington. My family is divided. For the broccoli vote out there:… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
When a woman is making love with a man, a sense of heat in her brain, which brings forth with it sensual… — Hildegard of Bingen Copy Share Image
Lightly tripping o'er the land, Deftly skimming o'er the main, Scarce our fairy wings bedewing With the frothy mantling brine, Scarce our… — Hartley Coleridge Copy Share Image
Upon the first goblet he read this inscription, monkey wine; upon the second, lion wine; upon the third, sheep wine; upon the… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
We once discussed which were the cleanest troops in the trenches, taken by nationalities. We agreed on a descending-order like this: English… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
There is, however, this consolation to the most way-worn traveler, upon the dustiest road, that the path his feet describe is so… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
The night is darkening round me, The wild winds coldly blow; But a tyrant spell has bound me And I cannot, cannot… — Emily Bronte Copy Share Image
One writes such a story [The Lord of the Rings] not out of the leaves of trees still to be observed, nor… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Talk of citizenship today is often thin and tinny. The word has a faintly old-fashioned feel to it when used in everyday… — Eric Liu Copy Share Image
For war is never some cosmic accident descending upon a people with all the chance and inevitability of asteroids falling like fire… — David Zindell Copy Share Image
I had it together on Sunday. By Monday at noon it had cracked. On Tuesday debris Was descending on me. And by… — Judith Viorst Copy Share Image
The gender prism is just descending upon us. For instance, when we're girls of nine or 10 we may be climbing trees… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
When we are alone on a starlit night, when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Are we rising again?" "No. On the contrary." "Are we descending?" "Worse than that, captain! we are falling!" "For Heaven's sake heave… — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Your legs feel like fried bacon after a day of climbing and descending. It's a roller coaster ride, but no one is… — Frosty Wooldridge Copy Share Image
Nothing is so beautiful as spring- When weeds, in wheels, shoot long and lovely and lush; Thrush's eggs look little low heavens,… — Gerard Manley Hopkins Copy Share Image
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