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
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
If the ascent of women has been much exaggerated, so has the descent of men. — Stephanie Coontz 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 many ways the rise of the state was the descent of the world from freedom to slavery — Marvin Harris 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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 slightest force, when it is applied to assist and guide the natural descent of its object, operates with irresistible weight; and… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
