The descent to hell is easy and those who begin by worshipping power, soon worship evil. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man. — John Lancaster Spalding 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
I live for books that produce a mood of gathering creepy fascination, a true descent in the Weird. — Gemma Files Copy Share Image
I am not sure that any sight or sound on earth is as exquisite as the hushed descent of a sky full… — Parker J. Palmer 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
“Our descent, then, is the origin of our evil passions!! The devil under form of Baboon is our grandfather. ” — Charles Darwin 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
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 idea that somehow people of African descent are not part of the same species as whites was accepted by European men… — Manisha Sinha Copy Share Image
Humility is like a tree, whose root when it sets deepest in the earth rises higher, and spreads fairer and stands surer,… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
Between the desire And the spasm, Between the potency And the existence, Between the essence And the descent, Falls the Shadow. — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Falling into ruin was a bit like falling in love: Both descents stripped you bare and left you as you were at… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
To rise above treeline is to go above thought, and after, the descent back into bird song, bog orchids, willows, and firs… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
No country in Europe has a larger proportion of men and women of immigrant descent, mainly from the African continent and mainly… — Timothy Garton Ash 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
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
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
Those human groups that entertain a subjective belief in their common descent because of similarities of physical type or of customs or… — Max Weber 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
There's a potter that lived back in the 1800s, in Biloxi, Mississippi, and his name was George Ohr. He was of Russian… — Lance Henriksen Copy Share Image
The rapture will not be secret but open and manifest. Its purpose will not be to whisk the elect away from the… — R. C. Sproul Copy Share Image
When anyone seriously pursues an art - painting, poetry, sculpture, composing - over twenty or thirty years, the sustained discipline carries the… — Robert Bly Copy Share Image
Fifty-thousand were gathered (March,27th,1933) in and around Madison Square Garden, supportive rallies were at that moment waiting in Chicago, Washington, San Francisco,… — Edwin Black Copy Share Image
If the human species, or indeed any part of the biosphere, is to continue to survive, it must eventually leave the Earth… — Frank J. Tipler Copy Share Image
I used to live in Los Angeles, but I didn't want my kids to grow up in the thick of the obsession… — Woody Harrelson Copy Share Image
“Checking a box on a form for race—"Caucasian," "Hispanic," "African-American," "Native American," or "Asian-American"—is untenable and ridiculous. For one thing, "American" is… — Michael Shermer Copy Share Image
Pack the one bag. Unpack it, pack it, unpack it, pack it: passeport, ticket, book, taxi, airport, check-in, beer, announcement, stairs, airplane,… — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
Night was falling. Birds were singing. Birds were, it occurred to me to say, enacting a frantic celebration of day's end. They… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
If you are proud of your descent from virtuous ancestors, how empty their virtue will leave your hands if you yourself are… — Ibn Hazm Copy Share Image
As a mother, anything to do with my children, whether it's supporting their school or programs that support their education and enrichment.… — Trista Sutter Copy Share Image
You are my angel and my damnation; in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell. — Isabel Allende 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
A trip to the hospital is always a descent into the macabre. I have never trusted a place with shiny floors. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
