I'm of African descent and my sister looks completely black, but I didn't look black. I was the super-nerdy kid who was… — Junot Diaz 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
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
Happy in all that ragged, loose collapse of water, the fountain, its effortless descent and flatteries of spray... — Richard Wilbur Copy Share Image
Amid the gray, an incongruous band of daytime blue asserts itself. To the west, a pink sun already begins its descent. The… — Jhumpa Lahiri 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
That's how we slide, and while we slide we blame the world's problems on colonialism, imperialism, capitalism, corporatism, stupid white men, and… — Steve Toltz 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
Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself. — Franz Kafka 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
The gates of Hell are open night and day; smooth the descent, and easy is the way: but, to return, and view… — Virgil Copy Share Image
Ramona stepped back into her closet, slid the door shut, pressed an imaginary button, and when her imaginary elevator had made its… — Beverly Cleary 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
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
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
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
Kings built tombs more splendid than the houses of the living and counted the names of their descent dearer than the names… — Anonymous 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
“You can take the Indian out of the family, but you cannot take the family out of the Indian.” — Amit Kalantri 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
Anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he was dying in a foreign land, "The descent to Hades is the… — Diogenes Laertius Copy Share Image
I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
