I have made a long enough descent into the void to speak with certainty. There is nothing but beauty--and beauty has only… — Stephane Mallarme 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
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
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
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
My dad is from Japanese descent, my mom is from Swedish descent and, through marriages and divorces, a pretty multicultural family -… — Cary Fukunaga 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 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 am the father of a 9 year-old son whose descent into the world of autism began at the age of 7… — Rick Rollens Copy Share Image
If you look at the economy, the U.S. economy, in terms of per-capita terms, in terms of other considerations, has been on… — Lyndon LaRouche 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
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
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
Milton says, that the lyric poet may drink wine and live generously, but the epic poet, he who shall sing of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As Darwin puts it in The Descent of Man, 'Male snakes, though appearing so sluggish, are amorous.' Isn't that just like Darwin?… — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
The study of eugenics had its beginning in Germany, sometime after the mid-19th century mark, stimulated by volkish concerns for Aryan racial… — Jim Keith Copy Share Image
Twenty thousand thieves landed at Hastings. These founders of the House of Lords were greedy and ferocious dragoons, sons of greedy and… — Lewis Carroll 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
It is really laughable to see what different ideas are prominent in various naturalists' minds, when they speak of 'species'; in some,… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The real difficulty is with the vast wealth and power in the hands of the few and the unscrupulous who represent or… — Rutherford B. Hayes Copy Share Image
I want to die at a hundred years old with an American flag on my back and the star of Texas on… — Lance Armstrong Copy Share Image
I am aware that the conclusions arrived at in this work will be denounced by some as highly irreligious; but he who… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
On this day, millions of people...throughout the world will gather to commemorate the life of Patrick, patron saint of Ireland. From his… — George W. Bush 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
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
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
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
I love writing for other actors, women of African descent and people who are generally underrepresented. — Danai Gurira 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
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
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
Happy in all that ragged, loose collapse of water, the fountain, its effortless descent and flatteries of spray... — Richard Wilbur 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
I would say to you that Americans of Hispanic descent want desperately to give their children the chances they never had. — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Mitochondrial DNA, which is a sort of abridged version of DNA, is passed directly from mother to child, so it's something that… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
I sung of Chaos and Eternal Night, Taught by the heav'nly Muse to venture down The dark descent, and up to reascend... — John Milton Copy Share Image
Christ is at once the spotless descent of God into men and the sinless ascent of man into God, and the Holy… — John G. Lake Copy Share Image
I shudder to think where we people of African descent would be without our allies in the international community. It's been our… — Gerald Horne Copy Share Image
