The expression to write something down suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it. — William H. Gass Copy Share Image
In skydiving, it is the fear response that gradually weakens. During the precipitous descent, the amply tested parachutist can savor the thrill… — Dean Keith Simonton Copy Share Image
There is a descent from God through the world to animals, and an ascent from animals through the world to God. He… — Giordano Bruno Copy Share Image
From yon blue heaven above us bent, The grand old gardener and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
For what we cannot accomplish, what is denied to love, what we have lost in the anticipation a descent follows, endless and… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
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
I'm of Nigerian descent, from the Yoruba tribe. Names are very significant in that culture. It basically states your purpose in life. — Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje Copy Share Image
A representative form of government rests nor more on political contributions than on those laws which regulate the descent and transmission of… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
The descent of Israel from the morally towering position of a 'light for the nations' to the lowest of the low and… — Zygmunt Bauman 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
As an actor, you have to have trust and believe that somebody is taking care of you or watching your back. With… — Jessica Lange 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
We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
'Breaking Bad' is great at blurring the line between good and evil. It makes you feel compassion for Walter White so you're… — Jesse Plemons Copy Share Image
It was very difficult to control the descent. At a height of seven kilometres, I catapulted out of my capsule and parachuted… — Valentina Tereshkova Copy Share Image
About five years ago I saw a mockingbird make a straight vertical descent from the roof gutter of a four-story building. It… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
But the closer we study their lives, and the better we know their deeds, the more profound is our admiration and the… — Chauncey Depew Copy Share Image
It is useless saying that we do not accept the gods of the primitive world. In form, no; in essence, yes. The… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
“The remaining chain swung down, he wrenched the door out and he was free. The last thing he heard behind him was… — Cornell Woolrich 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
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
We cannot find God without God. We cannot reach God without God. We cannot satisfy God without God - which is another… — Os Guinness Copy Share Image
Man little knows what calamities are beyond his patience to bear till he tries them; as in ascending the heights of ambition,… — Oliver Goldsmith 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
Man has regarded woman as his tool. She has learnt to be his tool and in the end found it is easy… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I have no urns, no dusty monuments; No broken images of ancestors, Wanting an ear, or nose; no forged tales Of long… — Ben Jonson Copy Share Image
No one has ever proved that a human being, through his descent from a certain group of people, must of necessity have… — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
Compromise, while at times morally necessary or at least justifiable, is more often only the first permission for a person (or society)… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
As the interned American citizens of Japanese descent learned, the Bill of Rights provided them with little protection when it was needed. — Glenn Reynolds Copy Share Image
His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
And the worst possible thing we could know — worse than knowing of our descent from a mass of microorganisms — is… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
We approach a condition in which we shall be amoral without the capacity to perceive it and degraded without the means to… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
All people of African descent, whether they live in North or South America, the Caribbean, or in any part of the world… — Kwame Nkrumah Copy Share Image
If the present generation, or any other, are disposed to be slaves, it does not lessen the right of the succeeding generation… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
When we say Afro American, we include everyone in the Western Hemisphere of African descent. South America is America. Central America is… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
Who climbs the mountain does not always climb.The winding road slants downward many a time;Yet each descent is higher than the last. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox 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
There is no comparing the brutality and cynicism of today's pop culture with that of forty years ago: from High Noon to… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
After the departure of the land parties, I embarked with six men on thursday, the 21st april, on board my newly made… — William Henry Ashley Copy Share Image
“I’m having a hard time adjusting to being underground so much. But after the surreal encounter with the rose, for the first… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
