there is no ascent to the heights without prior descent into darkness, no new life without some form of death. — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
When we trust ourselves, ascents become descents, difficulties turn into easinesses, rocks transform into sands and swords into melting candles! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The worlds represent increasing phases of densification, the involuting descent of spirit into matter, where the way becomes harder and longer. — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
The sluices of the grog-shop are fed from the wine-glasses in the parlor, and there is a lineal descent from the gentleman… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
For let us not underestimate the Christian: the Christian, false to the point of innocence, is far above the ape-regarding Christians, a… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Miracles occur, If you dare to call those spasmodic Tricks of radiance miracles. The wait's begun again, The long wait for the… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
I believe the evidence strongly supports common descent. But the root question remains unanswered: What has caused complex systems to form? — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
I find the idea of common descent (that all organisms share a common ancestor) fairly convincing, and have no particular reason to… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
Deconstructing the concept of race not only conflicts with people's tendency to classify and build family histories according to common descent but… — J. Philippe Rushton Copy Share Image
The vast majority of a significant portion of Americans of Hispanic descent will vote - happen to be working class people who… — Marco Rubio Copy Share Image
Each sporadic burst of work, each minor success and disappointment, each moment of calm and relaxation, seemed merely a temporary halt on… — Al Alvarez Copy Share Image
When I began work on my first book, The River of Doubt, which tells the story of Theodore Roosevelts 1914 descent of… — Candice Millard Copy Share Image
I live in a town that's two and a half hours from the border. I know people who have lived in San… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
The United Nations and the Organization of American States have named 2011 as the International Year for People of African Descent. This… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
We discovered that in connection with these figures the German national simpletons and money-grubbers of the Frankfurt parliamentary swamp always counted as… — Friedrich Engels Copy Share Image
A little cooling down of animal excitability and instinct, a little loss of animal toughness, a little irritable weakness and descent of… — William James Copy Share Image
In asking forgiveness of women for our mythologizing of their bodies, for being unreal about them, we can only appeal to their… — John Updike 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
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
“The beginning of Christendom, is, strictly, at a point out of time. A metphysical trigonometry finds it among the spiritual Secrets, at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ram, ass, and horse, my Kyrnos, we look over With care, and seek good stock for good to cover; And yet the… — Theognis of Megara Copy Share Image
America as a setting seems inexhaustibly fascinating to me, and I think there's something about the outsider viewpoint that works for me.… — James Lasdun Copy Share Image
As commonly understood, creationism involves belief in an earth formed only about ten thousand years ago, an interpretation of the Bible that… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
It is better to be the builder of our own name than to be indebted by descent for the proudest gifts known… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
The child now shewed her a narrow and rugged descent, made by cutting the red clay and stones, of which the cliffs… — Charlotte Smith Copy Share Image
Whether we're conscious of it or not, our work and personal lives are made up of daily rituals, including when we eat… — Chip Conley Copy Share Image
Within the period of human history we do not know of a single instance of the transformation of one species into another… — Thomas Hunt Morgan 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
It has made mincemeat of Barack Obama's pose of thoughtfulness. It has demonstrated that he lacks even a rudimentary understanding of the… — George Will Copy Share Image
I got a letter from this lady of Russian and Jewish descent. She asked me if I was a racist because I… — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
No one should deny the danger of the descent, but it can be risked. No one need risk it, but it is… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Oh you who are born of the gods, easy is the descent into Hell. The door of darkness stands open day and… — Virgil Copy Share Image
To understand a profound thought is to have, at the moment one understands it, a profound thought oneself; and this demands some… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
From the point of view of the pure morphologist the recapitulation theory is an instrument of research enabling him to reconstruct probable… — E.S. Russell Copy Share Image
The White House was designed by Hoban, a noted Irish-American architect, and I have no doubt that he believed by incorporating several… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
It's hard to be a minority. People look at you a different way, like you don't belong, and I don't think many… — Andrea Hirata Copy Share Image
Whereas the health of an individual depends on the ego's regular descent and return to and from the unconscious, a society's longevity… — Dan Harmon 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
I feel that writers think with their noses to the ground, and the dark stuff kind of comes to me more, even… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Africans and persons of African descent must assume the primary responsibility and leadership in historical research…if we are to continue to leave… — Chancellor Williams Copy Share Image
