Ascending Quotes

54 quotes by 53 authors

What I assert and believe to have demonstrated in this and earlier works is that following the finite there is a transfinite (which one could… — Georg Cantor
There is no tongue to speak his eulogy; Too brightly burned his splendor for our eyes; Far easier to condemn his injurers, Than for the… — Michelangelo
Time is the continuous loop, the snakeskin with scales endlessly overlapping without beginning or end, or time is an ascending spiral if you will, like… — Annie Dillard
The spirit of Greece, passing through and ascending above the world, hath so animated universal nature, that the very rocks and woods, the very torrents… — Walter Savage Landor
We know that Jesus could not have ascended to heaven because there is no physical heaven anywhere in the universe. Even ascending at the speed… — Joseph Campbell
Is not man himself the most unsettled of all the creatures of the earth? What is this trembling sensation that is intensified with each ascending… — Ugo Betti
To be a stranger in a strange land: Whenever one feasts, one thinks of one's brother twice as much as before, There where my brother… — Wang Wei
There's often a distressing disconnect between the good words we speak and the way we live our lives. In personal relations and politics, the mass… — Parker J. Palmer
By depending on the great, The small may rise high. See: the little plant ascending the tall tree Has climbed to the top. — Sakya Pandita
The embrace of present and past time, in which English antiquarianism becomes a form of alchemy, engenders a strange timelessness. It is as if the… — Peter Ackroyd
I don't hold to the idea that God causes suffering and crisis. I just know that those things come along and God uses them. We… — Sue Monk Kidd
Indeed, while Nature is wonderfully inventive of new structures, her conservatism in holding on to old ones is still more remarkable. In the ascending line… — John M. Tyler
The man who goes up in a balloon does not feel as if he were ascending; he only sees the earth sinking deeper below him. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Where lurk sweet echoes of the dear homevoices, Each note of which calls like a little sister, Those airs slow, slow ascending, as the smokewreaths… — Edmond Rostand
The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias… — Jonathan Edwards
Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
We live in an ascending scale when we live happily, one thing leading to another in an endless series. — Robert Louis Stevenson
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know… — Winston Churchill
What is art but the life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres,… — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Itâ€™s funny. I met a man once who did a lot of mountain climbing. I asked him which was harder, ascending or descending? He said… — Mitch Albom

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