Ascending Quotes

54 Ascending quotes by 53 unique authors

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
It’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
And the boys were all clean, their faces freshly and brutally shaved, their hair painstakingly gelled into exquisite apparent carelessness, with this electric feeling inside… — Peter Cameron
A tiny little wooden man [was] slowly ascending the steps to a real set of gallows, both perched on a box that read: Reusable Hangman… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Much-Afraid, don't ever allow yourself to begin trying to picture what it will be like. Believe me, when you get to the place which you… — Hannah Hurnard
The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line. — Marion Milner
Infinite toil would not enable you to sweep away a mist; but by ascending a little you may often look over it altogether. — Arthur Helps
I just kind of conjured them up out of my subconscious and put them in order of ascending peculiarity. — Edward Gorey
Now tequila may be the favoured beverage of outlaws but that doesn't mean it gives them preferential treatment. In fact, tequila probably has betrayed as… — Tom Robbins
In journalistic terms, syndication is equivalent to ascending to heaven on a pillar of cloud. — John Skow
Ascending and turning out spitfires to face them. Heading straight for them I press my guns. Run, live to fly, fly to live, Aces high. — Iron Maiden
I'm just happy that in the whole framework of art imitates life, or maybe life should be imitating art, there is this kind of move… — Jimmy Smits

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