Ascent Quotes

105 Ascent quotes by 84 unique authors

Sex was invented as a biological instrument by (say) the green algae. But as an instrument in the ascent of man which is basic to… — Jacob Bronowski
I do not admire a virtue like valour when it is pushed to excess, if I do not see at the same time the excess… — Blaise Pascal
Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects; it works against the laws and conditions which regulated the earlier… — Arthur Keith
In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe… — James Henry Breasted
Your legs feel like fried bacon after a day of climbing and descending. It's a roller coaster ride, but no one is pulling you up… — Frosty Wooldridge
The ascent to greatness, however steep and dangerous, may entertain an active spirit with the consciousness and exercise of its own power: but the possession… — Edward Gibbon
As I toiled up the Mount of Olives, in the very footsteps of Christ, panting with the heat and the difficult ascent, I found it… — Bayard Taylor
Christ is at once the spotless descent of God into men and the sinless ascent of man into God, and the Holy Spirit is the… — John G. Lake
I plot my ascent daily. — Conor McGregor
I call that brilliant sequence of cultural peaks The Ascent of Man. — Jacob Bronowski
There is wonder and a certain wicked pleasure in these giddy ascents and terrible falls, especially as they happen to other people. — John Kenneth Galbraith
Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a crucial role in the ascent of man, we usually reach the realm… — Eric Hoffer
My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye. — Joni Mitchell
See that you buy the field where the Pearl is; sell all, and make a purchase of salvation. Think it not easy: for it is… — Samuel Rutherford
The historic ascent of humanity, taken as a whole, may be summarized as a succession of victories of consciousness over blind forces - in nature,… — Leon Trotsky
True discipleship is for volunteers only. Only volunteers will trust the Guide sufficiently to follow Him in the dangerous ascent which only He can lead. — Neal A. Maxwell
Without shedding of blood there is no anything… Everything, it seems to me, has to be purchased by self-sacrifice. Our race has marked every step… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
In A Glass of Cider It seemed I was a mite of sediment That waited for the bottom to ferment So I could catch a… — Robert Frost
Sometimes he caught himself listening to the sound of his own voice. He thought that in her eyes he would ascent to an angelical stature;… — James Joyce
I wonder, sometimes, whether men and women in fact are capable of learning from history--whether we progress from one stage to the next in an… — Barack Obama
In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent. — Aldous Huxley
To course across more kindly waters now my talent's little vessel lifts her sails, leaving behind herself a sea so cruel; and what I sing… — Dante Alighieri
There is no such sense of solitude as that which we experience upon the silent and vast elevations of great mountains. Lifted high above the… — Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
There is psychological pleasure in this takeoff, too, for the swiftness of the plane’s ascent is an exemplary symbol of transformation. The display of power… — Alain de Botton
The Archangel." I murmured. looking back over my shoulder at the ride, which had started its next ascent. "It means high-ranking angel." There was a… — Becca Fitzpatrick

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