Descend Quotes
165 Descend quotes by 151 unique authors
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Due to poor weather, low visibility and extreme winds, I was forced to make the decision to descend after receiving word that there was another…
— Lonnie Dupre
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To pray is to descend with the mind into the heart, and there to stand before the face of the Lord, ever-present, all seeing, within…
— Theophan the Recluse
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I met my wife in Washington, D.C. I was a senior in college. WW II was about to descend upon us. Jobs were starting to…
— Tom Glazer
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Remember, too, that if your country has the greatest name in all the world, it is because she never bent before disaster; because she has…
— Pericles
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Philosophy dwells aloft in the Temple of Science, the divinity of its inmost shrine; her dictates descend among men, but she herself descends not :…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Water is also one of the four elements, the most beautiful of God's creations. It is both wet and cold, heavy, and with a tendency…
— John of Damascus
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No man can attain to the knowledge of God but by humility. The way to mount high is to descend.
— Unknown Author
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A philosophy of the history of the human race, worthy of its name, must begin with the heavens and descend to the earth, must be…
— Friedrich Ratzel
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There are reveries so deep, reveries which help us descend so deeply within ourselves that they rid us of our history. They liberate us from…
— Gaston Bachelard
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Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a light whose dubious brightness falsifies…
— Blaise Cendrars
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I cannot, whilst President of the United States, descend to enter into a newspaper controversy.
— James K. Polk
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Today’s world is traveling in some strange direction. You see that the world is going toward destruction and violence. And the specialty of violence is…
— Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan
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Thinking cannot be clear until it has had expression-we must write, or speak, or act our thoughts, or they will remain in half torpid form.…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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You will find a spring by the dwelling of the dead, to the left. Next to it stands a white cypress. Do not approach that…
— Gustaw Herling-Grudzinski
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The idea of beauty does not descend into matter unless this is prepared as carefully as possible. This preparation consists of three things: arrangement, measure,…
— Nicolas Poussin
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That subtle knot which makes us man So must pure lovers souls descend T affections, and to faculties, Which sense may reach and apprehend, Else…
— John Donne
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You get respect in society if you are aggressive. If you fight then people respect you. If you fight back, people like you for that…
— Richey Edwards
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No living creature, not even man, has achieved, in the centre of his sphere, what the bee has achieved in her own: and were some…
— Maurice Maeterlinck
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Falling in love was a solo act. I knew that, had learned that the hard way. You just jumped and hoped your parachute opened. Sometimes…
— Eric Jerome Dickey
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The pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine Persons descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance.
— John Vianney
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No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver.
— Khalil Gibran
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And indeed there will be time To wonder, "Do I dare?" and, "Do I dare?" Time to turn back and descend the stair, With a…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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It is absurd to expect governments to descend gradually, step-by-step into barbarism - as if there was a train schedule to political hell and people…
— James Bovard
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Ambition aspires to descend
— Pierre Corneille
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Out of the chaos of post-Roman Dark Age Britain, the English had created the world's first nation-state: One king, one country, one church, one currency,…
— David Starkey
Who Wrote These Descend Quotes
151 authors contributed a total of 165 Descend Quotes, led by these top contributors: