Descend Quotes

165 Descend quotes by 151 unique authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
No man can attain to the knowledge of God but by humility. The way to mount high is to descend. — Unknown Author
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
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
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
I cannot, whilst President of the United States, descend to enter into a newspaper controversy. — James K. Polk
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine Persons descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance. — John Vianney
No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver. — Khalil Gibran
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
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
Ambition aspires to descend — Pierre Corneille
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

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