Best Descend Sayings
165 Descend quotes by 151 unique authors
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A hand from Washington will be stretched out and placed upon every man’s business; the eye of the federal inspector will be in every man’s…
— Richard E. Byrd
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I regard large inherited wealth as a misfortune, which merely serves to dull men's faculties. A man who possesses great wealth should, therefore, allow only…
— Alfred Nobel
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Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual.
— Indra Devi
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Writing is like praying, because you stop all other activities, descend into silence, and listen patiently to the depths of your soul, waiting for true…
— Helen Prejean
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My aim is to be understood by everyone. I reject the 'depth' that people demand nowadays, into which you can never descend without a diving…
— George Grosz
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You have no sensitivity that your soul shall leave in the subtle body and that your subtle body is as sophisticated as anything in the…
— Harbhajan Singh Yogi
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Should the German people lay down their arms, the Soviets... would occupy all eastern and south-eastern Europe, together with the greater part of the [German]…
— Joseph Goebbels
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Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu, Buddhist, sufi, or zen. Not any religion or cultural system. I am not from the East or…
— Rumi
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A gardener is never shut out from his garden, wherever he may be. Its comfort never fails. Though the city may close about him, and…
— Beverley Nichols
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A calamity does not descend except due to a sin and it is not lifted except with repentance.
— Ali ibn Abi Talib
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Expedients are for the hour, but principles are for the ages. Just because the rains descend, and the winds blow, we cannot afford to build…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Everyone should do all in his power to collect and disseminate the truth, in the hope that it may find a place in history and…
— Robert E. Lee
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Grace means God sending his only Son to the cross to descend into hell so that we guilty ones might be reconciled to God and…
— J I Packer
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As we descend deeper and deeper in this region its inhabitants become more and more modified, and fewer and fewer, indicating our approach towards an…
— Edward Forbes
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The blessings we evoke for another descend upon ourselves.
— Edmund Gibson
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I pray that no child of mine would ever descend into such a place as a library. They are indeed most dangerous places and unfortunate…
— Willy Russell
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So it follows that those who have reason have freedom to will or not to will, although this freedom is not equal in all of…
— Boethius
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If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.
— A. P. Herbert
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If you descend into somebody else's private hell and stand there with them, it ceases to be hell.
— Mychal Judge
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I want a warm and faithful friend, To cheer the adverse hour; Who ne'er to flatter will descend, Nor bend the knee to power,- A…
— John Quincy Adams
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The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
— Cesare Pavese
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I find myself at the extremity of a long beach. How gladly does the spirit leap forth, and suddenly enlarge its sense of being to…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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The fact is that life has become a sweepstake. Millions of people who have lost the sense of being able to make anything of the…
— Max Lerner
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If you don't hear His voice so let Him hear yours. When prayers go up blessings descend.
— Bernard Malamud
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Just as we descend into our consciences to judge of actions which our minds can not weigh, can we not also search in ourselves for…
— Alfred de Vigny
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