Best Descend Quotations
165 Descend quotes by 151 unique authors
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Shut your eyes, wait, think of nothing. Now, open them ... one sees nothing but a great coloured undulation. What then? An irradiation and glory…
— Paul Cezanne
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To mourn is to wonder at the strangeness that grief is not written all over your face in bruised hieroglyphics. And it's also to feel,…
— Meghan O'Rourke
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The less you know, the more I comprehend. You don't have to drag me down, I descend.
— Shawn Colvin
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If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would.
— Brent Scowcroft
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It's a risky thing to pray and the danger is that our very prayers get between God and us. The great thing in prayer is…
— Thomas Merton
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I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful.
— Kathleen Raine
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That was the idea behind glam clubs like Seven and The New Eve. You could eat and dance to live music. To enter you had…
— Christian Lacroix
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If you feel uncomfortable on stage, you can very easily descend into a sort of abyss, convinced you're the worst actor ever, that you're a…
— Stephen Dillane
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It is not God's way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to be spread to…
— John Henry Newman
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A nickname a man may chance to wear out; but a system of calumnity, pursued by a faction, may descend even to posterity. This principal…
— Isaac D'Israeli
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How happy he whose toil Has o'er his languid pow'rless limbs diffus'd A pleasing lassitude; he not in vain Invokes the gentle Deity of dreams.…
— John Armstrong
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Ah, yet, e'er I descend to th' grave, May I a small House and a large Garden have. And a few Friends, and many Books…
— Abraham Cowley
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The discovery of magic can happen only when we transcend our embarrassment about being alive, when we have the bravery to proclaim the goodness and…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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It is generally recognized that creativity requires leisure, an absence of rush, time for the mind and imagination to float and wander and roam, time…
— Nathaniel Branden
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It is often said that the modern exhibition has ruined painting. It is an unfortunate fact that it does encourage competition, so that, to attract…
— Walter J. Phillips
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Earlier lives drift by on silver soles, and the shadows of the damned descend into these sighing waters.
— Georg Trakl
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Art is a thing so much of the imagination, of the soul, that it is difficult to descend to the fundamentals of technique and yet…
— John F. Carlson
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The Allied Powers having proclaimed that the Emperor Napoleon is the sole obstacle to the re-establishment of peace in Europe, he, faithful to his oath,…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Men who have worked together to reach the stars are not likely to descend together into the depths of war and desolation.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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Even more than the depression, it was my anxiety and agitation that became the defining symptoms of my illness. Like epileptic seizures, a series of…
— Douglas Bloch
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We can either build a Star Trek future, in which our civilization rises to new heights, or descend into a Mad Max world. It is…
— Vivek Wadhwa
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I do not believe in lawyers, in that mode of attacking or defending a man, because you descend to meet the judge on his own…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Side by side ... the British and French peoples have advanced to rescue ... mankind from the foulest and most soul-destroying tyranny which has ever…
— Winston Churchill
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Mont Blanc yet gleams on high: the power is there, The still and solemn power of many sights And many sounds, and much of life…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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I am an international leader, the dean of the Arab rulers, the king of kings of Africa and the imam of Muslims, and my international…
— Muammar al-Gaddafi
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