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103 Descending quotes by 84 unique authors

When we are alone on a starlit night, when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to… — Thomas Merton
'Tell me one last thing,' said Harry. 'Is this real? Or has this been happening inside my head?' Dumbledore beamed at him, and his voice… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Count that day lost whose descending sun finds you with no good deeds done. — Napoleon Hill
As far as income goes, there are three currencies in the world; most people ignore two. The three currencies are time, income and mobility, in… — Tim Ferriss
At college my three main interests were - in descending order of importance - a steady supply of recreational drugs, a 2-S draft deferment, and… — Garry Trudeau
It is a wonderful thing to see a first-rate philosopher at prayer. Tough-minded thinking and tenderhearted reverence are friends, not enemies. We have for too… — Soren Kierkegaard
When your father directed your mother in 'Orpheus Descending,' the kid's going to be a theater nerd. — Logan Marshall-Green
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
REFUSAL, n. Denial of something desired; Refusals are graded in a descending scale of finality thus: the refusal absolute, the refusal condition, the refusal tentative… — Ambrose Bierce
The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Down sank the great red sun, and in golden, glimmering vapors Veiled the light of his face, like the Prophet descending from Sinai. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
...Good luck and Good work for the happy mountain raindrops, each one of them a high waterfall in itself, descending from the cliffs and hollows… — John Muir
There are truckloads of broccoli at this very minute descending on Washington. My family is divided. For the broccoli vote out there: Barbara loves broccoli.… — George H. W. Bush
Lightly tripping o'er the land, Deftly skimming o'er the main, Scarce our fairy wings bedewing With the frothy mantling brine, Scarce our silver feet acquainting… — Hartley Coleridge
Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life. — John Updike
On motionless wing they emerge from the lifting mists, sweep a final arc of sky, and settle in clangorous descending spirals to their feeding grounds.… — Aldo Leopold
Diamonds are found only in the dark bowels of the earth; truths are found only in the depths of thought. It seemed to him that… — Victor Hugo
Nobody understands the nature of the Church, or the ringing note of the creed descending from antiquity, who does not realize that the whole world… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Some dangers are so spectacular and so much beyond normal experience that the mind refuses to accept them as real, and watches the approach of… — Arthur C. Clarke
The dove descending breaks the air With flame of incandescent terror Of which the tongues declare The one discharge from sin and error. The only… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
When we are alone on a starlit night, when by chance we see the migrating birds in autumn descending on a grove of junipers to… — Thomas Merton
Life was a swarm of accidents waiting in the treetops, descending upon any living thing that passed, ready to eat them alive. You swam in… — David Wroblewski
But suppose the endlessly dead were to wake in us some emblem: they might point to the catkins hanging from the empty hazel trees, or… — Rainer Maria Rilke
It’s funny. I met a man once who did a lot of mountain climbing. I asked him which was harder, ascending or descending? He said… — Mitch Albom
We knew - but didn't want to know - what was going to happen, the sky descending upon our heads like the shadow of a… — Aleksandar Hemon

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