Descent Quotes

156 quotes by 141 authors

The path of descent is the path of transformation. Darkness, failure, relapse, death, and woundedness are our primary teachers, rather than ideas or doctrines. — Richard Rohr
I want to die at a hundred years old with an American flag on my back and the star of Texas on my helmet, after… — Lance Armstrong
It has made mincemeat of Barack Obama's pose of thoughtfulness. It has demonstrated that he lacks even a rudimentary understanding of the most basic economic… — George Will
In the world of the celebrity, the hierarchy of publicity has replaced the hierarchy of descent and even of great wealth. — C. Wright Mills
You've seen my descent, now watch my rising. — Rumi
From yon blue heaven above us bent, The grand old gardener and his wife Smile at the claims of long descent. — Alfred Lord Tennyson
For let us not underestimate the Christian: the Christian, false to the point of innocence, is far above the ape-regarding Christians, a well known theory… — Friedrich Nietzsche
I am, in point of fact, a particularly haughty and exclusive person, of pre-Adamite ancestral descent. You will understand this when I tell you that… — W. S. Gilbert
Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others. — Seneca the Younger
I am not sure that any sight or sound on earth is as exquisite as the hushed descent of a sky full of snow. — Parker J. Palmer
You are my angel and my damnation; in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell. — Isabel Allende
The study of eugenics had its beginning in Germany, sometime after the mid-19th century mark, stimulated by volkish concerns for Aryan racial purity. Rudolf Virchow,… — Jim Keith
Night was falling. Birds were singing. Birds were, it occurred to me to say, enacting a frantic celebration of day's end. They were manifesting as… — George Saunders
In Prodigal Son, Christine Sutton has penned a tight, brutally honest portrait of a psychopath reminiscent of Theodore Sturgeon's 'Some of Your Blood'. This dark… — Joe
As commonly understood, creationism involves belief in an earth formed only about ten thousand years ago, an interpretation of the Bible that is still very… — Michael Behe
Tanya Ward Goodman, writing with a big heart, clear eyes, and a light touch, allows us a privileged glimpse into the shabby, enchanted world of… — Michelle Huneven
We Aryans are those of European descent who are racially conscious and who have committed our lives to our people's survival and evolutionary advancement. We… — David Duke
There is no comparing the brutality and cynicism of today's pop culture with that of forty years ago: from High Noon to Robocop is a… — Charles Krauthammer
He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another. — Seneca the Younger
Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact notion of sincerity, and in the end coming to despise… — Joseph Conrad

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