Downward Quotes

146 quotes by 135 authors

The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward. — Mencius
The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward. — Henry David Thoreau
It is quite wrong to think of old age as a downward slope. On the contrary, one climbs higher and higher with the ad-vancing years,… — George Sand
It is the omnipresent rush of water which give the Este Gardens their peculiar character. From the Anio, drawn up the hillside at incalculable cost… — Edith Wharton
If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
We have been so long in a downward spin, the angels are calling us up. We are meant to fly and with our spirits we… — Marianne Williamson
Science, in its ultimate ideal, consists of a set of propositions arranged in a hierarchy, the lowest level of the hierarchy being concerned with particular… — Bertrand Russell
From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own… — John Dryden
Want compassion is not to be numbered among the general faults of mankind. The black ingredient which fouls our disposition is envy. Hence our eyes,… — Henry Fielding
The only perfect circle on the human body is the eye. When a baby is born it's so perfect, but when it opens its eyes… — Richey Edwards
Short term, the most important thing is to put people back to work ... If they're working, that means they're paying taxes, that means that… — Barack Obama
When the moon shall have faded out from the sky, and the sun shall shine at noonday a dull cherry red, and the seas shall… — William Jacob Holland
He whom you see-along the downward arc- was William, and the land that mourns his death, for living Charles and Frederick, now laments; now he… — Dante Alighieri
Given the rest of the economic news, including the fact that GDP growth is positive, inflation is still low, jobless claims are still moving downward… — Elaine Chao
I was so busy fighting and so busy trying to keep everything above water that I didn't realize I was spiraling downward with nowhere to… — Lorraine Bracco
If you will excuse me, your coat lapels are badly twisted downward, where they have been grasped by the pertinacious New York reporters. — David Walton
I know if I missed a day and nothing happened, then it would be much easier to miss another day. Pretty soon I wouldnâ€™t have… — Chris Guillebeau
It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies on a level just below… — Florence Kelley

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