Downward Quotes
146 quotes by 135 authors
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The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.
— Mencius
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The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.
— Henry David Thoreau
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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I know if I missed a day and nothing happened, then it would be much easier to miss another day. Pretty soon I wouldn’t have…
— Chris Guillebeau
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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
Who Wrote These Downward Quotes
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