Best Downward Sayings

146 Downward quotes by 132 unique authors

Deviation from either truth or duty is a downward path. — Tryon Edwards
In an extreme credit crunch, leveraged purchases of gold cause forced sales, because any price correction triggers margin calls. As a result, gold can be… — Nouriel Roubini
Pray for 'all men.' We usually pray more for things than we do for men. Our prayers should be thrown across their pathway as they… — Edward McKendree Bounds
Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they… — Henry David Thoreau
Every one knows how the snow lies in the valleys of the Alps, forming a plain which slopes gradually downward towards the outlet Imagine such… — Edward Burnett Tylor
In a world of upward mobility, choose downward servility. — Max Lucado
Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell >From heaven; for ev'n in heaven his looks and thoughts Were always downward bent, admiring more The riches… — John Milton
When you allow circumstances beyond your control to determine your attitude and actions, you risk plunging into a downward spiral of hasty decisions and faulty… — Nick Vujicic
A stone lies in a river; a piece of wood is jammed against it; dead leaves, drifting logs, and branches caked with mud collect; weeds… — Cyril Connolly
You can make bad choices and find yourself in a downward spiral or you can find something that gets you out of it. — Ray LaMontagne
The way of Jesus is radically different. It is the way not of upward mobility but of downward mobility. It is going to the bottom,… — Henri Nouwen
The beauteous eyes of the spring's fair night With comfort are downward gazing. — Heinrich Heine
Let me be one of the upward and outward lookers, not one of the downward and inward lookers. — Alfred Edersheim
I had a terrible manager once who described my career as 'spiraling downward. — Rickie Lee Jones
The humble soul is like the violet, which grows low, hangs the head downward, and hides itself with its own leaves. — Fredrika Bremer
I hear the wind among the trees Playing the celestial symphonies; I see the branches downward bent, Like keys of some great instrument. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Water indeed will flow indifferently to the east or west, but will it flow indifferently up or down? The tendency of our nature to good… — Mencius
Man must choose either of the two courses, the upward or the downward; but as he has the brute in him, he will more easily… — Mahatma Gandhi
The people turn in allegiance to Humanity, as surely as water flows downward or as a wild animal takes cover in the wilderness. — Mencius
Life is most delightful on the downward slope. — Seneca the Younger
Corporate America cannot afford to remain silent or passive about the downward spiral we are undergoing. It cannot turn a blind eye to how difficult… — Simon Mainwaring
Protectionism is a very real danger. It is understandable that in times of a severe downturn protectionist pressures mount but the lessons of history are… — Manmohan Singh
People are under the assumption that the kundalini just flows from the base of the spine up. That's not the case at all. Kundalini also… — Frederick Lenz
The kundalini flows upward. It also flows downward in different ways. It is quite complex, actually. — Frederick Lenz
My sentiments for the American cause, from the Stamp Act downward, have never changed... I am still of opinion that it is the cause of… — Christopher Gadsden

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