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So we see that even when Fortuna spins us downward, the wheel sometimes halts for a moment and we find ourselves in a good, small… — John Kennedy Toole
The sun is all love and murder, judgement, the perpetual raid of conscience, paratrooping light which opens like a snow-blossom in the downward drift of… — Janet Frame
When I opened my eyes I saw nothing but the pool of nocturnal sky, for I was lying on my back with out-stretched arms, face… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
With a secret smile, not unlike that of a healthy child,he walked along, peacefully, quietly. He wore his gown and walked along exactly like the… — Hermann Hesse
The best way to boost the economy is to redistribute wealth downward, as poorer people tend to spend a higher proportion of their income. — Ha-Joon Chang
Her eyes, mostly cast downward, occasionally flicker upwards to meet his before falling again. She is apologetic for everything, as always, constantly saying sorry to… — Cecelia Ahern
It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before… — Sylvia Townsend Warner
[Qhuinn looking a Blay] A tear escaped from that eye . Welling up along the lower lid, it coalesced at the far corner, formed a… — J R Ward
I’d forgotten to keep blasting a song in my mind. I remedied my mistake, but the lyrics to “Do You Really Want to Hurt Me”… — Jeaniene Frost
I was observing her closely as I talked, and after a while I began to get the impression that she was not, in fact, quite… — Roald Dahl
I hate you!” I screamed at Fang. Tucking my wings in, I aimed downward, diving toward the ground at more than two hundred miles an… — James Patterson
The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low. — Hunter S. Thompson
O let me lead her gently o'er the brook, Watch her half-smiling lips and downward look; O let me for one moment touch her wrist;… — John Keats
Simon stopped breathing until her forefinger touched his nipple, and then his hand shot up to cover hers. "I want you," he said. Her eyes… — Julia Quinn
I find now, swallowing one teaspoon of pain, that it drops downward to the past where it mixes with last year’s cupful and downward into… — Anne Sexton
She smiled, and her eyes started to drift downward. "Cather..." Back up to his eyes. "You know that I'm falling in love with you, right? — Rainbow Rowell
People who succeed have momentum. The more they succeed, the more they want to succeed, and the more they find a way to succeed. Similarly,… — Tony Robbins
Professional standards, the standards of ambition and selfishness, are always sliding downward toward expense, ostentation, and mediocrity. They tend always to narrow the ground of… — Wendell Berry
Ah! The seasons of love roll not backward but onward, downward forever. — Jean Paul
Positive images of the future are a powerful and magnetic force... They draw us on and energize us, give us courage and will to take… — William James
Recognizing that the current form of globalization is nothing more than a generalized downward leveling in which global corporations are extracting more and more of… — Robin Hahnel
It is an error to imagine that evolution signifies a constant tendency to increased perfection. That process undoubtedly involves a constant remodeling of the organism… — Thomas Huxley
Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward… — Gary Wolf
The point of conservatism is not that it prevents movement forward and upward, but that it prevents movement backward and downward, into chaotic darkness and… — Vladimir Putin
Going public today is fraught with peril on many levels. One is earnings guidance. If you miss guidance, the stock price becomes very volatile. Short… — Ben Horowitz

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