Downwards Quotes

29 quotes by 28 authors

Military tactics are like unto water; for water in its natural course runs away from high places and hastens downwards... Water shapes its course according… — Sun Tzu
One great blemish in the popular mind of America and the prolific parent of an innumerable brood of evils, is Universal Distrust . . .… — Charles Dickens
The river has taught me to listen; you will learn from it, too. The river knows everything; one can learn everything from it. You have… — Hermann Hesse
The meaning of conservatism is not that it impedes movement forward and upward, but that it impedes movement backwards and downwardsâ€”to chaotic darkness and the… — Nikolai Berdyaev
The Strange Loop phenomenon occurs whenever, by moving upwards (or downwards) through levels of some hierarchial system, we unexpectedly find ourselves right back where we… — Douglas Hofstadter
Natural Selection never made it come to pass, as a habit of nature, that an unsupported stone should move downwards rather than upwards. It applies… — Chauncey Wright
Fig tree, how long it's been full meaning for me, the way you almost entirely omit to flower and into the seasonably-resolute fruit uncelebratedly thrust… — Rainer Maria Rilke
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
It is true that water will flow indifferently to east and west, but will it flow equally well up and down? Human nature is disposed… — Mencius
I started my career at the top and have been working my way downwards ever since. — Tom Glazer
If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil . He cannot… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades downwards from the CEO. Not only… — Gary Hamel
An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards. — John Locke
Rock and Roll: Music for the neck downwards. — Keith Richards
In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he… — Bertrand Russell
Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending… — William Whewell
You're only a rebel from the waist downwards,' he told her. — George Orwell
An Angel who did not so much Fall as Saunter Vaguely Downwards. — Neil Gaiman
Give us, O Lord, a steadfast heart, which no unworthy affection may drag downwards; give us an unconquered heart, which no tribulation can wear out;… — Thomas Aquinas
Let us settle ourselves, and work and wedge our feet downwards through the mud and slush of opinion and tradition, and pride and prejudice, appearance… — Henry David Thoreau

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