Ascendant Quotes

#1. The latest literary discussions reflect a struggle between two artistic methods - romanticism and realism, with the latter clearly ascendant for the time being.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

#2. Lower oil prices won't, by themselves, topple the mullahs in Iran. But it's significant that, historically, when oil prices have been low, Iranian reformers have been ascendant and radicals relatively subdued, and vice versa when prices have been high.

James Surowiecki

#3. If during the Reformation you were a Catholic who lived in a part of Germany in which Lutheranism was the ascendant religion and the ruler of the province or the region was Lutheran, to stay a Catholic, you either had to be a dissenter or you had to leave.

Susan Jacoby

#4. I never contemplated any kind of existence or identity after my career. I never thought at some point the entertainment industry is going to be through with me. And when it first occurred to me that my career was going to cease to be ascendant, then I freaked out.

Steve-O

#5. For such people the consummate act of moral clarity was a lynching or a suicide bombing, a fatwa or a pogrom. And they were ascendant now, rising like dark stars over a terminal landscape .

Robert Charles Wilson

#6. There is an ascendant feeling among the people that all achievement should be measured in human happiness.

Walter Lippmann

#7. The # zodiac sign on the # Ascendant normally tells us much concerning the dharma of the individual - that is, the central potentiality which the person should seek consciously to actualize as a vessel or lens through which the Divine may act.

Dane Rudhyar

#8. They were ... well, Beautiful People! - not 'students', 'clerks', 'salesgirls', 'executive trainees' - Christ, don't give me your occupation-game labels! We are Beautiful People, ascendant from your robot junkyard.

Tom Wolfe

#9. The tragedy of Eliot Spitzer is almost Greek: Ascendant son of wealth and privilege dedicates his life to social justice, warns of the corruption lurking among us, and falls victim to his inner demons at the very moment of vindication.

Wil S. Hylton

#10. The ascendant rules the outer personality - the way a person actually presents to the world.

Rosemary Breen

#11. When obedience is in the ascendant, He will tax the remotest star and the last grain of sand to assist you with all His Almighty power.

Oswald Chambers

#12. It seems nobody really talks about what we do with our emotional pain. Only the ascendant perhaps, who have learned how to fully meditate or do yoga or whatever through their emotional pain.

India.Arie

#13. The central event of the twentieth century is the overthrow of matter ... The powers of the mind are everywhere ascendant over the brute force of things.

George Gilder

#14. The non-geometric biomorphic forms of Arp and Miro and Moore are definitely in the ascendant. The formal tradition of Gauguin, Fauvism and Expressionism will probably dominate for some time to come the tradition of Cezanne and Cubism.

Alfred H. Barr Jr.

#15. Wherever there is an ascendant class, a large portion of the morality emanates from its class interests and its class feelings of superiority.

Jack London

#16. The astrologers and historians write that the ascendant as of Oxford is Capricornus, whose lord is Saturn, a religious planet, and patron of religious men.

John Aubrey

#17. We have the largest economy and the strongest military in the world. Our core values of freedom and opportunity are ascendant around the globe.

Joe Lieberman

#18. You don't want to be that parent - the one who dresses his kid in a cloth sack when all the other kids are in Armani cloth sacks - especially in a time like ours, when materialism is not only rampant and ascendant but is fast becoming the only game in town.

George Saunders

#19. If people suspect their Cattle Bewitched, if they be great Cattle, make the twelfth house their ascendant, and the eleventh their twelfth house, and vary your Rules with Judgment.

William Lilly

#20. For Metafiction, in its ascendant and most important phases, was really nothing more than a single-order expansion of its own great theoretical nemisis, Realism: if realism called it like it saw it, Metafiction simply called it as it saw itself seeing itself see.

David Foster Wallace

#21. But to the particular species of excellence men are directed, not by an ascendant planet or predominating humour, but by the first book which they read, some early conversation which they heard, or some accident which excited ardour and emulation.

Samuel Johnson

#22. The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.

John Stuart Mill

#23. In terms of relationships, I've had two failures, although I don't like to call them failures; they are self learning, and I cannot say I regret any of my relationships. I've always said that I am a much loved woman.

Kate Del Castillo

#24. Mogami cable is durable and flexible enough to practically build a suspension bridge with but I'll settle for using it for my guitars and amps!

Dave Mustaine

#25. Basically, I have been compelled by curiosity.

Mary Leakey

#26. Flash turns up the optical volume so that whatever lies behind the lens - be it film or a digital sensor - is a little more receptive.

David Hewson

#27. There is a mercy which is weakness, and even treason against the common good.

George Eliot

#28. Sometimes I love looking super groomed, and sometimes I like to look super weird.

Suki Waterhouse

#29. If you have the passion to do something, work hard, stay honest and nothing can stop you to accomplish it.

Jahangir Khan

#30. Even the most minor inconvenience, Chrysippus suggested, had been carefully designed by God for our benefit.

Kenan Malik

#31. When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.

Bell Hooks

#32. Gordian pays you to sleep with unicorn hunters. That's the definition of a whore.

Diana Peterfreund

#33. I happen to think nearly everybody - especially those one might find in the odd issue of 'People' magazine, including me - is frightfully boring, Especially me. And Tom Cruise. Tom and I are alike in only this way.

Berkeley Breathed

#34. Your life is nothing more than a love story. Between you and God. Nothing more. Every person, every experience, every gift, every loss, every pain is sent to your path for one reason and one reason only: to bring you back to Him.

Yasmin Mogahed

#35. Before a man's forty, girls cost nothing. After that you have to pay money, or tell a story. Of the two, it's the story that hurts most. Anyway I'm not forty yet.

Ian Fleming

#36. Today was about our lack of ability to not produce the ability we've got.

Sam Allardyce

#37. With The Dread, first kiss was the beginning. Second kiss was the end.

Luke Taylor