Ascendency Quotes

#1. It was my time to assume ascendency. My powers were in-play and in force. I told him to forbear question or remark; I desired him to leave me: I must and would be alone. He obeyed at once. Where there is energy to command well enough, obedience never fails.

Charlotte Bronte

#2. The ascendency of the sacerdotal order was long the ascendency which naturally and properly belonged to intellectual superiority.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#3. It is the moral element contained in it that alone gives value and dignity to a religion, and only in so far as its teachings serve to stimulate and purify our moral aspirations does it deserve to retain its ascendency over mankind.

Felix Adler

#4. Then his heart and imagination were more in the ascendency. Now he had begun to admire the intellectual qualities of that literature more, and its imaginative less; for he had begun to think truth attainable through the forces of the brain, sole and supreme.

George MacDonald

#5. Whatever natural right men may have to freedom and independency, it is manifest that some men have a natural ascendency over others.

Sir Fulke Greville

#6. In taking stock of ourselves, we should not forget that fear plays a large part in the drama of failure. That is the first thing to be dropped. Fear is a mental deficiency susceptible of correction, if taken in hand before it gains an ascendency over us. Fear comes with the thought of failure.

Douglas Fairbanks

#7. Social ascendency, innocently disguised as high fashion, good taste or prestigious expenditure, was the same the world over.

John Keay

#8. I am for freedom of religion, and against all maneuvers to bring about a legal ascendency of one sect over another.

Thomas Jefferson

#9. The Chinese, whom it might be well to disparage less and imitate more, seem almost the only people among whom learning and merit have the ascendency, and wealth is not the standard of estimation.

William Benton Clulow

#10. Lay down true principles and adhere to them inflexibly. Do not be frightened into their surrender by the alarms of the timid, or the croakings of wealth against the ascendency of the people.

Thomas Jefferson

#11. There is ... an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents ... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provision should be made to prevent its ascendency.

Thomas Jefferson

#12. If God and His Word are not known and received, the devil and his works will gain the ascendency; if the evangelical volume does not reach every hamlet, the pages of a corrupt and licentious literature will;

Daniel Webster

#13. The Second Amendment reveals a profound principle of American government - the principle of civilian ascendency over the military.

William O. Douglas

#14. In my mind, my music is kind of inseparable from my hometown and my life growing up.

Drew Holcomb

#15. Most of what you see in architecture are watered-down ideas of sculptors who have come before.

Richard Serra

#16. So if someone is thinking about me, then that's the place I go ?

Masashi Kishimoto

#17. When other people disagree with us, we immediately think something is wrong with them. But, as the demonstration shows, sincere, clearheaded people see things differently, each looking through the unique lens of experience.

Stephen R. Covey

#18. In countless small ways the world around us grows gradually shittier. Well, I don't like it at all.

Bill Bryson

#19. If you keep comparing yourself to others you will never do anything

Bangambiki Habyarimana

#20. Change your mind. Please change your mind, Jo. I'm showing all my cards here. I have no shame. We're connected, no matter how much distance or fake names are between us.

Tijan

#21. When photography was invented it was thought to be an equivalent to truth, it was truth with a capital.

Vicki Goldberg

#22. Believe me, I would much rather get three outs on three pitches than three outs on nine pitches, because that's going to make me that much stronger at the end of the game. My pitching philosophy is simpe. I believe in getting the ball over the plate and not walking a lot of men.

Bob Gibson

#23. We look into each other's eyes as we shake. His are still full of death and horror, but in them I see my face reflected, and inside my tiny eyes inside his, I think I see some hope.

Ned Vizzini