Top 22 Ascending And Descending Quotes
#1. Life seems to be an experience in ascending and descending. You think you're beginning to live for a single aim - ... for discovery of cosmic truths - when all you're really doing is to move from place to place as if devoted primarily to real estate.
Margaret Caroline Anderson
#2. Without deductive logic science would be entirely useless. It is merely a barren game to ascend from the particular to the general, unless afterwards we can reverse the process and descend from the general to the particular, ascending and descending like angels on Jacob's ladder.
Alfred North Whitehead
#3. NOTORIETY, n. The fame of one's competitor for public honors. The kind of renown most accessible and acceptable to mediocrity. A Jacob's-ladder leading to the vaudeville stage, with angels ascending and descending.
Ambrose Bierce
#4. Being or nothing, that is the question. Ascending, descending, coming, going, a man does so much that in the end he disappears.
Raymond Queneau
#5. Moominpappa: "Tell us all that's happening out in the world!"
Snufkin: "Fuss and misery."
- from "Moomin and Family Life" comic strip
Tove Jansson
#6. Paradoxically, in descending into the depths of the unconscious in order to deal with the prima materia of the shadow, we are simultaneously on the path of ascending to the truly real, as we become introduced to the higher-dimensional light worlds of spirit.
Paul Levy
#8. Whoever considers the Attributes of Allaah to be like the attributes of the creation, such that the Istawaa of Allaah is like the ascending of the creation, or His Descending (Nuzool) is like the descending of the creation or other than that, then he is a deviated innovator.
Ibn Taymiyyah
#9. The Gaians sneered at the Zhore behind their backs, calling them pacifists, as if that word were an insult, but Lirzhan did not take it as such. A peaceful solution was always best, but if one did not present itself, then so be it.
Christine Pope
#10. By the time we're done I have two new dresses, a skirt, a top and some lingerie so sexy even I wanted to do me.
Bethany James
#11. As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.
[Thanksgiving Day Proclamation, 1963]
John F. Kennedy
#12. I'm not much of a baby freak - I like them when they're older.
Julia Sawalha
#13. A just society is that society in which ascending sense of reverence and descending sense of contempt is dissolved into the creation of a compassionate society
B.R. Ambedkar
#14. This and no other is the root from
which a tyrant springs; when he
first appears he is a protector.
Plato
#15. Fond of those hives where folly reigns,
And cards and scandal are the chains,
Where the pert virgin slights a name,
And scorns to redden into shame.
Jonathan Swift
#16. God has chosen us. Our status is not a matter of our worthiness, but of His love.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
#17. She's right. I don't trust her farther than I can run full-steam in a corset, but she's right. The truth is hard and unfair, but there it is.
Libba Bray
#18. The whole point about the true unconscious is that it is all the time moving forward, beyond the range of its own fixed laws or habits. It is no good trying to superimpose an ideal nature upon the unconscious.
D.H. Lawrence
#19. This is God's work. Therefore it must be triumphant. There is no place for misgiving or despondency.
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
#20. Merit and knowledge will not gain hearts, though they will secure them when gained.
Lord Chesterfield
#21. Young men seemed to collect by her side, ready with drinks and conversation. She tanned quickly and easily, her delicate limbs oiled and gleaming. In the evening, she made the most of her new tan in low-cut clinging evening dresses in white or black.
Kathleen Tessaro
