Top 100 Downward Quotes
#1. The only perfect circle on the human body is the eye. When a baby is born it's so perfect, but when it opens its eyes it's just blinded by the corruption and everything else is a downward spiral.
Richey Edwards
#2. If we had a starting XI that no one could argue about it wouldn't say a lot for English football. We'd probably be on a downward spiral. It's good that people have different ideas about who should play.
Rio Ferdinand
#3. Start living right here, in each present moment. When we stop dwelling on the past or worrying about the future, we're open to rich sources of information we've been missing out on - information that can keep us out of the downward spiral and poised for a richer life.
Mark Williams
#4. Snow sweeping downward,
While the flowers reach upward--
Winter storm in spring.
Steve Peterson
#5. I refuse to believe that the tendency of human nature is always downward.
Mahatma Gandhi
#6. There was no time anymore to be quiet or still or pray. So, in many ways, that's what led to my downward spin.
Barbara Brown Taylor
#7. Significant change might require those who are now high in the hierarchy to move downward many steps. This seems to them undesirable and is resisted.
Carl Sagan
#8. Given the rest of the economic news, including the fact that GDP growth is positive, inflation is still low, jobless claims are still moving downward and temporary services are firming up, that means the recovery continues, and we hope it will continue in a more robust fashion,
Elaine Chao
#9. (Americans spend less time cooking than people in any other nation, but the general downward trend is global.)
Michael Pollan
#10. ...The last name had been entered by Samuel Peters' agile pen with much shading of downward strokes and many extra corkscrew appendages...
Bess Streeter Aldrich
#11. Going to upward is hard, facing downward is harder, that's why you have to be well prepared.
Kamaran Ihsan Salih
#12. It's brutal. I see friends when their shows don't work. Everything's riding on making money and all the pressure and how people scatter when fortunes turn downward.
David Spade
#13. The kundalini flows upward. It also flows downward in different ways. It is quite complex, actually.
Frederick Lenz
#14. I know if I missed a day and nothing happened, then it would be much easier to miss another day. Pretty soon I wouldn't have much of a schedule, and then I'd have less motivation. It's a downward spiral that I want to avoid, so I keep the schedule sacred.
Chris Guillebeau
#15. I don't want to go on being a root in the dark,
vacillating, stretched out, shivering with sleep,
downward, in the soaked guts of the earth,
absorbing and thinking, eating each day.
Pablo Neruda
#16. Generally our confidences move downward rather than upward; in our secret affairs, we employ our inferiors much more than our bettors.
Honore De Balzac
#17. Tonight , I leave the bathroom light on and double-check the lock on the front door. I rest in the middle of the bed again and make a few more snow angels. It is a fruitless exercise though, because when I am done moving my arms upward and downward, I end up in exactly the same place I started.
Julie Buxbaum
#18. Ah! The seasons of love roll not backward but onward, downward forever.
Jean Paul
#19. Not only could you travel upward toward success but you could travel downward as well; up and down, in retreat as well as in advance, crabways and crossways and around in a circle, meeting your old selves coming and going and perhaps all at the same time.
Ralph Ellison
#20. When there's downward pressure on growth, one choice is to adjust economic policy, increase deficits, relax monetary policy. That might have a short-term benefit, but may not be beneficial for the future.
Li Keqiang
#21. You reveal me. Then you heal me Of all the scars and strife. And when my life was spinning downward, You caught me. I'd forgotten how to smile, but You re-taught me.
Christine Feehan
#22. Grace is the love of God shown to the unlovely. It is God reaching downward to people who are in rebellion against him.
Jerry Bridges
#23. There are mountainous, arduous days, up which one takes an infinite time to climb, and downward-sloping days which one can descend at full tilt, singing as one goes.
Marcel Proust
#24. When we're confronted by reality that's less than our expectations, we go into a downward spiral of disappointment and frustration that can leave us even more stuck.
Joshua Freedman
#25. The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too.
Stephen Covey
#26. In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent.
Aldous Huxley
#27. A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves.
Ambrose Bierce
#28. If you will excuse me, your coat lapels are badly twisted downward, where they have been grasped by the pertinacious New York reporters.
David Walton
#29. When the Eternal bows the skies
To visit earthly things,
With scorn divine he turns his eyes
From towers of haughty kings.
He bids his awful chariot roll
Far downward from the skies,
To visit every humble soul,
With pleasure in his eyes.
Isaac Watts
#31. When one conducts himself in the wrong direction, he goes downward and his conduct in the right direction will take him upward!
Dada Bhagwan
#32. Those wretches who never have experienced the sweets of wisdom and virtue, but spend all their time in revels and debauches, sink downward day after day, and make their whole life one continued series of errors.
Plato
#33. The federal sentencing guidelines should be revised downward. By contrast to the guidelines, I can accept neither the necessity nor the wisdom of federal mandatory minimum sentences. In too many cases, mandatory minimum sentences are unwise and unjust.
Anthony Kennedy
#34. Volatility in the up direction is not a problem-it's only downward volatility that offers discourse.
Coreen T. Sol
#35. The path to wisdom leads downward, and anyone who decides to take it had better buckle on armor, remember to bring a sword, and get used to the idea that when and if he gets back everyone he talks to is going to think he's a phony.
Peter Straub
#36. The pause was only long enough for them to understand what an enormity the downward stroke would be.
William Golding
#37. When interest rates are high you want the average direction in which interest rates are moving to be downward; when interest rates are low you want the average direction to be upward.
John Hull
#38. On life and peaks it is the same. With strength we win the grail, but courage is the thing we need to face the downward trail.
Jacob Clifford Moomaw
#39. Punished people sometimes pass punishment downward, especially to members of their own devalued group.
Gloria Steinem
#40. To be a Christian who is willing to travel with Christ on his downward road requires being willing to detach oneself constantly from any need to be relevant, and to trust ever more deeply the Word of God.
Henri Nouwen
#41. I feel an emptiness open in my chest, coupled with a strange downward pull in my throat. I think, this is my heart sinking.
Kermit Roosevelt III
#42. The soil, it appears, is suited to the seed, for it has sent its radicle downward, and it may now send its shoot upward also with confidence. Why has man rooted himself thus firmly in the earth, but that he may rise in the same proportion into the heavens above?
Henry David Thoreau
#43. It occurred to the man that the biggest problem with this staid world was the overwhelming demand for conformity. Everything was so eerily definitive: assent to the mandates of society would see you on the rise, but dissent was a steady downward path.
Django Wylie
#44. People are under the assumption that the kundalini just flows from the base of the spine up. That's not the case at all. Kundalini also flows downward.
Frederick Lenz
#45. You can make bad choices and find yourself in a downward spiral or you can find something that gets you out of it.
Ray Lamontagne
#46. Pray for "all men." We usually pray more for things than we do for men. Our prayers should be thrown across their pathway as they rush in their downward course to a lost eternity.
E. M. Bounds
#47. The devil, that old stager, who leads downward, perhaps, but fiddles all the way!
Robert Browning
#48. We are all rotting, making our way from womb to tomb, to the rhythm of the great clock counting downward to the grave.
Carolee Dean
#49. Define a feather when condemned to the wind. Say how the shaft tapers, straining to be weightless. Describe what the vanes do on the air, how they luff and ruffle and flute, how the barbs somersault on the downward curve of their resisting ride.
Richard Powers
#50. Gently he nibbled at my skin, stroked it with his tongue, gradually making his way downward. I closed my eyes, my senses sharpened, and the feeling became even more intense. His lips slid down my belly, traced a small circle around my navel...
Sharlyn G. Branson
#51. 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 sellers can put a tremendous downward pressure on the stock.
Ben Horowitz
#52. Where fashion in clothes, bodily adornment, and music are concerned, it is the underclass that increasingly sets the pace. Never before has there been so much downward cultural aspiration.
Anthony Daniels
#53. I believe a lot of what contributes to the sadness and downward-spiraling in our lives is a sense of hopelessness. We become resentful when circumstances aren't unfolding as we want, leading us to doubt whether we will ever get what we want.
Karen Salmansohn
#54. Only some radical change can divert the downward course of my spirit, some startling new place or people to arrest the drift, the drag.
Tennessee Williams
#55. The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward.
Mencius
#56. Nothing disturbs me more than the downward trend of productivity in our nation today. The consequences of a decrease in productivity are a diminished standard of living, higher labor costs, less competitive prices, and more inflation.
Robert S. Strauss
#58. Who climbs the mountain does not always climb.The winding road slants downward many a time;Yet each descent is higher than the last.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#59. They had never been at peace together, they two; and now he felt himself drawn downward into the strange mysterious depths of her tranquillity.
Edith Wharton
#60. They'd chosen always the clear, safe course that leads ever downward into stagnation.
Frank Herbert
#61. The surviving remnant of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit upward; 31 for from Jerusalem a remnant shall go out, and from Mount Zion a band of survivors. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.
Anonymous
#62. When a nation is on the downward path, when it feels its belief in its own future, its hope of freedom slipping from it, when it begins to see submission as a first necessity and the virtues of submission as measures of self-preservation, then it must overhaul its God.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#63. 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 death. Wherever I turn - the golden cymbals of judgement, the summoning of the torturers of light.
Janet Frame
#64. Real spiritual growth is always growth downward, so to speak, into profounder humility, which in healthy souls will become more and more apparent as they age.
J.I. Packer
#65. That body is heavier than another which, in an equal bulk, moves downward quicker.
Aristotle.
#66. Our tree is actually a tree of the short-term interest rate. The average direction in which the short-term interest rate moves depends on the level of the rate. When the rate is very high, that direction is downward; when the rate is very low, it is upward.
John Hull
#67. 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 on important initiatives. Negative images of the future also have a magnetism. They pull the spirit downward in the path of despair..
William James
#68. Protectionism is a very real danger. It is understandable that in times of a severe downturn protectionist pressures mount but the lessons of history are clear. If we give in to protectionist pressures, we will only send the world into a downward spiral.
Manmohan Singh
#69. Every show on television has a downward trend because there are so many more things to watch. You can only deal with what is the benchmark of a hit series and 'Survivor' clearly remains a hit series.
Mark Burnett
#70. An Italian woman came out of the house, wiping her hands on her apron.
'Mr Greenleaf?' Tom asked hopefully.
The woman gave him a long, smiling answer in Italian and pointed downward toward the sea. 'Jew,' she seemed to keep saying. 'Jew.
Patricia Highsmith
#71. If you are thinking that everything sucks, you'll end up where everything does. This is how people get caught in a downward spiral and screw up their whole lives by never recovering from one bad incident.
Doug "Ten" Rose
#72. 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 the world, as though as her very presence offends.
Cecelia Ahern
#73. You can be in Downward Dog, hating every second of it. Or you can be in this pose, peaceful and nonreactive, breathing calmly. Either way, you're in this pose. You decide the quality of your experience. Be the thermostat, not the temperature.
Lisa Genova
#74. Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#75. 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, when someone is failing, the tendency is to get on a downward spiral that can even become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Tony Robbins
#76. People that walk with their heads downward! The Antipathies, I think
' (she was rather glad there WAS no one listening, this time, as
Lewis Carroll
#77. A few feathery flakes are scattered widely through the air, and hover downward with uncertain flight, now almost alighting on the earth, now whirled again aloft into remote regions of the atmosphere.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#78. When they talk of building self-esteem, they often resort to empty flattery rather than character-building honesty. I've heard so many people talk of downward spiral in our educational system, and I think one key factor is that there is too much stroking and too littke real feedback.
Randy Pausch
#79. they do not get a price they like at one booth, they just move down the row. This constant downward pressure
Tansy E. Hoskins
#80. Things that have never happened before are bound to occur with some regularity. You must always be prepared for the unexpected, including sudden, sharp downward swings in markets and the economy. Whatever adverse scenario you can contemplate, reality can be far worse.
Seth Klarman
#81. Growing up in stable, happy, and secure households may end up killing ambition, which leads to downward social mobility. The most extreme examples of this are found in aristocratic families, in which the amount of inherited wealth tends to decline with every generation.
Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
#83. A man in the view of absolute goodness, adores, with total humility. Every step downward, is a step upward. The man who renounceshimself, comes to himself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#84. I was so busy fighting and so busy trying to keep everything above water that I didn't realize I was spiraling downward with nowhere to go.
Lorraine Bracco
#85. I found myself confronted with a decision that no woman should ever have to make; do I look upward to assess the face attached to the scrumptious MMA pecs or go downward to find what other gifts God had bestowed on this specimen.
Genna Rulon
#86. It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies on a level just below its own; for that means continual pressure downward, additional difficulty to be overcome in the struggle to maintain reasonable rates of wages.
Florence Kelley
#87. A hand of smoke took his hand, started him downward, if it was downward, showed him a centre, if it was a centre, put it in his stomach, where the vodka was softly making crystal bubbles, some sort of infinitely beautiful and desperate illusion which some time back he had called immortality.
Julio Cortazar
#88. Then his face changed suddenly, as if his skin had been torn downward. Surprise, then shock. His skin gone gray.
Kimberly Cuttler
#89. Consumer spending is now plunging at serious-recession rate ... even if the rescue now in train succeeds in unfreezing credit markets, the real economy has immense downward momentum. In addition to financial rescues, we need major stimulus programs.
Paul Krugman
#90. The 'Downward Spiral' album was a record all about beating everybody up - and then 'Hurt' was like a coda saying maybe I shouldn't have done that. But to make the song sound impenetrable because I thought it was a little too vulnerable, I tried to layer it in noise.
Trent Reznor
#91. If this works, it' going to be one of those things that get written down in the history books. He wondered, briefly, what he should say. Oh well. I can always think of something clever later to tell the historians.
"Come on!" He chopped downward, toward the enemy. "Let's get the bastards!
Django Wexler
#92. I walked home past the glass whiskers of the houses, reflecting the downward rushing waterfalls of night.
Richard Brautigan
#94. Power always has a direction. It is always downward, towards the weak but power is often confused with what is right
Jean Vanier
#95. Two forces pervade human life, the Gita says: the upward thrust of evolution and the downward pull of our evolutionary past.
Eknath Easwaran
#96. All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#97. There are many, many communities, many ethnic minorities, many civilizations that have been brutalised by others and you have to move on. You cannot perpetually stay in that place of blame, otherwise it's just a downward spiral.
David Oyelowo
#98. I wish to descend in the social scale.
High society is low society.
I am a social climber
climbing downward
And the descent is difficult.
(- Junkman's Obbligato)
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
#99. Life always sinks downward. It takes effort to avoid that.
Mesa Selimovic
#100. The people turn in allegiance to Humanity, as surely as water flows downward or as a wild animal takes cover in the wilderness.
Mencius
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