Man Descending Quotes

#1. A man descending is propelled by inertia; the only initiative left him is whether or not he decides to enjoy the passing scene.

Guy Vanderhaeghe

#2. Any Canadian looking in the bathroom mirror is sure to recognize one of Guy Vanderhaeghe's people. Man Descending is the startling debut of an excellent writer.

Rudy Wiebe

#3. Being or nothing, that is the question. Ascending, descending, coming, going, a man does so much that in the end he disappears.

Raymond Queneau

#4. The superior man has nothing to compete for. But if he must compete, he does it in an archery match, wherein he ascends to his position, bowing in deference. Descending, he drinks the ritual cup.

Confucius

#5. She's pretty. (It's amazing how girls can say this and make it the most withering insult.)

Ned Vizzini

#6. Humanity has emerged from its former degrees of limitation and preliminary training. Man must now become imbued with new virtues and powers, new moralities, new capacities. New bounties, bestowals and perfections are awaiting and already descending upon him.

Abdu'l- Baha

#7. The warrior priests worship insects as sacred beings, and believe that the ingestion of insects ennobles man and keeps him from descending into bestiality.

David Cronenberg

#8. A mob is a society obodies, voluntarily bereaving themselves oreason, and traversing its work. The mob is man, voluntarily descending to the nature othe beast. Its fit hour oactivity is night; its actions are insane, like its whole constitution.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#9. You don't say words like 'gig', lady."
"My man's a biker. Shit rubs off.

Kristen Ashley

#10. The essence of war is insanity. Destruction, death, women widowed, children orphaned, lands plundered, property destroyed, lives decimated - it's all bad.

Gary Paulsen

#11. For war is never some cosmic accident descending upon a people with all the chance and inevitability of asteroids falling like fire out of the heavens, but only the will and work of man.

David Zindell

#12. Fire feeds on obstacles

Marcus Aurelius

#13. Man is a stream whose source is hidden. Our being is descending into us from we know not whence.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#14. The West was not dull, it was stupendously dull, and when not dull it was murderous. A man could get killed without realizing it. There were unbelievable flash floods, weird snakes, and God Himself did not know what else, along with Indians descending as swiftly as the funnel of a tornado. On

Evan S. Connell

#15. Scientific, like spiritual truth, has ever from the beginning been descending from heaven to man.

Benjamin Disraeli

#16. Dare to ask questions. This is the only way to find answers to your curiosity.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#17. Through reproductive technology, postmodernist art dispenses with the aura. The fiction of the creating subject gives way to a frank confiscation, quotation, excerptation, accumulation, and repetition of already existing images. Notions of originality, authenticity, and presence ... are undermined.

Douglas Crimp

#18. People's real hopes and dreams can be distorted and misdirected and packaged until you're not sure what you really want or what you even really need.

Tracy Chapman

#19. We look around us and we find ourselves confused as to why the world has fallen into such deep darkness. And standing in this descending darkness, what we need to realize is that the farther we move from God, the darker everything gets. And no light of man can illuminate that kind of darkness.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#20. That man who does not believe that each day contains an earlier, more sacred, and auroral hour than he has yet profaned, has despaired of life, and is pursuing a descending and darkening way.

Henry David Thoreau

#21. His hand passed repeatedly over her hair in the gentlest of caresses, and she heard him murmur in his dark-angel voice, Rest, my love. I'm watching over you.

Lisa Kleypas

#22. I wasn't driven. I just really loved what I did.

Jo Stafford

#23. I never did understand
why the tree was still happy
at the end. The little boy
used her until she was
nothing but a stump.
She couldn't even run away.
But the ending was always the same:
And the tree was happy.

Naomi Shihab Nye

#24. Last night, there came a frost, which has done great damage to my garden ... It is sad that Nature will play such tricks on us poor mortals, inviting us with sunny smiles to confide in her, and then, when we are entirely within her power, striking us to the heart.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#25. You must write to the people's expertise.

Theodore Sturgeon

#26. Don't be entitled - earn your success.

Mandana Dayani

#27. Black women all over the world should re-unite and re-examine the way history has portrayed us.

Buchi Emecheta

#28. Self-realization is a strange term. You don't actually realize your 'self'. If anything, you go away. The caterpillar enters the cocoon of meditation: A butterfly emerges - metamorphosis.

Frederick Lenz