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Do not descend, but rise above so ill-mannered a person.
— Mary Lydon Simonsen
Human beings, Isao realized, could descend to communicating their feelings like dogs barking in the distance on a cold night.
— Yukio Mishima
No woman allows her lover to descend from his pedestal. Even a god is not forgiven the slightest pettiness.
— Honore De Balzac
I would not have you descend into your own dream. I would have you be a conscious citizen of this terrible and beautiful world.
— Ta-Nehisi Coates
If we from wealth to poverty descend,Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend. — John Dryden
No man can attain to the knowledge of God but by humility. The way to mount high is to descend.
— Giles Of Assisi
A calamity does not descend except due to a sin and it is not lifted except with repentance.
— Ali Ibn Abi Talib
The world has raised its whip; where will it descend
— Virginia Woolf
If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would.
— Brent Scowcroft
Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts.
— Elizabeth I
Tragedies are about the depths that call up to certain men and insist that they descend.
— Robert Bly
Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.
— Neil Gaiman
Men who have worked together to reach the stars are not likely to descend together into the depths of war and desolation.
— Lyndon B. Johnson
The pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine Persons descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance.
— John Vianney
He is a fool who will descend into a well on another man's rope.
— Louis L'Amour
We can't allow ourselves to descend down the rabbit hole of unbridled partisanship for partisan sake.
— Mike Quigley
Do not descend amongst professors or capitalists.
— Walt Whitman
I carry the universe in my house of flesh, I will love you until the last star burns out and the heavens descend into darkness.
— Jaden Wilkes
Maybe the bottom of my own night is a darkness I cannot descend into without "the light that is within me" becoming dark.
— Pat Schneider
That was the idea behind glam clubs like Seven and The New Eve. You could eat and dance to live music. To enter you had to descend a grand staircase.
— Christian Lacroix
Liberty will not descend to a people. A people must raisethemselves to liberty. It is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed. — Charles Caleb Colton
I cannot, whilst President of the United States, descend to enter into a newspaper controversy.
— James K. Polk
Prayer will never descend to the level where it is nothing more than a retreat house in which we find strength for ourselves,
— D. A. Carson
If you descend into somebody else's private hell and stand there with them, it ceases to be hell.
— Mychal Judge
The victory of socialism will not descend like fate from heaven.
— Rosa Luxemburg
Justice does not descend from its own pinnacle.
— Dante Alighieri
The only way to escape the abyss is to look at it, gauge it, sound it out and descend into it.
— Cesare Pavese
No path between the stranger's home and ours should be left unclosed, or the sorrow and evil of his home may descend to ours.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Were every man to live according to his desires alone, the world would descend into chaos
— Sherry Jones
If you wait for God to descend to earth and save youfrom your fuck ups, you will be waiting until you
drop dead. — Sheeja Jose
Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual.
— Indra Devi
It is a lively spark of nobleness to descend in most favour to one when he is lowest in affliction
— Philip Sidney
Most Americans descend from the very people who built this country with their bare hands.
— Hamdi Ulukaya
After the golden age of Latinity, we gradually slide into the silver, and at length precipitately descend into the iron.
— Isaac D'Israeli
If you don't hear His voice so let Him hear yours. When prayers go up blessings descend.
— Bernard Malamud
Women will not, for many a year, perhaps never, descend again to the status of toys.
— Margery Wilson
Ambition aspires to descend.
— Pierre Corneille
Many times one is forced to descend to deep, dark regions, in order to find there the greatest, noblest and freest light.
— Abraham Isaac Kook
Ere I descend to th' grave,May I a small house and large garden have;
And a few friends, and many books. — Abraham Cowley
Ambition, having reached the summit, longs to descend.
— Pierre Corneille
Climb the ladder only if it takes you to somewhere high! Some ascents may descend you to low places!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
He who loves feels love descend into him and if he has wisdom may perceive it from the Poetic Genius which is the Lord.
— William Blake
There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.
— William Hazlitt
O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams.
— Augustine Of Hippo
I couldn't claim that I have never felt the urge to explore evil, but when you descend into hell you have to be very careful.
— Kathleen Raine
Lobbyists didn't descend from a spaceship. They evolved organically from the way we do business.
— Christopher Buckley
Why are there trees I never walk under but large and melodious thoughts descend upon me?
— Walt Whitman
Thou shall know by experience how salt the savor is of others' bread, and how sad a path it is to climb and descend another's stairs.
— Dante Alighieri
To ascend the mountain, we must descend to our knees.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
But what will not ambition and revengeDescend to? — John Milton
We rise to fortune by successive steps; we descend by only one.
— Stanislaw Leszczynski
The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
— Pliny The Elder
Sometimes I wish I had never saved your neck from decapitation in Faroe. Then I could just descend into lewdness in peace.
— Natalia Marx
Earlier lives drift by on silver soles, and the shadows of the damned descend into these sighing waters.
— Georg Trakl
There is simply no limit to the tyrannical snobbery that otherwise decent people can descend into when it comes to music.
— Stephen Fry
The Mexicans descend from the Aztecs; the Peruvians descend from the Incas; the Argentineans descend from the boats.
— Carlos Fuentes
If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.
— Alan Patrick Herbert
The further you descend into a pit, the darker things appear. You can't keep digging to find the light.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend.
— Pierre Corneille
Prayer is the key that opens heaven; the favors we ask descend upon us the very instant our prayers ascend to God.
— Augustine Of Hippo
Time deals gently with me; and though I feel that I descend, the slope is easy ...
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
The final words of a domestic bully: If you leave me now furious angels will descend upon you and bring you back to me.
— Patsy Cline
I will not descend among professors and capitalists.— Walt Whitman
She was so clever, Dennis thought, and so kind, and he found the familiar gloom descend upon him.
— Nick Hornby
SUMMIT PLUMMETCeleb's conquest of a mountain, then jumping off, too exhausted to descend
Kamil Ali — Kamil Ali
When you are philosophizing you have to descend into primeval chaos and feel at home there.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
To pray is to descend with the mind into the heart, and there to stand before the face of the Lord, ever-present, all seeing, within you.
— Theophan The Recluse
Who knows but I shall grow reasonable at last, descend from my ideal heaven to the real earth, marry, and - Oh Plato! - make a pudding?
— Jane Welsh Carlyle
The blessings we evoke for another descend upon ourselves.
— Edmund Gibson