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The descent beckons
as the ascent beckoned — William Carlos Williams

The sun had begun its descent toward the horizon, and the sounds of the carnival played like a familiar song behind me. — Amanda Hocking

She had been a comet; and her blazing descent through dark skies had been plain for all to see. — Susanna Clarke

I was born and raised in New York, but my family on both sides is of Italian descent. — Aida Turturro

My life was never intended to be one long slow descent into respectability. — Christopher Fowler

I love writing for other actors, women of African descent and people who are generally underrepresented. — Danai Gurira

Jesus is the descent of God to our lives, just as they are, not the ascent of our lives to God, hoping he might approve when he sees how hard we try. — Eugene H. Peterson

Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed. — Horace

Tragically, of the first five women to reach the summit of K2, three died on the descent and two were later to die on other mountains. — Mike Trueman

The first mover is the mind.

- Master Wei
Priest of the K'un Lun — Joseph J. Bailey

If your descent is from heroic sires, Show in your life a remnant of their fires. — Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

If ancient descent could confer nobility, the lower forms of life would possess it in a greater degree than man. — John Lancaster Spalding

As the interned American citizens of Japanese descent learned, the Bill of Rights provided them with little protection when it was needed. — Glenn Reynolds

The worlds represent increasing phases of densification, the involuting descent of spirit into matter, where the way becomes harder and longer ... — Rudolf Steiner

I'm of Nigerian descent, from the Yoruba tribe. Names are very significant in that culture. It basically states your purpose in life. — Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

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

Our descent, then, is the origin of our evil passions!! The devil under form of Baboon is our grandfather. — Charles Darwin

Paleness is always looked upon as a strong proof of aristocratic descent and distinguished breeding. — Alexandre Dumas

You've seen my descent, now watch my rising. — Jalaluddin Rumi

Facilis decensus averni. The descent into hell is easy. — Virgil

Of great interest to students and teachers of immigrant history as well as to those of Polish descent. — Florian Znaniecki

High descent and meritorious deeds, unless united to wealth, are as useless as seaweed. — Horace

Mountaineers are one of the few groups to celebrate before the finish line. More mountaineers die on the descent than on the ascent. — Susan Oakey-Baker

I live for books that produce a mood of gathering creepy fascination, a true descent in the Weird. — Gemma Files

In the course of crime ... the descent is rapid. — Frederick Marryat

I'm often mistaken for Spanish or Latin descent. — Rita Ora

He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another. — Seneca The Younger

The gates of Hell are open night and day; smooth the descent and easy is the way. — Virgil

The creation of art requires descent into the dark. — Doug Dorst

mid-descent testing out some unassisted flight epiphany that came to him as he slept. — Allan J. Ashinoff

My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye. — Joni Mitchell

His descent was like nightfall. — Homer

Recurrent descent into insanity is not a wholly attractive feature of capitalism. — John Kenneth Galbraith

No one has ever proved that a human being, through his descent from a certain group of people, must of necessity have certain mental characteristics. — Franz Boas

I am a subject,
And I challenge law. Attorneys are denied me,
And therefore personally I lay my claim
To my inheritance of free descent. — William Shakespeare

Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from a man who did not particularly care to trace his own. — Ambrose Bierce

I believe the evidence strongly supports common descent. But the root question remains unanswered: What has caused complex systems to form? — Michael Behe

I sung of Chaos and Eternal Night,
Taught by the heav'nly Muse to venture down
The dark descent, and up to reascend ... — John Milton

Americans have almost been conditioned to believe that the majority of people who seek to do us harm are those of Muslim descent. — Bennie Thompson

Kings made tombs more splendid than houses of the living, and counted old names in the rolls of their descent dearer than the names of sons. Childless — J.R.R. Tolkien

Story should be a descent
the feeling that there is an intense gravity to the narrative that draws you down, down, down. — Chuck Wendig

Let no man trust the first false step of guilt; it hangs upon a precipice, whose steep descent in last perdition ends. — Edward Young

Anaxagoras said to a man who was grieving because he lay dying in a foreign land, "The descent to hell is the same from every place. — Diogenes Laertius

The descent into the depths always seems to precede the ascent. — Carl Jung

Half of San Antonio's population is of Mexican descent; the other half just eats that way. — Mike Greenberg

I am not sure that any sight or sound on earth is as exquisite as the hushed descent of a sky full of snow. — Parker J. Palmer

In Germany they had no kings. They developed them in Britain from leaders who claimed descent from the ancient gods. — Winston S. Churchill

Happy in all that ragged, loose collapse of water, the fountain, its effortless descent and flatteries of spray ... — Richard Wilbur

'The Descent,' 'Dog Soldiers,' those films, I've loved for years, and the tones of those. — Matt Ryan

My only regret involved the sad knowledge that I could not handle the amount of alcohol I would have enjoyed. Easy is the descent into Hell. — Robert A. Heinlein

The great design of Jesus' descent into hell is to rouse
people out of their deep sleep, to deliver them from sin and death. — Tim Liwanag

Writing is utter solitude, the descent into the cold abyss of oneself. — Franz Kafka

Happiness lies not in the position, descent, or any property, but, that happiness lies in religion, science, manners, and achieve my goals. — Rifhi Siddiq

If the descent is thus sometimes performed in sorrow, it can also take place in joy. — Albert Camus

Death was not to be a leap: it was to be a long descent under thickening shadows. — George Eliot

For my part, if I'm working while flying, I'm often a bit relieved to be forced to shut down the computer on final descent. But I guess I'm a slacker. — Meghan Daum

My life has been one long descent into respectability. — Mandy Rice-Davies

often in The Descent of Man, "my dog" steps forth as major evidence. — Tom Wolfe

Crossing the Penobscot, one found a visible descent in the scale of humanity. — Francis Parkman

There is a time for flight, and a time for descent; a time for movement, and a time for rest; a time to do, and a time to prepare." "This — Ken Liu

He'd been let down so often
His brow was on the floor
But then they found
A small hole in the ground
And let him down some more — David Thewlis

There is no comparing the brutality and cynicism of today's pop culture with that of forty years ago: from High Noon to Robocop is a long descent. — Charles Krauthammer

I would say to you that Americans of Hispanic descent want desperately to give their children the chances they never had. — Marco Rubio

Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca

The Descent of Darwin: A Handbook of Doubts about Darwinism, — Errol White

I'm of Filipino, Spanish, and Chinese descent, and was raised on Hawaii. — Tia Carrere

Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness. — Immanuel Kant

You are my angel and my damnation; in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell. — Isabel Allende

It is better to be the builder of our own name than to be indebted by descent for the proudest gifts known to the books of heraldry. — Hosea Ballou

I find that most people that zealously defend Darwin have not actually read Darwin; definitely not Darwin's second book, The Descent of Man. — A.E. Samaan

He knew Muhammad Iffat was of Turkish descent and stubborn as a mule. — Naguib Mahfouz

In many ways the rise of the state was the descent of the world from freedom to slavery — Marvin Harris

The expression "to write something down" suggests a descent of thought to the fingers whose movements immediately falsify it. — William H Gass

For what we cannot accomplish, what is denied to love, what we have lost in the anticipation a descent follows, endless and indestructible. — William Carlos Williams

But of course we don't notice the descent until we're rocketing along at high velocity. — Dean Koontz

There is no ascent to the heights without prior descent into darkness, no new life without some form of death. — Karen Armstrong

To ascend the mountain, we must descend to our knees. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

We as Americans of Latin descent are just as American as anyone else of any other descent. — Esai Morales

I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent. — Charles Darwin

The descent to Hades is the same from every place. — Anaxagoras

I will follow him to hell, and that is saying not a little, as I believe him entirely capable of the descent. — Alexandre Dumas

Of the 545 Lok Sabha seats, two are reserved for Indians of European descent and filled up through nominations. — Francis Barclay

The descent into matter must be complete before the ascent to spirit can commence. — Dion Fortune

Genealogy: research by nobodies tracing their descent from a line of nobodies. — Stephen Gard

A fall from such a height is rarely straight downwards. — Victor Hugo

Something is very, very wrong with American culture. The signs are everywhere. I think the country is in almost terminal descent. — Randall Robinson

There are more people of Irish descent in Boston and surrounding New England than there are in Ireland. — Anonymous

His voice reminded me of the slow stretching descent of honey from a highly placed silver spoon. — J.A. George

I'm of African descent and my sister looks completely black, but I didn't look black. I was the super-nerdy kid who was also willing to fight. — Junot Diaz

The woman with the horned helmet - who had to be of Viking descent - spoke. — James Rollins

Americanism is a question of principle, of idealism, of character. It is not a matter of birthplace, or creed, or line of descent. — Theodore Roosevelt

My grandfather is Portuguese. He betrayed what was expected of him and married my grandmother of African descent on my father's side. — Fred D'Aguiar

Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery. — Mahatma Gandhi

I suddenly see us from above. I do that all the time now. I think it's because I'm losing my humanity and it's my way of marking my descent into hell. — Karen Marie Moning

Facilis descensus Averni," he whispered, his ominous and preternatural words striking her very soul. "The descent to Hell is easy. — Sylvain Reynard

The descent into Hell is easy — Virgil

A trip to the hospital is always a descent into the macabre. I have never trusted a place with shiny floors. — Terry Tempest Williams

Boys, the first drink is a boon, the second is a gamble, the third is poor judgment, and then the rate of descent gets steep — Garrison Keillor

The descent into Hades is much the same from whatever place we start. — Anaxagoras

Honey, love isn't like rappeling into a cave, where you can control your descent and how deep you go. It's just falling into the hole. — Shannon Stacey