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The descent beckonsas 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
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
Of great interest to students and teachers of immigrant history as well as to those of Polish descent.
— Florian Znaniecki
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
He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.
— Seneca The Younger
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
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 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
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 rousepeople out of their deep sleep, to deliver them from sin and death. — Tim Liwanag
My life has been one long descent into respectability.
— Mandy Rice-Davies
He'd been let down so oftenHis 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
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
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
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
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
