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The wildlings had no where to go. Some continued upward, and died. Some went downward, and died. Some stayed where they were. They died as well.
— Martin George
If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The kundalini flows upward. It also flows downward in different ways. It is quite complex, actually.
— Frederick Lenz
I walked home past the glass whiskers of the houses, reflecting the downward rushing waterfalls of night.
— Richard Brautigan
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
Going to upward is hard, facing downward is harder, that's why you have to be well prepared.
— Kamaran Ihsan Salih
She smiled, and her eyes started to drift downward. "Cather ... "
Back up to his eyes.
"You know that I'm falling in love with you, right? — Rainbow Rowell
To follow Christ requires a downward career track that does not depend on dollars or status. Instead, what matters is Christ.
— Dillon Burroughs
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
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
Behind every downward trend in society lies the church's permission in one form or another.
— Klaus Bockmuehl
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
Tis looking downward makes one dizzy.
— Robert Browning
From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
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
A digital wall of masks stared back at him. His finger rolled the mouse in a slow downward scroll.Okay, you bastard. Where are you? — Lisa Kessler
No one can afford to look downward for his enjoyments.
— David Starr Jordan
Most variables can show either an upward or downward trend, depending on the base year chosen.
— Thomas Sowell
The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.
— Henry David Thoreau
Deviation from either truth or duty is a downward path.
— Tryon Edwards
Life is a downward journey; all concur in saying it carries us downhill.
— Patrick Branwell Bronte
Two forces pervade human life, the Gita says: the upward thrust of evolution and the downward pull of our evolutionary past.
— Eknath Easwaran
The pause was only long enough for them to understand what an enormity the downward stroke would be.
— William Golding
So whether you do your first downward dog at 14 or 44, it's not your history but your presence on your mat that counts.
— K. Pattabhi Jois
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
Let me be one of the upward and outward lookers, not one of the downward and inward lookers.
— Alfred Edersheim
The Fall was ongoing, but its trajectory led ever downward. Sucked
— Margaret Atwood
Then his face changed suddenly, as if his skin had been torn downward. Surprise, then shock. His skin gone gray.
— Kimberly Cuttler
The sun was about to set, he told us in a gravelly voice. He swept his hands in a downward motion, apparently to demonstrate how a sunset worked
— Richelle Mead
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
We can hold back neither the coming of the flowers nor the downward rush of the stream; sooner or later, everything comes to its fruition.
— Li Ching-Yuen
Beauty and anguish walking hand in hand the downward slope to death.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The humble soul is like the violet, which grows low, hangs the head downward, and hides itself with its own leaves.
— Fredrika Bremer
...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
Power always has a direction. It is always downward, towards the weak but power is often confused with what is right
— Jean Vanier
In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent.
— Aldous Huxley
By nature sparks fly upward, but the sinful souls of men fall downward.
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Romantic love is the kite that catches the wind and tenaciously heads for the sky;wisdom is the string that tugs downward, holding it back — Joshua Harris
It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.
— Sylvia Townsend Warner
Life is most delightful on the downward slope.
— Seneca The Younger
The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low.
— Hunter S. Thompson
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
Let's stop this American downward spiral.
— Rick Perry
Volatility in the up direction is not a problem-it's only downward volatility that offers discourse.
— Coreen T. Sol
I was never class clown in school,' said Lint in 1971. 'But I did have one of those "downward mouths".
— Steve Aylett
It is relatively easy to serve those above us - even the world expects this - but Jesus served downward.
— Jerry Bridges
The ways by which you get money almost without exception lead downward
— Henry David Thoreau
Life always sinks downward. It takes effort to avoid that.
— Mesa Selimovic
(Americans spend less time cooking than people in any other nation, but the general downward trend is global.)
— Michael Pollan
10 - Onward & Downward
— Philip Ulrich
Most Americans are on a downward escalator. Median wage in the United States, adjusted for inflation, keeps on dropping.
— Robert Reich
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
The best way to boost the economy is to redistribute wealth downward, as poorer people tend to spend a higher proportion of their income.
— Ha-Joon Chang
Be outrageous enough to trust God. Don't be adjusting your vision downward. Keep believing for radical things in Christ.
— Brian Houston
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
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
They'd chosen always the clear, safe course that leads ever downward into stagnation.
— Frank Herbert
Heaven is not gone, but we are blind with tears, Groping our way along the downward slope of Years!
— Richard Henry Stoddard
God longs for men to be saved. God is at work to get men to stop their downward plunge in sin.
— Billy Graham
When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.
— Jim Hightower
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
The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
He felt like a baked bean in a can, soaring through the air on a downward turn of a parabolic arc...
— A. Ashley Straker
Generally our confidences move downward rather than upward; in our secret affairs, we employ our inferiors much more than our bettors.
— Honore De Balzac
I think the classical music is on a dangerous downward slope, because it's not seeking strong enough resonance with its society.
— Laurence Equilbey
When Fortuna spins you downward, go out to a movie and get more out of life.
— John Kennedy Toole
When one conducts himself in the wrong direction, he goes downward and his conduct in the right direction will take him upward!
— Dada Bhagwan
I remember thinking, 'Downward dog' is so not a resting pose!' Now it actually can be.
— Jennifer Nettles
I have an addictive personality. Boarding school merely sent me more quickly on the downward spiral that dominated my childhood.
— Marcus Brigstocke
Punished people sometimes pass punishment downward, especially to members of their own devalued group.
— Gloria Steinem
Words drop from my lips spiraling downward; they land scattered on your ears. I spoke them green and golden, but you turned them shriveled brown.
— Patricia Robin Woodruff
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
