Top 155 Descending Quotes & Sayings

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it.

Most shows find themselves descending into sentimentality or earnestness at some point but, with 'Community,' the joke is always on.

The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy.

History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.

Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from thy hand no noble action done.

Whoever considers the Attributes of Allaah to be like the attributes of the creation, such that the Istawaa of Allaah is like the ascending of the creation, or His Descending (Nuzool) is like the descending of the creation or other than that, then he is a deviated innovator.

We knew - but didn't want to know - what was going to happen, the sky descending upon our heads like the shadow of a falling piano in a cartoon.

Angels descending bring from above Echoes of mercy, whispers of love.

Once embarked on a course of sensationalism, the composer is forced into a descending spiral spin from which only the most experienced pilot can flatten out in time.

At college my three main interests were - in descending order of importance - a steady supply of recreational drugs, a 2-S draft deferment, and overthrowing the Nixon administration.

Down sank the great red sun, and in golden, glimmering vapors Veiled the light of his face, like the Prophet descending from Sinai.

With a rumble and a roar, an iron curtain is descending on Russian history.

We are all in motion. Always. Those who are not climbing toward something are descending toward nothing.

Obviously this is the world descending into worse and worse standards of targeting civilians both in state violence in Iraq, Gaza and so on and the terrorist retaliation.

My left descending septal branch artery decided to close without consultation with any of my other organs. It happened on Saint Patrick's Day, 1978.

I have watched this famous island descending incontinently, fecklessly, the stairway which lead to a dark gulf.

Coffee comes in five descending stages: Coffee, Java, Jamoke, Joe, and Carbon Remover.

I'm still a promising actor. It's better to be climbing even if you have a lot of falls than to be descending. Maybe that's kept me young. I haven't gotten to any peak yet.

The air is full of souls those who are nearest to earth descending to be tied to mortal bodies return to other bodies, desiring to live in them.

Count that day lost whose descending sun finds you with no good deeds done.

The sight of parents, children and grandparents all descending on a tented field to enjoy the pleasure of ideas and books renews my faith in humanity.

On motionless wing they emerge from the lifting mists, sweep a final arc of sky, and settle in clangorous descending spirals to their feeding grounds. A new day has begun on the crane marsh.

Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending.

The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.

Yet the story of Orpheus, it occurs to me, is not just about the desire of the living to resuscitate the dead but about the ways in which the dead drag us along into their shadowy realm because we cannot let them go. So we follow them into the Underworld, descending, descending, until one day we turn and make our way back.

...most of the press were vultures descending on the scene for curious America aplomb. Cameras inside the coffin interviewing worms.

The Conscious will is represented by the Sacred Woman, Maria, Isis, who crushes the descending serpent's head.

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

Nobody understands the nature of the Church, or the ringing note of the creed descending from antiquity, who does not realize that the whole world once very nearly died of broadmindedness and the brotherhood of all religions.

I consider descending chromatic lines and arpeggiated chords basic skills learned by any student of the guitar.

I want to ski down Mount Cho Oyu in the Himalayas when I am 85, descending from a height of 8,201 meters.

He that contemns a shrew to the degree of not descending to words with her does worse than beat her.

Obama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It's minuscule, few percent.

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

NOTORIETY, n. The fame of one's competitor for public honors. The kind of renown most accessible and acceptable to mediocrity. A Jacob's-ladder leading to the vaudeville stage, with angels ascending and descending.

There will be hoards of vampire bats descending on Beverly Hills.... We'll see if they can find any real flesh to puncture. I don't know.

Ballet for a rainy day Silent film of melting miracle play Dancing out there through my window To the backdrop of a slow descending grey

One of the arrangements I'm really proud of is '21 Guns' because the chorus has this descending bass line with a suspended type of progression that immediately screamed 'Bach' to me.

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.

Lo! He comes with clouds descending, Once for favoured sinners slain; Thousand thousand Saints attending Swell the triumph of His train.

No tribal rite has yet been recorded which attempts to keep winter from descending; on the contrary: the rites all prepare the community to endure, together with the rest of nature, the season of the terrible cold.

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.

It is in the union of the Ascending and the Descending currents that harmony is found, and not in any war between the two. It seems that only when the Ascending and the Descending are united can both be saved. And if we - if you and I - do not contribute to this union, then it is very possible that not only will we destroy the only Earth we have, we will forfeit the only heaven we might otherwise embrace.

It’s funny. I met a man once who did a lot of mountain climbing. I asked him which was harder, ascending or descending? He said without a doubt descending, because ascending you were so focused on reaching the top, you avoided mistakes. The backside of a mountain is a fight against human nature,” he said. “You have to care as much about yourself on the way down as you did on the way up.

They saw a Dream of Loveliness descending from the train.

The core of the movie business remains intact and it's not descending in scope. Studios want movies that are bigger than ever.

When your father directed your mother in 'Orpheus Descending,' the kid's going to be a theater nerd.

You always come back to Duke Ellington - he's kind of like the thread that holds everything together from the big band descending to lots of jazz, actually.

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

Most of the movies about the future show aliens descending from outer space determined to blow up the world, and somehow they always begin or end with Washington D.C.

Owing to the difficulty of obtaining horses, Mr. Henry returns from this place. In descending the Mississippi I will request him to pay his respects to you.

America has seen enough of a handful of people growing rich at the cost of our nation descending into economic crisis.

Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the foundation of humility.

I said to Scott that the ascent seemed to be going slowly and that I was concerned descending climbers could possibly run out of oxygen before their return to camp IV.

In the 'Nude Descending a Staircase,' I wanted to create a static image of movement: movement is an abstraction, a deduction articulated within the painting, without our knowing if a real person is or isn't descending an equally real staircase.

Certainly, as a guitarist, I was aware of descending chromatic lines and arpeggios long before 1968.

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all.

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

After clearing 9 metres of the descending passage, in about the middle of the afternoon, we came upon a second sealed doorway, which was almost the exact replica of the first.