#descend

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life. ↗

— John Updike

#earth #grace #life #rain #sky

Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual. ↗

— Indra Devi

#descend #how #learn #men #more

Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level. ↗

— Bill Griffith

#condescending #elemental #everybody #level #loves

To Adam Paradise was home. To the good among his descendants home is paradise. ↗

— Augustus Hare

#among #descendants #good #his #home

Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

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There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

#broad #daylight #descend #just #misery

For our part, we shall continue to work for the new dawn when all the Children of Abraham and their descendants are living together in the birthplace of their three great monotheistic religions, a life free from fear, a life free from want - a life in peace. ↗

— King Hussein I

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We need not worry so much about what man descends from - it's what he descends to that shames the human race. ↗

— Hal Boyle

#descends #human #human race #man #much

I like the evening in India, the one magic moment when the sun balances on the rim of the world, and the hush descends, and ten thousand civil servants drift homeward on a river of bicycles, brooding on the Lord Krishna and the cost of living. ↗

— James Cameron

#bicycles #brooding #civil #civil servants #cost

I've never really understood that. It's a funny thing; people sometimes accuse us of condescending to our characters somehow-that to me is kind of inexplicable. ↗

— Joel Coen

#characters #condescending #funny #funny thing #i