#downward

There is no "slippery slope" toward loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders. ↗

— Alan K. Simpson

#american people #downward #each #first #leaders

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

#busy #downward #everything #fighting #go

Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending downwards. ↗

— William Whewell

#always #bending #cord #downwards #fine

When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism. ↗

— Jim Hightower

#downward #entered #i #journalism #only

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

#america #both #category #chronic #class

An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards. ↗

— John Locke

#balance #beams #downwards #every #excellent

I had a terrible manager once who described my career as 'spiraling downward.' ↗

— Rickie Lee Jones

#described #downward #had #i #manager

It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies on a level just below its own; for that means continual pressure downward, additional difficulty to be overcome in the struggle to maintain reasonable rates of wages. ↗

— Florence Kelley

#any #below #bodies #body #continual

In the second and third debates the jacket has a generally padded shape across a large part of the entire back which tapers inward toward the spine in a downward direction. ↗

— Robert Nelson

#back #debates #direction #downward #entire

If we had a starting XI that no one could argue about it wouldn't say a lot for English football. We'd probably be on a downward spiral. It's good that people have different ideas about who should play. ↗

— Rio Ferdinand

#argue #could #different #downward #english