Quotes for All
There is no chance, no destiny, no fate,Can circumvent or hinder or controlThe firm resolve of a determined soul.Gifts count for nothing; will alone is great;All things give way before it soon or late.What obstacle can stay the mighty forceOf the sea seeking river in its course,Or cause the ascending orb of day to wait? … Read more
What is art but the life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite? Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Where lurk sweet echoes of the dear homevoices, Each note of which calls like a little sister, Those airs slow, slow ascending, as the smokewreaths Rise from the hearthstones of our native hamlets Cyrano Act 5. Edmond Rostand
To have to fight the instincts – that is the definition of decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness equals instinct. Friedrich Nietzsche
You don’t think progress goes in a straight line, do you? Do you recognize that it is an ascending, accelerating, maybe even exponential curve? It takes hell’s own time to get started, but when it goes it goes like a bomb. Frederik Pohl
Quiet solitude is a nutritional need of the ascending body. Doreen Virtue
I’m enjoying [my career]. If anything I’m aware that the pressure of the first, I suppose, six or seven years I was in America – I mean that energy of having such a rapid and ascending celebrity – it’s not there anymore. It’s the end of that chapter and now I’m just enjoying the work … Read more
To be a true Progressive it is not sufficient to stand up and say that one belives in what has been promulgated as progressive principles. One must be progressive in heart and active in promoting the progressive principles of today, tomorrow and always. There is no resting point, for humanity is ever ascending to a … Read more
Look at nature with science as a lens. The rock swarms, the clod dances; the mineral is but the vegetable stepping down, and the animal an ascending plant; the man, a beast extended; and the angel, a developed human soul. C. A. Bartol
Each of these “houses of hope” had their own unique “ingredients” based on their inheritance, but I also saw some common ingredients that were shared by all: … In conclusion, the Lord is saying, “Because of what has been loosed on the earth, angels are ascending and descending, as well as demons. My people must … Read more