27 Descend Quotes for You to Enjoy

O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams. Saint Augustine

God Heart Dark Corners Neglected Spirit Scatter Thy Cheerful Dwelling Holy Holy Spirit Descend Enlighten

Fear not, we are of the nature of the lion, and cannot descend to the destruction of mice and such small beasts. Elizabeth I

Lion Nature Destruction Fear Small Beasts Mice Cannot Descend

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

World Living Sun Thousand Brooding Rim India Civil Magic Hush Civil Servants Cost Drift Ten River Like Balances Lord Krishna Descend Moment Evening Servants

A farmer travelling with his load Picked up a horseshoe on the road, And nailed if fast to his barn door, That luck might down upon him pour; That every blessing known in life Might crown his homestead and his wife, And never any kind of harm Descend upon his growing farm. James Thomas Fields

Life Blessing Wife Pour Farm Down Luck Every Kind Crown Never Picked Road Nailed Him Known His Up Any Door Might Farmer Barn Descend Growing Fast Travelling Homestead Load Harm

Character matters; leadership descends from character. Rush Limbaugh

Leadership Character Matters Descend

Just as we descend into our consciences to judge of actions which our minds can not weigh, can we not also search in ourselves for the feeling which gives birth to forms of thought, always vague and cloudy? Alfred de Vigny

Judge Thought Feeling Birth Our Minds Ourselves Gives Weigh Also Always Just Cloudy Which Forms Descend Actions Search Vague

You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm. Barbara Kingsolver

Work Day You Every Day Book Sometimes Wait Before Sit Farm Down Every Imagination Through Delivering Always However Happens Lambs Midway Spark Descend Muse Need

Lobbyists didn't descend from a spaceship. They evolved organically from the way we do business. Christopher Buckley

Business Lobbyists Way Evolved Spaceship Organically Descend

Obviously I descend from Africa. Eric Reid

Obviously Africa Descend

Darwin wasn't just provocative in saying that we descend from the apes - he didn't go far enough. We are apes in every way, from our long arms and tailless bodies to our habits and temperament. Frans de Waal

Saying Long Every Enough Our Way Temperament Darwin Habits He Arms Go Provocative Just Ape Far Bodies Descend

Earlier lives drift by on silver soles, and the shadows of the damned descend into these sighing waters. Georg Trakl

Waters Shadows Silver Drift Descend Lives Earlier

For a scientist, it is a unique experience to live through a period in which his field of endeavour comes to bloom - to be witness to those rare moments when the dawn of understanding finally descends upon what appeared to be confusion only a while ago - to listen to the sound of darkness crumbling. George Emil Palade

Experience Darkness Witness Confusion Rare Understanding Field Live Finally Those Only Through Dawn Crumbling Period Sound Scientist His Bloom Endeavour Listen Which While Descend Moments Unique Unique Experience Appeared

Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew, and does not patter down like a hailstorm. Jean Paul

Inspirational Joy Down Like Dew Gently Does Us Descend Evening

The only certainty we have is that those who are certain of a way to arrive at worldly salvation, are committed enough to organize around this, and seek power to enforce it, will invariably descend into a bloody totalitarian fascism. Maajid Nawaz

In Jenny Offill's remarkable first novel, 'Last Things,' 7-year-old Grace Davitt watches her mother, Anna, descend into madness and tries to make sense of the claustrophobic world that Anna has created for her. Nancy Willard

Grace World Madness Mother First Sense Tries Claustrophobic Remarkable Anna Make Created Descend Novel Her Things Watches Last

I really did have this powerful sense, when I was in New Orleans after the storm, of watching all these profiteers descend on Baton Rouge to lobby to get rid of the housing projects and privatise the school system - I thought I was in some science-fiction experiment. Naomi Klein

School Thought Sense Experiment Lobby Baton Projects System Some Powerful New School System Housing New Orleans Get Did After Storm Really Rid Descend Rouge Orleans Watching

A soccer game is a Wagner opera. The narrative sets up, the tension builds, the music ebbs and flows, the strings, the horns, more tension, and suddenly a moment of pure bliss, trumpet-tongued Gabriel sings, and gods descend from Olympus to dance - this peak of ecstasy. Rabih Alameddine

Music Game Dance Pure Sets Strings Horns More Tension Ecstasy Opera Narrative Bliss Builds Wagner Sings Up Gods Gabriel Soccer Descend Moment Suddenly Peak Flows

In some of the great cities of Europe - Paris, Vienna, Prague, and Brussels - tourists bored with life above ground can descend below. All these cities have sewer museums and tours, and all expose their underbelly willingly to the curious. But not London, arguably the home of the most splendid sewer network in Europe. Rose George

Life Home Great Sewer Cities Willingly Bored London Some Above Network Paris Brussels Arguably Splendid Tourists Tours Most Prague Curious Vienna Ground Descend Europe Expose Below Museums

If you feel uncomfortable on stage, you can very easily descend into a sort of abyss, convinced you're the worst actor ever, that you're a disgrace to the profession, that you're a disgrace to yourself. It's an awful feeling. Stephen Dillane

You Yourself Feeling Abyss Stage Worst Easily Uncomfortable Feel Sort Very Disgrace Convinced Descend Profession Actor Ever Awful

The missing toothbrush was nothing compared with the fact that the spacecraft was orientated to ascend, not descend. I would have gone up and up instead of going back down to the ground. Valentina Tereshkova

Gone Nothing Down Back Toothbrush Would Fact Instead Missing Up Going Ascend Spacecraft Ground Descend Compared

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