Ascenders And Descenders Quotes & Sayings

Starting with the Renaissance and running through the Enlightenment, there occurred what we might call "the great reversal." Suddenly, very suddenly, the Ascenders were out, the Descenders were in - and the transition was bloody, arguably the bloodiest cognitive transformation in European history. — Ken Wilber

Why doesn't their flesh creep? How can they devoutly believe everything they hear in church and then say the things they do and listen to the things they hear without throwing up? — Harper Lee

Everyone gets knocked down, but only the strong get up. — Matshona Dhliwayo

Affirming belief that America is an exceptional nation has become a test of patriotism in American politics. — Michael Ignatieff

Barefoot and pregnant. After the ruckus last night, I suppose I wouldn't be all that shocked if you managed it," Elijah muttered as Stunt passed him.

Stunt was officially in hell. It was like getting caught by his parents having sex. Worse...kinky sex. — Lyn Gala

Lord Milles stands before the One God, now, Galdar," Mina said, "where we will all stand one day. It is not for us to judge him. — Margaret Weis

They carry their past in them as though safekeeping it for someone else. Very often they look at me and say, poor thing. They say I have lost a mother and am alone in the world. They feel compassion for me, for a loss that comes to all; they disregard their own extraordinary suffering. — Tsering Wangmo Dhompa

Yes, the first morning of creation wrote what the last dawn of reckoning shall read. — Omar Khayyam

When I was 50 years old, I actually decided to draw up a list of half a dozen things that I really hadn't done very well, and I was going to make efforts to improve. One of them was skiing, and I really did become a very much better skier. — Edmund Hillary

The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years. — David Ogilvy

In the deserted men's restroom at the back of Middleton Community College, Sam Keller knelt on the tile, braced his hands against Keith Jameson's thighs, and broke his mother's heart. — Heidi Cullinan

The Way is ever without action, yet nothing is left undone. — Laozi