Downfall Of Mankind Quotes & Sayings

I sense a Threshold: Light to Silence, Silence to Light - an ambiance of inspiration, in which the desire to be, to express, crosses with the possible Light to Silence, Silence to Light crosses in the sanctuary of art. — Louis Kahn

There are many, many angels, more than there are human beings. They stand before the throne of God and praise Him. At the same time, they are among us, with us. Angels are real. And they are here. — Robert L Faricy

Tears had been slipping through the cracks every five or six steps on the trail, and now the latch had burst - hidden cries from the man, buried cries from the son, and honest cries from the little boy all poured from my surrender. — Ed Abell

Success is only personal satisfaction.
Its secret is not the ability to fit into the mold, but the mental capacity to break out of it. — Linda Jenkinson

Perhaps as he was lying awake then, his life may have passed before him
his early hopeful struggles, his manly successes and prosperity, his downfall in his declining years, and his present helpless condition
no chance of revenge against Fortune, which had had the better of him
neither name nor money to bequeath
a spent-out, bootless life of defeat and disappointment, and the end here! Which, I wonder, brother reader, is the better lot, to die prosperous and famous, or poor and disappointed? To have, and to be forced to yield; or to sink out of life, having played and lost the game? That must be a strange feeling, when a day of our life comes and we say, To-morrow, success or failure won't matter much, and the sun will rise, and all the myriads of mankind go to their work or their pleasure as usual, but I shall be out of the turmoil. — William Makepeace Thackeray

I'm not misunderstood. I am brash. I make my living being brash. — Penn Jillette

Life is not about good answers, it is about interesting questions. — Paulo Coelho

Make the right choices
For the right reasons
and the right things will happen. — Charles F. Glassman

Love is the greatest corrupter ever known and has been the numbers one downfall of mankind since the first creation. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

He that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night. — Benjamin Franklin

You can carry around with you a basket full of magical apples; but when people do not recognize magic, they will ask you to go and pick earthly apples and then they will laugh at you when you are unable to pick the apples of the earth; but what they don't know is that you were given hands that are made to pick the magical apples from the ancient trees and what an opportunity they have missed in not asking you for the magic ones! But this is the downfall of mankind, in that they cannot recognize magic even when it is right under their noses! Blessed are the few who can, and who ask for it. Ask me for magic, because that is what I am capable of giving. — C. JoyBell C.

Since it is proposed to regard chemical reactions as electrical transactions in which reagents act by reason of a constitutional affinity either for electrons or for atomic nuclei, it is important to be able to recognize which type of reactivity any given reagent exhibits. — Christopher Kelk Ingold

Clarence once mentioned to me during a negotiation but he should be paid not only for playing but for being Clarence. — Bruce Springsteen

Every generation has a macabre notion that wars, government prohibition, natural disasters or mankind itself could be the downfall of society and the world as a whole. — Lauren DeStefano

With 'All Is Song,' I tried to construct a very traditional narrative that pulls no tricks. — Samantha Harvey

Because a book is a life, like one man is a life. — Studs Terkel