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Quotes About Downward

I know when I am well off. You had better come up to me.'     'You know I can't.'     'Of course you can't. You can only go down and down.'     'Are you trying to insult me?'     'Yes, but it's very difficult.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
I walked home past the glass whiskers of the houses, reflecting the downward rushing waterfalls of night.
~ Richard Brautigan
I let my feet spend as little time on the ground as possible. From the air, fast down, and from the ground, fast up.
~ Jesse Owens
Human nature is good, just as water seeks low ground. There is no man who is not good, just as there is no water that does not flow downward.
~ Mencius
The people turn in allegiance to Humanity, as surely as water flows downward or as a wild animal takes cover in the wilderness.
~ Mencius
Even the strongest toward emotion, lust, is unlikely to make you run, whereas fear can do so in an instant. The toward emotions are more subtle, more easily displaced, and harder to build on, than the away emotions. This also explains why upward spirals, where positive emotions beget more positive emotions, are less common than downward spirals, where negative emotions beget more negative emotions. Human beings walk toward, but run away.
~ David Rock
The wheel of change moves on, and those who were down go up and those who were up go down.
~ Jawaharlal Nehru
down to the foot of the tree to
~ Enid Blyton
Toplum yasalari yercekimi yasalarina benzemez, insan genellikle asagi dogru degil, yukari dogru duser. DoÄŸu'dan Uzakta
~ Amin Maalouf
It is relatively easy to serve those above us — even the world expects this — but Jesus served downward.
~ Jerry Bridges
one of the chief characteristics of a servant is that he serves downward — that is, to those who by the world's standards are beneath him in position or station in life.
~ Jerry Bridges
The downward mobility of the kingdom strikes at the very heart of our earthly strivings.
~ Robert D. Lupton
She felt, at times, that what had seemed like an infinity of choice turned out to be a funnel, life narrowing itself one bad decision at a time, each mistake cutting the options by half, spiraling her ever downward until there was nowhere left to fall but into a small, dark hole that had no bottom. Choosing
~ Robin Wasserman
After the agreement fell apart, the disorganized producers lost all incentive to curtail production, feeding another downward spiral in oil prices.
~ Ron Chernow
Law of gravity,' Reacher said. 'If you tip it up
~ Lee Child
people that walk with their heads downward! The Antipathies, I think--' (she was rather glad there WAS no one listening, this time, as
~ Lewis Carroll
Plus bas, encore plus bas, toujours plus bas.
~ Lewis Carroll
When one conducts himself in the wrong direction, he goes downward and his conduct in the right direction will take him upward!
~ Dada Bhagwan
That which goeth up must needs come down; and that which is down must needs go up. But Brahma has ordained that the that that goeth up is seldom the same as the that that hath gone down.
~ Gautama Buddha
There is no upside to downward financial mobility,
~ Annabelle Gurwitch
never really experiencing the true costs of its mistakes—until now. America is successful enough never to collapse, but it could slowly edge downward
~ Fareed Zakaria
I had a terrible manager once who described my career as 'spiraling downward.'
~ Rickie Lee Jones
let's go downstairs.
~ Lisa Jackson
Life is most delightful on the downward slope.
~ Seneca the Younger