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Quotes About Downward

la geometría es conocimiento de lo que siempre existe. -Entonces, ¡oh, mi noble amigo!, atraerá el alma hacia la verdad y formará mentes filosóficas que dirijan ha­cia arriba aquello que ahora dirigimos indebidamente hacia abajo.
~ Plato
When gravity calls, something falls.
~ J. L. W. Brooks
Being against other people's policies eventually puts you in a downward spiral. It's fine to be principled and oppose views that you don't agree with, but you also have to have an alternative.
~ Jeb Bush
While crime is indeed up in some cities in the last month or so since the stay-at-home orders lifted, crime is nonetheless down overall for 2020. Indeed, violent crime has trended downward now for decades.
~ Heather Cox Richardson
I venture that those of us who are most serene when faced with the possibility of nothingness are the ones who've reached furthest to the downward and upward of their beings.
~ Francine du Plessix Gray
Dagon his name, sea-monster, upward man And downward fish
~ John Milton
The only perfect circle on the human body is the eye. When a baby is born it's so perfect, but when it opens its eyes it's just blinded by the corruption and everything else is a downward spiral.
~ Richey Edwards
The stress laid on upward social mobility in the United States has tended to obscure the fact that there can be more than one kind of mobility and more than one direction in which it can go. There can be ethical mobility as well as financial, and it can go down as well as up.
~ Margaret Halsey
Siempre la distancia. Hacia abajo es desprecio. Hacia arriba, admiración.
~ Mario Benedetti
He's from a generation that never even expected to get midway up the ladder so when he got there he was too stunned to dare climb higher. That's the problem with midway. Up is everything and down just means all the white people want to party on your street on Sunday night to feel realness. Midway is nowhere.
~ Marlon James
Good news is at least the climb down will be easier. Thanks, gravity, for not always being a bitch.
~ Unknown
He notes that the policies established to solve a problem will often exacerbate the problem, creating a downward spiral: As a problem gets worse, managers apply even more aggressively the very policies that are causing the problem.
~ Unknown
Why is it that looking down seems so much higher than looking up?
~ Nick Bantock
De la "eu sunt" porne?te drumul r?ului în jos ?i cel al binelui în sus.
~ Novalis
Remember, the enemy's gate is down.
~ Orson Scott Card
The way of soul, we notice, is downward rather than the upward flight of the mystic.
~ Unknown
One addiction laid you open to others in a fast downward spiral.
~ Peter F. Hamilton