Quotes About Ascent

After the creation of credit by banks, the birth of the bond was the second great revolution in the ascent of money.

You get to the top of one mountain and then you see another.

I want to continue to climb up the mountain of life and try to get everything that God has for me.

And then again, maybe he could just climb a stream of angel piss to heaven.

We can fly! "We can become butterflies! "There's nothing at the top and it doesn't matter!" As he heard his own message he realized how he had misread the instinct to get high. To get to the "top" he must fly, not climb.

But that which pleases us in people who are rising pleases us less in the case of people who are falling.

You aren't the only ones who have been out there and come back. Lyons and zephrys and dead flower arrangements climb up the trellys to reach Heaven and fail. Fall right at my feet and stay there.

Merit has rarely risen of itself, but a pebble or a twig is often quite sufficient for it to spring to the highest ascent.

they climbed their ladders to wheedle and prune the trees into holiness

Despite himself he scoffed—a staccato bark of saliva—at the very notion of ladders.

The most powerful drive in the ascent of man is his pleasure in his own skill. He loves to do what he does well and, having done it well, he loves to do it better. You see it in his science. You see it in the magnificence with which he carves and builds, the loving care, the gaiety, the effrontery. The monuments are supposed to commemorate kings and religions, heroes, dogmas, but in the end the man they commemorate is the builder.

That is, when one realizes the fact of a descent or degradation and corrects its causes, this itself causes an ascent to a level even higher and greater than the original one.

In emotions you should be bubbling with joy. Joy is your emotion. In action you should be thoughtless and in ascent you should be surrendered.

The mind speaks, though it does not have lips.The heart moves, though it does not have feet.The soul rises, though it does not have wings.

Climb aboard life's elevator, hit the "up" button, and see where it takes you.

Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects; it works against the laws and conditions which regulated the earlier stages of man's ascent.

Whenever you trace the origin of a skill or practices which played a crucial role in the ascent of man, we usually reach the realm of play.

No limits are set to the ascent of man, and to each and everyone the highest stands open. Here it is only your personal choice that decides.

I believe that the ascent of mountains forms an essential chapter in the complete duty of man, and that it is wrong to leave any district without setting foot on its highest peak.

I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel.

The right path is the ascent.

All rising to great place is by a winding stair. —Sir Francis Bacon

But who can resist the seductions of elevators these days, those stepping stones to Heaven, which make relentless verticality so alluring?

Verticality is such a risky enterprise.