Quotes About Ascent

Facilis descensus Averni: noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis; sed revocare gradium superasque evadere ad auras. hoc opus, hic labor est.

sic itur ad astra

she read, and so reading she was ascending, she felt, on to the top, on to the summit. How satisfying! How restful! All the odds and ends of the day stuck to this magnet; her mind felt swept, felt clean. And then there it was, suddenly entire; she held it in her hands, beautiful and reasonable, clear and complete, here—the sonnet

You can't step up to the next level as long as you keep one foot on the lower level.

The more conceited members of the race think in terms of an endless ascent—or promotion ad infinitum. I would point out that, sooner or later, man must reach his level of life-incompetence.

Although rather rare, a person who has a preexisting narrow tubal lumen, such as the presence of acquired or congenital stenosis, may have severe discomfort on ascent, given the difficulty in passively opening the tube (i.e., higher opening pressures are required for the tube to open).

Good gracious, Arthur,—I should say Mr Clennam, far more proper—the climb we have had to get up here and how ever to get down

In the Story of Ascent, a move back to the land would be a regression. We were supposed to be progressing away from labor, away from materiality, away from the dirt. In that story, heavenly was better than earthly, high better than low, clean better than dirty, the mind better than the body, and the highest social classes the ones furthest removed from the land.

The only way up is up.

The soul of alpinism is to travel light and fast through a dangerous landscape in pursuit of a personal star. That is ascent.

Whoever would rise, must first descend, for only then can the bottommost rise to the top.

Desdichado el que, teniendo alas, desciende de las profundidades para buscar el oro, pudiendo remontarse a la altura para encontrar amor y sentimiento!

We are learning to live with death, with the dead, we are learning with the life of our death in us, to live with cats, with mother, with envelopes, with secrets, to live each instant, we are learning to live, we are learning but we don't know. Envelopes of instants: are they life, are they death? The answer depends on my force of relife. Today I have the Force. Everything is living. Tomorrow we'll see. Today I have the Force of ascent.

To us this ladder has a descending movement, because the ascent , which evokes effort and difficulty, is toward the bottom. I say ascent downward because we ordinarily believe the descent is easy. The writers I love are descenders , explorers of the lowest and deepest.

Sometimes he caught himself listening to the sound of his own voice. He thought that in her eyes he would ascent to an angelical stature; and, as he attached the fervent nature of his companion more and more closely to him, he heard the strange impersonal voice which he recognised as his own, insisting on the soul's incurable lonliness. We cannot give ourselves, it said: we are our own.

When Seoul hosted the Games in 1988, it became a symbol of the Asian Tigers' ascent onto the world stage. In 1992, the Barcelona Olympics represented the unification of Europe. And when Rio plays host in 2016, it will reinforce the growing importance of Brazil and Latin America as a whole.

Professor Tite has played a big role in the Selecao's ascent. He's a brilliant coach, with a unique way of working, but he's also a marvellous person. He makes everyone feel at ease.

When I have reached a summit, I leave it with great reluctance, unless it is to reach for another, higher one.

Rise in your mind and you will rise in your world.

If you want to rise, drop everyone that is weighing you down.

My star will probably continue to rise, and I will start hanging out with Beyonce and Jay-Z and take them to a Toby Carvery.

Something is great when it starts low and rises to the heights. Or starts high and sinks low.

I'm not good at being static. I have to be climbing a mountain.

The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law.