Quotes About Ascent

Like the number of keys in a standard piano, there may only be 88 good steps going to heaven. Don't think about falling!

in the intoxication of falling, man was prone to believe himself propelled upward.

We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.

Anne climbing the marble steps to Heaven, her good deeds like jewels weighting wrists and neck.

the leap into heaven, into fame, into legend—then the fall back to earth (guernseyed Icarus) to the whistle's shrill tweet.

Man I swear Im so fly I wake up in the sky and wipe the cloud out my eye.

Pockets too deep, shawty you gon have to climb out.

It seemed that to reach the pinnacle a man must climb simultaneously many ladders. He might have been already halfway up on the professional ladder while just starting out on the political one. He might have been ascending one and descending the other.

Climbing is more of an art than a sport. It's the aesthetics of a mountain that compels me. The line of a route, the style of ascent. It is creative.

Als je eenmaal van de bergtop omlaag hebt gekeken, is het moeilijk om tevreden in de vallei te blijven...

So High, So Low, So Many Things to Know

What is the space which this speaks of? Vertical ascent. To heaven. Of time? Into the light-world of the mutable. Yes, this thing has disgorged its spirit: light. And my attention is fixed; I can't look away. Spellbound by mesmerizing shimmering surface which I can no longer control. No longer free to dismiss.

Velocità ascensionale media – a term coined by the controversial Italian physician and coach Michele Ferrari, meaning average ascent speed in English and used to measure the speed of elevation gain, usually stated in units of metres per hour. It is a parameter used in cycling as

Les parvenus sont comme les singes, desquels ils ont l'adresse: on les voit en hauteur, on admire leur agilité pendant Tescalade; mais, arrivés à la cime, on n'aperçoit plus que leurs côtés honteux.

No ascent is too steep for mortals. Heaven itself we seek in our folly.

clouds very high look not one word helped them get up there

The soul does not fall.

'Vert' is, like, straight to the top, like a vertical leap.

My career has never really been a vertical kind of thing. I mean, it's always been a bit difficult for me.

I am climbing to the top Of the tallest darkest tree I need to know Where heaven stops What lies Beyond the dream

When everything feels like an uphill struggle, just think of the view from the top.

Let us raise a somewhat loftier strain!

Wafted by a favouring gale As one sometimes is in trances, To a height that few can scale, Save by long and weary dances

It is the duty of us, the founders, then, said I, to compel the best natures to attain the knowledge which we pronounced the greatest, and to win to the vision of good, to scale the ascent, and when they have reached the heights and taken an adequate view, we must not allow what is now permitted. What is that? That they should linger there, I said, and refuse to go down again among those bondsmen and share their labors and honors, whether they are of less or of greater worth.