As far as income goes, there are three currencies in the world; most people ignore two. The three currencies are time, income and mobility, in descending order of importance. Most people focus exclusively on income.
Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!
I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago.
I fell in love with Rwanda the moment I saw those verdant, rolling hills rise up beneath the wings of the plane as we descended toward Kigali airport.
There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight.
I said to Scott that the ascent seemed to be going slowly and that I was concerned descending climbers could possibly run out of oxygen before their return to camp IV.
If 2,000 Tea Party activists descended on Wall Street, you would probably have an equal number of reporters there covering them.
If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth.
Prayer is the key that opens heaven; the favors we ask descend upon us the very instant our prayers ascend to God.
We are certainly descendents of the sea for our tears are salted and when we shed them on the jowl of time, the sea that has always been within us flows on our face.
I want to ski down Mount Cho Oyu in the Himalayas when I am 85, descending from a height of 8,201 meters.
The angel descended when you were least expecting it. Tracy felt something quietly go click in his despairing heart.
It was a BuSab axiom that all power blocs tended toward aristocratic forms, that the descendants of decision makers dominated the power niches.
If we must die, then let us die fighting a battle worthy of remembrance in the tales of our descendants!
He hoped that none of his descendants would get mixed up in politics, which was a trade for butchers and bandits.
If Charles Darwin reappeared today, he might be surprised to learn that humans are descended from viruses as well as from apes.
Like a falling star, he descended on the Tarbh Cró, a Cassiline berserker, his sword biting and slashing like a silver snake.
There exists in man a mass of sense lying in a dormant state, and which, unless something excites it to action, will descend with him, in that condition,to the grave.
Neither of us asked to be born descendants, yet I’d be rewarded with his death, and we couldn’t prevent that. No one could. (Eric)
There is simply no limit to the tyrannical snobbery that otherwise decent people can descend into when it comes to music.
Bachelorhood: all the fun of married life and more prosperity, leaving lots of descendants to boast of their father’s memory to their fellow inmates.
