Downward Path Quotes

The gates of Hell are open night and day; smooth the descent, and easy is the way: but, to return, and view the cheerful skies; in this, the task and mighty labor lies.

That path leads ever down into stagnation.

The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward.

You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream -- the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order --or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. Regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on this downward path.

The entire life of Jesus isn't the story of somebody climbing up a ladder; it's a picture of someone coming down-a series of demotions. The problem with spending our lives climbing up the ladder is that we will go right past Jesus, for He's coming down.

I started at the top and worked my way down.

Deviation from either truth or duty is a downward path.

When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism.

Spirit, find your way, in seeking lowness like a stream.

The devil, that old stager, who leads downward, perhaps, but fiddles all the way!

The descent into Hades is much the same from whatever place we start.

The problem with spending your life climbing up the ladder is that you will go right past Jesus, for he's coming down.

It's like my having to walk down thousands and thousands of white marble stairs...and nothing but a very very blue sky, very blue...and I'd have to walk down them forever. I never thought about going up...Don't you think that must mean something?