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Descending Quotes

What on earth can you do on this earth but catch at whatever comes near you, with both your fingers, until your fingers are broken?

Tennessee Williams (2012). “Orpheus Descending and Suddenly Last Summer”, p.27, New Directions Publishing

It's very hard not to be condescending when you're explaining something to an idiot.

"Maher's 'Real Time' Panelists Spar Over Brewer-Obama Altercation, Immigration". www.realclearpolitics.com. January 28, 2012.

We are all in motion. Always. Those who are not climbing toward something are descending toward nothing.

Richard Paul Evans (2012). “Miles to Go: The Second Journal of the Walk Series”, p.369, Simon and Schuster

The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.299, Library of America

Delia was an overbearing cake with condescending frosting, and frankly, I was on a diet.

Maggie Stiefvater (2010). “Lament: The Faerie Queen's Deception”, p.38, North Star Editions, Inc.

Better to be despised, then, than to be ignored; or damned with condescending praise.

Joyce Carol Oates (1989). “(Woman) writer: occasions and opportunities”, Plume

I've gotten "condescending" a million times, and that's not good.

"David Cross on why his comedy tour pissed off people right and left". Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. August 18, 2016.