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I think my music's more disturbing than Tupac's - or at least I thought some of the themes of 'The Downward Spiral' were more disturbing on a deeper level - you know, issues about suicide and hating yourself and God and people and everything else. -- Trent Reznor
At evening casual flocks of pigeons make Ambiguous undulations as they sink Downward to darkness, on extended wings. -- Wallace Stevens
What I was concerned about when I wrote the 'Downward Spiral' record was being a self-centred destructive force. The point was tearing down everything in a search for something else. -- Trent Reznor
It's very important for men to look downward, to the next generation. -- James Hillman
When I entered politics, I took the only downward turn you could take from journalism. -- Jim Hightower
You can make bad choices and find yourself in a downward spiral or you can find something that gets you out of it. -- Ray LaMontagne
Both chronic, long-term poverty and downward mobility from the middle class are in the same category of things that America likes not to think about. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
At the very top state institutions, like UCLA, Berkeley and the University of Texas, however, the trend of downward minority enrollment remains persistent and discouraging. -- Adam Schiff
All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order. -- Harriet Beecher Stowe
There is no 'slippery slope' toward loss of liberties, only a long staircase where each step downward must first be tolerated by the American people and their leaders. -- Alan K. Simpson
My sentiments for the American cause, from the Stamp Act downward, have never changed... I am still of opinion that it is the cause of liberty and of human nature. -- Christopher Gadsden
The point of conservatism is not that it prevents movement forward and upward, but that it prevents movement backward and downward, into chaotic darkness and a return to a primitive state. -- Vladimir Putin
Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off. -- Gary Wolf
Being against other people's policies eventually puts you in a downward spiral. It's fine to be principled and oppose views that you don't agree with, but you also have to have an alternative. -- Jeb Bush
Why are we so obsessed with celebrity culture? We have front-page news about divorces instead of front-page news about global warming, about women being abused, about children being abused. We're going on a downward spiral. -- Heather Mills
The more people rationalize cheating, the more it becomes a culture of dishonesty. And that can become a vicious, downward cycle. Because suddenly, if everyone else is cheating, you feel a need to cheat, too. -- Stephen Covey
Corporate America cannot afford to remain silent or passive about the downward spiral we are undergoing. It cannot turn a blind eye to how difficult the experience of life is for so many of their customers. -- Simon Mainwaring
Fear stifles our thinking and actions. It creates indecisiveness that results in stagnation. I have known talented people who procrastinate indefinitely rather than risk failure. Lost opportunities cause erosion of confidence, and the downward spiral begins. -- Charles Stanley
There are many, many communities, many ethnic minorities, many civilizations that have been brutalised by others and you have to move on. You cannot perpetually stay in that place of blame, otherwise it's just a downward spiral. -- David Oyelowo
Every show on television has a downward trend because there are so many more things to watch. You can only deal with what is the benchmark of a hit series and 'Survivor' clearly remains a hit series. -- Mark Burnett
To be a Christian who is willing to travel with Christ on his downward road requires being willing to detach oneself constantly from any need to be relevant, and to trust ever more deeply the Word of God. -- Henri Nouwen
If we had a starting XI that no one could argue about it wouldn't say a lot for English football. We'd probably be on a downward spiral. It's good that people have different ideas about who should play. -- Rio Ferdinand
Protectionism is a very real danger. It is understandable that in times of a severe downturn protectionist pressures mount but the lessons of history are clear. If we give in to protectionist pressures, we will only send the world into a downward spiral. -- Manmohan Singh
After Hurricane Katrina, over New Orleans, my helicopter crashed and the pilot and I were only saved because we fell on the roof of a flooded house that absorbed the shock. When the helicopter was spiraling downward out of control, I didn't expect to survive at all. -- Yann Arthus-Bertrand
It is fatal for any body of workers to have forever hanging from the fringes of its skirts other bodies on a level just below its own; for that means continual pressure downward, additional difficulty to be overcome in the struggle to maintain reasonable rates of wages. -- Florence Kelley
Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents; and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us? -- Augustus Hare
Downward Spiral' felt like I had an unending bottomless pit of rage and self-loathing inside me and I had to somehow challenge something or I'd explode. I thought I could get through by putting everything into my music, standing in front of an audience and screaming emotions at them from my guts. -- Trent Reznor
One of my favorite workouts to do with my girlfriends is yoga. We are equally impatient with our yoga. We are those people who are sweating in the back, and we'll be in downward dog giggling and looking at each other. And I know what we're all thinking: What are we going to order for dinner afterward? -- Summer Sanders
Tis looking downward makes one dizzy. -- Robert Browning
Life is most delightful on the downward slope. -- Seneca the Younger
In a world of upward mobility, choose downward servility. -- Max Lucado
No one can afford to look downward for his enjoyments. -- David Starr Jordan
Deviation from either truth or duty is a downward path. -- Tryon Edwards
Ah! The seasons of love roll not backward but onward, downward forever. -- Jean Paul
Beauty and anguish walking hand in hand the downward slope to death. -- Alfred Lord Tennyson
It's very important for men to look downward, to the next generation -- James Hillman
The beauteous eyes of the spring's fair night With comfort are downward gazing. -- Heinrich Heine
Your mind simply can't focus forward and downward all at the same time. -- Daryn Kagan
I refuse to believe that the tendency of human nature is always downward. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward. -- Henry David Thoreau
Your mind simply cant focus forward and downward all at the same time. -- Daryn Kagan
I had a terrible manager once who described my career as 'spiraling downward. -- Rickie Lee Jones
The downward spiral of Dumbness in America is about to hit a new low. -- Hunter S. Thompson
That body is heavier than another which, in an equal bulk, moves downward quicker. -- Aristotle
The devil, that old stager, who leads downward, perhaps, but fiddles all the way! -- Robert Browning
I had a terrible manager once who described my career as 'spiraling downward.' -- Rickie Lee Jones
In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent. -- Aldous Huxley
The tendency of mans nature to good is like the tendency of water to flow downward. -- Mencius
Most variables can show either an upward or downward trend, depending on the base year chosen. -- Thomas Sowell
When Fortuna spins you downward, go out to a movie and get more out of life. -- John Kennedy Toole
The kundalini flows upward. It also flows downward in different ways. It is quite complex, actually. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Let me be one of the upward and outward lookers, not one of the downward and inward lookers. -- Alfred Edersheim
The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Be outrageous enough to trust God. Don't be adjusting your vision downward. Keep believing for radical things in Christ. -- Brian Houston
Heaven is not gone, but we are blind with tears, Groping our way along the downward slope of Years! -- Richard Henry Stoddard
Most Americans are on a downward escalator. Median wage in the United States, adjusted for inflation, keeps on dropping. -- Robert Reich
I have an addictive personality. Boarding school merely sent me more quickly on the downward spiral that dominated my childhood. -- Marcus Brigstocke
Power always has a direction. It is always downward, towards the weak but power is often confused with what is right -- Jean Vanier
The humble soul is like the violet, which grows low, hangs the head downward, and hides itself with its own leaves. -- Fredrika Bremer
Generally our confidences move downward rather than upward; in our secret affairs, we employ our inferiors much more than our bettors. -- Honore de Balzac
Two forces pervade human life, the Gita says: the upward thrust of evolution and the downward pull of our evolutionary past. -- Eknath Easwaran
I think the classical music is on a dangerous downward slope, because it's not seeking strong enough resonance with its society. -- Laurence Equilbey
If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be a devil. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If you will excuse me, your coat lapels are badly twisted downward, where they have been grasped by the pertinacious New York reporters. -- David Walton
One key factor in the downward spiral in our educational system is that there is too much stroking and too little real feedback. -- Randy Pausch
I hear the wind among the trees Playing the celestial symphonies; I see the branches downward bent, Like keys of some great instrument. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
With shorter clubs, your ball position should be just back of middle, to really promote hitting the ball first on a downward strike. -- Ernie Els
There was no time anymore to be quiet or still or pray. So, in many ways, that's what led to my downward spin. -- Barbara Brown Taylor
The people turn in allegiance to Humanity, as surely as water flows downward or as a wild animal takes cover in the wilderness. -- Mencius
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Grace is the love of God shown to the unlovely. It is God reaching downward to people who are in rebellion against him. -- Jerry Bridges
From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Who climbs the mountain does not always climb.The winding road slants downward many a time;Yet each descent is higher than the last. -- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Only some radical change can divert the downward course of my spirit, some startling new place or people to arrest the drift, the drag. -- Tennessee Williams
The best way to boost the economy is to redistribute wealth downward, as poorer people tend to spend a higher proportion of their income. -- Ha-Joon Chang
Who knows not Circe, The daughter of the Sun , whose charmed cup Whoever tasted, lost his upright shape, And downward fell into a groveling swine? -- John Milton
The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
A man is the sum of his ancestors; to reform him you must begin with a dead ape and work downward through a million graves. -- Ambrose Bierce
She smiled, and her eyes started to drift downward. "Cather..." Back up to his eyes. "You know that I'm falling in love with you, right? -- Rainbow Rowell
We can hold back neither the coming of the flowers nor the downward rush of the stream; sooner or later, everything comes to its fruition. -- Li Ching-Yuen
Romantic love is the kite that catches the wind and tenaciously heads for the sky; wisdom is the string that tugs downward, holding it back -- Joshua Harris
The subjectivization of the universal in art brings the universal downward on one hand, while on the other it helps raise the individual toward the universal. -- Piet Mondrian
On life and peaks it is the same. With strength we win the grail, but courage is the thing we need to face the downward trail. -- Jacob Clifford Moomaw
A man in the view of absolute goodness, adores, with total humility. Every step downward, is a step upward. The man who renounceshimself, comes to himself. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I was so busy fighting and so busy trying to keep everything above water that I didn't realize I was spiraling downward with nowhere to go. -- Lorraine Bracco
Real spiritual growth is always growth downward, so to speak, into profounder humility, which in healthy souls will become more and more apparent as they age. -- J. I. Packer
...the wildlings had no where to go. Some continued upward, and died. Some went downward, and died. Some stayed where they were. They died as well. -- Martin George
People are under the assumption that the kundalini just flows from the base of the spine up. That's not the case at all. Kundalini also flows downward. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies. -- Sylvia Townsend Warner
It's brutal. I see friends when their shows don't work. Everything's riding on making money and all the pressure and how people scatter when fortunes turn downward. -- David Spade
Thus, while the mute creation downward bend Their sight, and to their earthly mother ten, Man looks aloft; and with erected eyes Beholds his own hereditary skies. -- John Dryden
There are mountainous, arduous days, up which one takes an infinite time to climb, and downward-sloping days which one can descend at full tilt, singing as one goes. -- Marcel Proust
Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring. -- Henry David Thoreau
The human heart may find here and there a resting-place short of the highest height of affection, but we seldom stop in the steep, downward slope of hatred. -- Honore de Balzac
Where fashion in clothes, bodily adornment, and music are concerned, it is the underclass that increasingly sets the pace. Never before has there been so much downward cultural aspiration. -- Anthony Daniels
Human nature is good, just as water seeks low ground. There is no man who is not good, just as there is no water that does not flow downward. -- Mencius
There really isn't a recovery, and no signs of it on the horizon, because people have to pay the banks. It's a vicious circle - or rather, a downward spiral. -- Michael Hudson
Through incarnations, some beings do go down. That is to say, they forget. The soul falls into an eclipse of itself and there is a downward progression for a time. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Of the bodies in the cosmos, some imitate mind and move in orbits; some imitate soul and move in a straight line, fire and air upward, earth and water downward. -- Sallust
In the second and third debates the jacket has a generally padded shape across a large part of the entire back which tapers inward toward the spine in a downward direction. -- Robert Nelson
I venture that those of us who are most serene when faced with the possibility of nothingness are the ones who've reached furthest to the downward and upward of their beings. -- Francine du Plessix Gray
I don't want to go on being a root in the dark, vacillating, stretched out, shivering with sleep, downward, in the soaked guts of the earth, absorbing and thinking, eating each day. -- Pablo Neruda
When interest rates are high you want the average direction in which interest rates are moving to be downward; when interest rates are low you want the average direction to be upward. -- John Hull
A few feathery flakes are scattered widely through the air, and hover downward with uncertain flight, now almost alighting on the earth, now whirled again aloft into remote regions of the atmosphere. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
When there's downward pressure on growth, one choice is to adjust economic policy, increase deficits, relax monetary policy. That might have a short-term benefit, but may not be beneficial for the future. -- Li Keqiang
We must all wage an intense, lifelong battle against the constant downward pull. If we relax, the bugs and weeds of negativity will move into the garden and take away everything of value. -- Jim Rohn
After a long period in which the desired direction for inflation was always downward, the industrialized world's central banks must today try to avoid major changes in the inflation rate in either direction. -- Ben Bernanke
Her eyes, mostly cast downward, occasionally flicker upwards to meet his before falling again. She is apologetic for everything, as always, constantly saying sorry to the world, as though as her very presence offends. -- Cecelia Ahern
Pray for 'all men.' We usually pray more for things than we do for men. Our prayers should be thrown across their pathway as they rush in their downward course to a lost eternity. -- Edward McKendree Bounds
It is extremely urgent to try and adapt our thoughts realistically to a world which has no fixed general direction either upward or downward, but is likely to vary largely according to what we do. -- Mary Midgley

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