Ascendant Quotes
On rising, ruling, and what stays ascendant over time.
These quotes explore what it means for a person, idea, or influence to become ascendant, starting with the almost-Greek tragedy of a political rise undone from within. One line ties lasting authority to something sturdier than a passing mood, echoing the Constitution quotes on this site.
The tragedy of Eliot Spitzer is almost Greek: Ascendant son of wealth and privilege dedicates his life to social justice, warns of the corruption lurking among us, and falls victim to his inner demons at the very moment of vindication.
Usually, I chalk Democratic dreams of a blue Texas to the same sort of thinking that brought us the inevitability of the coalition of the ascendant and 100% certainty that Donald Trump was going to lose.
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This Constitution was not made for a day, nor is it composed of such flexible materials as to be warped to the purposes of a casually ascendant influence.
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
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The astrologers and historians write that the ascendant as of Oxford is Capricornus, whose lord is Saturn, a religious planet, and patron of religious men.
We have the largest economy and the strongest military in the world. Our core values of freedom and opportunity are ascendant around the globe.
Ivanka Trump's star is ascendant at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and around the world, too.
You don't want to be that parent - the one who dresses his kid in a cloth sack when all the other kids are in Armani cloth sacks - especially in a time like ours, when materialism is not only...
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Others turn philosophical, warning that mediocrity itself can become the ascendant force in a society, or astrological, tracing ascendant signs back to Saturn. For more on foundational ideas, see Core Values.
