The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down.
Very rarely do people make big compromises with their integrity. Almost every compromise is a small one that is easily justified. The downhill slide is usually a result of many little compromises.
Once I had learnt my twelve times table (at the age of three) it was downhill all the way.
We are in a downhill slide, the likes of which we have never seen in our business. And the Japs are in the wings ready to eat us up alive.
Life is a slope. As long as you're going up you're always looking towards the top and you feel happy, but when you reach it, suddenly you can see the road going downhill and death at the end of it all. It's slow going up and quick going down.
I know if I rest, I'll slide downhill fast.
Being positive is like going up a mountain. Being negative is like sliding down a hill. A lot of times, people want to take the easy way out, because it's basically what they've understood throughout their lives.
To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain.
... everyone young going down the long slide To happiness, endlessly.
AOL was a roller coaster ride. I was lucky and privileged to be a part of it, both the ups and the downs.
