Leaders are defined by the decisions they make ... Leaders rise and fall by the decisions they make. — Mario Daniel Vega Copy Share Image
“The rise or fall, success or failure of your dreams is largely dependent on the association you build yourself around.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Waves are inspiring not bcoz they rise and fall,bcoz each time they fall they never fail to rise again — Raksha Tiwari Copy Share Image
“Into the promise of happiness, synchronizing the rhythm of our lives to the turning of the leaves and the rise and fall… — Jennifer Irwin Copy Share Image
Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and imprison the… — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
“Genealogy belongs to the rich in human history. The poor rise and fall without leaving a footprint.” — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is doubtful if a more extensive anthology of errors (William Shirer's Rise and Fall of the Third Reich) concerning the personality… — Harry Elmer Barnes Copy Share Image
We are Americans, speaking the same language, adopting the same customs, holding the same general opinions... and shall rise and fall with… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
We look at mountains and call them eternal, and they seem... but in the course of time, mountains rise and fall, rivers… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Empty yourself of everything. Let the mind become still. The ten thousand things rise and fall while the Self watches their return.… — Laozi Copy Share Image
Though the general principles of statecraft have survived the rise and fall of empires, every increase in knowledge has brought about changes… — John Boyd Orr Copy Share Image
You know, you can't see or touch and isn't embodied. But they were all fallible, the Gods. And they would kind of… — Rachel Weisz Copy Share Image
I've always felt that complement of opposites: body and soul, solitude and companionship, and in the dance studio, contraction and release, rise… — Judith Jamison Copy Share Image
“Empire as located its existence not in the smooth recurrent spinning time of the cycle of the seasons but in the jagged… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
In my beginning is my end. In succession Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended, Are removed, destroyed, restored, or in their… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“Percy and Books Percy does not like it when I read a book. He puts his face over the top of it,… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“The years pass in their hundreds and their thousands, and what does any man see of life but a few summers, a… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
“The door was now ajar, the light of an unknown future shining through its crack. But it would take more strength than… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
But there’s a reason we recognize Hamlet as a masterpiece: it’s that Shakespeare told us the truth, and people so rarely tell… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
A teenage girl lay asleep on the sofa, curled up under a red-and-black knitted afghan. She was on her side, with one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The rise and fall of images of the future precedes or accompanies the rise and fall of cultures. As long as a… — Fred Polak Copy Share Image
“Like almost all of Beefheart's recorded work, [Trout Mask Replica] was not even "ahead" of its time in 1969. Then and now,… — Lester Bangs Copy Share Image
“Already very near to him, she moved a bit closer. He disengaged his hand and touched her face. Her skin was like… — Melanie Dickerson Copy Share Image
“The 9/11 Commission warned that Al Qaeda "could... scheme to wield weapons of unprecedented destructive power in the largest cities of the… — Robert Hormats Copy Share Image
“All of the myths of mankind are nothing but show business,' the other man said to me during our initial meeting. 'Everything… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“Will you remember this day, Gogol?" his father had asked, turning back to look at him, his hands pressed like earmuffs to… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
“I have graded my separate works from A to D. The grades I hand out to myself do not place me in… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The empire cannot become a child again. Nobody can. It cannot simply give away its cannons, machines, and money and once again… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Her room was warm and lightsome. A huge doll sat with her legs apart in the copious easy-chair beside the bed. He… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“He drew forth a phrase from his treasure and spoke it softly to himself: —A day of dappled seaborne clouds. The phrase… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“Who cares? Kingdoms rise and fall. Just don't burn the paintings in the Louvre, that's all.” — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Wild waves rise and fall when they arrive And that’s what makes the calm sea alive” — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
Bigotry and hatred and prejudice rise and fall depending on certain situations. — Jack Levin Copy Share Image
“Nations rise and fall, flourish and decay, by what they believe in and by what their culture stands for.” — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha Copy Share Image
Who sows a field, or trains a flower, Or plants at tree, is more than all. — John Greenleaf Whittier Copy Share Image
“Does sound have rhythm? Does it rise and fall like the ocean? Does sound come and go like wind?” — Myron Uhlberg Copy Share Image
The media was completely influential in the rise and fall of Bonnie and Clyde. — Holliday Grainger Copy Share Image
Nations will rise and fall. Wars will be lost and won. Lives will begin and end, but a true friend is eternal. — Jon Koroluk Copy Share Image