Raises Quotes · Page 29

Don’t let Negative and Toxic people rent space in your head. Raise the rent and kick them out.

— Anonymous

When you are lonely, when you feel yourself an alien in the world, play Chess. This will raise your spirits and be…

— Aristotle

Our culture raises us to seek success but we are not taught how to live with it.

— Nancy Friday

men are attracted to beauty because it indicates health and youth—no point mating with a sickly woman who won’t be around to…

— Becca Fitzpatrick

Then will I raise aloft the milk-white rose. For whose sweet smell the air shall be perfumed.

— William Shakespeare

It is incumbent upon us all to raise the bar, whether you are a multibillion-dollar international corporation or a mom-and-pop selling blackberry…

— Howard Schmidt

It is easier to raise the performance of one leader than it is to raise the performance of a whole mass.

— Peter Drucker

Philosophy cannot raise the commonalty up to her level: so, if she is to become popular, she must sink to theirs.

— Augustus William Hare

You will do the greatest service to the state if you shall raise, not the roofs of the houses, but the souls…

— Epictetus

Mothers - especially single mothers - are heroic in their efforts to raise our nation's children, but men must also take responsibility…

— Evan Bayh

What you want is already here, in the unified field of pure potential. Everything you need to fulfill your greatest desire is…

— Derek Rydall

I would cap the amount of federal government can spend at 20 percent of the economy. Bring it back to 20 percent…

— Mitt Romney

I believe, the [Gunnar] Myrdal study had been made, and if we hadn't had anything else to raise questions, this in itself…

— Ella Baker

Hamas will not disappear. Hamas will not raise the white flag. Hamas has the trust of the people, and anyone who wishes…

— Bashar al-Assad

I've done a contract with my district. I have term-limited myself. I am not taking the pension. I am not taking pay…

— Bobby Schilling

When we shout at the oak tree, the oak tree is not offended. When we praise the oak tree, it doesn't raise…

— Nhat Hanh

Let us consider what we call vicious luxury. No gratification, however sensual, can of itself be esteemed vicious. A gratification is only…

— David Hume

Beauty has so many charms, one knows not how to speak against it; and when it happens that a graceful figure is…

— Laurence Sterne

To raise children you must have love and a wholesome understanding, and that is why a parent should pray fervently for their…

— Esther Smith

by grace ye are saved, not of works,' but by the will of God through Jesus Christ . . . If we…

— Polycarp

So let us raise a cheer ... for the insatiable spirit of Man eager for all new things! What a tale could…

— Cecil Arthur Lewis

Destruction of the embryo in the mother's womb is a violation of the right to live which God has bestowed upon this…

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The person earning the federal minimum wage of $7.25 isn't going out to eat at restaurants. They're not taking piano lessons. They're…

— Nick Hanauer

There could be constitutional problems with executive detention if it is seen to be arbitrary. I didn't actually say that the NSW…

— George Brandis

I think it's a big disservice to our country and to our democracy to continue to raise these doubts.

— Audie Cornish

The dream for any parent is you want to raise happy, healthy, responsible, compassionate, kind kids. We all have a responsibility to…

— Gayle King

All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn't have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.

— Nas

We need to raise our voices a little more, even as they say to us, 'This is so uncharacteristic of you.' Invisibility…

— Mitsuye Yamada

I feel no doubt whatever that the parish laws of England have contributed to raise the price of provisions and to lower…

— Thomas Malthus

It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor.

— George Bernard Shaw

Raise up your glasses against evil forces; Whiskey for my men, beer for my horses.

— Toby Keith

In a lot of minds, God is big enough to raise dead people, but He's not big enough to deal with our…

— Jason Upton

I love working with children and this young boy, Thomas Sangster, is quite a remarkable young actor. He raises your game, you…

— Liam Neeson

Perhaps we cannot raise the winds. But each of us can put up the sail, so that when the wind comes we…

— E. F. Schumacher

The sinner can no more raise himself from the deadness of sin than Lazarus, who had been dead four days, until Jesus…

— George Whitefield

In Indiana, the Affordable Care Act will raise the average cost of health insurance in the individual market by an unaffordable 72 percent.

— Mike Pence

Schools used to fund-raise for luxuries, like a trip to the water slides. Now, we fund-raise for things we have to have.

— Kirk Gibson

The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Religion is consciousness-raising. It raises you higher than the problem, it gives you a bird's-eye view.

— Rajneesh

Movies work, in my opinion, on the best level when they're more enigmatic, when we don't say it's this or that and…

— Nicolas Cage