A raise is like a martini: it elevates the spirit, but only temporarily. — Daniel Seligman Copy Share Image
If a rise in wages does not raise prices, a fall will not reduce them. — Joan Robinson Copy Share Image
See nations slowly wise, and meanly just, to buried merit raise the tardy bust. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this I raise my sword-pen. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
The real skill is to raise the sails and to catch the power of the wind as it passes by. — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
Every scientific fulfillment raises new questions; it asks to be surpassed and outdated. — Max Weber Copy Share Image
The function of the wing is to take what is heavy and raise it up in the region above. — Plato Copy Share Image
It's not easy for me to raise my hand and send a boy off to die without talking about it first — Reginald Rose Copy Share Image
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings. — John Dryden Copy Share Image
Wars, however frequent and destructive they may be, have never been able to kill entirely the intellectual and moral sense which raises… — Elie Ducommun Copy Share Image
I raise this objection to debate the process, and protect the integrity of the true will of the people. — Stephanie Tubbs Jones Copy Share Image
What meaning have you found? What truth do you claim? For what purpose are you living? Life itself raises these questions. How… — Ron James Copy Share Image
A spider conducts operations that resemble those of a weaver, and a bee puts to shame many an architect in the construction… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
Arnold Schwarzenegger's gubernatorial campaign raises a series of fascinating questions, the most perplexing of all being why an international star of his… — Michael Medved Copy Share Image
My charity is in the business of helping firefighters in any way that we can. For instance, after 9/11 we were the… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
The difference between the very wealthy and the working poor has grown. We raise that minimum wage and we move forward with… — Barbara Boxer Copy Share Image
Growing up in Georgia, I used to think people up north or out west were so different. They're really not. They're just… — Alan Jackson Copy Share Image
No matter how hard it is to raise the capital to do that, do everything in your power to buy every property… — Joe Mimran Copy Share Image
Surely that was why faith had been invented: to raise teenagers without dying. Although of course it was also why death was… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
The move from scarcity thinking to abundance thinking, from zero-sum competition to one-hundred-sum collaboration, is not just a “nice” or “moral” idea.… — Daniel Burrus Copy Share Image
Brother raises a hand against brother and son against father (how terrible!) and the father also against son. And moreover it is… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
I can no more disown (Jeremiah Wright) than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
When we contemplate the world of Epicurus, and conceive the universe to be a fortuitous jumble of atoms, there is nothing grand… — Thomas Reid Copy Share Image
Oh, that God would raise up missionaries. I don't wish the same things your parents want for you. They want for you… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
The Merchant, to Secure His Treasure The merchant, to secure his treasure, Conveys it in a borrowed name: Euphelia serves to grace… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
I think that many citizens understand how our system works, or rather, fails to work, for structural reasons. But who has the… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
For any kind of reading I think better than leaving a blank still a blank, because the mind must receive a degree… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
Ireland is a little country which raises all the great questions. — Gustave de Beaumont Copy Share Image
Too many people are setting up ways to raise money that are questionable. — Joe Vitale Copy Share Image
The press must speak out and, if the occasion arises, raise bloody hell. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Raise your limits as high as you dare and then take them a little further. — Tony Clark Copy Share Image