We ought not to raise expectations which it is not in our power to satisfy.-It is more pleasing to see smoke brightening… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In my books I might hold the mirror to my own face. If others would like to borrow the mirror, they're welcome.… — John Scott Copy Share Image
We must see the great distinction between a reform movement and a revolutionary movement. We are called upon to raise certain basic… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Take a stand for what's right. Raise a ruckus and make a change. You may not always be popular, but you'll be… — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
It was hard for me, as a father, to imagine going through what my birth mom went through, to raise a child… — Michael Franti Copy Share Image
I will raise my voice as long as God gives me sound or ability, against this Communistic idea that the Government will… — David O. McKay Copy Share Image
An adversarial family law system raises the stakes unnecessarily high, exacerbates the antagonism of the couples concerned, and is directly responsible for… — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
As African economies boom and businesses are created, one of the big questions this growth raises is that of third-level education: how… — Richard Attias Copy Share Image
I try to practice my religion in a very devout way and follow the teachings of my church in my own personal… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
In the absence of government each man learns to think, to act for himself, without counting on the support of an outside… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
I did not want to raise a genetically compromised child. I did not want my children to have to contend with the… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
Every thinking man, when he thinks, realizes that the teachings of the Bible are so interwoven and intertwined with our whole civic… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The underlying strategy of the Fed is to tell people, "Do you want your money to lose value in the bank, or… — Michael Hudson Copy Share Image
This autobiography of mine is a mirror, and I am looking at myself in it all the time. Incidentally I notice the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The assumption is that life doesn't need to be navigated with lessons. You can just do it intuitively. After all, you only… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
All that we have to do is to send two mujahedeen to the furthest point east to raise a piece of cloth… — Osama bin Laden Copy Share Image
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Jesus claimed He had the power to raise himself from the dead and His followers would be raised from the dead. That's… — Josh McDowell Copy Share Image
I think we really feel like Crowdrise could be something that, 20 years from now, people take for granted because that's just… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
From wherever the emissions come, they have the same effect: They trap much more heat from the sun, melt the ice, raise… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
It seems that people are more comfortable with the private outrage about gay marriage, because when you are outraged about this issue,… — Otis Moss III Copy Share Image
In Quebec, in spite of police violence and threats, thousands of students demonstrated for months against a former right-wing government that wanted… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
We know there are a lot of good secondaries out there. We are just trying to focus on what we can do… — Eric Berry Copy Share Image
What we did in the 1960s and early 1970s was raise the consciousness of white America that this government has a responsibility… — Dennis Banks Copy Share Image
The idea that we would raise billions of sentient animals, treat them horribly, pollute our waterways with their waste, compromise the effectiveness… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint ... but is conceived and… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If... God highly exalted Christ because He humbled Himself, suffered dishonour, was tempted and endured a shameful cross and death for our… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
A lot of the philosophies of the businesses are just 'we're interested in getting customers now and if we're losing money with… — Kevin Kinsella Copy Share Image
Naked I came into the world, but brush strokes cover me, language raises me, music rhythms me. Art is my rod and… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I was fortunate to start the sport at a young age. I was 6 years old when my dad started teaching me.… — Karch Kiraly Copy Share Image
Biblical higher criticism is preserved in the particular enclave of academic Christian scholarship and is thought to be too unfruitful to share… — John Shelby Spong 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
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
I think that our whole country needs to have more love and compassion for all children. All life is valuable and a… — Kim Alexis 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
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
Existence cares. When I say God cares I mean that existence cares for you, it is not indifferent. Let this be the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In his laborious efforts to attain mountaintops, where the air is lighter and purer, the climber gains new strength of limb. In… — Pope Pius XI Copy Share Image
I think that education today is a form of child abuse. The natural tendency of children is to solve problems, but we… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
