Raise Quotes
1752 quotes by 1375 authors
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All that is necessary to raise imbecility into what the mob regards as profundity is to lift it off the floor and put it on…
— George Jean Nathan
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On how to make the game more exciting - Eliminate the referees, raise the basket four feet, double the size of the basketball, limit the…
— Al McGuire
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Go back home where you came from. This country is mine, and I intend to stay here and to raise this country full of grown…
— Sitting Bull
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When test scores go up, we should worry, because of how poor a measure they are of what matters, and what you typically sacrifice in…
— Alfie Kohn
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I would by all means have men beware, lest Æsop's pretty fable of the fly that sate [sic] on the pole of a chariot at…
— Francis Bacon
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You must open a little, or rather raise on high your corolla so that the Bread of Angels may come as divine dew to strengthen…
— Therese of Lisieux
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For what were all these country patriots born? To hunt, and vote, and raise the price of corn?
— Lord Byron
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Whatever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves... how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root,…
— Leigh Hunt
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No man can ever raise above that that which he aims.
— Archibald Alexander Hodge
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If the Lord should give you power to raise the dead, He would give much less than He does when he bestows suffering. By miracles…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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Those who will may raise monuments of marble to perpetuate the fame of heroes. Those who will may build memorial halls to remind those who…
— Joshua Chamberlain
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For everywhere we look, there is work to be done. The state of our economy calls for action: bold and swift. And we will act…
— Barack Obama
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And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or…
— Samuel Adams
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I think there will come a time when civilized people will look back in horror on our generation and the ones that have preceded it;…
— Dennis Weaver
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We are unreasonably desirous to separate the goods of life from those evils which Providence has connected with them, and to catch advantages without paying…
— Samuel Johnson
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With my family, I'm trying to raise them to have respect for all people and make friends around the world and feel at home with…
— Angelina Jolie
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We disapprove of state education. Then the socialists say that we are opposed to any education. We object to a state religion. Then the socialists…
— Frederic Bastiat
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Socialism, like the ancient ideas from which it springs, confuses the distinction between government and society. As a result of this, every time we object…
— Frederic Bastiat
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Going to war accelerated the move from indirect to direct rule. Almost any state that makes war finds that it cannot pay for the effort…
— Charles Tilly
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We would labor earnestly to raise a believer in salvation by free will into a believer in salvation by grace, for we long to see…
— Charles Spurgeon
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