Raises Quotes
1587 Raises quotes by 1234 unique authors
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To kill the misconception, I don’t think the songs we wrote before ‘Danger Days’ are bad songs by any means. In fact, I kinda think…
— Frank Iero
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The only way to stop a rebellion is to crush it with blood and fire, and to wound them so they'll never dare to raise…
— Rachel Caine
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Every member of the priesthood should understand the divine plan designed by the Lord to raise up the first free people in modern times.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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It became the middle finger I couldn’t raise in PR photographs. The mustache became my silent last word in the verbal battles I was losing…
— Robin Olds
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Oh, that God would raise up missionaries. I don't wish the same things your parents want for you. They want for you security and insurance…
— Paul Washer
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Only passions, and great passions, can raise the soul to great things. Without them there is no sublimity, either in morals or in creativity. Art…
— Denis Diderot
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I would argue that one of the issues which the public should be much more emphatic about with all politicians... is patronage, appointing people to…
— John Hickenlooper
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Perhaps we cannot raise the winds. But each of us can put up the sail, so that when the wind comes we can catch it.
— E F Schumacher
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A free people, free to believe as we wish, free to speak our minds, free to raise our children as we see fit, will, make…
— Nick Rahall
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Transplanting the ballet to the United States is like trying to raise a palm tree in Dakota.
— Lincoln Kirstein
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Failure of management to plan for the future and to foresee problems has brought about waste of manpower, of materials, of the machine-time, of all…
— W. Edwards Deming
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The real skill is to raise the sails and to catch the power of the wind as it passes by.
— Thomas Berry
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My mom raise me so wonderfully. She gave me self esteem and made me appreciate my flaws, as well as my strengths.
— Kirsten Dunst
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If a tax on malt would raise the price of beer, a tax on bread must raise the price of bread.
— David Ricardo
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But a tax on luxuries would no other effect than to raise their price. It would fall wholly on the consumer, and could neither increase…
— David Ricardo
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What I'd love to do is work with kids in the U.S. to raise their awareness and encourage them to be global citizens. We're all…
— Jason Mraz
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We raise predators by treating children as prey.
— Stefan Molyneux
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The thing that bothers me the most is the recklessness and greed of the local ranchers, who run too many cattle back here, choking with…
— Merle Haggard
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If it was true that moss did not have roots, and maternal love could grow spontaneously, as if from nothing, perhaps I had been wrong…
— Vanessa Diffenbaugh
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It is a thorough process, this war with the wilderness - breaking nature, taming the soil. feeding it on oats. The civilized man regards the…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Oftentimes when you have the federal government or others step in and start to raise minimum wage, what happens is you take away or reduce…
— Kevin Madden
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[W]e have a lot of evidence on what happens when you raise the minimum wage. And the evidence is overwhelmingly positive: Hiking the minimum wage…
— Paul Krugman
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When you raise the price of employment, guess what happens? You get less of it. Why do we want to make it harder for small…
— John Boehner
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We're telling small-business owners that not only are we going to raise their costs by a buck and a quarter, but we're also going to…
— Chris Christie
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The difference between the very wealthy and the working poor has grown. We raise that minimum wage and we move forward with the vision of…
— Barbara Boxer
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