Raises Quotes

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If you overcome your fear to ask someone for a date, a raise, or help with a project, that is an act of self-assertiveness. You… — Nathaniel Branden
We wanted to raise a generation of heretics, but instead we raised a generation of ignoramuses — Berl Katznelson
Design is about creating spaces for people to enjoy and of course, creating moments where you elevate the spirit, but 'design for good' is figuring… — Cameron Sinclair
Man is born a barbarian, and only raises himself above the beast by culture. — Baltasar Gracian
We are not to make the ideas of contentment and aspiration quarrel, for God made them fast friends. A man may aspire, and yet be… — Henry Ward Beecher
We have been fortunate enough to live at a time when virtue, though it does not triumph, is nonetheless not always tormented by attack dogs.… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. — George Bernard Shaw
You're a man, but the day you raise your voice to your mother, you're not anymore. — Tariq Ramadan
Buildings are tools to reach people, raise disciples, reach students, train up our kids, heal marriages and families and worship God. — Kevin Myers
I look forward to an America which will reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in business or statecraft. I look forward to… — John F. Kennedy
The man who raises new issues has always been distasteful to politicians. He musses up what had been so tidily arranged. — Walter Lippmann
Socially prominent people are very fond of disease, because it gives them a chance to have these really elaborate charity functions, and the newspaper headlines… — Dave Barry
God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again. — Robert South
The father who raises a son to have a profession he once dreamed of, and the mother who uses her daughter as the adult companion… — Gloria Steinem
A man who raises himself by degrees to wealth and power, contracts, in the course of this protracted labor, habits of prudence and restraint which… — Alexis de Tocqueville
How slight a chance may raise or sink a soul! — Philip James Bailey
When the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices in behalf of our ideals. — Clara Zetkin
Even if [the Pope an incarnate devil], we ought not to raise up our heads against him, but calmly lie down to rest on his… — St. Catherine of Siena
Fasting cleanses the soul, raises the mind, subjects one’s flesh to the spirit, renders the heart contrite and humble, scatters the clouds of concupiscence, quenches… — Saint Augustine
Past experience with fiscal austerity at home and overseas strongly suggests that it is best for the economy's long-run performance to restrain government spending rather… — Mark Zandi
So we raise her up every morning, we take her down every night, we don't let her touch the ground and we fold her up… — Johnny Cash
Passions are spiritual rebels and raise sedition against the understanding. — Ben Jonson
We ought not to raise expectations which it is not in our power to satisfy.-It is more pleasing to see smoke brightening into flame, than… — Samuel Johnson
Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can bear reproof who merit praise. — Alexander Pope
An adversarial family law system raises the stakes unnecessarily high, exacerbates the antagonism of the couples concerned, and is directly responsible for making it impossible… — Louis de Bernieres

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