Raises Quotes

1587 Raises quotes by 1234 unique authors

Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh. — William Butler Yeats
For me, running is both exercise and a metaphor. Running day after day, piling up the races, bit by bit I raise the bar, and… — Haruki Murakami
If this thing's hushed up it'll be a simple denial to Jem of the way I've tried to raise him. Sometimes I think I'm a… — Harper Lee
He would find a way to make it work, because he finally understood that sometimes you have to raise your expectations. And sometimes you need… — Cinda Williams Chima
To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, To raise the genius, and to mend the heart — Alexander Pope
only kindness that raises its head from the crowd of the world to say it is I you have been looking for, and then goes… — Naomi Shihab Nye
To look at the paper is to raise a seashell to one's ear and to be overwhelmed by the roar of humanity. — Alain de Botton
What is it with you today?” says Christina on the way to breakfast. Her eyes are still swollen from sleep and her tangled hair forms… — Veronica Roth
I cry to you, my Lord, my rock! Do not be deaf to me, for if you are silent, I shall go down to the… — Nicholas Sparks
Brother raises a hand against brother and son against father (how terrible!) and the father also against son. And moreover it is a continuity-matter, for… — Saul Bellow
What do you look at while you’re making up your mind? Ours is not a reflective culture, we do no raise our eyes up to… — Thomas Harris
Indeed, "Hera said. ―Porphyrion, the strongest of his kind. Gaea needed a great deal of power to raise him again —my power. For weeks I‘ve… — Rick Riordan
Mississippi is like my mother. I am allowed to complain about her all I want, but God help the person who raises an ill word… — Kathryn Stockett
Except that my father got a raise, and my mother didn't because she doesn't get paid for housework, and my sister stopped reading those self-esteem… — Stephen Chbosky
i get a little romantic about the old Empire State. Just looking at it makes me want to play some Frank Sinatra tunes and sway… — Maureen Johnson
Science, the largest religion of the twentieth century, had become tarnished by images of exploding space shuttles, crack babies, and a generation of complacent Americans… — Jim Butcher
When a child is given to his parents, a crown is made for that child in Heaven, and woe to the parents who raise a… — Fulton J. Sheen
People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in… — Adam Smith
we raise them for us; that means we owe them some respect. nature is creul but we dont have to be. i wouldnt want to… — Temple Grandin
Tell me." Edward had to raise his voice a little. "Do you live by the principle that what people don't know can't hurt them?" "No,"… — Ginn Hale
What have we been doing all these centuries but trying to call God back to the mountain, or, failing that, raise a peep out of… — Annie Dillard
Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder. — Rumi
I can kill with a single word. I can hurl a ball of fire into the midst of my enemies. I rule a squadron of… — Margaret Weis
No utopia can ever give satisfaction to everyone, all the time. As their material conditions improve, men raise their sights and become discontented with power… — Arthur C. Clarke
Love can do all but raise the Dead I doubt if even that From such a giant were withheld Were flesh equivalent But love is… — Emily Dickinson

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