Rises Quotes

536 quotes by 437 authors

As society advances the standard of poverty rises. — Theodore Parker
This mournful truth is everywhere confessed, slow rises worth by poverty depressed. — Samuel Johnson
... In contrast to the "banality of evil," which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable acts of cruelty and degradation… — Philip Zimbardo
The sun, moving as it does, sets up processes of change and becoming and decay, and by its agency the finest and sweetest water is… — Aristotle
A house is never still in darkness to those who listen intently; there is a whispering in distant chambers, an unearthly hand presses the snib… — James M. Barrie
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh… — William Wordsworth
From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers. — Lucretius
That which rises and sinks is made up of what it rises from. The finality of the universe is the God Arunachala. Meditating on Him… — Ramana Maharshi
Each new machine or technique, in a sense, changes all existing machines and techniques, by permitting us to put them together into new combinations. The… — Alvin Toffler
Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered. — George Meredith
Powerful government tends to draw into it people with bloated egos, people who think they know more than everyone else and have little hesitance in… — Walter E. Williams
Gradually the sunken land begins to rise again, and falls perhaps again, and rises again after that, more and more gently each time, till as… — Charles Kingsley
Science does not rest upon solid bedrock. The bold structure of its theories rises, as it were, above a swamp. It is like a building… — Karl Popper
Wisdom is not a matter of study, but a matter of living, and of sure action which rises above opposites. — Nilakanta Sri Ram
The ego's phenomenal existence is transcended when you dive into the source from where the `I'-thought rises — Ramana Maharshi
It is characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top. — Robert M. Lindner
Everything rises and falls on leadership. — John C. Maxwell
For summer there, bear in mind, is a loitering gossip, that only begins to talk of leaving when September rises to go. — George Washington Cable
If God gives you an abundant harvest of trials, it is a sign of great holiness which He desires you to attain. Do you want… — Ignatius Loyola
For a billion years the patient earth amassed documents and inscribed them with signs and pictures which lay unnoticed and unused. Today, at last, they… — Hans Cloos

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