Rises Quotes
536 quotes by 429 authors
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The tongue can conceal the truth, but the eyes never! You're asked an unexpected question, you don't even flinch, it takes just a second to…
— Mikhail Bulgakov
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Time rises and rises, and when it reaches the level of your eyes you drown.
— Margaret Atwood
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Faith comes and goes. It rises and falls like the tides of an invisible ocean. If it is presumptuous to think that faith will stay…
— Flannery O'Connor
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The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the…
— James A. Baldwin
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I think of you often. Especially in the evenings, when I am on the balcony and it’s too dark to write or to do anything…
— Katherine Mansfield
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The night is full of mystery. Even when the moon is brightest, secrets hide everywhere. Then the sun rises and its rays cast so many…
— Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
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She put her hand on her chest. “I have magic yet. If you will set the clock working again, then I must be still. I…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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Discontented women are like pressure cookers. The steam rises and one day they just reach boiling point.
— Bella Pollen
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She serves me a piece of it a few minutes out of the oven. A little steam rises from the slits on top. Sugar and…
— Raymond Carver
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my courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me.
— Jane Austen
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I looked at it [revolver] as if it reminded me of a crime I had committed with an irrepressible smile such as rises sometimes to…
— Anais Nin
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The sweetness of dogs (fifteen) What do you say, Percy? I am thinking of sitting out on the sand to watch the moon rise. Full…
— Mary Oliver
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Magic, if that was the right word, often rises and falls on your own belief in your abilities. I've seen very powerful people completely crippled…
— Laurell K. Hamilton
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It was certainly not this mummified and outrageously painted old woman he was seeing before him, but the entire "female species," as it was his…
— Nikos Kazantzakis
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Maybe there's a whole other universe where a square moon rises in the sky, and the stars laugh in cold voices, and some of the…
— Stephen King
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This is what I wanted most to avoid: for my rises and falls to become Tobias's rises and falls. That's why I can't let him…
— Veronica Roth
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This world, it is a tempest sometimes. But remember, the sun always rises again.
— Brandon Sanderson
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Who says you cannot hold the moon in your hand? Tonight when the stars come out and the moon rises in the velvet sky, look…
— Vera Nazarian
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When soul rises Into lips You feel the kiss You have wanted
— Unknown Author
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A person rises on a word and falls on a syllable.
— Don DeLillo
Who Wrote These Rises Quotes
429 authors contributed a total of 536 Rises Quotes, led by these top contributors: