Rises Quotes
536 quotes by 437 authors
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Evangelicalism is like my religious mother tongue. I revert to it whenever I’m angry or excited or surrounded by other people who understand what I’m…
— Rachel Held Evans
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Aesthetic value emanates from the struggle between texts: in the reader, in language, in the classroom, in arguments within a society. Aesthetic value rises out…
— Harold Bloom
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Mankind are tolerant of the praises of others as long as each hearer thinks that he can do as well or nearly as well himself,…
— Thucydides
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God, how pointless and empty the world is! Days filled with cheap and tarnished moments succeed each other, restless and haunted nights follow in bitter…
— Malcolm Lowry
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The form of my poem rises out of a past that so overwhelms the present with its worth and vision that I'm at a loss…
— Hart Crane
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Before us lie two paths - honesty and dishonesty. The shortsighted embark on the dishonest path; the wise on the honest. For the wise know…
— Napoleon Hill
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For each of us as women, there is a dark place within, where hidden and growing our true spirit rises, beautiful and tough as chestnut…
— Audre Lorde
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It is not easy for a people conditioned by fear under the iron rule of the principle that might is right to free themselves from…
— Aung San Suu Kyi
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Peter's Principle: In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence.
— Laurence J. Peter
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Do politicians understand just how difficult it could be, just how devastating rises of 4C, 5C or 6C could be? I think, not yet
— Nicholas Stern
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Justice-august and pure, the abstract idea of all that would be perfect in the spirits and the inspirations of men!-where the mind rises; where the…
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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As to the fable that there are Antipodes, that is to say, men on the opposite side of the earth where the sun rises when…
— Saint Augustine
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Love can become devotion. Love is the first step; only then can devotion flower. But for us even love is a faraway reality, sex is…
— Rajneesh
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Unless your sexuality rises and reaches to love it is mundane, it has nothing sacred about it. When your sex becomes love, then it is…
— Rajneesh
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As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but…
— Sallust
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As a lotus flower is born in water, grows in water and rises out of water to stand above it unsoiled, so I, born in…
— Gautama Buddha
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The space of the bow of any one of you in Paradise is better than all that the sun rises upon.
— Muhammad
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We are what we think, and all that we are rises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world. Speak and act with…
— Gautama Buddha
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Aeronautics confers beauty and grandeur, combining art and science for those who devote themselves to it. . . . The aeronaut, free in space, sailing…
— Georges Besancon
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The fragrance of sandalwood and rosebay does not travel far. But the fragrance of virtue rises to the heavens.
— Gautama Buddha
Who Wrote These Rises Quotes
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