Rises Quotes
536 quotes by 437 authors
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America has no north, no south, no east, no west. The sun rises over the hills and sets over the mountains, the compass just points…
— Sam Watkins
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When your IQ rises to 28, sell.
— Irwin Corey
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I carry my thoughts about with me for a long time... before writing them down... once I have grasped a theme. I shall not forget…
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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The heavier our bodies, the higher our will, our spirit, rises above them.' 'The wearier we are, the more splendid the training.
— Ruth Benedict
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Sin aims always at the utmost; every time it rises up to tempt or entice, if it has its own way it will go out…
— John Owen
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Throughout history, knowledge rises and falls, ebbs and flows. What once was known is forgotten again, lost in time, sometimes for centuries, only to be…
— James Rollins
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The exchangeable value of all commodities rises as the difficulties of their production increase.
— David Ricardo
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My anti-Americanism has become almost uncontrollable. It has possessed me, like a disease. It rises up in my throat like acid reflux, that fashionable American…
— Margaret Drabble
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Storytelling is my passion, and it rises from a love of reading.
— Kelley Armstrong
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There is a special sensation in getting good wood on the ball and driving a double down the left-field line as the crowd in the…
— Rod Carew
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The sigh of History rises over ruins, not over landscapes, and in the Antilles there are few ruins to sigh over, apart from the ruins…
— Derek Walcott
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There's a story... a legend, about a bird that sings just once in its life. From the moment it leaves its nest, it searches for…
— Colleen McCullough
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Even if gas prices fall, consumers will continue to be gouged at the pump the only thing that we can be sure rises faster that…
— Major Owens
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I’m a total atheist, and for me it’s just about trying to find something that rises above the banal day-to-day bullshit of living.
— Myla Goldberg
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Are there not, dear Michael, Two points in the adventure of the diver,- One, when a beggar he prepares to plunge; One, when a prince…
— Robert Browning
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For my part, I rather distrust men or concerns that rise up with the speed of rockets. Sudden rises are sometimes followed by equally sudden…
— B. C. Forbes
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The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision of the world.
— Roger Scruton
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FBI Girl is a gorgeous, sumptuous book. Conlon-McIvor takes a subject (herself and her family) that might have sunk in other hands, beats egg white…
— Alexandra Fuller
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It is critical that the world captures every last bit of energy efficiency, if we are to reduce greenhouse gas emissions enough to keep below…
— Christiana Figueres
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But, I know enough people in that court, through the years, to know one thing: There's always somebody who surprises you, who rises above what…
— Arthur Hertzberg
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