Rising Quotes
852 Rising quotes by 651 unique authors
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The word is a thing of mystery, so volatile that it vanishes almost on the lip, yet so powerful that it decides fates and determines…
— Romano Guardini
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Literature is love. I think it went like this: drawings in the cave, sounds in the cave, songs in the cave, songs about us. Later,…
— Eileen Myles
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The sickness rolled through me in great waves. After each wave it would fade away and leave me limp as a wet leaf and shivering…
— Sylvia Plath
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If our government won't spend the money to protect New Orleans sufficiently today, what are the chances we will spend the money to protect dozens…
— Joseph J. Romm
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Our planet has a rising fever. If the crib catches fire you don't say: 'Hmmm, how fast is that crib going to burn? Has it…
— Al Gore
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We all lived through September 11. I was here at the Capitol that day. I saw the evil of our enemies written in the smoke…
— Mike Pence
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Whoever wishes to make progress in perfection should use particular diligence in not allowing himself to be led away by his passions, which destroy with…
— St. Vincent
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None of it gets to be 'old stuff', for it is Christ in print, the Living Word. We wouldn't think of rising in the morning…
— Jim Elliot
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To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the…
— Isaac Watts
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The true Christian hero will appear in the cause of Christ, not only when it is prevailing, but when it seems to be declining; (he)…
— Matthew Henry
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You will never find Jesus so precious as when the world is one vast howling wilderness. Then he is like a rose blooming in the…
— Robert Murray M'Cheyne
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The theory of economic shock therapy relies in part on the roleof expectations on feeding an inflationary process. Reining in inflation requires not only changing…
— Naomi Klein
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What motivates most gold purchasers is their belief that the ranks of the fearful will grow. During the past decade that belief has proved correct.…
— Warren Buffett
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Wisdom consists in rising superior both to madness and to common sense, and is lending oneself to the universal illusion without becoming its dupe.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings and strictly honest, who complained of hard luck. A good character, good habits…
— Joseph Addison
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Christian living means dying with Christ and rising again. That, as we saw, is part of the meaning of baptism, the starting point of the…
— N. T. Wright
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They were like the man with the dungeon stone and gloom, rising from the underground, the sordid hipsters of America, a new beat generation that…
— Jack Kerouac
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San Francisco businesses face many challenges, including high rents, regulatory burdens, and the rising cost of workers compensation insurance and employee health plans
— Gavin Newsom
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I wish I could tell you about the South Pacific. The way it actually was. The endless ocean. The infinite specks of coral we called…
— James A. Michener
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I have read more about Oprah Winfrey’s ass than I have about the rise of China as an economic superpower. I fear this is no…
— Caitlin Moran
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