Rising Quotes

852 Rising quotes by 651 unique authors

My only general rule was to steer away from things I played with the band over the past couple of tours. I was interested in… — Bruce Springsteen
What an economy really wants, after all, is not more investment per se but better investment. It wants capital to flow to companies that will… — James Surowiecki
We are told that the trouble with modern man is that he has been trying to detach himself from nature... In this scenario, Man comes… — Lewis Thomas
Climate change is a global problem. The planet is warming because of the growing level of greenhouse gas emissions from human activity. If this trend… — Malcolm Turnbull
He is now rising from affluence to poverty. — Mark Twain
If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments… — George Washington
When people are told to 'eat many small meals,' what they may actually hear is 'eat all the time,' making them likely to respond with… — Andrew Weil
The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil; to watch against the first risings in… — George Whitefield
The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going… — Carter G. Woodson
The American Dream, coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else, has kept the poor huddled masses… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
I believe in the literal rising of the body of Christ. It's the cornerstone of my Christian faith. — Francis Collins
By international standards, many of the U.K.'s policies for civil society are exemplary. However, there are concerns about constraints on civil liberties - particularly restrictions… — Geoff Mulgan
The leaves streamed down, trembling in the sun. They were not green, only a few, scattered through the torrent, stood out in single drops of… — Ayn Rand
American men are allotted just as many tears as American women. But because we are forbidden to shed them, we die long before women do,… — Pat Conroy
I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I… — Charles Dickens
I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel. — Terry Pratchett
A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief, And the dry stone no… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Sweet to think on it, that when we are last weary of all this world there is the rising sun — Anne Rice
When I heard the learn’d astronomer; When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me; When I was shown the charts and the… — Walt Whitman
Now I know that our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on the ocean. Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may… — Arthur Golden
When we traded homemaking for careers, we were implicitly promised economic independence and worldly influence. But a devil of a bargain it has turned out… — Barbara Kingsolver
Households that have lost the soul of cooking from their routines may not know what they are missing: the song of a stir-fry sizzle, the… — Barbara Kingsolver
The eye of a man should be still more reverent before the rising of a young maiden than before the rising of a star. The… — Victor Hugo
...."the sound of a barrel organ rising from the deepest golden vein of the day; two or three bars of a chorus, played on a… — Bruno Schulz
The society to which we belong seems to be dying or is already dead. I don't mean to sound dramatic, but clearly the dark side… — Anne Lamott

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