Rising Quotes
852 Rising quotes by 651 unique authors
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Blood transforms the warm bath water and, in it, I see weakly that this was a mistake. The razor's cut is not deep, nevertheless the…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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The nation is sick; trouble is in the land, confusion all around...But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Admiration is a very short lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it still be fed with fresh discoveries, and…
— Joseph Addison
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I saw Chungking for the first time more than 40 years ago - a city of hills and mists, of grays and lavenders, two rivers…
— Theodore White
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The leviathan state, that monster devouring civilization in this century, is in the throes of death. This is not a wish or a prediction, but…
— Llewellyn Rockwell
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There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most…
— Francis Bacon
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I have been long sensible that while I was endeavoring to render our country the greatest of all services, that of regenerating the public education,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Contented saturnine human figures, a dozen or so of them, sitting around a large long table...Perfect equality is to be the rule; no rising or…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. He recounts the decency and…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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There can be no real conflict between the two Books of the Great Author. Both are revelations made by Him to man,-the earlier telling of…
— James Dwight Dana
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It is the penalty of fame that a man must ever keep rising. "Get a reputation, and then go to bed," is the absurdest of…
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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None, but people of strong passion are capable of rising to greatness.
— Honore Gabriel Riqueti, comte de Mirabeau
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Music should be healing, music should uplift the soul, music should inspire; then there is no better way of getting closer to God, of rising…
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
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At any rate, if evolution turns out to be true, then the Christian should embrace it as one dedicated to following the truth wherever it…
— Paul Copan
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The waters are rising, but so am I. I am not going under, but over.
— Catherine Booth
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A cloud of incense was rising on high; the people suddenly all bowed low; what could it mean? The truth flashed on him, fearfully yet…
— John Henry Newman
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If anyone, then, asks me the meaning of our flag, I say to him - it means just what Concord and Lexington meant; what Bunker…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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My custom is to read four or five chapters of the Bible every morning immediately after rising. It seems to me the most suitable manner…
— John Quincy Adams
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We need spirited, energetic and strong young people whose hearts are filled with life, enthusiasm, zeal and dynamism; whose souls are full of ambition, aspiration…
— Hassan al-Banna
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