Rising Quotes
852 Rising quotes by 651 unique authors
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Human progress planned as alternatives (to God's plan) introduce in justice, evil and violence rising against the divine plan of justice and salvation. And despite…
— Pope John Paul II
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The man, who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight, has been present like an archangel at the creation of…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Grief can be a slow ache that never seems to stop rising, yet as we grieve, those we love mysteriously become more and more a…
— Mark Nepo
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I wish you were that birch rising from the clump behind you, and I the gray oak alongside.
— Donald Hall
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Suddenly, from behind the rim of the moon, in long, slow-motion moments of immense majesty, there emerges a sparkling blue and white jewel, a light,…
— Edgar Mitchell
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Among the environmental trends undermining our future are shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, collapsing fisheries, disappearing species, and rising temperatures. The temperature increases…
— Lester R. Brown
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Rising oil prices have focused the world's attention on the depletion of oil reserves. But the depletion of underground water resources from overpumping is a…
— Lester R. Brown
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Behind us lay the great Antarctic Land; snow peaks rising beyond one another until by distance they dwindled away into insignificancy. The silence and immobility…
— Unknown Author
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Love is not a compromise. It's something like the rising of the sun,although you've seen it a thousand times, you can't explain it.
— Unknown Author
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Whilst the last members were signing it Doctr. Franklin looking towards the Presidents chair, at the back of which a rising sun happened to be…
— James Madison
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The great battleground for the defense and expansion of freedom today is the whole southern half of the globe... the lands of the rising peoples.…
— John F. Kennedy
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There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the…
— William James
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Families, friends and communities often find a source of courage rising up from within. Indeed, sadly, it seems that it is tragedy that often draws…
— Queen Elizabeth II
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America, so far as her physical history is concerned, has been falsely denominated the New World. Hers was the first dry land lifted out of…
— Louis Agassiz
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As a songwriter, I try not to be sloppy; same with the music. You can be very lean, very efficient, so you're not wasting a…
— John Fogerty
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I am very proud of this work because it is more about the meaning of the Easter Rising and its relationship to what this whole…
— Leon Uris
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The dying often have the sensation of rising up and floating above their own body while it is surrounded by a medical team, and watching…
— Raymond Moody
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Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct…
— Samuel Johnson
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Can I confess something? I tell you this as an artist, I think you'll understand. Sometimes when I'm driving on the road at night I…
— Christopher Walken
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There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realized. ... Your path at 22 will not necessarily be your…
— Conan O'Brien
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