Raise Quotes - page 3

I have always striven to raise the voice of hope for a world where hate gives way to respect and oppression to liberation. (Theodore Bikel)
Here's what I see all across this great city - people working together to make Boston a better place to live and to raise children, to grow and pursue dreams. View quote
Thomas Menino
The strong is not the one who can put on the blades at a glance, and the one who is able to raise a smile from his knees! View quote
Juliette Binoche
It doesn't take a genius to see what happens when the entitlement state outgrows the economy upon which it rests. The time of Greece, Cyprus, Portugal, Spain, the rest of insolvent social-democratic Europe - and now Detroit - is the time for conservatives to raise the banner of Stein's Law and yell, ‘Stop.' You can kick the can down the road, but at some point it disappears over a cliff. View quote
Charles Krauthammer
To look at the paper is to raise a seashell to one's ear and to be overwhelmed by the roar of humanity. View quote
Alain de Botton
If you're offended by any word, in any language, it's probably because your parents were unfit to raise a child. View quote
Doug Stanhope
The first thing you have to do if you want to raise nice kids, is you have to talk to them like they are people instead of talking to them like they're property. View quote
Frank Zappa
My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can. View quote
Frank Zappa
To be first in the Middle East is not enough. We must raise ourselves to the level of a great world power. View quote
Muhammad Reza Pahlavi
Certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we're so fond of it. View quote
George Eliot
And now I see the face of god, and I raise this god over the earth, this god whom men have sought since men came into being, this god who will grant them joy and peace and pride. This god, this one word: 'I. (Ayn Rand)
I choose gentleness... Nothing is won by force. I choose to be gentle. If I raise my voice may it be only in praise. If I clench my fist, may it be only in prayer. If I make a demand, may it be only of myself. View quote
Max Lucado
If a tax on malt would raise the price of beer, a tax on bread must raise the price of bread. View quote
David Ricardo
But a tax on luxuries would no other effect than to raise their price. It would fall wholly on the consumer, and could neither increase wages nor lower profits. View quote
David Ricardo
To alter the money value of commodities, by altering the value of money, and yet to raise the same money amount by taxes, is then undoubtedly to increase the burthens of society. View quote
David Ricardo
A god who is both self-sufficient and content to remain so could not interest us enough to raise the question of his existence. View quote
W. H. Auden
I never learned how to tune a harp, or play upon a lute; but I know how to raise a small and inconsiderable city to glory and greatness. View quote
Themistocles
The prosecution... wants to make sure the process by which the evidence was obtained is not truthfully presented, because, as often as not, that process will raise questions. View quote
Alan Dershowitz
You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument. View quote
Samuel Johnson
For I've finally realized, that I could be infinitely better than before, definitely stronger. I'll face whatever comes my way, I'll savor each moment of the day, Love as many people as I can along the way. Help someone who's given up, even if it's just to raise my eyes and pray. View quote
Gloria Estefan
Even such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days. But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust! (Walter Raleigh)
You can feel nothing but a torment, and believe nothing but a lie. You will not raise your head to look at all the miracles of life that surround you; but you will run ten miles to see a fight or a death. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
We cannot afford to raise any institution to the rank of a fetish. To do so would be simply to become the slaves of our own machinery. View quote
Sri Aurobindo
A mere copier of nature can never produce any thing great, can never raise and enlarge the conceptions, or warm the heart of the spectator. View quote
Joshua Reynolds
The central fact for me is, I think, that the [role of the] intellectual ... cannot be played without a sense of being someone whose place it is publicly to raise embarrassing questions, to confront orthodoxy and dogma (rather than to produce them), to be someone who cannot easily be co-opted by governments or corporations, and whose raison d'être is to represent all those people and issues that are routinely forgotten or swept under the rug. View quote
Edward Said