Rising Quotes - page 4

An individual has not begun to live until he can rise above the narrow horizons of his particular individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. And this is one of the big problems of life, that so many people never quite get to the point of rising above self. And so they end up the tragic victims of self-centeredness. They end up the victims of distorted and disrupted personality. (Martin Luther King Jr.)
It was an elevating, transforming vision: a new, fresh, vigorous, and above all morally regenerate people rising from the obscurity to defend the battlements of liberty and then in triumph standing forth, heartening and sustaining the cause of freedom everywhere. View quote
Bernard Bailyn
Thou rising Sun! thou blue rejoicing Sky! Yea! every thing that is and will be free! Bear witness for me, whereso'er ye be, With what deep worship I have still adored The spirit of divinest Liberty. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil. He cannot stop at the beast. The most savage of men are not beasts; they are worse, a great deal worse. View quote
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Whither, O splendid ship, thy white sails crowding, Leaning across the bosom of the urgent West, That fearest nor sea rising, nor sky clouding, Whither away, fair rover, and what thy quest? View quote
Robert Bridges
As they say on my own Cape Cod, a rising tide lifts all the boats. And a partnership, by definition, serves both partners, without domination or unfair advantage. Together we have been partners in adversity - let us also be partners in prosperity. View quote
John F. Kennedy
Age could not wither nor custom stale her infinite monotony: in fact, neither Age nor Custom could do anything (as they said, their voices rising) with the American novelist Gertrude Johnson. View quote
Randall Jarrell
Life is full of tough decisions, and nothing makes them easy. But the worst ones are really your personal koans, and tormenting ambivalence is just the sense of satori rising. Try, trust, try, and trust again, and eventually you'll feel your mind change its focus to a new level of understanding. View quote
Martha Beck
Oh no." I said panic rising in my chest. "No, no, no, Somebody get a can opener. I've got a god in my head!! View quote
Rick Riordan
Like a mermaid rising from an ocean of paper, the girl emerged across the room. View quote
Brian Selznick
The Magna Carta was the first class-based charter, enforced on the monarchy by the rising class. (Guy Standing)
The fire was silent, the little houses collapsing into the flames without complaint, flocks of sparks rising to the sky. At a distance it seemed beautiful, and I thought it was strange that powerful violence is often so pleasing to the eye... View quote
David Benioff
Volatility may be rising simply because investors must digest more information every day. View quote
Alex Berenson
Rising interest rates are considered bad for stocks because they raise the cost of doing business and depress corporate earnings and because higher yields make bonds relatively more attractive than stocks to investors. View quote
Alex Berenson
The rise of man from the animal to the human level was prolonged by the necessity of rising from a state of barbarism and violence to one of order and peace. View quote
Leon Bourgeois
No, nothing can change my world --Ichigo Kurosaki, Black Moon Rising. View quote
Tite Kubo
Blooming under a cold moon, we are like fireworks... Rising, shining, and finally scattering and fading. So until that moment comes when we vanish like fireworks... Lets us sparkle brightly, Always... View quote
Tite Kubo
Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising. View quote
Raymond Carver
It is education that will arm us with the tools that will enable us to succeed and put a stop to the rising rates of preventable death. View quote
Christy Turlington
With rising incomes, the share of expenditures for food products declines. The resulting shift in expenditures affects demand patterns and employment structures. View quote
Ernst Engel
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)
The rising costs of higher education coupled with the stress of paying student loans are putting increasing pressure on students. View quote
Hank Johnson
It's a combination of targeting higher paying jobs in these growth areas and fostering closer cooperation with higher education; a rising tide that lifts all boats. View quote
John Hoeven
Success is not in never failing, but rising everytime you fall! View quote
Jonathan Taylor Thomas
People ask me what I do in my spare time, and I look at them blankly, truly believing that I don't even have spare time, and if I did, I'd probably use it for something mundane, like chipping away at the mound of laundry rising to dangerous proportions in the back room. View quote
Kim Harrison
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