Rise Quotes

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers.

But the technology was accessible, which suggests incompetence on the part of our counterintelligence community and the Clinton Administration, and may in fact rise to the level of treason.

For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

The rise of China as a new power is another great challenge for the US. Our failure to properly handle Germany and Japan earlier in the 20th century cost us and the world dearly. We must not make this same mistake with China.

All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That, addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy.

Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.

I feel like contemporary art is everywhere now and with the rise of the internet, it's so much easier to see what artists are doing and to follow their careers.

Every unfortunate event does not give rise to lawsuit.

It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty.

In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.

There is a certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.

The war being fought in Afghanistan and Iraq is bringing about a fundamental change to the environment that has given rise and power to the extremists who export terrorism.

It's clear that the medium and long-run fiscal challenges facing the country have to do with the rise of entitlement spending, they have to do with the longer run imbalances that we've created in the structure of the system.

Nobody can deny there is a rise of Islamic fundamentalism.

Global warming is not a conqueror to kneel before - but a challenge to rise to. A challenge we must rise to.

I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning.

Since 2000, we've seen base power rates rise by 50%.

I also rise today in strong support of forward movement on the implementation of health information technology, which has the potential to save the United States billions of dollars in health care costs each year.

Lives in eternity's sun rise.

Atlantis will rise again.

The human rights record within China seems to rise and fall over time, but it's very clear that in the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and since then, there's been a greater intolerance of dissent and the human rights record of China has been going in the wrong direction.

The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

I live in a high rise with my family part of the year in New York and I don't know three quarters of the people in the building. We live in the same square-footage and I wouldn't know who they were.

The rise of childhood obesity has placed the health of an entire generation at risk.

The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times.

Where much is expected from an individual, he may rise to the level of events and make the dream come true.