Rise Quotes

I just think that some version of the past in our culture is going to rise up and become dominant.

This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.

Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.

Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration.

On the other hand, it is not fair to say that changes in federal policy have caused our tuition to rise faster. Every economic argument imaginable would indicate that we should raise tuition at a faster rate than we do.

President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans and heal the planet. My promise... is to help you and your family.

I think an old style of addressing environmental problems is ebbing, but the rise of the so-called conservative, political movement in this country is not a trend towards the future but a reaction to this very broad shift that we are undergoing.

In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color.

In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.

The Temple of Diana is in the vicinity of the fountain, which has given rise to the conjecture that it originally constituted a portion of the ancient baths.

I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.

To business that we love we rise bedtime, and go to't with delight.

Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority. In two years Lyndon Johnson is assistant leader of his party. In four years he is the leader of his party.

A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.

When we deal with questions relating to principles of law and their applications, we do not suddenly rise into a stratosphere of icy certainty.

If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.

My Lords temporal, today is the day to rise up against the regiment of Lords spiritual and proclaim the values of enlightenment, compassion and common sense.

The rise in world oil prices has been larger than anyone forecast.

Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.

Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.

The theory of rights enables us to rise and overthrow obstacles, but not to found a strong and lasting accord between all the elements which compose the nation.

That the sun will not rise tomorrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.

If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.

Expenditures rise to meet income.

Rise above yourself.

Obeying instructions I should never dare to disregard, expressing, also, my own firm conviction, I rise in behalf of the State of New York to propose a nomination with which the country and the Republican party can grandly win.

We had to adjust and threw a few more rise balls and curves but it worked.

On the one hand, there are individual actions such as throwing, pushing, touching, rubbing. It is these individual actions that give rise most of the time to abstraction from objects.

The rise or fall of wages is common to all states of society, whether it be the stationary, the advancing, or the retrograde state.