Rises Quotes

Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.

You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to our humanity - it's like a folk music that rises up out of a culture.

Protecting Americans from nuclear terrorism rises above politics.

The form of my poem rises out of a past that so overwhelms the present with its worth and vision that I'm at a loss to explain my delusion that there exist any real links between that past and a future worthy of it.

When your IQ rises to 28, sell.

Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it.

There's almost 70 billion in square feet under construction in high rises in commercial, residential and light manufacturing. And we estimate about 30 billion square feet, and that's with a 'B,' is commercial, that we would just consider office space. To put that in perspective, that's a 5x5-foot cubicle for every man, woman and child in China.

As long as the sun rises over Ontario and sets over the Pacific, I will dedicate myself to bringing the people of Oregon what they want and need most - an era of hope, change, and economic renewal.

He that rises late must trot all day.

The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill.

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

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.

But, in addition, there is, all through the tragedy, a constant alternation of rises and falls in this tension or in the emotional pitch of the work, a regular sequence of more exciting and less exciting sections.

If Russia rises, it means that the USA falls down.

Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.

Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

I get up at an unholy hour in the morning my work day is completed by the time the sun rises. I have a slightly bad back which has made an enormous contribution to American literature.

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

There's rises and falls and ups and downs in all music.

As the cost of gasoline rises and our dependence on foreign oil continues to increase, the effect of sending over $100 billion each year to OPEC nations hurts every American.

A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory.

Well, Barry, it's your film. So if it rises or falls, you're the man.

The exchangeable value of all commodities, rises as the difficulties of their production increase.

The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light.

Music is an art that expresses the inexpressible. It rises far above what words can mean or the intelligence define. Its domain is the imponderable and impalpable land of the unconscious.

What concerns me, is the general social tendency to enforce a level, above which nothing rises and stands out.

And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.

You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!

Even if gas prices fall, consumers will continue to be gouged at the pump the only thing that we can be sure rises faster that the price of gasoline is the skyrocketing profits of oil companies.