Raises Quotes

The big discoveries raise questions that make astronomers work feverishly and argue with an agitation that verges on rudeness.

An 'almost gospel' doesn't raise a corpse.

What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering

If you can raise a family, then you can build a business.

The kind of problem that literature raises is not the kind that you ever 'solve'. Whether my answers are any good or not, they represent a fair amount of thinking about the questions.

You raze the old to raise the new.

Our culture raises us to seek success but we are not taught how to live with it.

I always say that a successful parent is one who raises a child so that they can pay for their own psychoanalysis.

We must raise and train an army of fighters for freedom.

In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.

I would like to live to a ripe old age and raise watermelons in Wyoming.

There is nothing more man needs than Divine Mercy - that love which is benevolent, which is compassionate, which raises man above his weakness to the infinite heights to the holiness of God.

Any fool can try to defend his or her mistakes- and most fools do- but it raises one above the herd and gives one a feeling of nobility and exultation to admit one's mistakes.

We wanted to raise a generation of heretics, but instead we raised a generation of ignoramuses

The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.

If you don't raise the bar, how will you ever know your potential?

When our wagon gets stuck in the mud, God is much more likely to assist the man who gets out to push than the man who merely raises his voice in prayer—no matter how eloquent the oration.

Those who raise envy will easily incur censure.

Some pretences daunt and discourage us, while others raise us to a brisk assurance.

Raise your energy. You attract what you radiate.

I can't raise the bar of others if I haven't raised the bar for myself.

Nothing raises the price of a blessing like its removal; whereas, it was its continuance which should have taught us its value. [It is wise to be grateful of what we have while we have it.]

If you can't raise consciousness, at least raise hell.

God raises the level of the impossible.

The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction.

Keep up the old standards, and day by day raise them higher.

The best way to raise a child is to LAY OFF!

[On Alfred Hitchcock:] Hitch is a gentleman farmer who raises goose flesh.

When we complain about our current situation, we remain in it; when we praise God in the midst of difficulty, He raises us out of it.

Raise your glass if you are wrong in all the right ways.

Music, when thus applied, raises noble hints in the mind of the hearer, and fills it with great conceptions. It strengthens devotion, and advances praise into rapture.

Dreadful experiences raise the question whether he who experiences them, is not something dreadful also.

Raise your words, not your voice.

Evil, in this system of ethics, is that which tears apart, shuts out the other person, raises barriers, sets people against each other.

When you raise your opinion of yourself and what you are capable of it has a decided influence on what you do.

The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.

Perfect prayer does not consist in many words, but in the fervor of the desire which raises the heart to Jesus.

The extra daily social time of 1.7 hours in weekends raises average happiness by about 2%.

I'll pour a cup to you my darling, raise it up, say Cheerio.

Enthusiasm is the yeast that raises the dough.

The unfortunate thing about money is that it always raises suspicion even amongst brothers.

We have to raise the status of girls and women in every country.

Feminist humor raises consciousness. And the reason it's funny is because it stands something on its head. Goodness knows you've got to have a sense of humor if you do feminism full-time, I tell you.

Every great artist raises art to a science, and every great scientist raises science to an art, hence we have Michelangelo's David and Einstein's Theory of Relativity.

Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.

High heels can literally raise your status because you're taller when you wear them.

He who owns a wood of proper land in this country, and, in the face of all the personal riches of the day, only raises crabs and choke pears, deserves to lose the respect of all sensible men.

Giving no pain to any creature, let him slowly accumulate spiritual merit, for the sake ,of acquiring a companion to the next world, just as the white ant ,gradually raises its hill.

All that is necessary to raise imbecility into what the mob regards as profundity is to lift it off the floor and put it on a platform.

The sun teaches to all things that grow their longing for the light. But it is night that raises them to the stars.