Rising Quotes

Oft, on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound Over some wide-watered shore, Swinging low with sullen roar.

Spot the first risings of your besetting sin and kill it, till it is no more.

More than four billion people live within a stone's throw of the ocean, so what happens to it affects them immediately, daily, whether pollution, more frequent storms, or rising sea levels.

A rising economic tide is bad for people who live off of the poverty of others.

A perfect storm is in the making: financial uncertainty, economic downturn, government cuts, rising unemployment and a future that looks less clear the more we try to fathom it.

Healthcare costs are rising due to Obamacare.

I did my undergraduate work at the University of California when it was still affordable. But tuition keeps on rising.

Why the need, rising in some very nearly to the level of compulsion, to verify experience by way of language?-to scrupulously record and preserve the very passing of Time?

It's a funny thing, character, the way it brands people as they age, rising from within to leave its scar.

Something good was happening. My life was rising from the ashes, and the sight of it left me feeling something like hopeful.

The tail of the comet slashed the dawn and in the red light of the rising sun, for a brief instant, it seemed as if the comet was bleeding across the sky.

For a whole historic period after World War II, US capitalism was the strongest in the world and could afford to concede rising living standards.

Consider the true picture. Think of myriads of tiny bubbles, very sparsely scattered, rising through a vast black sea. We rule some of the bubbles. Of the waters we know nothing.

I think of the quietness of Julian's voice as he said I love you, the steadiness of his rib cage rising and falling against my back, as we sleep.I love you, Julian. But the words don't come.

Because you are human, you do have magic. Get in touch with it. When you feel the insanity rising, don't push it down. Let it come out. Just once-and then let me know what happens!

I feel like I swallowed a Magritte. Like on the inside, I'm made of clouds and floating eyes, green apples, and slowly rising men in bowler hats.

The rising productivity of labor is a myth, a statistical illusion created by measuring combined output in terms of labor input.

A nation that is capable of limitless sacrifice is capable of rising to limitless heights. The purer the sacrifice the quicker the progress.

The hardest heart and the grossest ignorance must disappear before the rising sun of suffering without anger and without malice.

In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: 'I am rising to a man's work.'

At day's first light have in readiness, against disinclination to leave your bed, the thought that "I am rising for the work of man."

I should never stand alone in this desert world, but that manna would drop from heaven, if I would but rise with every rising sun to gather it.

I am living with a rising generation which talks like people coming out of ether.

Grief can be a slow ache that never seems to stop rising, yet as we grieve, those we love mysteriously become more and more a part of who we are.

An overheating economy, characterized by accelerating inflation and rising interest rates, is another precondition for recession. This doesn't describe today's economy.

If you are not rising with ethichs, you will sink with every rise!

Your mind is your spirit; do not seek any other hidden soul inside you! All is in the brain! The depiction of a spirit rising to the sky is no more real than a medieval Scandinavian fairytales!

As the competition goes further along, you start to see who's rising and who's falling.

We have this rising nation China. And one of the things we want to do is make sure that China's neighbors are actually bound to us, bound to the United States.

Heaven's help is better than early rising.

I will get America working again and see rising take-home pay again.

The truth is that a life well lived is always lived on a rising scale of difficulty.

We have to fight terror in one voice, rising above politics. That is when the common people will feel secure.

Trinity Park lies directly across from the library, Trinity Church rising like a midieval thought amidst the glass and steel towers.

The sea is not rising. It hasn't risen in 50 years.

All you have to do is read the business literature. In the 1930s they were very frightened and they were concerned about how the rising power of the masses was hazardous to industrialists.

When you were alone in the rising ocean, you grabbed whatever raft passed by.

The wind is rising ... we must attempt to live.

I had been sort of a rising star - an athlete, a scholar, a leader. My dream was to become a high-level national security adviser.

At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

Look at the moon. How strange the moon seems! She is like a woman rising from a tomb. She is like a dead woman. One might fancy she was looking for dead things.

[Tom Cotton] is seen as a real rising star in the Republican Party. He's the youngest member of the United States Senate, routinely described as an up and comer.

Well,” she said. “I’m frustrated.” “Don’t make me angry-kiss you.” “Give me the laundry.” “Tempers rising, faces flushed … This is how it happens.

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.

THE KEY TO GENERATING LOYALTY AND RISING ABOVE THE GENERAL NOISE SEEMS TO BE ALL ABOUT CREATING AN AUTHENTIC VOICE.

My understanding of zombie movies is people rising from the dead, from their graves, stuff like that, and walking very slowly.

You half fancied that to go in as it was rising and dipping at the same time.

Love is not a compromise. It's something like the rising of the sun,although you've seen it a thousand times, you can't explain it.

Ease, a neutral state between pain and pleasure ... if it is not rising into pleasure will be falling towards pain.

Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it.