Quotes with rising

  • The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
  • I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.

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  • Publilius Syrus At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Blind Lemon Jefferson Back water rising, coming in my windows and doors I leave with a prayer in my heart: back water won't rise no more
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  • Honoré Gabriel Riqueti Count of Mirabeau None, but people of strong passion are capable of rising to greatness.
    Honoré Gabriel Riqueti Count of Mirabeau
    French revolutionary and writer (1749 - 1791)
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  • Confucius Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • William James There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision, and for whom the lighting of every cigar, the drinking of every cup, the time of rising and going to bed every day, and the beginning of every bit of work, are subjects of express volitional deliberation.
    William James
    American philosopher (1842 - 1910)
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  • Barry Cornwall A single star is rising in the east, and from afar sheds a most tremulous lustre; silent Night doth wear it like a jewel on her brow.
    Barry Cornwall
    English poet (pen name of Bryan Procter) (1787 - 1874)
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  • Joseph Addison Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Gabriel Garcia Marquez An early-rising man... a good spouse but a bad husband.
    Gabriel Garcia Marquez
    Colombian writer (1927 - 2014)
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  • Ban Ki-moon Climate change, in some regions, has aggravated conflict over scarce land, and could well trigger large-scale migration in the decades ahead. And rising sea levels put at risk the very survival of all small island states. These and other implications for peace and security have implications for the United Nations itself.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little dearth.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • John F. Kennedy Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Bill Dedman Fans love Sosa for his exuberance, for the kisses he blows to his mother, wife and four children. He is Slammin' Sammy, a fairy-tale figure rising from poverty in the Dominican Republic to the 55th floor above Chicago's Lake Shore Drive.
    Bill Dedman
    American journalist (1960 - )
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  • Al Gore George Bush taking credit for the wall coming down is like the rooster taking credit for the sun rising.
    Al Gore
    American politician and environmentalist (1948 - )
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  • Dhammapada He who holds back rising anger like a rolling chariot, him I call a real driver; other people are but holding the reins
    Dhammapada
    collection of sayings of the Buddha in verse form
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  • Bernie Sanders Hillary Clinton is listening to the scientists who tell us that - unless we act boldly and transform our energy system in the very near future - there will be more drought, more floods, more acidification of the oceans, more rising sea levels.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Bob Filner However, as a parent, as a grandparent, as a former educator, I know that these practices alone when we are dealing with young children are insufficient. We will never control this rising epidemic without greater accountability from the food industry.
    Bob Filner
    American politician (1942 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis I believe in Christianity as I believe in the rising sun; not because I see it, but by it I can see all else.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Burt Shavitz I had no desire to be an upward-mobile-rising yuppie with a trophy wife, a trophy house, a trophy car. I wasn't looking for any of those things. I already had what I wanted.
    Burt Shavitz
    American beekeeper and businessman (1935 - 2015)
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  • Richard Brinsley Sheridan I open with a clock striking, to beget an awful attention in the audience - it also marks the time, which is four o clock in the morning, and saves a description of the rising sun, and a great deal about gilding the eastern hemisphere.
    Richard Brinsley Sheridan
    Anglo-Irish dramatist (1751 - 1816)
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  • Marcus Aurelius In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: 'I am rising to a man's work.'
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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