Rise Quotes

The modern rise of Alzheimer's Disease in the twentieth century is not a sign of failure. It's a sign of success. Success in living long enough to see that disease expressed.

~ S. Jay Olshansky

The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other.

~ Honoré De Balzac

Some have said that 'Frankenstein' is a story of a bad parenting giving rise to a troubled child.

~ Dave Morris

Formula for success: rise early, work hard, strike oil.

~ J. Paul Getty

The science tells us that if we fail to reduce global warming pollution, global temperatures will rise to dangerous levels and unleash devastating extreme weather events and accelerate destructive sea level rise.

~ Frances Beinecke

Predicting has a spotty record in science fiction. I've had some failures. On the other hand, I also predicted the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rise of fundamentalist Islam... and I'm not happy to be right in all of those cases.

~ David Brin

To pursue science is not to disparage the things of the spirit. In fact, to pursue science rightly is to furnish the framework on which the spirit may rise.

~ Vannevar Bush

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.

~ Winston Churchill

A nation will rise no higher than the strength of its homes.

~ Gordon B. Hinckley

I know what it's like to be an outcast in society. I know what it's like to want to find strength, and more importantly, I know what it's like to find that internal strength and rise out of the pain of being just sort of a weirdo.

~ Andy Biersack

To make a full-blooded puff pastry, you need time, you need patience, and you need precision. It's all about the lamination: it's all about building up the layers of butter, dough, butter, dough; as the butter melts, it creates steam, and that brings up the layers of the two doughs apart from each other, and that's what gives it the rise.

~ Paul Hollywood

Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen to a horror.

~ D. H. Lawrence

The rise or fall of Shanghai means the birth or death of the whole nation.

~ Chiang Kai-Shek

We ourselves can die with comfort and even with joy if we know that death is but a passport to blessedness, that this intellect, freed from all material chains, shall rise and shine.

~ Matthew Simpson

Equal pay isn't just a women's issue; when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits.

~ Mike Honda

The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise.

~ Kenny G

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

~ Jacques Barzun

The wretched and miserable would rise into plenty of joy and happiness as soon as they climb the steps of my mosque.

~ Sai Baba

Since the rise of Homo sapiens, human beings have been the smartest minds around. But very shortly - on a historical scale, that is - we can expect technology to break the upper bound on intelligence that has held for the last few tens of thousands of years.

~ Eliezer Yudkowsky

Richard M. Helms, the first director of Central Intelligence to rise from the ranks, was fond of saying that the CIA had been founded to make sure that there would never be another Pearl Harbor. Underlying this mission impossible was the wishful supposition that an America that knew everything could prevent anything.

~ Charles Mccarry

Gothic architecture requires individual craftsmanship. The wish to create an enclosed world for the congregation gives rise in Gothic architecture to the need to create something wherein the activity of the congregation plays a part.

~ Rudolf Steiner

Our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all and thought to include all; but now, to aid in making the bondage of the Negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, sneered at, construed, hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.

~ Abraham Lincoln

It's hard to see how the Copyright Office can rise to the many challenges of the 21st-century work that you do without dramatically more independence and dramatically more flexibility.

~ Ted Deutch

Life isn't fair. It's true, and you still have to deal with it. Whining about it rarely levels the playing field, but learning to rise above it is the ultimate reward.

~ Harvey Mackay

You can't make a souffle rise twice.

~ Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Modern agriculture has been accurately described as a way of turning oil into food. As the price of oil continues to rise, so will the price of food.

~ Jeremy Grantham

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.

~ Jean Piaget

No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you.

~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah

The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.

~ David Hume

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

~ Robert Frost

You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise.

~ Maya Angelou

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

~ Abraham Lincoln

America may be slow to rise to a challenge. But our history has shown that once we make up our minds to really do something, nothing can stand in our way.

~ Carrie P. Meek

Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall.

~ Paul Harris

Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the Peace Corps as it reached its 45th anniversary on March 1, 2006.

~ Solomon Ortiz

Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political power gives rise to legislation that increases and accelerates the cycle.

~ Noam Chomsky

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

~ Dwight D. Eisenhower

Advancement and promotion in Mystic Masonry is not dependent on favor; it cannot be given till it has been earned and the candidate has stored in himself the power to rise, any more than a pistol can be fired till it has been loaded.

~ Max Heindel

With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds.

~ Orville Wright

Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurrection. Let him say not merely, 'Christ is risen,' but 'I shall rise.'

~ Phillips Brooks