Quotes of: Rise-above Keyword

A loach can't emulate a goldfish. Because of my looks, the public support rating for us won't rise.

Yoshihiko Noda

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.

Andrew Coyle Bradley

I'm not particularly a feminist, but if you get women off the animal cycle of reproduction and give them some say in how many children they'll have, immediately the floor will rise.

Christopher Hitchens

It was then between one o'clock in the morning and half-past that hour; the sky soon cleared a bit before me, and the lunar crescent peeped out from behind the clouds - that sad crescent of the last quarter of the moon. The crescent of the new moon, ...

Ghostly By Gaslight

Yet the possibility of information storage, beyond what men and governments ever had before, can make available at the touch of a button a man's total history (including remarks put on his record by his kindergarten teacher about his ability and char...

How Should We Then Live? The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture

Sad to say, in a present-day world that seems to be governed by clashing self--interests and material forces, where we have learned that idealistic rhetoric usually cloaks nationalistic purposes or even far more diabolical schemes, it has become incr...

Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World

Although the Civil War was an apocalyptic success in the sense that it brought an end to nearly a century of struggle and broken hopes regarding the ultimate extinction of African American slavery, it also combined new freedoms, as in other major rev...

Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World

<...> many national leaders including Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton, John Adams, John Jay, Gouverneur Morris, and Rufus King saw American slavery as an immense problem, a curse, a blight, or a national disease. If the degree of t...

Inhuman Bondage: The Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World

When exactly did this all change, and what were the social and theological factors that led to the change? The answer seems to be in the second century and: (1) because of the consolidation of ecclesial power in the hands of monarchial bishops and ot...

Making a Meal of It: Rethinking the Theology of the Lord's Supper

The sweetness of dogs (fifteen) What do you say, Percy? I am thinking of sitting out on the sand to watch the moon rise. Full tonight. So we go and the moon rises, so beautiful it makes me shudder, makes me think about time and space, makes me take m...

Swan: Poems and Prose Poems

And in me too the wave rises. It swells; it arches its back. I am aware once more of a new desire, something rising beneath me like the proud horse whose rider first spurs and then pulls him back. What enemy do we now perceive advancing against us, y...

The Waves

The boy knelt, shoulders bowed, on the sand in the grey of morning, moaning softly, fearfully. Glowing tendrils of energy streamed across the agitated sky, converging high above him in a vortex of brightness. He flung his hands heavenward and a sheet...

Salome

I am a relationship phoenix: I crash and burn and then I rise and start again.

Crash Test Love

Poetry ... ... a place for the genuine, Hands that can grasp, eyes that can dilate, hair that can rise

Complete Poems

Why do you eat your own heart? Because, O King, it is bitter, and because it is my heart.

Dead Man Rising

In every problem there is opportunity to win or lose, rise or fall...Ur actions or reactions are the deciding factor

Discovering Yourself

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable.

Ends and Means

For M & B. Should you ever get to read this, to remind you that when life offers you a challenge: rise to the occasion.

Forget Heels!

Even the Sun gets tired of rising, but he does it out of love for the Earth...

The Forgotten Tale of Larsa

But the more I think it, the more I want her, the more my desire rises and swells.

Fingersmith

She trusted him. Her heart knew him. And her body wanted him.

Fire Rising