Quotes of: Rise-above Keyword

Keep in mind too, our failures serve to teach us, and usually teach us more than our successes do. What we may perceive as a failure is also an opportunity for someone else to rise to the occasion and perform a mitzvah, or mitzvot. Do not begrudge so...

What The Torah Teaches Us About Life / Through The Themes Of The Weekly Torah Portions

Alfred: If you're seriously considering going back out there, you should hear the rumors surrounding Bane. Bruce Wayne: I'm all ears. Alfred: There is a prison in a more ancient part of the world, a pit where men are thrown to suffer and die. But som...

The Dark Knight Rises

[from the 30th Anniversary Edition - additional scenes] Darlene Davies: So you don't think they'll find some kind of virus, or germ? Reverend John Hicks: No. Those creatures were demons, creatures of Satan inhabiting the bodies of our dead. And the d...

Night of the Living Dead

On June 23, 1942, there was a group of French Jews in a German prison, on Polish soil. The first person I took was close to the door, his mind racing, then reduced to pacing, then slowing down, slowing down.... Please believe me when I tell you that ...

The Book Thief

All people want to belong to some sort of hierarchy. Allow me to explain. The rich want to be the richest; the poor want to be the smartest; those who are both rich and smart want to be the better persons; the better persons want to go to heaven; tho...

C. JoyBell C.

In many ways the rise of the state was the descent of the world from freedom to slavery

Cannibals and Kings: Origins of Cultures

As sure as shadow follows substance and the sun rises on the east and sets on the west, a person who exercises professional excellence will be followed by success.

Called To Excel

Losing someone you love is harder. One minute they're there, the next they're gone. There were times I wished they would rise up from the dead.

Chosen

She wasn't to know there was no room for Soren - or any other boy - in my heart. There was only one boy taking up that place. Luca.

Dark Heart Rising

He’d seen a lot of bizarre items left at gravesides, like a carton of eggs, a pair of reading glasses, a bag of licorice, smooth stones, a spoon.

Dawn Rising

There is no reason to feel embarrassed, Krysta." "Easy for you to say! You weren't caught mentally checking out my package!" ~ Étienne and Krysta

Darkness Rises

Sweetie, I’m not a flowers and chocolates kind of gal,” she said, leaning into him. “Well, maybe the chocolate.” “I was going to say.” — Krysta and Étienne

Darkness Rises

Will your dad freak if I kiss you good-bye?” he asked.

Early to Death, Early to Rise

She lifted a shoulder casually and slowly blinked. "Where do you want to be?" "With you," he answered without hesitation.

Fire Rising

The forces of the sea give rise to imagination, which reflects them according to the nature and disposition of the perceiver. The sea itself is undifferentiated and without bias.

The Gray Isles

...as we rise from the organic and sink back ignominiously into the organic, it is a glory and a privilege to love what Death doesn't touch.

The Goldfinch

They thrived on the rapid turnover of acquaintances, the lack of involvement with others, and the total self-sufficiency of lives which, needing nothing, were never dissapointed.

High-Rise

Be Like The Phoenix. From The Midst Of Your Ashes...Get Up And Rise Again!

Bullying Ben: How Benjamin Franklin Overcame Bullying

Rising from the dead? Glowing at sunrise? What did that make him, the god of cheerful mornings and macabre surprises?

The Broken Kingdoms

And then when all around grows dark, when we feel utterly alone, when all men right and left pass us by and know us not, a forgotten feeling rises in the breast.

Max Muller

Finally the dawn came, the sky fringed with pink, and the sun bright as a coin in a spill of rising red.

The $60,000 Dog: My Life with Animals