Life is like a game of limbo in reverse. The bar keeps rising higher and we need to keep rising to the occasion.
The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.
The United States and Russia probably do not have common aims and dreams, but they have common worries: Both Washington and Moscow are concerned about the rise of China and are threatened by the rise of radical Islam.
Worthiness should not be defined by the whims of magic weapons. Rise, my son, and let the hammer be damned. Rise and remember the hero that you are.
You can't rise as a class. You have to rise individually. It's what many of the civil rights-era people don't understand.
A star wants to see himself rise to the top. A leader wants to see those around him rise to the top.
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
Few people rise to our esteem upon closer scrutiny.
The rooster said, "I shall cry but whether the sun rises God knows."
We have lied to ourselves. We have not built this box for the good of our brothers. We built it for its own sake. It is above all our brothers to us, and its truth above their truth.
We have to believe that the desires we have in our hearts will be fulfilled if we continue to trust and believe in him and His Word.
God desires to have such a close and intimate relationship with Him, and He wants to be the first place you go to and be your place of peace and rest.
The good thing about having our buttons pushed is that we can no longer ignore the sensitive areas where we need to heal.
The career of politics grants a feeling of power. The knowledge of influencing men, of participating in power over them, and above all, the feeling of holding in one's hands a nerve fiber of historically important events can elevate the professional ...
When you take all three categories of temptation to self-reliance – wisdom, might and riches – they form a powerful inducement toward the ultimate form of pride, namely, atheism. The safest way to stay supreme in our own estimation is to deny any...
The most beautiful things in the universe are the starry heavens above us and the feeling of duty within us.
A just man falls seven times, and rises up again. Proverbs 24:16
He who gets a name for early rising can stay in bed until midday.
Never sit in the place of a man who can say to you, "Rise.".
A dark shadow rose from the depth of the watercourse. Forced to crawl out of the oceans rolling waves, it struggled against the pull of the undertow. Rising, it moved further up the white sandy beach away from the cold water. The creature collapsed o...
Sometimes time can play tricks. One moment it idles by, an hour can seem a lifetime, such as when sitting by the river at dusk watching the bats snatching insects above the limpid waters; the breaching fish causing ringed ripples and a satisfying plo...
