Quotes of: Rise-above Keyword

I'm severely overrated. I'm just above a hack.

Chris Rock

To be clear... no one is above the law.

Andrew Cuomo

You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.

Collected Works: Wise Blood / A Good Man is Hard to Find / The Violent Bear it Away / Everything that Rises Must Converge / Essays and Letters

I’ve long considered becoming a writer to be the death of nightmares. For me at least, since I started writing I hadn’t had any. Something really terrible or awful happens in a dream and you wake up and think, awesome, and reach for a pen and pap...

The Dead Will Rise First

A tawdry, cartoonlike version of female sexuality has become so ubiquitous, it no longer seems particular. What we once regarded as a *kind* of sexual expression we now regard *as* sexuality.

Female Chauvinist Pigs: Women and the Rise of Raunch Culture

Most people catch their presuppositions from their family and surrounding society, the way that a child catches the measles. But people with understanding realize that their presuppositions should be *chosen* after a careful consideration of which wo...

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

...all I could think about was how both sets of parents had needed to make their decision, on whether to medicate their child, in a scientific vacuum. (p. 35)

Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America

Ricci created memory palaces in his mind. Each item in the palace represented a series of concepts. The rooms and locations within the palace served as directories and files, similar to computer data storage. Ricci instantaneously learned, retained a...

Archangels: Rise of the Jesuits

I have read more about Oprah Winfrey’s ass than I have about the rise of China as an economic superpower. I fear this is no exaggeration. Perhaps China is rising as an economic superpower because its women aren’t spending all their time reading a...

How to Be a Woman

It's not that gays and diversity equal high technology. But if your culture is not such that it can accept difference, and uniqueness and oddity and eccentricity, you will not get high tech industry.

The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community, and Everyday Life

Americans were happy to celebrate their super-rich and, at least sometimes, worry about their poor. But putting those two conversations together and talking about economic inequality was pretty much taboo.

Plutocrats: The Rise of the New Global Super Rich and the Fall of Everyone Else

On the way, I shared the backseat of Feyerabend's little sports car with the inflatable raft he kept there in case an 8-point earthquake came while he was on the Bay Bridge.

The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science and What Comes Next

Some string theorists prefer to believe that string theory is too arcane to be understood by human beings, rather than consider the possibility that it might just be wrong.

The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science and What Comes Next

I ask again, and I want a better answer, WHAT are you!” He demanded. “I told you before, a human rises with the sun, but I rise with the moon. I am a mere immortal soul that feasts on your fears and flesh.” “Why won’t you answer my question...

Twisted!

The Motto of Champions: If you are hurt, you can suck it up and press on. If injured, you can rebound and return bigger and better...and continue to inspire!

From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

Scorned and torn, former love mates aim and shoot childish devastating daggers that penetrate beyond target to pierce the heart of their offspring.

From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

Mix a little time with some space, and suddenly good things fall right into place. No worries, don't doubt it - just build!

From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

Hating skin color is contempt for God's divine creative imagination. Honoring it is appreciation for conscious, beautiful-love-inspired diversity.

From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

I'll date you, love...not you and your iPad. I can't feel plastic palm play; I'm live like Memorex.

From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

Life: It is better not to wrap philosophy around such an inconceivable evolving beautiful mystery. If based on perception, alone; whatever the conclusion - it is still guessing.

From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"

The energy it took to exit mother’s womb is the same force required to manifest a dream...a different kind of struggle. Push, push, push!

From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"