Lifts Quotes - Page 38

• The greatness of peoples springs from their ability to grasp the grand conceptions of being. It is the absorption of a people, of a nation, of a rare, in large majestic and abiding things which lifts them up to the skies.

  Alexander Crummell

  Spring, Greatness, Sky

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• With an agenda dominated by global security and U.N. reform, it appears that the decisions needed to lift millions of people from abject poverty are not being given the prominence they deserve.

  Kumi Naidoo

  People, Decision, Reform

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• Steve Harmison was a big disappointment in South Africa, and I don't know the reason why, but he has to lift his game.

  Jeff Thomson

  Disappointment, Games, Reason Why

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• When compassion for the common man was born on Christmas Day, with it was born new hope among the multitudes. They feel a great, ever-rising determination to lift themselves and their children our of hunger and disease and misery, up to a higher level. Jesus started a fire upon the earth, and it is burning hot today, the fire of a new hope in the hearts of the hungry multitudes.

  Frank Laubach

  Jesus, Determination, Children

  Frank Charles Laubach (1958). “The world is learning compassion”

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• And also it was a process of, we lifted weights as well, in an effort to train my body to then be able to lift heavier weights when I got in Australia. So that was the first couple of months.

  Brandon Routh

  Couple, Australia, Effort

  "Brandon Routh for 'Superman Returns'". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. June 16, 2006.

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• Great paintings have gradations, large and small... They serve to lift the subject off the two-dimensionality of the canvas. Gradations are an essential abstract convention.

  Robert Genn

  Two, Essentials, Canvas

  Robert Genn (1996). “The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn”, p.20, Studio Beckett Publications

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• Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal Nature lifts her changeful form: Mounts from her funeral pyre on wings of flame, And soars and shines, another and the same.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Flames, Wings, Shining

  Erasmus Darwin (1807). “The Botanic Garden: A Poem, in Two Parts: Part I. Containing The Economy of Vegetation. Part II. The Loves of the Plants”, p.117

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• The one quality which sets one man apart from another- the key which lifts one to every aspiration while others are caught up in the mire of mediocrity- is not talent, formal education, nor intellectual brightness - it is self-discipline. With self-discipline all things are possible. Without it, even the simplest goal can seem like the impossible dream.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Dream, Men, Keys

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• If you think you're hearing something and you can't think what it is. If you feel a quiet longing lift your heart into the wind. There you'll find my kindred spirit. There you'll meet me as a friend. It is just a kindred spirit and a song to let you in.

  Cyndi Lauper

  Song, Heart, Thinking

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• Somewhere out there are a few men with more innate talent at golf than Jack Nicklaus, or women with greater ability at tennis than Chris Evert or Martina Navratilova, but they will never lift a club or swing a racket and therefore will never find out how great they could have been. Instead, they'll be content to sit and watch stars perform on television.

  Donald Trump

  Stars, Golf, Men

  Donald Trump (2016). “Trump: The Art of the Deal”, p.37, Random House

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• Mondays I sleep. I go in at ten, do my lift, watch the game from the day before. Tuesday is off, but I go in, lift, watch film. Then I have French toast with my sister.

  Ndamukong Suh

  Monday, Sleep, Games

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• High heels are like a beauty lift. In a flat you can feel beautiful, but a stiletto changes your mood, how you move - like a wild, beautiful animal. The idea was always to follow a women's wardrobe, her desires.

  Giuseppe Zanotti

  Beautiful, Moving, Animal

  "The Man, the Myth, The Shoes: Giuseppe Zanotti Celebrates 20 Years". Interview with Kerry Pieri, www.harpersbazaar.com. April 18, 2014.

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• I want to get down to the nuts and bolts of what is actually going to change to lift New Zealands economic performance.

  David Cunliffe

  Nuts, Want, Economic

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• Celebration is big for me. From my younger days, when I used to win mementos while playing basketball, I have always believed in sharing my success. It has to be there. It lifts the energy levels of the entire side if you are positive and vocal when a wicket falls.

  Suresh Raina

  Positive, Success, Basketball

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• How happy he who can still hope to lift himself from this sea of error! What we know not, that we are anxious to possess, and cannot use what we know.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Errors, Sea, Use

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• Oh how our neighbour lifts his nose,
  To tell what every schoolboy knows.

  Jonathan Swift

  Education, Noses, Knows

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Park (1808). “The Poetical Works of Jonathan Swift, ...: Collated with the Best Editions:”, p.153

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• The great characteristic of men of active genius is a sublime self-confidence, springing not from self-conceit, but from an intense identification of the man with his object, which lifts him altogether above the fear of danger and death, which gives to his enterprise a character of insanity to the common eye, and which communicates an almost superhuman audacity to his will.

  Edwin Percy Whipple

  Character, Eye, Self Confidence

  Edwin Percy Whipple (1851). “Literature and life, lects”, p.87

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• Love, the one supreme, unceasing source of human felicity, the one sole joy which lifts the whole mortal existence into the empyrean, was by it [Christianity] degraded into the mere mechanical action of reproduction.

  Ouida

  Joy, Religion, Action

  Ouida (1896). “Views and Opinions”

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• Fools gain greater advantages through their weakness than intelligent men through their strength. We watch a great man struggling against fate and we do not lift a finger to help him. But we patronize a grocer who is headed for bankruptcy.

  Honore de Balzac

  Struggle, Fate, Men

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• Above the clouds I lift my wing
  To hear the bells of Heaven ring;
  Some of their music, though my fights be wild,
  To Earth I bring;
  Then let me soar and sing!

  Edmund Clarence Stedman

  Fighting, Clouds, Wings

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• Be He nowhere else, God is in all that liberates and lifts, in all that humbles, sweetens, and consoles.

  James Russell Lowell

  God, Console

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.446

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• The two kinds of people on earth are the people who lift and the people who lean.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Two, People, Earth

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox, “Which Are You?”

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• The church itself has got to go outside of its own borders and carry the gospel to ev'ry creature, or it is no church of Christ; and any mutual improvement club which thinks that by reading its Shakspearo, or by acting its pretty tableaux, or by having. this or that little reading from Spenser and from Chaucer, it is going to lift itself up into any higher order of culture or life, is wholly mistaken, unless as an essential part of its duty, it goes out into the world, finds those that are falling down, and lifts them up to the majesty of freemen, who are sons of God.

  Edward Everett Hale

  Fall, Reading, Son

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• Music is a sacred, a divine, a God-like thing, and was given to man by Christ to lift our hearts up to God, and make us feel something of the glory and beauty of God, and of all which God has made.

  Charles Kingsley

  Music, Heart, Men

  Charles Kingsley (1873). “Selections from Some of the Writings of the Rev. C. Kingsley, M.A.”, p.35

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• Near yonder thorn, that lifts its head on high,
  Where once the sign-post caught the passing eye,
  Low lies that house where nut-brown draughts inspired,
  Where graybeard mirth and smiling toil retired,
  Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound,
  And news much older than their ale went round.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Lying, Eye, Nuts

  Oliver Goldsmith (1834). “The Miscellaneous Works of Oliver Goldsmith, M.B.: With a Biographical Memoir of the Author, Written Expressly for this Edition”, p.100

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