Raised Quotes - Page 26

• Prayer does not mean that I am to bring God down to my thoughts and my purposes, and bend his government according to my foolish, silly, and sometimes sinful notions. Prayer means that I am to be raised up into feeling, into union and design with him; that I am to enter into his counsel and carry out his purpose fully.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Prayer, Silly, Mean

  Dwight L Moody (1987). “Prevailing Prayer”, p.89, Moody Publishers

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• And I... started off dumb, raised by the hoodrats, listen to the radio wishin that i could rap.

  Tupac Shakur

  Rap, Thug, Dumb

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• With regard to precipitous heights, if you are beforehand with your adversary, you should occupy the raised and sunny spots, and there wait for him to come up.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Waiting

  Sun Tzu “Sun Tzu: The Art of War (Illustrated)”, Charles River Editors

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• With regard to ground of this nature, be before the enemy in occupying the raised and sunny spots, and carefully guard your line of supplies. Then you will be able to fight with advantage.

  Sun Tzu

  Art, War, Fighting

  Sun Tzu “Sun Tzu: The Art of War (Illustrated)”, Charles River Editors

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• The history of acceptance of new theories frequently shows the following steps: At first the new idea is treated as pure nonsense, not worth looking at. Then comes a time when a multitude of contradictory objections are raised, such as: the new theory is too fancy, or merely a new terminology; it is not fruitful, or simply wrong. Finally a state is reached when everyone seems to claim that he had always followed this theory. This usually marks the last state before general acceptance.

  Kurt Lewin

  Science, Acceptance, Ideas

  Kurt Lewin (1951). “Field Theory in Social Science: Selected Theoretical Papers”, New York : Harper

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• It seems strangely difficult for some to realize that here in Asia is where the Communist conspirators have elected to make their play for global conquest, and that we have joined the issue thus raised on the battlefield; that here we fight Europe's war with arms while the diplomats there still fight it with words; that if we lose the war to communism in Asia the fall of Europe is inevitable, win it and Europe most probably would avoid war and yet preserve freedom. As you pointed out, we must win. There is no substitute for victory.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Fall, Fighting

  DOUGLAS MACARTHUR (1964). “REMINISCENCES”

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• The thing generally raised on city land is taxes.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Garden, Land, Cities

  My Summer in a Garden "SixteenthWeek" (1870)

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• Strike not for a few cents more an hour, because the price of living will be raised faster still, but strike for all you earn, be content with nothing less.

  Lucy Parsons

  Struggle, Economic Inequality, Hours

  Lucy Eldine Parsons (2004). “Freedom, Equality and Solidarity”, Charles H Kerr Publishing Company

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• What was done with the seed saved from the India Hemp last summer? It ought, all of it, to have been sewn again; that not only a stock of seed sufficient for my own purposes might have been raised, but to have disseminated the seed to others; as it is more valuable than the common Hemp.

  George Washington

  Summer, Marijuana, Hemp

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• When fortune surprises us by giving us some great office without having gradually led us to expect it, or without having raised our hopes, it is well nigh impossible to occupy it well, and to appear worthy to fill it.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Hope, Giving, Expectations

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• I was blessed with a God-given talent and my mother raised me the right way.

  LeBron James

  Basketball, Mother, Blessed

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• I could have probably raised them in L.A. and they would have been great and had so many things at their fingertips and been exposed to so many things. But we travel a lot, so I don't think that moving out of town is sheltering the girls at all. Maybe protecting them a little bit more, trying to prolong their youth.

  Jennie Garth

  Girl, Travel, Moving

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• If I raised my hand to wipe the hair out of my children's eyes, they'd flinch and call their attorney.

  Erma Bombeck

  Funny, Baby, Children

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank”, p.173, Open Road Media

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• At no period of [Michael Faraday's] unmatched career was he interested in utility. He was absorbed in disentangling the riddles of the universe, at first chemical riddles, in later periods, physical riddles. As far as he cared, the question of utility was never raised. Any suspicion of utility would have restricted his restless curiosity. In the end, utility resulted, but it was never a criterion to which his ceaseless experimentation could be subjected.

  Abraham Flexner

  Science, Careers, Curiosity

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• I strongly oppose cloning, as do most Americans. We recoil at the idea of growing human beings for spare body parts or creating life for our convenience. And while we must devote enormous energy to conquering disease, it is equally important that we pay attention to the moral concerns raised by the new frontier of human embryo stem cell research. Even the most noble ends do not justify any means.

  George W. Bush

  Life, Mean, Science

  Remarks on Stem Cell Research, delivered 9 August 2001

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• A man who treats his women like a princess is proof that he was raised by a queen.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Meaningful, Queens, Princess

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• When a virtuous man is raised, it brings gladness to his friends, grief to his enemies, and glory to his posterity.

  Ben Jonson

  Grief, Men, Enemy

  Ben Jonson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ben Jonson (Illustrated)”, p.3198, Delphi Classics

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• After 50 years, is it not clear that God has raised up new illnesses connected with fornication? From where do these things come if not from the hand of God? [In response to these diseases] The world was astounded, and people were terrified for a time, but they have not, to this day, observed the hand of God.

  John Calvin

  Hands, Years, People

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• I was raised in the Jewish tradition, taught never to marry a Gentile woman, shave on a Saturday night and, most especially, never to shave a Gentile woman on a Saturday night.

  Woody Allen

  Night, Jewish Tradition, Taught

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• I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. Already they have raised up a moneyed aristocracy that has set the Government at defiance. The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people to whom it properly belongs.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Freedom, Believe, Taken

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• Whenever Nature's bounty is in danger of exhaustion, the chemist has sought for a substitute. The conquest of disease has made great progress as a result of your efforts. Wherever we look, the work of the chemist has raised the level of our civilization and has increased the productive capacity of the nation. Waste materials, formerly cast aside, are now being utilized.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Science, Civilization, Effort

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• As to Science, she has never sought to ally herself to civil power. She has never attempted to throw odium or inflict social ruin on any human being. She has never subjected anyone to mental torment, physical torture, least of all to death, for the purpose of upholding or promoting her ideas. She presents herself unstained by cruelties and crimes. But in the Vatican-we have only to recall the Inquisition-the hands that are now raised in appeals to the Most Merciful are crimsoned. They have been steeped in blood!

  John William Draper

  Science, Blood, Hands

  John William Draper (1875). “History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science: By John William Draper ...”, p.11, New York, D. Appleton

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• There is an attraction and a charm inherent in the colossal that is not subject to ordinary theories of art ... The tower will be the tallest edifice ever raised by man. Will it therefore be imposing in its own way?

  Gustave Eiffel

  Art, Science, Men

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• It is not uncommon for those who at their first entrance into the world were distinguished for attainments or abilities, to disappoint the hopes which they had raised, and to end in neglect and obscurity that life which they began in honour. To the long catalogue of the inconveniences of old age, which moral and satirical writers have so copiously displayed, may be often added the loss of fame.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Loss, Long, Age

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• I'm a proud strict mom and, you know, I'm really proud of the two daughters I've raised. And I'm especially proud of my relationship with them. We're very close. I think we're good friends.

  Amy Chua

  Mom, Mother, Daughter

  "TalkAsia" with Sara Sidner, www.cnn.com. February 3, 2012.

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