Raises Quotes - Page 10

• Success for me its to raise happy, healthy human beings.

  Kelly LeBrock

  Parenting, Healthy, Parenthood

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• True success in this life comes in consecrating our lives—that is, our time and choices—to God’s purposes. In so doing, we permit Him to raise us to our highest destiny.

  D. Todd Christofferson

  Destiny, Choices, Purpose

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• Forests in the tropics are cut to make pasture to raise beef for the American market. Our distance from the source of our food enables us to be superficially more comfortable, and distinctly more ignorant.

  Gary Snyder

  Distance, Cutting, Ignorant

  Gary Snyder (2010). “The Practice of the Wild”, p.197, Counterpoint Press

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• The purpose of art is to raise people to a higher level of awareness than they would otherwise attain on their own.

  Brassai

  Art, People, Purpose

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• I have thought of a pulley to raise me gradually; but that would give me pain, as it would counteract my natural inclination. I would have something that can dissipate the inertia and give elasticity to the muscles. We can heat the body, we can cool it; we can give it tension or relaxation; and surely it is possible to bring it into a state in which rising from bed will not be a pain.

  Samuel Johnson

  Pain, Giving, Relaxation

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1888). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”

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• I had to make a major decision with myself because I just don't think you can do both: try to have a baby career and raise it and have a baby baby and raise it. And to try to do justice to either one. It was a very conscious decision on my part not to have children - which I have never regretted.

  Betty White

  Baby, Children, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, labs.imdb.com.

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• The Constitution is said to have beautiful features; but when I come to examine these features, Sir, they appear to me horribly frightful. Among other deformities, it has an awful squinting - it squints towards monarchy. And does not this raise indignation in the breast of every true American? Your president may easily become king. Where are your checks in this government? I would rather infinitely - and I am sure most of this convention are of the same opinion - have a king, lords, and commons than a government so replete with such insupportable evils.

  Patrick Henry

  Beautiful, Kings, Squinting

  Speech, www.let.rug.nl. June 07, 1788.

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• How long before married people answer the dictators thus: Regardless of law, marriage has only one definition, and any government that attempts to change it is my mortal enemy. I will act to destroy that government and bring it down, so it can be replaced with a government that will respect and support marriage, and help me raise my children in a society where they will expect to marry in their turn.

  Orson Scott Card

  Children, Government, Law

  "Orson Scott Card: State job is not to redefine marriage" by Orson Scott Card, www.deseretnews.com. July 24, 2008.

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• What passion cannot music raise and quell!

  John Dryden

  Music, Passion, Piano

  A Song for St. Cecilia's Day st. 2 (1687)

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• Punning is an art of harmonious jingling upon words, which, passing in at the ears, excites a titillary motion in those parts; and this, being conveyed by the animal spirits into the muscles of the face, raises the cockles of the heart.

  Jonathan Swift

  Art, Animal, Ears

  Jonathan Swift (1803). “The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift ...”, p.125

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• Raise high the roof-beam, carpenters. Like Ares comes the bridegroom, taller far than a tall man.

  Sappho

  Men, Beam, Roof

  "Sappho: Memoir, Text, Selected Renderings, and a Literal Translation".

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• Builders, raise the ceiling high, Raise the dome into the sky, Hear the wedding song! For the happy groom is near, Tall as Mars, and statelier, Hear the wedding song!

  Sappho

  Song, Sky, Mars

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• Lower rates of taxation will stimulate economic activity and so raise the levels of personal and corporate income as to yield within a few years an increased - not a reduced - flow of revenues to the federal government.

  John F. Kennedy

  Yield, Government, Years

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• It is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high and tax revenues are too low and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now Cutting taxes now is not to incur a budget deficit, but to achieve the more prosperous, expanding economy which can bring a budget surplus.

  John F. Kennedy

  Running, Cutting, Long

  Address to the Economic Club of New York, delivered 14 December 1962, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York

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• No woman should be authorized to stay at home and raise her children. Society should be totally different. Women should not have that choice, precisely because if there is such a choice, too many women will make that one.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Children, Home, Choices

  "Sex, Society, and the Female Dilemma". Interview with Betty Friedan, The Saturday Review (pp. 12-21), June 14, 1975.

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• He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Wish, Energy, May

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• So, never be afraid. Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion, against injustice and lying and greed. If you, not just you in this room tonight, but in all the thousands of other rooms like this one about the world today and tomorrow and next week, will do this, not as a class or classes, but as individuals, men and women, you will change the earth.

  William Faulkner

  Honesty, Lying, Men

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• Most troubles are unnecessary. We have Nature beaten; we can make her grow wheat; we can keep warm when she sends blizzards. So we raise the devil just for pleasure--wars, politics, race-hatreds, labor-disputes.

  Sinclair Lewis

  War, Race, Hatred

  Sinclair Lewis (1995). “Main Street: The Story of Carol Kennicott”, p.143, Penguin

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• I didn't raise Todd to be a writer, but he happened to be one anyway

  Anne McCaffrey

  Happened

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• That which is to be most desired in America is oneness and not sameness. Sameness is the worst thing that could happen to the people of this country. To make all people the same would lower their quality, but oneness would raise it.

  Stephen Samuel Wise

  Country, Oneness, America

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• Divorce Myths: 1. When love has gone out of a marriage, it is better to get divorced. 2. It is better for the children for the unhappy couple to divorce than to raise their children in the atmosphere of an unhappy marriage. 3. Divorce is the lesser of two evils. 4. You owe it to yourself. 5. Everyone's entitled to one mistake. 6. God led me to this divorce.

  R. C. Sproul

  Christian, Children, Couple

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• The true mark of a Christian leader is trying to build up other people. Raise up other leaders!

  Charles Colson

  Christian, People, Leader

  Charles W. Colson (2000). “Chuck Colson Speaks: Twelve Key Messages from Today's Leading Defender of the Christian Faith”

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• I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.

  Beau Bridges

  Flower, Garden, Vegetables

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you can raise up leaders, you will always have followers, but if you can't raise up leaders, you will only have followers.

  John C. Maxwell

  Leadership, Followers, Raise Up

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• All of which raises another question: If Obamacare is so great, why do so many people want to get out from under it?

  Michael Barone

  Obamacare, People, Political

  "Obama skirts rule of law to reward pals, punish foes" by Michael Barone, www.washingtonexaminer.com. May 24, 2011.

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