Raises Quotes - Page 23

• The thing that fascinates me is that the way I came to film and television is extinct. Then there were gatekeepers, it was prohibitively expensive to make a film, to be a director you had to be an entrepreneur to raise money.

  Tom Hooper

  Entrepreneur, Way, Directors

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

  54 Copy quote

  Show source

• I don't want anyone to appreciate the light or the palette of tones. I want my pictures to inform, to provoke discussion - and to raise money.

  Sebastiao Salgado

  Photography, Light, Appreciate

  15 Copy quote

• Woman has been the target of much that is sordid and cheap, especially in photography. To raise, to elevate, to endorse with timeless reverence the image of woman, has been my mission.

  Ruth Bernhard

  Photography, Target, Photographer

  13 Copy quote

• When you are lonely, when you feel yourself an alien in the world, play Chess. This will raise your spirits and be your counselor in war

  Aristotle

  Lonely, War, Play

  18 Copy quote

• Expert tutors often do not help very much. They hang back letting the student manage as much as possible. And when things go awry, rather than help directly they raise questions: 'Could you explain this step again? How did you... ?

  Mark Lepper

  Teaching, Learning, Raises Questions

  8 Copy quote

• by grace ye are saved, not of works,' but by the will of God through Jesus Christ . . . If we please Him in this present world, we shall receive also the future world, according as He has promised to us that He will raise us again from the dead, and that if we live worthily of Him, 'we shall also reign together with Him,' provided only we believe . . .

  Polycarp

  Jesus, Believe, Grace

  200 Copy quote

• Well has it been said that man is the only animal that naturally looks upwards; every other animal naturally looks down. That looking upward and going upward and seeking perfection are what is called salvation; and the sooner a man begins to go higher, the sooner he raises himself towards this idea of truth as salvation.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Men, Animal, Ideas

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.938, Manonmani Publishers

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• The costs can't be borne by smaller counties particularly, so if the crime occurs in a large county you might be charged with the death penalty, in a smaller county you're not. That raises some significant questions about fairness.

  Greg Zoeller

  Cost, Might, Fairness

  7 Copy quote

• The government are very keen on amassing statistics. They collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams. But you must never forget that every one of these figures comes in the first instance from the village watchman, who just puts down what he damn pleases.

  Josiah Stamp

  Roots, Government, Village

  Some Economic Factors in Modern Life ch. 8 (1929)

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• We should raise the minimum wage so that no one who works full time has to live in poverty

  Barack Obama

  Money, Minimum Wage, Poverty

  5 Copy quote

• What we also have to recognize is that the deficit levels that I'm inheriting, over a trillion dollars, coming out of last year, that that is unsustainable. At a certain point, other countries stop buying our debt, at a certain point, we'd end up having to raise interest rates, and it would end up creating more economic chaos and potentially inflation.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Money, Years

  4 Copy quote

• Congress can raise taxes because it can persuade a sizable fraction of the populace that somebody else will pay

  Milton Friedman

  Taxation, Taxes Funny, Pay

  15 Copy quote

• For the joy of human love, brother, sister, parent, child,
  Friends on earth and friends above, for all gentle thoughts and mild;
  Christ, our God, to Thee we raise this our Sacrifice of grateful praise.

  Folliott Sandford Pierpoint

  Brother, Children, Grateful

  5 Copy quote

• There have been people.. ever since I've had any kind of position in the world.. who have accused me of being ruler of the world. I have to say that I think for the large part, I would have to decide to describe them as crack pots. It makes no sense whatsoever, and isn't true, and won't be true, and to raise it as a serious issue seems to me to be irresponsible.

  David Rockefeller

  Crazy, Power, Thinking

  "We the People: A Christian Nation". Book by Richard McKenzie Neal, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Home economics should find its way into the curriculum of every school because the scientific study of a problem pertaining to food, shelter or clothing... raises manual labor that might be drudgery to the plane of intelligent effort that is always self-respecting...Home economics is not one department, in the sense in which dairying or entomology or soils is a department. It is not a single speciality... Many technical and educational departments will grow out of it as time goes on.

  Martha Van Rensselaer

  Educational, School, Home

  12 Copy quote

• Governments do not necessarily act in the national interest, especially when making detailed microeconomic interventions. Instead, they are influenced by interest group pressures. The kinds of interventions that new trade theory suggests can raise national income will typically raise the welfare of small, fortunate groups by large amounts, while imposing costs on larger, more diffuse groups.

  Paul Krugman

  Philosophy, Government, Political

  8 Copy quote

• The president says we need to raise the debt ceiling because America pays its bills. No if we paid our bills we wouldn't have all this debt. The reason we have to raise the debt ceiling is because we can't pay our bills and we have to borrow money because we don't have any money to pay our bills.

  Peter Schiff

  Philosophy, America, Political

  6 Copy quote

• In today's global economy, however, it is important to raise the bar of excellence even higher. Today's students must be prepared to compete effectively on an international level.

  Kenny Marchant

  Competition, Excellence, Important

  9 Copy quote

• Libraries: Here is where people, one frequently finds, lower their voices, and raise their minds.

  Richard Armour

  Voice, People, Mind

  Richard Armour (1961). “A Safari Into Satire”

  18 Copy quote

  Show source

• Global warming is not only the number one environmental challenge we face today, but one of the most important issues facing all of humanity... We all have to do our part to raise awareness about global warming and the problems we as a people face in promoting a sustainable environmental future for our planet.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Numbers, Issues, People

  32 Copy quote

• As you warm the climate, you basically raise the speed limit on hurricanes

  Kerry Emanuel

  Climate, Limits, Hurricanes

  4 Copy quote

• Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession.

  Leonard Cohen

  Nature, Rain, Filters

  Leonard Cohen (2010). “Book of Mercy”, p.30, McClelland & Stewart

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Look well to the characters and qualifications of those you elect and raise to office and places of trust.

  Matthias B. Tallmadge

  Character, Office, Voting

  7 Copy quote

• In manufacturing, where mechanization and the use of chemical processes are much easier, it is easier to raise productivity than in services. In contrast, by their very nature, many service activities are inherently impervious to productivity increase without diluting the quality of the product.

  Ha-Joon Chang

  Quality, Use, Economics

  7 Copy quote

• So let's raise the tone of the debate. Too often at the moment we look like schoolchildren squabbling over a toy - our most precious toy, the Earth. And the danger is that as we pull in opposite directions in our global tug of war, the Earth will end up broken - or at least unable to sustain human life. That is the worst case scenario - or maybe, from the Earth's point of view, the best.

  Roz Savage

  War, Views, Opposites

  6 Copy quote