Risen Quotes - Page 10

• We launch our souls from the cannons of art and discipline, and on any one night, hovering over the chimney tops of Europe, halfway to the stars, there are armies of brightly spinning spirits that have risen like fireworks, tethered to the souls of those men and women who, by reflection, mortification, and devotion, effortlessly outdazzle kings.

  Mark Helprin

  Art, Kings, Stars

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• Awake before the sun is risen, I call for my pen and papers and desk.

  Christopher Smart

  Paper, Sun, Desks

  Horace, Christopher Smart (1819). “The Works of Horace”, p.235

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• The Risen Christ proclaimed not that we 'have to forgive,' but rather, that at last we CAN forgive-and thereby free ourselves from consuming bitterness and the offender from our binding condemnation. This process requires genuine human anger and grief, plus-and here is the awful cost of such freedom-a humble willingness to see the offender as God sees that person, in all his or her terrible brokenness and need for God's saving power. I would never tell another, 'You have to forgive.'

  Gordon Dalbey

  Forgiveness, Grief, Humble

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• I have risen to a body not yet born, existing like a light around a body through which the body moves like a sliding moon.

  Robert Bly

  Moving, Moon, Light

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• Inequality has risen to the point that it seems to me worthwhile for the U.S. to seriously consider taking the risk of making our economy more rewarding for more of the people.

  Janet Yellen

  People, Risk, Economy

  "How American Income Inequality Hit Levels Not Seen Since The Depression", www.huffingtonpost.com. October 22, 2010.

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• House prices have risen by nearly 25 percent over the past two years. Although speculative activity has increased in some areas, at a national level these price increases largely reflect strong economic fundamentals.

  Ben Bernanke

  Strong, Past, Years

  Ben Bernanke's Testimony before the Joint Economic Committee, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. October 20, 2005.

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• The dream of my life has risen to become fact. Self-defense in the ghetto will have been a reality. Jewish armed resistance and revenge are facts. I have been a witness to the magnificent, heroic fighting of Jewish men in battle.

  Mordechai Anielewicz

  Dream, Revenge, Ghetto

  "The Jew in the Modern World: A Documentary History". Book edited by Paul R. Mendes-Flohr, Jehuda Reinharz, p. 675, letter to Yitzhak Cukierman (April 23, 1943), 1995.

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• Are we likely to see rising sea-levels? Not in our lifetimes or hose of our grandchildren. It is not even clear that sea-levels have risen at all. As so often in this domain, there is conflicting evidence. The melting of polar or sea ice has no direct effect.

  Don Aitkin

  Grandchildren, Direct Effect, Ice

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• The progress from infancy to boyhood is imperceptible. In that long dawn of the mind we take but little heed. The years pass by us, one by one, little distinguishable from each other. But when the intellectual sun of our life is risen, we take due note of joy and sorrow.

  Bryan Procter

  Years, Long, Joy

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• When less than four years old I was standing with my nurse, Mary Ward, watching the shadows on the wall from branches of an elm behind which the moon had risen. I have never forgot those shadows and am often trying to paint them.

  Samuel Palmer

  Wall, Moon, Years

  "The Life and Letters of Samuel Palmer, Painter and Etcher". Book by Alfred H. Palmer, London, 1892.

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• We cannot be saved until we have risen above all our enemies, not the least of which is ignorance.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Ignorance, Enemy, Saved

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• No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.

  Lawrence Clark Powell

  Greatness, Civilization, Library

  Lawrence Clark Powell (1985). “Books are basic: the essential Lawrence Clark Powell”, Univ of Arizona Pr

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• First, draw off your hearts, because Jesus Christ, the Head, is risen and ascended upon high, and there sits at the right hand of His Father; and if the Head is in heaven, where should the members be but where the Head is? Shall Christ our Head be in heaven, and shall our hearts, which are His members, lie groveling on the ground and panting after the dust of the earth, making all our inquiry and labor after these? 'If Christ our Head be risen, seek those things that are above, where Christ sits at God's right hand.'

  Christopher Love

  Jesus, Father, Lying

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• There is no thing that with a twist of the imagination cannot be something else. Porpoises risen in a green sea, the wind at nightfall bending the rose- red grasses and you- in your apron hurrying to catch- say it seems to you to be your son. How ridiculous! You will pass up into a cloud and look back at me, not count the scribbling foolish that put wings at your heels, at your knees.

  William Carlos Williams

  Son, Clouds, Wind

  William Carlos Williams, “Kora In Hell: Improvisations XXVII”

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• At the beginning of the 20th century, before the migration began, 90 percent of all African-Americans were living in the South. By the end of the Great Migration, nearly half of them were living outside the South in the great cities of the North and West. So when this migration began, you had a really small number of people who were living in the North and they were surviving as porters or domestics or preachers - some had risen to levels of professional jobs - but they were, in some ways, protected because they were so small.

  Isabel Wilkerson

  Jobs, Small Numbers, Cities

  "Great Migration: The African-American Exodus North". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 13, 2010.

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• Vampires have risen from the dead, the grave, and the crypt, but have never managed it from the cat.

  Terry Pratchett

  Cat, Vampire, Graves

  Terry Pratchett, Jacqueline Simpson (2008). “The Folklore of Discworld”, Doubleday UK

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• I don't know if Nashville will ever be ousted as the Music City. But I also think that here, over the last few years, Georgia has definitely kind of risen to the top as far as the crop of young artists coming out of this area that are kind of making waves, you know?

  Jason Aldean

  Artist, Thinking, Nashville

  "Jason Aldean: At my show, 'you're going to have a good time'". Interview with Jacque Wilson, www.cnn.com. May 22, 2012.

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• According to "Huffington Post", one Democratic opposition research firm said they spent the past eight months compiling material on [Donald] Trump as he`s risen on the ranks. And that research estimated that if the all material compiled, court and property records,newspaper clips and video, approximately 80 percent of it has yet to surface in this election cycle.

  Chris Hayes

  Past, Eight, Video

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• I've always risen to the challenge and faced adversity; it's just a part of who I am.

  Erik Rutan

  Adversity, Who I Am, Challenges

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• As modern society is formed against the backdrop of a permanent war zone, a carceral state and hyper-militarism, the social stature of the military and soldiers has risen.

  Henry Giroux

  Military, War, Soldier

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I believe in Christianity as I believe the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

  C. S. Lewis

  Believe, Sun, Christianity

  Source: www.biblegateway.com

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• The Democrats want to celebrate their successes but don't want to look out of touch with the people who haven't risen much in the last decade or so really.

  E. J. Dionne

  People, Looks, Want

  Source: www.npr.org

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• What we're trying to do as writers is rescue, preserve this space of thoughtfulness of language, of a deeper and more honest appreciation of our reality. And, so, we have to work even harder as writers against this tide of silliness, against this tide of superficiality, against this horrible Greek chorus on Twitter where everyone is insulting each other and now we have an insulter-in-chief, who's risen to the presidency by insulting people.

  Hector Tobar

  Appreciation, Reality, Space

  Source: www.slate.com

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• [Jesus Christ to Pope Francis] is the Lord with whom he speaks for hours every day in prayer. The Risen One who reached out, touched his life, and called him into mission.

  George Weigel

  Jesus, Prayer, Speak

  Source: eppc.org

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• No mathematician of equal stature has risen from our generation... Hilbert was singularly free from national and racial prejudices; in all public questions, be they political, social or spiritual, he stood forever on the side of freedom.

  Hermann Weyl

  Spiritual, Our Generation, Forever

  Hermann Weyl (2013). “Levels of Infinity: Selected Writings on Mathematics and Philosophy”, p.93, Courier Corporation

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