Rising Quotes - Page 34

• In women's destiny everything goes downhill except for thought, whose immortal nature it is to keep constantly rising.

  Madame de Stael

  Destiny, Immortal

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• In a process that had begun in the 1980s and suddenly accelerated in the early 2000s ... [t]he peaks of great wealth grew higher, rising up beyond the clouds, while the valleys of poverty sank lower into perpetual shadow. The once broad plateau of the middle class eroded away into a narrow ledge, with the white-knuckled occupants holding on for dear life.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Clouds, Class, White

  Barbara Ehrenreich (2008). “Going to Extremes: Notes from a Divided Nation”, Granta Books (UK)

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• Huge lemons, cut in slices, would sink like setting suns into the dusky sea, softly illuminating it with their radiating membranes, and its clear, smooth surface aquiver from the rising bitter essence.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Food, Cutting, Sea

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• You get a series of super-typhoons into Shanghai and millions of people die. Does the population there lose faith in Chinese government? Does China start to fissure? I'd prefer to deal with a rising, dominant China any day.

  David Titley

  Government, People, Chinese

  "'Climate Change War' Is Not a Metaphor". Interview with Eric Holthaus, www.slate.com. April 18, 2014.

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• Happiness is a social creature. If you try to pursue it in a vacuum, it's very difficult to sustain it. But as soon as you get people focused on creating meaningful connections in the midst of their work, or increasing the meaning and depth of their relationships outside of work, we find happiness rising in step with that social connection.

  Shawn Achor

  Meaningful, Creating, People

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• What in the rising man was industry and economy, becomes in the rich man parsimony and avarice.

  Sarah Josepha Hale

  Men, Greed, Rich

  Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1832). “Ladies' Magazine and Literary Gazette”, p.156

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• Yet never sleep the sun up. Prayer shou'd
  Dawn with the day. There are set, awful hours
  'Twixt heaven and us. The manna was not good
  After sun-rising; far day sullies flowres.
  Rise to prevent the sun; sleep doth sin glut,
  And heaven's gate opens when the world's is shut.

  Henry Vaughan

  Prayer, Sleep, Heaven

  Henry Vaughan, Henry Francis Lyte (1847). “Silex scintillans. Sacred poems and private ejaculations (with a mem. by H.F. Lyte).”, p.56

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• The resurrection morning is a true sun-rising, the inbursting of a cloudless sky on all the righteous dead. They wake transfigured, at their Maker's call, with the fashion of their countenance altered and shining like His own.

  Horace Bushnell

  Fashion, Morning, Sky

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 519, 1895.

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• The things of the world are ever rising and falling, and in perpetual change; and this change must be according to the will of God, as He has bestowed upon man neither the wisdom nor the power to enable him to check it. The great lesson in these things is, that man must strengthen himself doubly at such times to fulfill his duty and to do what is right, and must seek his happiness and inward peace from objects which cannot be taken away from him.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Fall, Taken, Men

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• All death in nature is birth, and at the moment of death appears visibly the rising of life. There is no dying principle in nature, for nature throughout is unmixed life, which, concealed behind the old, begins again and develops itself. Death as well as birth is simply in itself, in order to present itself ever more brightly and more like to itself.

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte

  Death, Order, Dying

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• humor bears the closest relation to emotion, either bubbling up as from a deep and happy wellspring, or in an opposite fashion rising like a re-birth of feeling from dead levels after turmoil.

  Constance Rourke

  Fashion, Humor, Opposites

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• I am living with a rising generation which talks like people coming out of ether.

  Margaret Halsey

  People, Generations, Speech

  Margaret Halsey (1960). “This Demi-paradise: A Westchester Diary”

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• Early to bed and early to rise makes a person dull, boring, and despised.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Funny, Health, Sleep

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• Imagine a ship that is sinking and needs all the available power to run the pumps to drain out the rising waters. The first class passengers refuse to cooperate because they feel hot and want to use the air-conditioner and other electrical appliances. The second-class passengers spend all their time trying to be upgraded to first-class status. The boat sinks and the passengers all drown. That is where the present approach to climate change is leading.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Running, Air, Class

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• Rising seas create a higher baseline for future storm surges. The New York City Panel on Climate Change has projected that coastal waters may rise by two feet by 2050 and four feet by the end of the century.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  New York, Sea, Cities

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• The Hitler movement is a stampede. It is something beyond reason, like a pulse beating, like a rush of blood to the head, like the sap rising from the twisted roots of a family tree. ... in many ways it is the most remarkable upheaval of our time, perhaps the most momentous.

  Anne O'Hare McCormick

  War, Blood, Roots

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• The liberation of women from exclusive domesticity did not originate in feminist books, or a war, or a big inflation, although they contributed to its progress. The rising enrollment of women in the paid labor force is a straightforward consequence of the industrial revolution of two hundred years ago.

  Barbara Bergmann

  War, Book, Two

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• Sometimes I worry I don't want to get married as much as I'd like to be dipped in a vat of warm, rising bread dough.

  Maria Bamford

  Worry, Want, Vat

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• As the rising sun melts thinly frozen ice, so the Japanese Army is overcoming Chinese troops.

  Shunroku Hata

  Army, Ice, Chinese

  "Objective: Limited", Time Magazine, December 20, 1943.

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• The leaders of the Pahlavi regime, in an attempt to forestall the rising tide of the Islamic revolutionary movement, were hard at work to cast doubt on the question of the Imam Khomeini's position as a Marja'a (a top religious authority) and in this way, undermine public faith in his academic, political and religious competence.

  Yousef Saanei

  Religious, Islamic, Leader

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• Prayer is a rising up and a drawing near to God in mind and in heart, and in spirit.

  Alexander Whyte

  Prayer, Heart, Rising Up

  Alexander Whyte (1998). “Lord, Teach Us to Pray: Sermons on Prayer”, p.20, Regent College Publishing

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• Setting is preliminary to brighter rising; decay is a process of advancement; death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Death, Advancement, Decay

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• One of the things that gets me up in the morning is knowing that customer expectations are always rising, and I find that very exciting.

  Jeff Bezos

  Morning, Knowing, Expectations

  "Article of Faith: If people read more, that is a better world". Interview with Len Edgerly, kindlenationdaily.com. July 29, 2012.

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• [On Venice:] Every hour of the day is a miracle of light. In summer with daybreak the rising sun produces such a tender magic on the water that it nearly breaks one's heart.

  Peggy Guggenheim

  Summer, Heart, Light

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• The more a man is successful in getting out (or coming out) from his own individuality, of his egoist self, and to control (or dominate) the instincts of his physical nature, the more his character, by rising above material contingencies, widen, become free and independent.

  African Spir

  Character, Independent, Successful

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 60), 1937.

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