Lifts Quotes - Page 37

• Today's announcement projects a picture of profound weakness in U.S. diplomacy. It should not have been a heavy lift for our diplomats in New York and in foreign capitals to recruit the necessary 96 affirmative votes to seat the United States in the new council.

  Tom Lantos

  New York, Profound, Weakness

  4 Copy quote

• The Eagle does not escape the storm. The Eagle simply uses the storm to lift it higher. It spreads its mighty wings and rises on the winds that bring the storm.

  Jack White

  Eagles, Wind, Wings

  49 Copy quote

• The greatness of peoples springs from their ability to grasp the grand conceptions of being. It is the absorption of a people, of a nation, of a rare, in large majestic and abiding things which lifts them up to the skies.

  Alexander Crummell

  Spring, Greatness, Sky

  25 Copy quote

• With an agenda dominated by global security and U.N. reform, it appears that the decisions needed to lift millions of people from abject poverty are not being given the prominence they deserve.

  Kumi Naidoo

  People, Decision, Reform

  4 Copy quote

• Steve Harmison was a big disappointment in South Africa, and I don't know the reason why, but he has to lift his game.

  Jeff Thomson

  Disappointment, Games, Reason Why

  4 Copy quote

• When compassion for the common man was born on Christmas Day, with it was born new hope among the multitudes. They feel a great, ever-rising determination to lift themselves and their children our of hunger and disease and misery, up to a higher level. Jesus started a fire upon the earth, and it is burning hot today, the fire of a new hope in the hearts of the hungry multitudes.

  Frank Laubach

  Jesus, Determination, Children

  Frank Charles Laubach (1958). “The world is learning compassion”

  23 Copy quote

  Show source

• And also it was a process of, we lifted weights as well, in an effort to train my body to then be able to lift heavier weights when I got in Australia. So that was the first couple of months.

  Brandon Routh

  Couple, Australia, Effort

  "Brandon Routh for 'Superman Returns'". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.darkhorizons.com. June 16, 2006.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Great paintings have gradations, large and small... They serve to lift the subject off the two-dimensionality of the canvas. Gradations are an essential abstract convention.

  Robert Genn

  Two, Essentials, Canvas

  Robert Genn (1996). “The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn”, p.20, Studio Beckett Publications

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal Nature lifts her changeful form: Mounts from her funeral pyre on wings of flame, And soars and shines, another and the same.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Flames, Wings, Shining

  Erasmus Darwin (1807). “The Botanic Garden: A Poem, in Two Parts: Part I. Containing The Economy of Vegetation. Part II. The Loves of the Plants”, p.117

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• The one quality which sets one man apart from another- the key which lifts one to every aspiration while others are caught up in the mire of mediocrity- is not talent, formal education, nor intellectual brightness - it is self-discipline. With self-discipline all things are possible. Without it, even the simplest goal can seem like the impossible dream.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Dream, Men, Keys

  26 Copy quote

• Almost all of us have an elevator or two in our lives somewhere. We wait for them, we ride on them. We're annoyed by the wait but pleased with the lift.

  Andy Rooney

  Two, Annoyed, Waiting

  Andy Rooney (2007). “Years of Minutes: The Best of Rooney from 60 Minutes”, p.146, PublicAffairs

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• What I have left is from my native spring; I've still a heart that swells, in scorn of fate, And lifts me to my banks.

  John Dryden

  Spring, Heart, Fate

  1678 All for Love, or The World Well Lost, act 3.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The traveling and adventure always lift my spirits soaring with exhilaration.

  Emile Hirsch

  Adventure, Exhilaration, Spirit

  6 Copy quote

• To lift Him up, to preach His name, and to invite souls to love Him and to follow Him is the highest, heavenliest privilege of human life.

  W. A. Criswell

  Love, Life, God

  76 Copy quote

• When our trials come, when we feel pain and suffering, when our tears flow again, it is our joy and comfort to lift our faces heavenward and to go on, standing on the promises of God.

  W. A. Criswell

  Moving On, Encouraging, God

  99 Copy quote

• The last line of defense in support of freedom and the Constitution consists of the people themselves. If the people want to be free, if they want to lift themselves out from underneath a state apparatus that threatens their liberties, squanders their resources on needless wars, destroys the value of the dollar, and spews forth endless propaganda about how indispensable it is and how lost we would all be without it, there is no force that can stop them.

  Ron Paul

  War, People, Support

  4 Copy quote

• I see the crowd singing 'Rock 'N Roll' or 'Back Road' at my concerts... they are anthems and they lift up your life.

  Rodney Atkins

  Rocks, Singing, Crowds

  8 Copy quote

• The power of a free people is often at the disposal of a single and seemingly an unimportant individual; a terrible and truthful power; for such a people feel with one heart, and therefore can lift up their myriad arms for a single blow. And, again, there is no graduated scale for the measurement of the influences of different intellects upon the popular mind. Peter the Hermit held no office, yet what a work he wrought!

  Albert Pike

  Heart, Blow, People

  Albert Pike (2013). “Morals and Dogma”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

  12 Copy quote

  Show source

• Love wakes men, once a lifetime each; They lift their heavy lids, and look; And, lo, what one sweet page can teach They read with joy, then shut the book.

  Coventry Patmore

  Love, Sweet, Book

  1854 TheAngel in the House, bk.1,The Betrothal, canto 8, prelude 2,'The Revelation'.

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• You know what they're writing about Baby you know what they're writing about It's a thing called love down through the ages Makes you wanna cry sometimes Makes you feel like you wanna lay down and die sometimes Makes you high sometimes But when you really get in it lifts you right up.

  Van Morrison

  Baby, Writing, Age

  Song: You Know What They're Writing About, Album: Into the Music

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There's an angel that's watching right over you All your trials have not been in vain Won't you lift your head up to the starry night Finding strength in the things that remain.

  Van Morrison

  Angel, Night, Over You

  Song: A New Kind of Man, Album: A Sense of Wonder

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• Dear, lovely game of cricket that can stir us so profoundly, that can lift up our hearts and break them.

  Neville Cardus

  Heart, Games, Lovely

  "Good Days". Book by Neville Cardus, 1934.

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• A book has to be easy to open and you don't have to be a bodybuilder to lift it. I like books I can read in bed. Those big tombstones would kill me.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Tombstone, Book, Bed

  "Media People: Q&A With Karl Lagerfeld". Interview with Miles Socha, wwd.com. September 12, 2014.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I am not collecting copies of the cheaper editions of Omar Khayyám. I gave the last four that I received to the lift-boy, and I like to think of him reading them, with FitzGerald's notes, to his aged mother. Lift-boys always have aged mothers; shows such nice feeling on their part, I think.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Mother, Nice, Reading

  "Reginald". Book by Saki (Hector Hugh Munro). Chapter: "Reginald on Christmas Presents", 1904.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• This bugs me the worst. That's when the husband thinks that the wife knows where everything is, huh? Like they think the uterus is a tracking device. He comes in: "Hey, Roseanne! Roseanne! Do we have any Cheetos left?" Like he can't go over and lift up the sofa cushion himself.

  Roseanne Barr

  Husband, Thinking, Wife

  9 Copy quote