Lifts Quotes - Page 39

• If the impure and the unjust, the drunkard and the licentious, are loathsome to us, what must be the infinite loathing of an infinitely pure Spirit for those who are worldly and selfish, licentious and cruel, ambitious and animal! But with this great loathing is a great pity. And the pity conquers the loathing, appeases it, satisfies it, is reconciled with it, only as it redeems the sinner from his loathsomeness, lifts him up from his degradation, brings him to truth and purity, to love and righteousness; for only thus is he or can he be brought to God.

  Lyman Abbott

  Selfish, Animal, Ambitious

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• I wish that I could say I was optimistic about the human race. I love us all, but we are so stupid and shortsighted that I wonder if we can lift our eyes to the world about us long enough not to commit suicide.

  Isaac Asimov

  Suicide, Stupid, Eye

  Isaac Asimov (1995). “Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Lifetime of Letters”, Doubleday Books

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• Alas for him who seeks salvation in good only! Balanced on God's strong shoulders, Good and Evil flap together like two mighty wings and lift him high.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Strong, Wings, Two

  Nikos Kazantzakis (1958). “the Odyssey a Modern Sequel”

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• Now I've heard there was a secret chord That David played, and it pleased the Lord But you don't really care for music, do you? It goes like this the fourth, the fifth The minor fall, the major lift The baffled king composing Hallelujah

  Leonard Cohen

  Kings, Fall, Secret

  Song: Hallelujah

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• I sometimes wish the trade unionists who work in the mass media, those who are writers and broadcasters and secretaries and printers and lift operators of Thomson House would remember that they too are members of our working class movement and have a responsibility to see that what is said about us is true.

  Tony Benn

  Responsibility, Media, Class

  Tony Benn's Closing address to the Labour Party Conference in Blackpool, October 6, 1972.

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• Rejoice, the Lord is King! Your Lord and King adore; Mortals, give thanks and sing, And triumph evermore: Lift up your heart, lift up your voice; Rejoice, again, I say rejoice.

  Charles Wesley

  Kings, Heart, Voice

  1746 'Rejoice, the Lord is King'. In Hymns for our Lord's Resurrection.

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• I want to build a bridge to the 21st century that ends the permanent underclass, that lifts up the poor and ends their isolation, their exile, and they are not forgotten anymore.

  William J. Clinton

  Bridges, Want, Isolation

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• Medicare is paid for by the American taxpayer. Medicare belongs to you. Medicare is for seniors, who many of them are on fixed income, to lift them out of poverty.

  John F. Kerry

  Senior, Poverty, Income

  "Bush, Kerry debate domestic policies". John F. Kerry at debate with George W. Bush Arizona State University, www.cnn.com. October 14, 2004.

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• Ronald Reagan rebuilt the American presidency; it was in trouble when he came into office as an institution, and he did through his communications and through his own inspiration, and his principles. I think he did lift our spirits about, and convince us that once again that the future of the best, our best days were always ahead of us.

  David Gergen

  Communication, Inspiration, Thinking

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• I'm crazy about Steven Spielberg. Another inspiration for me, and I don't know where it came from, is children. If I'm down, I'll take a book with children's pictures and look at it and it will just lift me up. Being around children is magic.

  Michael Jackson

  Children, Crazy, Book

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There is nothing--no circumstance, no trouble, no testing--that can ever touch me until, first of all, it has gone past God and past Christ right through to me. If it has come that far, it has come with a great purpose, which I may not understand at the moment. But as I refuse to become panicky, as I lift up my eyes to Him and accept it as coming from the throne of God for some great purpose of blessing to my own heart, no sorrow will ever disturb me, no circumstance will cause me to fret, for I shall rest in the joy of what my Lord is--that is the rest of victory!

  Alan Redpath

  Love, God, Christian

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• Each firm held its rope; one by one, they realized that no matter how strongly they pulled, the balloon would eventually lift them off their feet.

  Michael Lewis

  Feet, Rope, Matter

  Michael Lewis (2015). “The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (movie tie-in)”, p.221, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The workers of America have power enough to topple the structure of capitalism at home and to lift the whole world with them when they rise.

  James P. Cannon

  Home, America, World

  "The Struggle for a Proletarian Party". Book by James P. Cannon, 1943.

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• The business of art is to enlarge and correct the heart and to lift our ideals out of the ugly and the mean through love of the ideal. The business of art is to appeal to the soul.

  Florence Earle Coates

  Art, Mean, Soul

  The New York Times, December 10, 1916.

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• He who tears down the cross, what is there left to lift him to heaven? The church claiming to be a Christian church is false to the title, if she make the cross of Christ of none effect.

  Herrick Johnson

  Christian, Heaven, Tears

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 173), 1895.

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• The truth can both lift up and knock down.

  Kirby Larson

  Kirby Larson (2013). “Hattie Ever After”, p.156, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• Acceptance is approval, a word with a bad name in some psychologies. Yet it is perfectly normal to seek approval in childhood and throughout life. We require approval from those we respect. The kinship it creates lifts us to their level, a process referred to in self-psychology as transmuting internalization. Approval is a necessary component of self-esteem. It becomes a problem only when we give up our true self to find it. Then approval-seeking works against us.

  David Richo

  Giving Up, Self Esteem, Acceptance

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• There is within each of us a modulation, an inner exaltation, which lifts us above the buffetings with which events assail us. Likewise, it lifts us above dependence upon the gifts of events for our joy.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Joy, Exaltation, Events

  Albert Schweitzer (2014). “A Treasury of Albert Schweitzer”, p.32, Open Road Media

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• Reason is the light, the sun of the brain. It is the compass of the mind, the ever-constant Northern Star, the mountain peak that lifts itself above all clouds.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Stars, Clouds, Light

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.1089, Library of Alexandria

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• I have come to understand that the self, my self, is inherently sacred. By virtue of its own improbability, its own miracle, its own emergence. And so I lift up my head, and I bear my own witness, with affection and tenderness and respect. And in so doing, I sanctify myself with my own grace.

  Ursula Goodenough

  Self, Miracle, Grace

  "The Sacred Depths of Nature". Book by Ursula Goodenough, 1998.

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• Radically simplify the user interface, reinvent it, enough face lifts! You can put as much lipstick on a chicken as you want, it's never going to look good!

  Philippe Kahn

  Looks, Want, Faces

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• The object of punishment is to... lift the man up; to stamp out his bad nature and wicked disposition.

  Isaac Parker

  Men, Wicked, He Man

  Letter to U.S. Attorney General Augustus Hill Garland, May 27, 1885.

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• The essence of air transport is speed, and speed is unfortunately one of the most expensive commodities in the world, principally because of the disproportionate amount of the power required to achieve high speed and to lift loads thousands of feet into the air. This is strikingly illustrated by the fact that while an average cargo ship, freight train and transport aeroplane are each equipped with engines totalling about 2,500 H.P., the ship can carry a load of about 7,000 tons, the train 800 tons and the plane only two and a half tons.

  J. R. D. Tata

  Air, Average, Essence

  Speech at the Bombay Rotary Club on November 02, 1943. "Keynote: Excerpts from his speeches and chairman's statements to shareholders". Book by J. R. D Tata, 1986.

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• I’d like to see a forklift lift a crate of forks. It’d be so damn literal! You are using that machine to it’s exact purpose!

  Mitch Hedberg

  Purpose, Machines, Forks

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• A friend is like a good bra: hard to find, comfortable, supportive, always lifts you up, makes you look better, never lets you down or leaves you hanging, and always close to your heart.

  Jasinda Wilder

  Heart, Supportive, Looks

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