Lifts Quotes - Page 5

• Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance.

  Natalie Portman

  People, Actors, Ninety

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• So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.

  Sally Ride

  Firsts, Excited, Worried

  Scholastic Corporation Interview, teacher.scholastic.com. November 20, 1998.

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• All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Emotional, Sides, Lift You Up

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• Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Falling In Love, Heart, Falling Apart

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1957). “The Duino elegies”

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• Making movies is not rocket science. It's about relationships and communication and strangers coming together to see if they can get along harmoniously, productively, and creatively. That's a challenge. When it works, it's fantastic and will lift you up. When it doesn't work, it's almost just as fascinating.

  Julia Roberts

  Communication, Challenges, Together

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• If I am elected President of these United States, I will work with all my energy and soul to restore that America, to lift our eyes to a better future. That future is our destiny. That future is out there. It is waiting for us. Our children deserve it, our nation depends upon it, the peace and freedom of the world require it.

  Mitt Romney

  Children, Eye, Destiny

  Republican Party Presidential Nomination Acceptance, delivered 30 August 2012, Tampa, Florida

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• Free enterprise has done more to lift people out of poverty, to help build a strong middle class, to help educate our kids, and to make our lives better than all the programs of government combined.

  Mitt Romney

  Strong, Kids, Class

  "Mitt Romney's Wisconsin Victory Speech". www.realclearpolitics.com. April 3, 2012.

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• Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Impression, I Can

  "Ambassador's Journal: A Personal Account of the Kennedy Years". Book by John Kenneth Galbraith, p. 225, 1969.

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• For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one goes astray, to lift one if one totters down, to strengthen whilst one stands.

  Christina Rossetti

  Family, Sister, Cheer

  1862 Goblin Market and Other Poems,'Goblin Market'.

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• I don't plan to grow old gracefully. I plan to have face-lifts until my ears meet.

  Rita Rudner

  Retirement, Age, Ears

  Rita Rudner (2008). “I Still Have It . . . I Just Can't Remember Where I Put It: Confessions of a Fiftysomething”, p.238, Crown Archetype

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• If you travel to the States... they have a lot of different words than like what we use. For instance: they say 'elevator', we say 'lift'; they say 'drapes', we say 'curtains'; they say 'president', we say 'seriously deranged git.'

  Alexei Sayle

  America, President, Different

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• What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn't think I could lift another ounce of weight. What I learned is that we are always stronger than we know.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Inspirational, Motivational, Workout

  FaceBook post by Arnold Schwarzenegger from Jun 04, 2014

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• Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Beauty, Poetry, World

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.52, Wordsworth Editions

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• Comedy, not screaming at someone, can make someone lift their legs higher. There is a way to do a push-up and a sit-up, and it doesn't have to be so complicated. Everyone is putting a difficult twist to it and making you do way too much.

  Richard Simmons

  Twists, Legs, Too Much

  "Pharaohs of fitness". Interview with Julie Deardorff, www.chicagotribune.com. April 18, 2012.

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• I feel it's a responsibility for anyone who breaks through a certain ceiling... to send the elevator back down and give others a helpful lift.

  Kevin Spacey

  Responsibility, Break Through, Giving

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• What does it mean when people applaud? Should I give 'em money? Say thank you? Lift my dress? The lack of applause - that I can respond to.

  Barbra Streisand

  Thanksgiving, Thank You, Mean

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• In a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up.

  Taylor Swift

  Relationship, Couple, Support

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• I lift heavy weights and sprint, but I am so bad at it that I develop severe injuries.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Weight, Injury, Heavy

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• If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

  Booker T. Washington

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.

  Steven Weinberg

  Life, Education, Money

  Steven Weinberg (2012). “Facing Up”, p.42, Harvard University Press

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• I've got a real sense of three-dimensional geometry. I can look at a flat piece of fabric and know that if I put a slit in it and make some fabric travel around a square, then when you lift it up it will drape in a certain way, and I can feel how that will happen.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Real, Squares, Three

  "Westwood ho!" by Alix Sharkey, www.theguardian.com. April 7, 2001.

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• I lift my voice of warning against praising or flattering your ministers. I have seen the evil, the dreadful evil, of praising ministers. Never, never speak a word in the praise of ministers to their faces. Exalt God.

  Ellen G. White

  Voice, Evil, Warning

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• Ministers should impress upon the people the necessity of individual effort. No church can flourish unless its members are workers. The people must lift where the ministers lift.

  Ellen G. White

  Individual Effort, People, Church

  Ellen G. White (2013). “Ellen G. White Review and Herald Articles - Book I of IV”, p.953, Lulu Press, Inc

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• I'll lift you and you lift me, and we'll both ascend together.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Together

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• Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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