Lifts Quotes - Page 6

A lost election can have the jolt of a drop through the gallows door, leading to a dark night of the soul in which the future presses down like a cloud that will never lift.

James Wolcott

Dark, Night, Clouds

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On August 28, 2010, Fox News messiah Glenn Beck hosted a 'Restoring Honor' revival meeting featuring sexy guest star Sarah Palin, much as Bob Hope would roll out Raquel Welch in white go-go boots on his U.S.O. tours to give our fighting men a morale lift in their khakis.

James Wolcott

Sexy, Stars, Fighting

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Women have face-lifts in a society in which women without them appear to vanish from sight.

Naomi Wolf

Self Esteem, Sight, Faces

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Had an awesome time. You tell me to show up and all I have to do is drink beer, play guitar all day and I can lift weights and you're going to pay me for this!

Zakk Wylde

Time, Beer, Guitar

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I founded Grameen Bank to provide loans to those considered traditionally unbankable. Grameen Bank works with the poorest and often illiterate, providing uncollateralized micro-loans for tiny business enterprises by which they can lift themselves and their families out of poverty.

Muhammad Yunus

Tiny, Poverty, Loan

"Access to Quality Education" by Muhammad Yunus, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 26, 2013.

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Receiving the authority of the priesthood by the laying on of hands is an important beginning, but it is not enough. Ordination confers authority, but righteousness is required to act with power as we strive to lift souls, to teach and testify, to bless and counsel, and to advance the work of salvation.

David A. Bednar

Hands, Soul, Important

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It is never too late to strengthen the foundation of faith. There is always time. With faith in the Savior, you can repent and plead for forgiveness. There is someone you can forgive. There is someone you can thank. There is someone you can serve and lift. You can do it wherever you are and however alone and deserted you may feel.

Henry B. Eyring

Forgiving, Foundation, Too Late

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I can bulk up very fast. I can lift heavy weights because, like most people, I started off with heavy workouts. That's stayed in my muscle memory. I feel horrible when I feel my jeans are getting tight. Workouts peace me out.

Arjun Rampal

Workout, Memories, Jeans

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Outside, the north wind, coming and passing, swelling and dying, lifts the frozen sand drives it a-rattle against the lidless windows and we may dear sit stroking the cat stroking the cat and smiling sleepily, prrrr.

William Carlos Williams

Cat, Wind, Dying

William Carlos Williams, Macha Louis Rosenthal (1966). “The William Carlos Williams Reader”, p.109, New Directions Publishing

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All fled—all done, so lift me on the pyre— The Feast is over, and the lamps expire.

Robert E. Howard

Suicide, Lamps, Done

Robert E. Howard (2004). “The Savage Tales of Solomon Kane”, p.406, Del Rey

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Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear. But for many of my neurological patients, music is even more - it can provide access, even when no medication can, to movement, to speech, to life. For them, music is not a luxury, but a necessity.

Oliver Sacks

Depression, Moving, Orange Juice

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PHOSPHORESCENCE. Now there's a word to lift your hat to... to find that phosphorescence, that light within, that's the genius behind poetry.

Emily Dickinson

Light, Genius, Hats

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All the men I did get to know, every single man of them, has filled me with but one desire: to lift my hand and bring it smashing down on his face.

Nawal El Saadawi

Men, Hands, Desire

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To reach out to you when I'm in need, and to try to be here for you when you need me back. And to feel such tenderness when I look at you that I want to stand between you and all the world: and yet also to lift you up and carry you above the strong currents of life; and at the same time, I would be glad to stand always like this, at a distance, watching you, the beauty of you.

Orson Scott Card

Strong, Distance, Trying

Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.1238, Macmillan

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And all this day an unaccustomed spirit lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts.

William Shakespeare

Cheerful, Spirit, Romeo And Juliet Play

'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 5, sc. 1, l. 3

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When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

Paulo Coelho

Life, Happiness, Who I Am

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She was a committed romantic and an anarcha-feminist. This was hard for her because it meant she couldn't blow up beautiful buildings. She knew the Eiffel Tower was a hideous symbol of phallic oppression but when ordered by her commander to detonate the lift so that no-one should unthinkingly scale an erection, her mind filled with young romantics gazing over Paris and opening aerograms that said Je t'aime.

Jeanette Winterson

Beautiful, Blow, Paris

Jeanette Winterson (2013). “Written On The Body”, p.21, Random House

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The time has come for us to stand a little taller, to lift our eyes and stretch our minds to a greater comprehension and understanding of the grand millennial mission of this, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Jesus, Eye, Understanding

Conference Report, 95, April, 1995.

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I wish for a moment that time would lift me out of this day, and into some more benign one. But then I feel guilty for wanting to avoid the sadness; dead people need us to remember them, even if it eats us, even if all we can do is say "I'm sorry" until it is as meaningless air.

Audrey Niffenegger

Sorry, Sadness, Air

Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.116, Simon and Schuster

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Razo hopped back up and adopted a posture that said he was completely unruffled, never had been, and in fact was ready to do something manly like lift boulders or swallow live worms.

Shannon Hale

Boulders, Facts, Posture

Shannon Hale (2010). “River Secrets”, p.75, A&C Black

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The gate is perfectly simple," Temeraire said. "There is only a bar across the fence, which one can lift very easily, and then it swings open; Nitidus could do it best, for his forehands are the smallest. Though it is difficult to keep the animals inside the pen, and the first time I learned how to open it, they all ran away," he added. "Maximus and I had to chase after them for hours and hours--it was not funny at all," he said, ruffled, sitting back on his haunches and contemplating Laurence with great indignation.

Naomi Novik

Animal, Simple, Swings

Naomi Novik (2009). “In His Majesty's Service: Three Novels of Temeraire (His Majesty's Service, Throne of Jade, and Black Powder War)”, p.390, Del Rey

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Jesus said several times, “Come, follow me.” His was a program of “do what I do,” rather than “do what I say.” His innate brilliance would have permitted him to put on a dazzling display, but that would have left his followers far behind. He walked and worked with those he was to serve. His was not a long-distance leadership. He was not afraid of close friendships; he was not afraid that proximity to him would disappoint his followers. The leaven of true leadership cannot lift others unless we are with and serve those to be led.

Spencer W. Kimball

Leadership, Jesus, Distance

Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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If only the scientific experts could come up with something to get it out of our minds. One cup of fixit fizzle that will lift the dirt from our lives, soften our hardness, protect our inner parts, improve our processing, reduce our yellowing and wrinkling, improve our natural color, and make us sweet and good.

Robert Fulghum

Sweet, Color, Mind

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You are what you believe yourself to be.

Paulo Coelho

Life, Happiness, Inspiring

FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jul 18, 2014

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My life was hurrying, racing tragically toward its end. And yet at the same time it was dripping so slowly, so very slowly now, hour by hour, minute by minute. One always has to wait until the sugar melts, the memory dies, the wound scars over, the sun sets, the unhappiness lifts and fades away.

Simone de Beauvoir

Memories, Waiting, Racing

Simone De Beauvoir (2013). “The Woman Destroyed”, p.49, Pantheon

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