Rising Quotes - Page 24

• I throw back my head, and, feeling free as the wind, breathe in the fresh mountain air. Although I am heavy-hearted, my spirits are rising. To walk in nature is always good medicine.

  Jean Craighead George

  Wind, Medicine, Air

  Jean Craighead George (1990). “On the far side of the mountain”

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• Consider the true picture. Think of myriads of tiny bubbles, very sparsely scattered, rising through a vast black sea. We rule some of the bubbles. Of the waters we know nothing.

  Larry Niven

  Thinking, Sea, Water

  Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle (1991). “The Mote in God's Eye”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• It is very important for young people not to be afraid of engaging in areas that are not common to the youth. Get involved in local activities, get involved in local initiatives, be involved in leadership positions because you can’t learn unless you are involved. And if you make mistakes that is alright too because we all make mistakes and we learn from those mistakes. You gain confidence from learning, failing and rising again.

  Wangari Maathai

  Mistake, People, Important

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• The strongest affection and utmost zeal should, I think, promote the studies concerned with the most beautiful objects, most deserving to be known.

  Nicolaus Copernicus

  Beautiful, Stars, Distance

  "On the revolutions".

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• There must appear a spiritual and moral leadership rising above economic and political situations. Governments in both their domestic and foreign policies appeal for popular support by promises of material gain. We cannot make peace by mere appeal to greed. We must give the peoples of the world something to live for as well as something to live on.

  John Haynes Holmes

  Leadership, Spiritual, Government

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• Rising carbon price is essential to 'decarbonize' the economy - to remove the nation towards the era beyond fossil fuels.

  James Hansen

  Essentials, Fuel, Eras

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• We know the surface temperature of the Earth is warming. It has risen by .6 degrees Celsius over the past 100 years. There was a warming trend from the 1890s to the 1940s, cooling from the 1940s to the 1970s, and then sharply rising temperatures from the 1970s to today.

  George W. Bush

  Past, Years, Degrees

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• Now we stand at our own crossroads, looking out upon two futures: one with rising temperatures, rising oceans, and rising violence on a hot and strip-mined planet and another with expanding organic harvests, growing solar arrays, and deepening global partnerships on a green and thriving Earth.

  Van Jones

  Ocean, Two, Hot

  Van Jones (2008). “The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems”, HarperOne

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• In the dooryard fronting an old farm-house near the white-wash'd palings, Stands the lilac-bush tall-growing with heart-shaped leaves of rich green, with many a pointed blossom rising delicate, with the perfume strong I love, With every leaf a miracle - and from this bush in the dooryard, With delicate-color'd blossoms and heart-shaped leaves of rich green, A sprig with its flower I break.

  Walt Whitman

  Strong, Flower, Heart

  Walt Whitman (2013). “The Poems of Walt Whitman: Patriotic Poems”, p.22, eBookIt.com

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• Heaven's help is better than early rising.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Heaven, Helping

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1993). “Don Quixote”, p.550, Wordsworth Editions

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• The person who is free of sexuality, whose sexuality has become a transformed phenomenon, is also free of money, is also free of ambition, is also free of the desire to be famous. Immediately all these things disappear from his life. The moment sex energy starts rising upwards, the moment sex energy starts becoming love, prayer, meditation, then all lower manifestations disappear.

  Rajneesh

  Sex, Prayer, Ambition

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• All rising to great places is by a winding stair.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Challenges, Politics

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• Rising early and scorning laziness, remaining calm in time of strife, faultless in conduct and clever in actions. One like this will be praised.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Clever, Laziness

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• Service standards keep rising. As competitors render better and better service, customers become more demanding. Their expectations grow. When every company's service is shoddy, doing a few things well can earn you a reputation as the customer's savior. But when a competitor emerges from the pack as a service leader, you have to do a lot of things right. Suddenly achieving service leadership costs more and takes longer. It may even be impossible if the competition has too much of a head start. The longer you wait, the harder it is to produce outstanding service.

  Bill Davidow

  Educational, Expectations, Leader

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• In the godforsaken, obscene quicksand of life, there is a deafening alleluia rising from the souls of those who weep, and of those who weep with those who weep. If you watch, you will see The hand of God putting the stars back in their skies one by one.

  Ann Weems

  Death, Stars, Prayer

  Ann Weems (1999). “Psalms of Lament”, p.22, Westminster John Knox Press

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• How will you become free? With a quiet mind Come into that empty house, your heart, And feel the joy of the way Beyond the world. Look within - The rising and the falling.

  Gautama Buddha

  Fall, Heart, House

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• Are we likely to see rising sea-levels? Not in our lifetimes or hose of our grandchildren. It is not even clear that sea-levels have risen at all. As so often in this domain, there is conflicting evidence. The melting of polar or sea ice has no direct effect.

  Don Aitkin

  Grandchildren, Direct Effect, Ice

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• It's still popular to ... insist that globalization is a rising tide that lifts all boats, but the hard reality is that the last thirty years have seen America's once proud and prosperous working class thrown to the wolves, so corporations could keep boosting their quarterly profits and the middle class could maintain a filmy illusion of wealth through access to cheap consumer goods.

  John Michael Greer

  Reality, Years, Class

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• Over lowland, over snow and tundra span arches, raised by the rising sun. See: the light is winning! And the stream is streaming towards open minds and towards seeds dreaming of growth.

  Einar Skjaeraasen

  Dream, Winter, Winning

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• At daybreak, when loath to rise, have this thought in thy mind: I am rising for a man's work.

  Publilius Syrus

  Men, Mind, Daybreak

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• Kate Boo's reporting is a form of kinship. Abdul and Manju and Kalu of Annawadi will not be forgotten. She leads us through their unknown world, her gift of language rising up like a delicate string of necessary lights. There are books that change the way you feel and see; this is one of them. If we receive the fiery spirit from which it was written, it ought to change much more than that.

  Adrian Nicole LeBlanc

  Book, Light, Unknown Worlds

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• We only have to look around us to see how complexity and psychic 'temperature' are still rising: and rising no longer on the scale of the individual but now on that of the planet. This indication is so familiar to us that we cannot but recognize the objective, experiential, reality of a transformation of the planet 'as a whole.'

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Science, Reality, Psychics

  "The Heart of Matter". Book by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, 1950.

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• It is increasingly clear that no matter what party is in power, so long as our national security needs keep rising, an economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough jobs or enough profits.

  John F. Kennedy

  Jobs, Party, Long

  Address to the Economic Club of New York, delivered 14 December 1962, Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York

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• Even in the face of continued good news, Kerry clings to his message of gloom and doom, supporting it with twisted statistics. Kerry's complaints about a middle class squeeze are out of touch with the reality that home sales hit a record high last month, college tuition increases slowed and consumer confidence is rising.

  Steve Schmidt

  Home, Reality, College

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• In reality, we've had more spending, more bureaucracy, more waste and higher costs but without necessary reform nor rising productivity.

  Andrew Lansley

  Reality, Reform, Cost

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