Quotes of Rising - somelinesforyou

“ Evolution ever climbing after some ideal good And Reversion ever dragging Evolution in the mud. ”

- Lord Alfred Tennyson

“ Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination. ”

- Daniel Bell

“ If it had been possible to build the Tower of Babel without climbing it, it would have been permitted. ”

- Franz Kafka

“ I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and as perhaps I might ever be. I went climbing three weeks before, because I was feeling fed up with running. ”

- Roger Bannister

“ Few ever live to old age, and fewer still ever became distinguished, who were not in the habit of early rising. ”

- J. Todd

“ Life does not count by years. Some suffer a lifetime in a day, and so grow old between the rising and the setting of the sun. ”

- Augusta Jane Evans

“ Tthe fog is rising. ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck. ”

- Henry Ward Beecher

“ In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present: 'I am rising to a man's work.'. ”

- Marcus Arelius Antoninus

“ Thanks to his constant habit of shaking the bottle in which life handed him the wine of experience, he presently found the taste of the lees rising as usual into his draught. ”

- Henry James

“ Acts of injustice done Between the setting and the rising sun In history lie like bones, each one. ”

- W. H. Auden

“ Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. ”

- Confucius

“ All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, but by rising above them. ”

- Cicero

“ I must go in, the fog is rising. ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ An early-rising man… a good spouse but a bad husband. ”

- Gabriel García Márquez

“ And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed. ”

- The Holy Bible

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

- Publilius Syrus

“ Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little dearth. ”

- Arthur Schopenhauer

“ Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance. ”

- John F. Kennedy

“ Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence, but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity. ”

- Francis Scott Fitzgerald

“ He who holds back rising anger like a rolling chariot, him I call a real driver; other people are but holding the reins. ”

- The Dhammapada

“ Let us go in; the fog is rising. ”

- Emily Dickinson

“ Next to temperance, a quiet conscience, a cheerful mind and active habits, I place early rising as a means of health and happiness. ”

- Unknown

“ None, but people of strong passion are capable of rising to greatness. ”

- Gabriel Riqueti Mirabeau

“ Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world. With this sole view do men engage in politics, and their whole conduct proceeds upon it. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Prayer is a rising up and a drawing near to God in mind and in heart, and in spirit. ”

- Alexander Whyte

“ Remember, the bread you meet each day is still rising. Don't scare the dough. ”

- Macrina Wiederkehr

“ Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster. ”

- Washington Irving
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