Raises Quotes - Page 3

All that is necessary to raise imbecility into what the mob regards as profundity is to lift it off the floor and put it on a platform.

Beauty is to enthuse us for work, and work is to raise us up

Where you raise your children isn't as important as how you raise your children.

Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.

There's nothing that can't be done if we raise our voice as one.

Expert tutors often do not help very much. They hang back letting the student manage as much as possible. And when things go awry, rather than help directly they raise questions: 'Could you explain this step again? How did you... ?

Listeners instinctively detect that when we lower the usual pitch of our voice, we are sad, and when we raise it, we are angry or fearful.

High heels can literally raise your status because you're taller when you wear them.

The fact is that the amount of money startups raise in their seed and Series A rounds is inversely correlated with success

If I Had My Child to Raise Over Again

When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.

God raises up such men as John Bunyan and William Huntington but once in a century.

You can raise welts like nobody else, as we dance to the Masochism Tango.

Make a true estimate of your own ability, then raise it ten per cent.

If you can raise up leaders, you will always have followers, but if you can't raise up leaders, you will only have followers.

Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.

If you raise taxes during a recession, you head to depression.

Equity capital is expensive. Every time you do a raise, you dilute.

If I can raise attention to a cause, I will.

Philosophy cannot raise the commonalty up to her level: so, if she is to become popular, she must sink to theirs.

What a vile and abject thing is man if he do not raise himself above humanity.

The call of God does what the call of man cannot. It raises the dead.

It's time to raise a generation of participants, not another generation of fans.

We must look back over our lives and look at some of the accidents and curiosities and oddities and troubles and sicknesses and begin to see more in those things than we saw before. It raises questions, so that when peculiar little accidents happen, you ask whether there is something else at work in your life.

At that point the child is eligible for adoption and can be placed with a family that can love the child and can raise the child.