Rising Quotes - Page 7

When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else.

There has never been a better raconteur than Jesus of Nazareth.

The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!

Surprise is the essence of humor, and nothing is more surprising than truth.

The early morning has gold in its mouth.

Rising before daylight is also to be commended; it is a healthy habit, and gives more time for the management of the household as well as for liberal studies.

We stand at the end of the Age of Reason. A new era of the magical explanation of the world is rising.

In our interdependent world, our neighbors are not only on our street, but can be ten thousand miles away on an island in rising seas.

We have said that Israel has had a very bad history with the United Nations, and whoever cares for himself in Israel distances himself from that Organization.

One must not make oneself cheap here - that is a cardinal point - or else one is done. Whoever is most impertinent has the best chance.

Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.

As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.

I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel.

Politics are now nothing more than means of rising in the world.

We are like the phoenix," said Abuelita. "Rising again, with a new life ahead of us.

I had no more alphabet than the journeying of the swallows, the pure and tiny water of the small, fiery bird that dances rising from the pollen.

Revolution is not the uprising against preexisting order, but the setting up of a new order contradictory to the traditional one

Brand-name growth stocks ordinarily command the highest p/e ratios. Rising prices beget attention, and vice versa - but only to a point. Eventually their growth rate can diminish as results revert towards normal. Maybe not in all cases, but often enough to make a long-term bet. Bottom line: I wouldn't want to get caught in a rush for the exit, much less get left behind. Only when big growth stocks fall into the dumper from time to time am I inclined to pick them up - and even then, only in moderation.

Arithmetic! Algebra! Geometry! Grandiose trinity! Luminous triangle! Whoever has not known you is without sense!

For human nature is so made that only what is unusual and infrequent excites wonder or is regarded as of value. We make no wonder of the rising and the setting of the sun which we see every day; and yet there is nothing in the universe more beautiful, or worthy of wonder. When, however, an eclipse of the sun takes place, everyone is amazed - because it happens rarely.

Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising.

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

Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

All motion in this universe is in the form of waves, successively rising and falling.