We can all become activists and raise questions.
Your virtue raises your glory above your crime.
Whenever a conscious Black woman raises her voice on issues central to her existence, somebody is going to call her strident, because they don't want to hear about it, nor us. I refuse to be silenced and I refuse to be trivialized, even if I do not say what I have to say perfectly.
My mother didn't raise me to be a critic, but I seem to have become one anyway.
I wanted to be rid of him," he says. He raises my chin with his thumb. "But not if it meant being rid of you. I climbed in beside you, and you put your head in my lap. You can't think I would have left you like that. " "Look what it got you," I say. "Tea in bed and you here in front of me," he says. "It was a terrible decision, and I confess I'd make it again.
Luxury, by definition, means something that appears to be the best of whatever it represents. It's a word that raises people's expectations, whether talking about clothing for women or locations for people to live You pay for recognition, but probably the most important thing it represents is delivery on the promise of the brand's name.
You risk everything if you so much as join a legal protest demonstration in Russia. It raises the stakes.
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.
For I can raise no money by vile means.
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.
Any fool can try to defend his or her mistakes- and most fools do- but it raises one above the herd and gives one a feeling of nobility and exultation to admit one's mistakes.
A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule.
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.
To the sun Rome owes its underlying glow, and its air called golden - to me, more the yellow of white wine; like wine it raises agreeability to poetry.
The chances of someone who looks like Jesus having pot raises steadily, to a point. If the guy is on a cross you may have the wrong guy.
Love can do all but raise the Dead.
You can raise welts like nobody else, as we dance to the Masochism Tango.
Suffering raises up those souls that are truly great; it is only small souls that are made mean-spirited by it.
If you don't raise the bar, how will you ever know your potential?