Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.
Nobody rises above mediocrity unless they use the brains of other people.
You can never make yourself believe that you're loveable, however hard you try, because when the chips are down what you really believe rises to the surface of the mind to replace what you want to believe.
This world, it is a tempest sometimes. But remember, the sun always rises again.
Anyone who rises above the things of this world, to which you kneel, is mightier than you.
I wonder that religion can live or die on the strength of a faint, stirring breeze. The scent trail shifts, causing the predator to miss the pounce. One god draws in the breath of life and rises; another god expires.
The kundalini rises and the kundalini is hot, it's a hot energy. Sometimes you feel it cascading up your spine, and it's kind of searing or it's tingling, it almost feels sexual.
No nation ever rises higher than its women.
Confidence in a forecast rises with the amount of information that goes into it. But the accuracy of the forecast stays the same.
When the sun rises, it rises for everyone.
The importance of prayer rises in proportion to the importance of the things we should give up in order to pray
As the cost of gasoline rises and our dependence on foreign oil continues to increase, the effect of sending over $100 billion each year to OPEC nations hurts every American.
And then when all around grows dark, when we feel utterly alone, when all men right and left pass us by and know us not, a forgotten feeling rises in the breast.
I hear it still. As I lay down my pen and take to my bed, I am aware of the bow being drawn across the bridge and the music rises into the night sky. It is far away and barely audible - but there it is! A pizzicato. Then a tremelo. The style is unmistakable. It is Sherlock Holmes who is playing. It must be. I hope with all my heart that he is playing for me. . .
Great truths always dwell a long time with small minorities, and the real voice of God is often that which rises above the masses, not that which follows them.
The sad fact is that spending rises every year, no matter what people want or say they want.
What constitutes the bulwark of our liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea-coasts, our army and our navy. . . . Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in us. Our defense is in the spirit which prized liberty as the heritage of all men in all lands everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism at your own doors. . . . you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you.
This is what I wanted most to avoid: for my rises and falls to become Tobias's rises and falls. That's why I can't let him step in to defend me now.
I've always felt that night doesn't fall. Night rises. There are these incidences in flying where you just sit there. It's one of the best seats in the house.
The greatest faith is born in the hour of despair. When we can see no hope and no way out, then faith rises and brings the victory.