Quotes by category:Rising

All that has been hidden is rising, there is no stopping it! These things you cannot hide: the sun, the moon, and TRUTH.

Gautama Buddha

stopping rising moon

Rising early and scorning laziness, remaining calm in time of strife, faultless in conduct and clever in actions. One like this will be praised.

Gautama Buddha

rising buddhist clever

We are still learning how exactly the Earth reacts to increased CO2 and other greenhouse gases. We know it leads to warming seas which are melting the North and the South Poles, rising and starting to swallow entire coastal areas in the US and elsewhere, as the New York Times article documents.

Graciela Chichilnisky

rising new-york sea

Americans are rising to the tasks of history, and they expect the same of us.

George W. Bush

rising tasks

Slowly but inexorably crawling upon my consciousness and rising above every other impression, came a dizzying fear of the unknown; a fear all the greater because I could not analyse it, and seeming to concern a stealthily approaching menace; not death, but some nameless, unheard-of thing inexpressibly more ghastly and abhorrent.

H. P. Lovecraft

abhorrent rising consciousness

The rising costs of higher education coupled with the stress of paying student loans are putting increasing pressure on students.

Hank Johnson

rising cost stress

There ought to be a law against the sun rising and setting for you in somebody else.

Harry Crews

rising law sun

Stand through life firm as a rock in the sea, undisturbed and unmoved by its ever-rising waves

Hazrat Inayat Khan

rising rocks sea

Life is nothing but an occassional burst of laughter rising above the interminable wail of grief.

Henry Roth

rising laughter grief

Wisdom consists in rising superior both to madness and to common sense, and is lending oneself to the universal illusion without becoming its dupe.

Henri Frederic Amiel

common-sense rising wisdom

I have been observing China for more than 30 years and am impressed how logically and wisely it tackles its problems. Obviously the international system could be unbalanced by China's rising power - if we don't prepare ourselves for the new competitive situation, that is. But it is an economic challenge, not aggression on the level of Hitler.

Henry A. Kissinger

rising challenges years

Historically when there is a rising power like China, it has usually led to confrontations between the rising power and the existing dominant powers. And when you have a shift of the center of gravity of world affairs from the Atlantic to the Pacific, then you have an additional element.

Henry A. Kissinger

rising elements world

Nor deem the irrevocable Past

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

wrecks rising past

The diameter of each day is measured by the stretch of thought - not by the rising and setting of the sun.

Henry Ward Beecher

rising each-day weather

The Reformation has been called in a biting epigram "a rising of the rich against the poor."

Hilaire Belloc

rising politics wisdom

We've got to create more good jobs with rising incomes.

Hillary Clinton

income rising jobs

Labor with what zeal we will, Something still remains undone, Something uncompleted still Waits the rising of the sun.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

rising forgiveness waiting

Peoples of the Americas are rising once again, saying no to imperialism, saying no to fascism, saying no to intervention - and saying no to death.

Hugo Chavez

saying-no imperialism rising

It is true, I never assisted the sun materially in his rising, but doubt not, it was of the last importance only to be present at it.

Henry David Thoreau

rising doubt morning

To prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Isaac Watts

divinity rising wise