Quotes About Rise

We are witnessing the rise of a new class of inverse heroes, that is, bureaucrats, bankers, Davos-attending members of the I.A.N.D. (International Association of Name Droppers), and academics with too much power and no real downside and/or accountability.

Yippee. I haven't had this much fun since I was in the Transhuman Police, mixing it up with superpowered neo-Nazis, and by fun I mean fuck me I demand a pay rise and a nice quiet office job—

The time a man wakes up is his morning.

Many of us, restless and unfulfilled, see no supreme worth in our lives. We want more out of life. And war, at least, gives a sense that we can rise above our smallness and divisiveness.

I'm not really a morning person.

I'm not an early morning person.

I am not a morning person at all.

I'm not a morning person. I'm really not.

I'm a morning person, really alert.

It was the rise of Athens and the fear that this instilled in Sparta that made war inevitable.

It's my belief that history is a wheel. 'Inconstancy is my very essence,' says the wheel. Rise up on my spokes if you like but don't complain when you're cast back down into the depths. Good time pass away, but then so do the bad. Mutability is our tragedy, but it's also our hope. The worst of time, like the best, are always passing away.

Since that day I worried I'd been wandering the night. But I had forgotten that this is a world, upon which the sun does rise.

Since that day, I've worried I'd been wandering the night, but I had forgotten that this is a world upon which the sun does rise.

Amazon's rise was a surprise not because it became an "everything store" (not hard to imagine), but because Amazon's customers (me and you) rushed to write the reviews that made the site's long-tail selection usable. Today

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The rise of any demagogue never happens overnight, and it's never the result of one election. It occurs because of the slow shift in beliefs and values that follows every self-justifying decision that citizens make. One step at a time.

Enrich my heart, mouth, hands in me, With faith, with hope, with charity; That I may run, rise, rest with thee.

Men who fall in battle against the Others must be burned, or else the dead will rise again as their thralls.

You cannot escape the results of your thoughts.... Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire, as great as your dominant aspiration.

Shake a bridle over a Yorkshireman's grave, and he'll rise and steal a horse.

He rose without a friend, and sat down without an enemy.

A talent somewhat above mediocrity, shrewd and not too sensitive, is more likely to rise in the world than genius, which is apt to be perturbable and to wear itself out before fruition.

If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.

propped up a little as her eyes adjusted. She hardly ever got to watch Roarke sleep. Most of the time he rose before she did. And sleep for her tended to be wandering in lucid, often disturbing dreams