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Quotes About Rise up

It's time for the sensible center to rise up and push for a rational approach to our fiscal challenges.
~ Steven Rattner
Thousands of other future feminists lived in middle-class homes, growing up to be bright, popular, and good. Everything appeared to promise them a future of happy domesticity. Who would have guessed that within a decade they would rise up to challenge that promise, to name it fraud, and to demand fundamental changes in American society under the banner of women's liberation? Feminism had been dead for over thirty years.
~ Sara M. Evans
Awake, arise or be for ever fall'n.
~ John Milton
But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength, would have no need to conspire. They needed only to rise up and shake themselves like a horse shaking off flies. If they chose they could blow the Party to pieces tomorrow morning. Surely sooner or later it must occur to them to do it? And yet-!
~ George Orwell
Gravity disappears again, and we rise up off the floor like spooks from a grave. It's like the Rapture in here every thirty seconds.
~ Mary Roach
We may rise up now and then and score a victory with the gift of faith, but we won't have the continual influence of Kingdom transformation flowing through us.
~ Bill Johnson
Shake the vermin from thy rags! Rise up from thy filth! Thy god is not a moloch who demands human flesh in sacrifice!
~ Gustave Flaubert
I auditioned for soap operas and commercials; I remember auditioning for Lays potato chips. It was a sort of 'Mutiny on the Bounty' sketch, where Captain Bligh was torturing the crew by saying, 'You can only have one Lays potato chip,' and they all rise up.
~ John Lithgow
I look at Peeta and he gives me a sad smile. I hear Haymitch's voice. "You could do a lot worse." At this moment, it's impossible to imagine how I could do any better. The gift...it is perfect. So when I rise up on my tiptoe to kiss him, it doesn't seem forced at all.
~ Suzanne Collins
Role models can inspire. Campaigns can motivate. But if we want all girls everywhere to rise up, then we must find them, befriend them and support them.
~ Queen Rania of Jordan
O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells; Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills…
~ Walt Whitman
the fanatical shouts of the bullies of the world are invariably silenced by the unified voices of decency that rise up to meet them.
~ Dan Brown
Songbird, rebirth, unearth creature / Submerge from hurt, pain, broken pieces / Emergency, heartbeat increases / Rise up lotus, rise, this is the beginning.
~ Christina Aguilera
When I rise, though, I strap on my new sword. It is cold and solid in my hands, heavy as a promise.
~ Holly Black
My Lords temporal, today is the day to rise up against the regiment of Lords spiritual and proclaim the values of enlightenment, compassion and common sense.
~ Polly Toynbee
One of these days, people like me will rise up and overthrow you, and the end of tyranny by the homeostatic machine will have arrived. The day of human values and compassion and simple warmth will return, and when that happens someone like myself who has gone through an ordeal and who genuinely needs hot coffee to pick him up and keep him functioning when he has to function will get the hot coffee whether he happens to have a poscred readily available or not.
~ Philip K. Dick
Be careful of raising me too high, brother. I have no special strength, unless it is in choosing good men to follow me. The great lie of cities is that we are all too weak to stand against those who oppress us. All I have done is see through that lie. I always fight, Kachiun. Kings and shahs depend on people remaining sheep, too afraid to rise up. All I ever did was realize I can be a wolf to them.
~ Conn Iggulden
In 1776 the founders of the United States of America sent a Declaration of Independence to the King of England. In that Declaration, Thomas Jefferson wrote "that whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive… it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government." We are invoking this right to rise up and alter the course of our government. You have had your chance to correct America's course, and you have failed.
~ Vince Flynn
I've got a hangover! No, you hit your head on the floor, Sophie said. Howl rose up on his hands and knees with a scramble. I can't stay, he said. I've got to rescue that fool Sophie. I'm here! Sophie shook his shoulder. But so is Mis Angorian! Get up and do something about her!
~ Diana Wynne Jones
Rise up and be the best that you can be because your world is waiting for you.
~ Unknown
Awake, arise, or be for ever fall'n.
~ John Milton
The lesson of history is that ignorance and superstition are things that can rise up, inside almost anyone, at any moment. And what starts as a doubt in a mind can swiftly become an act in the world.
~ Matt Haig
Another spell had been thrust upon her so long ago...She hadn't been able to see it but it was real. Otherwise why would you rise up from your enclosed and well-defended self and go be with that other person? Why would you open your life, the most secret entries into yourself, to someone you didn't really know? Who would do that unless she had to?
~ Meg Wolitzer
Get on your feet or die.
~ Paul Hoffman