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Every wolf's and lion's howl Raises from Hell a human soul. -- William Blake
He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too. -- Benjamin Franklin
In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
Gazzy: (Hugging himself and jumping up and down) "I'm brilliant! I'm a genius! I can blow up the world!" Max: (Raises her eyebrows) Gazzy: "Not that I would want to, of course," (coughs) -- James Patterson
If the heart of a man is depressed with cares, The mist is dispell'd when a woman appears; Like the notes of a fiddle, she sweetly, sweetly Raises the spirits, and charms our ears. -- John Gay
I can tell you that solitudeIs not all exaltation, inner spaceWhere the soul breaths and work can be done.Solitude exposes the nerve,Raises up ghosts.The past, never at rest, flows through it. -- May Sarton
I can tell you that solitude Is not all exaltation, inner space Where the soul breathes and work can be done. Solitude exposes the nerve, Raises up ghosts. The past, never at rest, flows through it. -- May Sarton
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed. -- Joseph Addison
I play to lift a city, and raise a banner. -- Prince Fielder
Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder. -- Rumi
It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. -- George Bernard Shaw
Celebrate what you've accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed. -- Mia Hamm
What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering -- Friedrich Nietzsche
When you put faith, hope and love together, you can raise positive kids in a negative world. -- Zig Ziglar
Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it. -- Rene Descartes
At what point must a female senator raise her hand or her voice to be recognized over her male colleagues? -- Leticia Van de Putte
You know the only people who are always sure about the proper way to raise children? Those who've never had any. -- Bill Cosby
We've begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters. -- Gloria Steinem
He who blinded by ambition, raises himself to a position whence he cannot mount higher, must thereafter fall with the greatest loss. -- Niccolo Machiavelli
It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity -- Horace
Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Listen first. Give your opponents a chance to talk. Let them finish. Do not resist, defend or debate. This only raises barriers. Try to build bridges of understanding. -- Dale Carnegie
There's weight on me to raise the bar, to carry on that legacy. But that's what drives me. Making sure that no one ever forgets who the Wallendas are. -- Nik Wallenda
Were the walls of our meat industry to become transparent, literally or even figuratively, we would not long continue to raise, kill, and eat animals the way we do. -- Michael Pollan
Only since the Industrial Revolution have most people worked in places away from their homes or been left to raise small children without the help of multiple adults, making for an unsupported life. -- Martha Beck
It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in it's place is a work extremely troublesome. -- Plutarch
Our founding fathers started this country and built it on God and His Word, and this country sure would be a better place to live and raise our children if we still followed their ideals and beliefs. -- Phil Robertson
You don't want to raise a kid in a culture where the kid who asks the most questions is annoying. You want a culture where the kid who asks the most questions gets awards and gets another piece of cake. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
My goal should never be to raise kids that make me look good. (Oh but how my flesh craves this!) My goal should be to raise kids who love God and spend their lives making His goodness known in their corner of the world. -- Lysa TerKeurst
Infidelity raises profound questions about intimacy. -- Junot Diaz
Art raises its head where creeds relax. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Enthusiasm is the yeast that raises the dough. -- Paul J. Meyer
True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher. -- John Petit-Senn
There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves. -- Robert Quillen
Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich. -- Evita Peron
It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity. -- Horace
Research shows you get multiple tasks done faster if you do them one at a time. It also decreases stress and raises happiness. -- Shawn Achor
The growth that we want is one that brings real benefits to the people, raises quality and efficiency of development, and contributes to energy conservation and environmental protection. -- Li Keqiang
Eclipse' is overlong and overly self-conscious, but it isn't a fake or a zero; it just gets exhausting. It raises a crucial question: 'When does Concept morph into Gimmick?' -- Robert Gottlieb
The French want no-one to be their superior. The English want inferiors. The Frenchman constantly raises his eyes above him with anxiety. The Englishman lowers his beneath him with satisfaction. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
Women are often meeker in meetings and afraid to ask for raises and promotions. I've told countless female colleagues to stop apologizing when they ask for more. It's not personal, it's business. -- Katharine Weymouth
The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers. -- Will Durant
The meaning of this observation is unclear, but it raises the unfortunate possibility of ambiguous triplets; that is, triplets which may code more than one amino acid. However one would certainly expect such triplets to be in a minority. -- Francis Crick
Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness. -- Leon Trotsky
Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections? -- Elizabeth Janeway
Look, I think the worst case scenario is obvious. I think first of all it doesn't work for very long. It's an unstable government that raises taxes and destroys the image we're building for Canada as a strong place to invest. -- Stephen Harper
I grew up at the base of a mountain in Virginia, so my comfort zone is that Appalachian area, where all the dudes wear Carhartt and all the women can put on a beautiful sweater with a snowman applique and nobody raises an eyebrow. -- Hilarie Burton
The idea of eternity lives in all of us. We thirst to live in a belief which raises our small personality to a higher coherence - a coherence which is human and yet superhuman, absolute and yet steadily growing and developing, ideal and yet real. -- Christian Lous Lange
The person who knows one thing and does it better than anyone else, even if it only be the art of raising lentils, receives the crown he merits. If he raises all his energy to that end, he is a benefactor of mankind and its rewarded as such. -- Og Mandino
Ontologically, chocolate raises profoundly disturbing questions: Does not chocolate offer natural revelation of the goodness of the Creator just as chilies disclose a divine sense of humor? Is the human born with an innate longing for chocolate? Does the notion of chocolate preclude the concept of free will? -- David Augsburger
Every time the good giants try to cut back on salt, sugar, fat calories, inevitably Wall Street raises its hand and is looking at the sales figures and the revenue and saying, 'Thou shalt not result in any loss of profit.' There's huge continuing pressure on the food companies. -- Michael Moss
Design is about creating spaces for people to enjoy and of course, creating moments where you elevate the spirit, but 'design for good' is figuring out a program that not only creates better spaces, but creates jobs, creates new industry and really kind of raises the conversation about how we rebuild. -- Cameron Sinclair
The bar raises as you go. -- William H. Macy
My downfall raises me to infinite heights. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Financial transaction tax raises problems of competition. -- Jose Manuel Barroso
God raises the level of the impossible. -- Corrie Ten Boom
A good piece of art raises questions. -- Rebecca Hall
The March sunne raises but dissolves not. -- George Herbert
Your virtue raises your glory above your crime. -- Pierre Corneille
Every solution of a problem raises new unsolved problems. -- Karl Popper
The government will fall that raises the price of beer. -- Czech Proverb
The man who raises a fist has run out of ideas. -- H. G. Wells
Unrequited love is not an affront to man but raises him. -- Alexander Pushkin
Ireland is a little country which raises all the great questions. -- Gustave de Beaumont
A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule. -- John Stuart Mill
[On Alfred Hitchcock:] Hitch is a gentleman farmer who raises goose flesh. -- Ingrid Bergman
Anything that raises any internal honesty about gay life is inherently suspect. -- Andrew Sullivan
True courage is like a kite; a contrary wind raises it higher. -- John Petit-Senn
If it is a small rate raises, [there will be] no impact. -- Jamie Dimon
Every scientific fulfillment raises new questions; it asks to be surpassed and outdated. -- Max Weber
An enlightened person raises the level of the consciousness of the entire community. -- Phyllis Theroux
Life has its beauty in its simplicity. Ugliness raises her head with complexity. -- Debasish Mridha
An enlightened person raises the level of the consciousness of the entire community. -- Phyllis Theroux
Whoever raises a righteous child, it is as if he did not die. -- Rashi
Fame alone raises herself to Heaven, because virtuous things are in favour with God. -- Leonardo da Vinci
It benefits all artists to help one another - it raises the whole profession. -- T. Allen Lawson
A vast space naturally raises in my thoughts the idea of an Almighty Being. -- Joseph Addison
Every pleasure raises the tide of life; every pain lowers the tide of life. -- Herbert Spencer
I've always written about adultery because it raises the question of transgression and trouble. -- Kate Christensen
Being alone in our present society raises an important question about identity and well-being. -- Sara Maitland
Luck often raises vulgarity to a high position, to create mirth for the beholders. -- Juvenal
The unfortunate thing about money is that it always raises suspicion even amongst brothers. -- Babatunde Fashola
The extra daily social time of 1.7 hours in weekends raises average happiness by about 2%. -- Daniel Kahneman
Man is born a barbarian, and only raises himself above the beast by culture. -- Baltasar Gracian
Certainly, we are hurt by the high fuel prices because it raises our cost. -- David Neeleman
When she raises her eyelids, it's as if she were taking off all her clothes. -- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
...the questions a photographer raises may be more profound than the answers the medium permits. -- Rebecca Solnit
Faith actually moves no mountains, but instead raises them up where there were none before. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The call of God does what the call of man cannot. It raises the dead. -- John Piper
He who raises a question opens knowledge and he who gives an answer limits knowledge -- Respicius Rwehumbiza
Imagination is to love what gas is to the balloon-that which raises it from earth. -- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Next I must tell about the machine of Ctesibius, which raises water to a height. -- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
Research shows the presence of women raises the standards of ethical behavior and lowers corruption. -- Hillary Clinton
When you're working with really good actors, it raises your own game and you get better. -- Richard Dormer
God raises up such men as John Bunyan and William Huntington but once in a century. -- William Romaine
Religion is consciousness-raising. It raises you higher than the problem, it gives you a bird's-eye view. -- Rajneesh
Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another. -- Joseph Addison
The worst thing that we could do is raises taxes. It would only hurt the economy. -- Dan Bartlett
Vast, colossal destiny, which raises man to fame, though it may also grind him to powder! -- Friedrich Schiller
I am interested in tax policy that raises money because I don't like being in debt. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
What raises great poetry above all else--it is the entire person and also the entire world. -- Franz Grillparzer
I am interested in tax policy that raises money because I don't like being in debt. -- Ruqaiyyah Waris Maqsood
Everything that you do or say that raises the self-esteem of another raises yours as well. -- Brian Tracy
When the hypocrisy of life appears we often fail to recognise it or the question it raises -- Jeremy Griffith
Our culture raises us to seek success but we are not taught how to live with it. -- Nancy Friday
Pneumococcus is a fairly common cause of pneumonia and [raises the] risk of death in older adults. -- Paul A. Offit
Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind; the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities. -- Johann Kaspar Lavater
Music raises in the mind of the hearer great conceptions: it strengthens and advances praise into rapture. -- Joseph Addison
Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life. -- Michael Chabon
Theatre within theatre, when characters sees themselves on stage, always raises philosophical questions of choice and free will. -- Mark Ravenhill
Such men as fortune raises from a mean estate to the highest elevation by way of a joke. -- Juvenal
When a member of the House moves over to the Senate, he raises the IQ of both bodies. -- Everett Dirksen
Old photograph: amid the set poses of her family, a young girl smiles and raises her hand a little. -- Mason Cooley
For girls, it raises your testosterone, so I try to have as much sex as possible before I fight. -- Ronda Rousey
Making the decision to do more serious work raises eyebrows. It's less easy for the industry to deal with.... -- Jacqueline Bisset
Love may be the answer, but even though you're watching for the solution, intercourse raises some rather interesting thoughts. -- Woody Allen
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Nothing raises the national temperature more than a VACANCY sign hanging from the colonnaded front of the Supreme Court. -- Christopher Buckley
Perfect prayer does not consist in many words, silent remembering and pure intention raises the heart to that supreme Power. -- Amit Ray

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