Raise Quotes - page 2

We can't leave people in abject poverty, so we need to raise the standard of living for 80% of the world's people, while bringing it down considerably for the 20% who are destroying our natural resources. (Jane Goodall)
All those who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand. View quote
Steven Wright
Plots, true or false, are necessary things, To raise up commonwealths and ruin kings. View quote
John Dryden
Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it. View quote
Edmund Hillary
It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration nay, it is a very easy matter but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome. View quote
Plutarch
And why does this same God tell me how to raise my children when he had to drown his? View quote
Robert G. Ingersoll
If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings. View quote
Brian Tracy
If it were possible to heal sorrow by weeping and to raise the dead with tears, gold were less prized than grief. View quote
Sophocles
Wherefore a monk's whole attention should thus be fixed on one point, and the rise and circle of all his thoughts be vigorously restricted to it; viz., to the recollection of God, as when a man, who is anxious to raise on high a vault of a round arch, must constantly draw a line round from its exact centre, and in accordance with the sure standard it gives discover by the laws of building all the evenness and roundness required.... View quote
John Cassian
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. View quote
Martha Beck
I have come close to producing films. But generally by the time they hit the screen, there's about 50 people with producer credits, so what's the point. I usually find scripts I like with no money attached and take them to producers that I know and try to raise finance. (Tim Roth)
Warfare has been marvelously developed. It will soon be impossible to raise it to further heights. View quote
Fredrik Bajer
The vast upheaval of the World War set in motion forces that will either destroy civilization or raise mankind to undreamed of heights of human welfare and prosperity. View quote
Arthur Henderson
The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them. View quote
Bruno Bettelheim
And so I wait. I wait for time to heal the pain and raise me to me feet once again - so that I can start a new path, my own path, the one that will make me whole again. View quote
Jack Canfield
Rising sea levels, severe draughts, the melting of the polar caps, the more frequent and devastating natural disasters all raise demand for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief. View quote
Leon Panetta
If I had a magic wand, I would live in a building in New York, big enough so my friends, my family could all have apartments in it. We'd raise our kids in the same space and have backyard barbecues and get old and fat together. View quote
Liz Murray
Increasingly prices are set by sellers to raise their prices without a loss of sales sufficient to wipe out the gain. View quote
William Vickrey
The opponents of my budget propose taking $200 million out of our classrooms and instead spending it on a larger school employee pay raise. Our focus should be on making sure our children come first. View quote
Bob Riley
I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids. View quote
Beau Bridges
You know, if you think about it, the most powerful people on this earth probably never raise their voices - they just say it and people hop to, because they have that power. (Erika Slezak)
Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students. View quote
Godfrey Reggio
Farmers in Missouri and across the country must comply with a variety of federal, state, and local regulations as they grow the crops and raise the livestock that we depend on to feed the nation and the world. View quote
Ike Skelton
A Germany team should not be afraid going into a tournament. History shows that we can raise the level of our game when it matters. View quote
Oliver Kahn
We want to raise the art of living well. View quote
Robert Mondavi