Raise Quotes - page 47

The first-known public lottery was sponsored by Augustus Caesar to raise funds for repairing the city of Rome; the first public lottery awarding money prizes, the Lotto de Firenze, was established in Florence in 1530. (Richard Arnold Epstein)

Celebrate exceptional productivity, rather than raise average efforts.

Richard Koch

At this moment it seems as though science will never be able to raise the curtain on the mystery of creation. For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.

Robert Jastrow

God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again.

Robert South

It is our duty, our purpose, to raise those banners high, so that all can see them, to sound the trumpets clearly and boldly so that all can hear them.

Margaret Thatcher

It's not about asking for the raise but knowing and having faith that the system will actually give you the right raises as you go along.

Satya Nadella

If you think you deserve a raise, you should just ask.

Satya Nadella

The last thing you want to do is raise taxes in the middle of the recession because that would just suck up and take more demand out of the economy and put businesses in a further hole.

Barack Obama

Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Think of their needs.

Barack Obama

While I understand the passions and the anger that arise over the death of Michael Brown, giving into that anger by looting or carrying guns, and even attacking the police, only serves to raise tensions and stir chaos.

Barack Obama

Some men abuse women, but you should never raise your hand against them. You do not know how much they bear-they are forbearance itself. If you abuse them, where shall they turn? They are aspects of the Divine Mother, and if the Mother is insulted, the Lord is displeased. Thus your well-being lies in making them happy. (Swami Adbhutananda)

There was reference made to a book written in Greek by a former Rabbi who had been converted to Christianity. There was reference to a publication of a high clergyman of Milan. Not even did Jews raise objections to that book.

Julius Streicher

Interviews are good if you want to be an actor because they raise your profile.

Jack Gleeson

For me, the historian's principal task should be to raise the dead to life.

Thomas Cahill

Materialism has cast man into such depths that a mighty concentration of forces is necessary to raise him again. He is subject to illnesses of the nervous system which are veritable epidemics of the life of the soul.

Rudolf Steiner

After biting Evander Holyfield This is my career. I have children to raise. I have to retaliate. He butted me. Look at me. My kids will be scared of me.

Mike Tyson

Up with the banner of your new Lord, Jehovah Jesus! Raise it in firm decision, with quiet earnestness and with humble prayer; keep it with unflinching fortitude, and be ready to die rather than dishonor it.

William Mackergo Taylor

God provides the wind, Man must raise the sail.

Augustine of Hippo

Now one will inevitably raise the question: How then do we conquer self-centeredness?

Martin Luther King Jr.

Raise up the banner of forlorn defence - A jest to the complacency of crowds - Bright-haloed with the one diviner sense: To hold itself as nothing to itself; And in the quest of its imagined star To lose all thought of after-recompense!

John Galsworthy

Come! Let us lay a lance in rest,
And tilt at windmills under a wild sky!
For who would live so petty and unblest
That dare not tilt at something ere he die;
Rather than, screened by safe majority,
Preserve his little life to little end,
And never raise a rebel cry! (John Galsworthy)

Have you come here for forgiveness? Have you come to raise the dead? Have you come here to play Jesus to the lepers in your head.

Bono

I was slightly brain damaged at birth, and I want people like me to see that they shouldn't let a disability get in the way. I want to raise awareness - I want to turn my disability into ability.

Susan Boyle

An artist is someone who should raise questions rather than give answers. I have no message.

Michael Haneke

To maintain and further raise our present level of economic development, peace among nations must be assured. But they cannot live together in peace if the basic tenet of the ideology by which they are governed is the belief that one's own nation can secure its place in the community of nations by force alone.

Ludwig von Mises

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