Raises Quotes

Giving no pain to any creature, let him slowly accumulate spiritual merit, for the sake ,of acquiring a companion to the next world, just as the white ant ,gradually raises its hill.

High heels can literally raise your status because you're taller when you wear them.

As democracy modifies our conception of life, it constantly raises the value and function of each member of the community, however humble he may be.

The sun teaches to all things that grow their longing for the light. But it is night that raises them to the stars.

There's nothing that can't be done if we raise our voice as one.

The mercy of Jesus is not just sentiment: indeed it is a force that gives life, that raises man up!

Sayings designed to raise a laugh are generally untrue and never complimentary. Laughter is never far removed from derision.

Religion is consciousness-raising. It raises you higher than the problem, it gives you a bird's-eye view.

Every great artist raises art to a science, and every great scientist raises science to an art, hence we have Michelangelo's David and Einstein's Theory of Relativity.

Where you raise your children isn't as important as how you raise your children.

Horses raise what the farmer eats and eats what the farmer raises. You can't plow the ground and get gasoline.

I adopt a very simple approach. I observe and reflect real life and ordinary people and sooner or later that raises a laugh.

When someone offends you, you can raise your spirits to heights where offenses cannot reach.

Philosophy cannot raise the commonalty up to her level: so, if she is to become popular, she must sink to theirs.

And the seriousness with which the other party takes my words always raises the doubt whether I have taken them seriously enough myself.

A sense of a wider meaning to one's existence is what raises a man beyond mere getting and spending. If he lacks this sense, he is lost and miserable.

Tai Chi Chuan, the great ultimate, strengthens the weak, raises the sick, invigorates the debilitated, and encourages the timid

Nothing raises the national temperature more than a VACANCY sign hanging from the colonnaded front of the Supreme Court.

If you cut a thing up, of course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink at last, as human psychology.

The worst thing that we could do is raises taxes. It would only hurt the economy.

Certainly, we are hurt by the high fuel prices because it raises our cost.

If you can't come clean and tell investors how and why you failed, that raises a red flag. They need to see that you learned from it and came back stronger.

Flattery is no more than what raises in a man's mind an idea of a preference which he has not.

He who calls in the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; and he who profits by a superior understanding raises his powers to a level with the height of the superior standing he unites with.

Liberty will not descend to a people, a people must raise themselves to liberty...

Equity capital is expensive. Every time you do a raise, you dilute.

It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor.

If you raise taxes during a recession, you head to depression.

My feeling about executive bonuses is that any candidate for a chief executive job who even raises the issue of bonuses should be dismissed out of hand.

The Supreme Court raises the question, what kind of country will we be? The Supreme Court needs to stand on the side of the American people, not on the side of the powerful, wealthy.

When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.

Superstition always inspires littleness, religion grandeur of mind; the superstitious raises beings inferior to himself to deities.

If you can raise up leaders, you will always have followers, but if you can't raise up leaders, you will only have followers.

A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule.

Professor Ian McDonald of Guy's hospital in London...has found that, in young men, sugar raises the level of cholesterol in the blood, and especially...tri-glycerides.

Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.

A vast space naturally raises in my thoughts the idea of an Almighty Being.

I think the Bravo test is really important for a number of reasons. It's kind of symbolic. It raises a lot of the issues that are related to the whole controversy over nuclear testing.

Make a true estimate of your own ability, then raise it ten per cent.

Your virtue raises your glory above your crime.

[Michael Hastings] has composed a dirge to incompatibility, which, because it raises expectations only to defeat them, leaves a taste of exhumed ashes.

The hapless wit has his labors always to begin, the call for novelty is never satisfied, and one jest only raises expectation of another.

You can raise welts like nobody else, as we dance to the Masochism Tango.

Why has there been so much secrecy about AIDS? When you ask where did the virus come from, it raises a lot of flags. That makes me suspicious.

When you figure it right down, none of us are in a really essential business but the farmer, and he raises so much that even his business is partly non-essential.

God raises up such men as John Bunyan and William Huntington but once in a century.

I direct, and I make movies I can't finance. I can't raise money. I can't sell anything. I make things.

The prosecution wants to make sure the process by which the evidence was obtained is not truthfully presented, because, as often as not, that process will raise questions.

Everything that you do or say that raises the self-esteem of another raises yours as well.

I'm ambitious in the sense that I raise the bar high for myself.