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"A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value." »Isaac Asimov
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"You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it is going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, its always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt." »Robert M. Pirsig
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"Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense." »Winston Churchill
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"Men want sex. If men ruled the world, they could get sex anywhere, anytime. Restaurants would give you sex instead of breath mints on the way out. Gas stations would give sex with every fill-up. Banks would give sex to anyone who opened a checking account." »Scott Adams, The Dilbert Future
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"Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste... years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just... take it. give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard." »Lois McMaster Bujold
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"Reality is something you rise above." »Liza Minnelli
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"Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall." »William Shakespeare
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"He that lies down with dogs, shall rise up with fleas." »Benjamin Franklin
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"In fall, God is remembered; in rise, forgotten." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"If you are not rising with ethichs, you will sink with every rise!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"All we do is to rise and to fall; and in between these two activities, we sleep!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas." »Italian Proverb
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"Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it." »Winston Churchill
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"To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles." »Anonymous
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"We rise in glory as we sink in pride." »Young
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"The time has come for all good men to rise above principle." »Huey Long
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"Our friends should be companions who inspire us, who help us rise to our best." »Joseph B. Wirthlin
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"Many things have fallen only to rise higher." »Seneca
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"I'm against a homogenized society, because I want the cream to rise." »Robert Frost
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"Kites rise highest against the wind---not with it." »Winston Churchill
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"A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished." »Johann Christian Friedrich von Schiller
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"A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"There are only two ways by which to rise in this world, either by one's own industry or by the stupidity of others." »Jean de la Bruyere
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"To business that we love, we rise betime and go to't with delight." »William Shakespeare
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"It is not easy for men to rise whose qualities are thwarted by poverty." »Juvenal
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"In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence." »Laurence J. Peter
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"The future belongs to those who can rise above the confines of the earth." »Alfred North Whitehead, From the viewbook of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
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"Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day." »Herodotus
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"Like bubbles on the sea of matter borne, They rise, they break, and to that sea return." »Alexander Pope
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"An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters." »Henry Clay
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