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"If rising makes you famous, don’t give up rising, but find a safe port where you can be unreachable!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"There is no victory at bargain basement prices." »Dwight D Eisenhower
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"Oil prices have fallen lately. We include this news for the benefit of gas stations, which otherwise wouldn't learn of it for six months." »Bill Tammeus
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"National Health Insurance:
The compassion of the IRS
The efficiency of the Postal Service
All at Pentagon prices!!!!" »Seen on a bumper sticker
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"People will frighten you about a graduation....They use words you don't hear often... 'And we wish you Godspeed.' It is a warning, Godpeed. It means you are no longer welcome here at these prices." »Bill Cosby
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"My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. (On steel industry executives who increased prices)" »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices." »Adam Smith
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"...the fog is rising." »Last words of Emily Dickinson
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"Oil prices will keep breaking new records until other countries move to nuclear and alternative energy sources or we discover massive new reserves and increase production dramatically over the next few years." »Med Jones
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"Some prices are just too high, no matter how much you may want the prize. The one thing you can't trade for your heart's desire is your heart." »Lois McMaster Bujold
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"A rising tide lifts all boats." »John Fitzgerald Kennedy
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"If you are not rising with ethichs, you will sink with every rise!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Good luck beats early rising." »Irish Proverb
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"Our greatest glory was not in never falling, but in rising when we fell." »Vince Lombardi
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"If you are not afraid of rising, you will see that wings start growing in your body!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"In the morning, when you are sluggish about getting up, let this thought be present 'I am rising to a man's work.'" »Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
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"Acts of injustice done
Between the setting and the rising sun
In history lie like bones, each one." »W. H. Auden
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"Few ever live to old age, and fewer still ever became distinguished, who were not in the habit of early rising." »J. Todd
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"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." »Confucius
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"Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall." »Vincent Van Gogh
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"Life does not count by years. Some suffer a lifetime in a day, and so grow old between the rising and the setting of the sun." »Augusta Jane Evans
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"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." »Nelson Mandela
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"My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. -- (Comment made 10 April 1962 in reaction to news that U.S. Steel was raising prices by $6 per ton, right after the unions negotiated a modest new contract under pressure from JFK to keep inflation down.)" »John F. Kennedy, "A Thousand Days," by Arthur Schlesinger Jr. [1965]
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"Cultivate the habit of early rising. It is unwise to keep the head long on a level with the feet." »Henry David Thoreau
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"Men hail the rising sun with glee, They love his setting glow to see, But fail to mark that every day In fragments bears their life away." »Ramayana
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"I never knew an early-rising, hard-working, prudent man, careful of his earnings, and strictly honest who complained of bad luck." »Henry Ward Beecher
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"Thanks to his constant habit of shaking the bottle in which life handed him the wine of experience, he presently found the taste of the lees rising as usual into his draught." »Henry James, "The Ambassadors", Book Fourth, Chapter 2
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"When you see a man elated with pride, glorying in his riches and high descent, rising even above fortune, look out for his speedy punishment; for he is only raised the higher that he may fall with a heavier crash." »Menander
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"Although the protesters in Egypt and neighboring countries are calling for democratic reforms, in reality they are calling for better economic life. Democracy is only a means to an end. I believe the driving forces behind the Tunisian and Egyptian uprisings are economical. A chronic high unemployment combined with an inflation in food prices is a volatile mix that can lead to major civic outbursts." »Med Jones
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"Your mind is your spirit; do not seek any other hidden soul inside you! All is in the brain! The depiction of a spirit rising to the sky is no more real than a medieval Scandinavian fairytales!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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