#elevate

Last year, New York got $200 million. This year, we're going to give them $124 million under this particular program. But last year was an artificially elevated number to make up from the very low grant the year before. ↗

— Michael Chertoff

#before #elevated #give #going #got

Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#great #great passions #great things #only #passions

Would that the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy, might be laid to heart; that a sense of the true aim of life might elevate the tone of politics and trade till public and private honor become identical. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

#become #best #elevate #heart #honesty

There is a serene and settled majesty to woodland scenery that enters into the soul and delights and elevates it, and fills it with noble inclinations. ↗

— Washington Irving

#elevates #enters #fills #inclinations #into

The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind. ↗

— Washington Irving

#dead #effect #elevate #mind #natural

A life is not sufficiently elevated for poetry, unless, of course, the life has been made into an art. ↗

— Mark Strand

#been #course #elevated #into #life

The principal or highest part of the mountain having changed its direction to east and west, I ascended it in such manner as to leave its most elevated ranges to the south and travelled north west over a very rough and broken country generally covered with snow. ↗

— William Henry Ashley

#broken #changed #country #covered #direction

I look at this as a second life. Every game feels like an event. Every pitch matters. I need that. It elevates your aggressiveness. ↗

— Al Leiter

#elevates #event #every #feels #game

We used to have food picked and used to have houses built and we used to have chicken properly processed and it was Americans that did it. If we are going to continue to utilize those goods, then what's going to have to happen is that the employers are going to have to elevate the wages in order to attract American workers to do those jobs. ↗

— Mo Brooks

#american workers #attract #built #chicken #continue

In the end we are all sacked and it's always awful. It is as inevitable as death following life. If you are elevated there comes a day when you are demoted. Even Prime Ministers. ↗

— Alan Clark

#awful #comes #day #death #demoted