#lifting

Music has generally involved a lot of awkward contraptions, a certain amount of heavy lifting. ↗

— Tom Waits

#awkward #certain #generally #heavy #involved

I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that. ↗

— Vera Wang

#bit #call #heavy #i #i always

He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others. ↗

— Douglas Horton

#erect #fallen #lifting #others #over

People are moping around and I think campaigns can be about lifting the spirits of the American people. ↗

— Jeb Bush

#american #american people #around #campaigns #i

I'm not a weight lifter. I'm a seeker. Weight lifting is so insignificant in my life. ↗

— Sri Chinmoy

#insignificant #life #lifting #my life #seeker

Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps. ↗

— Vladimir Lenin

#capable #capitalists #himself #his #lifting

Music moves me - duh - and that is like having a window opening on a heightened reality, but the effect is fleeting: When the music ends, the magic, the uplifting, vanishes and the window slams shut. Words, on the other hand, by the nature of how they work, emotions evoked by dint of carefully laid out thoughts, have a more lingering effect. ↗

— Yann Martel

#dint #duh #effect #emotions #ends

Personally, coming out was one of the most important things I've ever done, lifting from my shoulders the millstone of lies that I hadn't even realized I was carrying. ↗

— Ian Mckellen

#coming #done #even #ever #hadn

The first place to start is on enforcement. We who got the ADA passed did the hard part, the heavy lifting. ↗

— Major Owens

#did #enforcement #first #got #hard

The waltz can be sad and at the same time uplifting. You have to see life from both sides, and the waltz encapsulates that. If you're in my audience you give yourself to me and the waltz will grab you. ↗

— Andre Rieu

#both #both sides #give #grab #life