#lifts

Water is very forgiving. Everything lifts in water. ↗

— Sarah McLachlan

#forgiving #lifts #very #water

Africa is not a fun place, you know. A fun place is somewhere that lifts the spirits, that cossets the senses. I don't think that can be said of the Africa I traveled in. ↗

— V. S. Naipaul

#fun #i #know #lifts #place

Ninety per cent of how you learn is watching great people. When you are surrounded by good actors it lifts your performance. ↗

— Natalie Portman

#good #good actors #great #great people #how

Playing lifts you out of yourself into a delirious place. ↗

— Jacqueline du Pre

#into #lifts #out #place #playing

When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the event: Humor diverts our attention and lifts our sagging spirits. ↗

— Allen Klein

#being #constantly #dealing #death #down

Man is more than merely an animal to exist and propagate his species. His mind gives him capacity to search out the great truths in God's arrangement and this lifts him far above the other animal creation. ↗

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

#animal #arrangement #capacity #creation #exist

Poetry lifts the veil from the hidden beauty of the world, and makes familiar objects be as if they were not familiar. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#familiar #hidden #lifts #makes #objects

I've worked with a lot of really fine actors, both on stage and on screen. The level of their game lifts me up and brings the level of my game up to theirs. Always. It's like a constant upgrade. ↗

— Gary Sinise

#both #brings #constant #fine #game

Have you ever wanted something so badly, thought you’d die if you didn’t get it, then when you finally did get it, you wondered what all the fuss was about? ↗

— Rachel Hawthorne

#rachel-hawthorne #love

I totally accept that it's a legitimate criticism that when you are involved in the day-to-day scrum of government... that what can get lost is the narrative, the hymn sheet... the song that inspires and lifts people's sights. ↗

— Nick Clegg

#criticism #day-to-day #get #government #hymn