#raise

Past experience with fiscal austerity at home and overseas strongly suggests that it is best for the economy's long-run performance to restrain government spending rather than raise taxes. ↗

— Mark Zandi

#best #economy #experience #fiscal #government

Never waste an unsaid word of praise and never praise the said words of anger. ↗

— Terry Blakeman

#anger

So long as men praise you, you can only be sure that you are not yet on your own true path but on someone else's. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#praise #men

Jesus! it is the name which moves the harps of heaven to melody. Jesus! the life of all our joys. If there be one name more charming, more precious than another, it is this name. It is woven into the very warp and woof of our psalmody. Many of our hymns begin with it, and scarcely any, that are good for anything, end without it. It is the sum total of all delights. It is the music with which the bells of heaven ring; a song in a word; an ocean for comprehension, although a drop for brevity; a matchless oratorio in two syllables; a gathering up of the hallelujahs of eternity in five letters. ↗

— Charles H. Spurgeon

#praise #music

I've read your summary." "And?" "It's not incompetent." Be still, my heart, so I don't faint from such faint phrase. "Did you expect it to be written in crayon? ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#kate #magic-bleeds #praise #saiman #ilona-andrews

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man. ↗

— John Adams

#beloved #considered #desire #discovered #dispositions

Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed. ↗

— Joseph Addison

#agreeable #because #before #curiosity #everything

Some artists claim praise is irrelevant in measuring the success of art, but I think it's quite relevant. Besides, it makes me feel great. ↗

— Chris Van Allsburg

#artists #besides #claim #feel #great

In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#anew #individual #individuality #liquidation #must

The box got bigger, the outside, the buildings. And all that we were doing. I had to raise about $1 million every two days just to stay alive. ↗

— Jim Bakker

#alive #bigger #box #buildings #days