#rise

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#duly #long #make #men #miserable

There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#good #high #more #need #none

So if we're going to build new applications that require a large time investment, like say movie editing - today that doesn't matter for the enterprise desktop, but eventually it will when we get closer to consumers - you really need to have a cross-platform story. ↗

— Miguel de Icaza

#build #closer #consumers #cross-platform #desktop

Living here on Earth, we breathe the rhythms of a universe that extends infinitely above us. When resonant harmonies arise between this vast outer cosmos and the inner human cosmos, poetry is born. ↗

— Daisaku Ikeda

#arise #between #born #breathe #cosmos

This is a coup for commissioner Bud Selig. I'm surprised it's as good as it is. ↗

— Fay Vincent

#commissioner #coup #good #i #surprised

Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity. ↗

— Muhammad Iqbal

#diversity #interests #life #light #matter

You'd be surprised how much it costs to look this cheap! ↗

— Dolly Parton

#costs #how #look #much #surprised

Trying to sneak a fastball past Hank Aaron is like trying to sneak the sunrise past a rooster. ↗

— Joe Adcock

#aaron #fastball #hank #hank aaron #like

Earth teach me to forget myself as melted snow forgets its life. Earth teach me resignation as the leaves which die in the fall. Earth teach me courage as the tree which stands all alone. Earth teach me regeneration as the seed which rises in the spring. ↗

— William Alexander

#courage #die #earth #fall #forget

You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration. ↗

— James Lane Allen

#become #cannot #controlling #desire #dominant