#rise

Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it. ↗

— Cardinal Richelieu

#carry #depended #enterprise #future #future success

The success of the second 'Austin Powers' caught us by surprise a little bit. We had decided not to do even a second one, unless the audience wanted it and we could do something better. ↗

— Jay Roach

#austin #austin powers #better #bit #caught

We have to bring stability to Iraq, otherwise we will be faced with a future dilemma of sending our loved ones into harms way to stop a civil war or the rise of a new tyrant born from the instability that we created. ↗

— Jay Rockefeller

#bring #civil #civil war #created #dilemma

When I go to farms or little towns, I am always surprised at the discontent I find. And New York, too often, has looked across the sea toward Europe. And all of us who turn our eyes away from what we have are missing life. ↗

— Norman Rockwell

#always #am #away #discontent #europe

Central to America's rise to global leadership is our Judeo-Christian tradition with the vision of the goodness and possibilities of every human life. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#central #christian tradition #every #global #goodness

I wasn't in any way a kind of soothsayer or not surprised when Sept. 11 happened. I was absolutely shocked. ↗

— Jon Ronson

#any #happened #i #kind #sept

I don't think the government is out to get me or help someone else get me but it wouldn't surprise me if they were out to sell me something or help someone else sell me something. I mean, why else would the Census Bureau want to know my telephone number? ↗

— Andy Rooney

#census #else #get #government #help

Racial history is therefore natural history and the mysticism of the soul at one and the same time; but the history of the religion of the blood, conversely, is the great world story of the rise and downfall of peoples, their heroes and thinkers, their inventors and artists. ↗

— Alfred Rosenberg

#blood #conversely #downfall #great #heroes

For long, history was mainly political history, and historical narrative was confined to an account of the most important crises in political life, or to an account of wars and great generals. ↗

— Michael Rostovtzeff

#confined #crises #generals #great #historical

At last, someone came to tell me I'd been selected as commissioner, which gave rise to the line that I took the job with clean hands. I was then taken downstairs to a press conference, and the reporters were as surprised as I was. ↗

— Pete Rozelle

#came #clean #commissioner #conference #downstairs