#rise

It still surprises me when I find something in any North Carolina newspaper that isn't mad at me about something. ↗

— Jesse Helms

#any #carolina #find #i #mad

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#attempt #end #enterprises #great #level

For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power. ↗

— Omar Bongo

#aiming #been #commodity #democracy #focus

With gas prices nationally, and especially in our area, increasingly on the rise, it is more crucial then ever that we take steps to diversify our energy sources and reduce our dependency on foreign oil. ↗

— Mary Bono

#crucial #dependency #diversify #energy #energy sources

Whatever your supposed politics are - left, right - if you put it in a human connection, most people will rise to the occasion and feel the human pain in a way that they might not if it was presented in a more conceptual way. ↗

— George Saunders

#connection #feel #human #left #might

But, in addition, there is, all through the tragedy, a constant alternation of rises and falls in this tension or in the emotional pitch of the work, a regular sequence of more exciting and less exciting sections. ↗

— Andrew Coyle Bradley

#constant #emotional #exciting #falls #less

The kind of support encouraged by such modes of expression has always arisen basically from confusing the fatherland itself with the social conditions which happened to prevail in it. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

#arisen #basically #conditions #confusing #encouraged

Always try to do something for the other fellow and you will be agreeably surprised how things come your way - how many pleasing things are done for you. ↗

— Claude M. Bristol

#always #come #done #fellow #how

You'd be surprised how difficult it is relinquish a cell phone. ↗

— Adrien Brody

#cell phone #difficult #how #phone #relinquish

Free enterprise is essentially a formula not just for wealth creation, but for life satisfaction. ↗

— Arthur C. Brooks

#enterprise #essentially #formula #free #free enterprise