#rise

Our country presents on every side the evidences of that continued favor under whose auspices it, has gradually risen from a few feeble and dependent colonies to a prosperous and powerful confederacy. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

#colonies #confederacy #continued #country #dependent

I was surprised to find that I missed doing the musical. ↗

— Delta Burke

#find #i #missed #musical #surprised

When people meet me, many times they're very surprised because they expect someone who is kind of wacky with seven piercings and very hip and cool and New York City, and I'm not. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#city #cool #expect #hip #i

If Russia rises, it means that the USA falls down. ↗

— Vladimir Zhirinovsky

#falls #means #rises #russia #usa

I was very surprised that for a while I could only get cast as straight. It was that way for a few years. ↗

— Steve Buscemi

#could #few #get #i #only

However, without considering this connection, there is no doubt but that more good than evil, more delight than sorrow, arises from compassion itself; there being so many things which balance the sorrow of it. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#balance #being #compassion #connection #considering

Men think highly of those who rise rapidly in the world; whereas nothing rises quicker than dust, straw, and feathers. ↗

— Lord Byron

#feathers #highly #men #nothing #quicker

I did a cake for the 60th birthday of Elton John, for Britney Spears' 27th birthday and for the 'Circus' album she put out - the cake had circus themes. I prepared a cake for a surprise 82nd birthday event for the architect Frank Gehry; the cake was comprised of mini-replicas of his buildings. ↗

— Ron Ben-Israel

#architect #birthday #britney #britney spears #buildings

Wanting to be in a Western film won't get me very far. Unless the opportunity arose, it doesn't matter how much I want to be in one. But if an opportunity did arise, no actor would pass it up. ↗

— Zhang Ziyi

#arise #arose #did #far #film

A power has risen up in the government greater than the people themselves, consisting of many and various and powerful interests, combined into one mass, and held together by the cohesive power of the vast surplus in the banks. ↗

— John C. Calhoun

#cohesive #combined #consisting #government #greater