#rising

Inconsistencies of opinion, arising from changes of circumstances, are often justifiable. ↗

— Daniel Webster

#changes #circumstances #inconsistencies #justifiable #often

When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whether I could adapt myself to life on the land before going up to Cambridge. ↗

— Patrick White

#australia #before #cambridge #could #eighteen

Richard Schiff is a really good baseball player. It's surprising because he looks exhausted. ↗

— Bradley Whitford

#baseball #baseball player #because #exhausted #good

I have an all-Japanese design team, and none of them speak English. So it's often funny and surprising how my ideas end up lost in translation. ↗

— Pharrell Williams

#end #english #funny #how #i

The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers. ↗

— Carter G. Woodson

#down #facing #going #graves #manufacturers

The American Dream, coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else, has kept the poor huddled masses from rising up. ↗

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

#american dream #cheap #consumer #coupled #courtesy

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity. ↗

— Andre Gide

#me #rising #serenity #sole #suits

Beyond the borders of wealthy countries like the United States, in developing countries where most people in the world live, the impacts of climate change are much more deadly, from the growing desertification of Africa to the threats of rising sea levels and the submersion of small island nations. ↗

— Amy Goodman

#beyond #borders #change #climate #climate change

When Texans suffered from the collapse of the oil market in the 1980s, they could rely on the fiscal union to help them. When Texas boomed with rising oil prices in the 2000s, it contributed to the union to help harder hit regions. ↗

— Austan Goolsbee

#contributed #could #fiscal #harder #help

Our music over the years has been very cinematic. It's surprising we never really got into film soundtracks. ↗

— Martin Gore

#cinematic #film #got #into #music