#rising

My father was having an affair with a 16-year-old when Mum was pregnant with me. She found out when I was three weeks old and left, not surprisingly. ↗

— Carol Vorderman

#father #found #having #i #left

If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War. ↗

— George Washington

#avoid #desire #instruments #insult #known

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

— Daniel Webster

#changes #circumstances #inconsistencies #justifiable #often

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

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

In America, with all of its evils and faults, you can still reach through the forest and see the sun. But we don't know yet whether that sun is rising or setting for our country. ↗

— Dick Gregory

#country #evils #faults #forest #know

The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with, among other things, 'culture.' ↗

— George Grosz

#among #armed #bourgeoisie #culture #other

But any big change is more likely to result if there is a disruptive event such as new technologies or platforms that have a surprising effect on market share. ↗

— Trip Hawkins

#big #big change #change #disruptive #effect

Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#comparison #conception #else #formerly #glory