#rising

It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#cards #christmas #friends #holiday #how

I think I would say 'The King's Speech' is surprisingly funny, in fact the audiences in London, Toronto, LA, New York commented there's more laughter in this film than in most comedies, while it is also a moving tear-jerker with an uplifting ending. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#audiences #comedies #commented #ending #fact

One of the surprising things in this world is the respect a worthless man has for himself. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#man #respect #surprising #things #world

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few. ↗

— David Hume

#governed #many #more #nothing #surprising

Over one in five American children is living in poverty, and the number is rising. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#american children #children #five #living #number

The tension I feel is the moment they say, 'Action!' Movies are like lightning in a bottle, and you always want to find when you possibly can catch a surprising moment. ↗

— Annette Bening

#always #bottle #catch #feel #find

What nobler employment, or more valuable to the state, than that of the man who instructs the rising generation? ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#generation #instructs #man #more #nobler

Yes, I get a report from BMI about the frequency of performances, and it is very surprising. They played one of my most advanced pieces, and one of my most unusual ones on the radio. ↗

— Elliott Carter

#advanced #frequency #get #i #most

Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple and nutritious aliment, and temperance in all things are necessary branches of the regimen of health. ↗

— Lord Chesterfield

#adaptation #all things #branches #climate #dress

The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it. ↗

— John Updike

#comes #encouragement #essential #know #mad