#rising

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

— David Hume

#governed #many #more #nothing #surprising

Dr. Rice went well beyond offering a helping hand - she went so far as to shed tears and share hugs with those who, in a matter of just a few hours, had lost everything to the rising floodwaters. ↗

— Jo Bonner

#dr #everything #far #few #had

It is hardly surprising that the Georgian domestic style emerges as the most remarkable in the world. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#emerges #georgian #hardly #most #remarkable

Take one flower that you like and get lots of them. And don't try to 'arrange' them. It's surprisingly hard to do a flower arrangement the way a florist does one. Instead, bunch them all together or put them in a series of small vases all down the table. ↗

— Ina Garten

#arrangement #bunch #does #down #florist

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

When I finish a painting, it usually looks as surprising to me as to anyone else. ↗

— Howard Hodgkin

#else #finish #i #looks #me

Prayer is a thought, a belief, a feeling, arising within the mind of the one praying. ↗

— Ernest Holmes

#belief #feeling #mind #prayer #praying

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

By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any student of early culture proposing that the crude contemporary art of the early Babylonians is the product of a civilization earlier than that of the Nile. ↗

— James H. Breasted

#any #art #civilization #contemporary #contemporary art