#rising

I fear that the rising personal bankruptcies and repossessions are the first signs of bigger problems to come and personal debt - Gordon Brown's legacy to millions of Britain's families - will hang like a millstone around the neck of the British people for years to come. ↗

— Vince Cable

#bigger #britain #british #british people #brown

People have accused me of being in favor of globalization. This is equivalent to accusing me of being in favor of the sun rising in the morning. ↗

— Clare Short

#accusing #being #equivalent #favor #globalization

Love people who hate you. Pray for people who have wronged you. It won’t just change their life…it’ll change yours. ↗

— Mandy Hale

#being-the-bigger-person #building-people-up #change-the-world #change-your-life #changing-a-life

Death is part of who we are. It guides us. It shapes us. It drives us to madness. Can you still be human if you have no mortal end ↗

— Christopher Paolini

#death #human #death

But those men who know anything at all about the Light also know that there is a fierceness to its power, like the bare sword of the law, or the white burning of the sun." Suddenly his voice sounded to Will very strong, and very Welsh. "At the very heart, that is. Other things, like humanity, and mercy, and charity, that most good men hold more precious than all else, they do not come first for the Light. Oh, sometimes they are there; often, indeed. But in the very long run the concern of you people is with the absolute good, ahead of all else. You are like fanatics. Your masters, at any rate. Like the old Crusaders -- oh, like certain groups in every belief, though this is not a matter of religion, of course. At the centre of the Light there is a cold white flame, just as at the centre of the Dark there is a great black pit bottomless as the Universe." His warm, deep voice ended, and there was only the roar of the engine. Will looked out over the grey-misted fields, silent. "There was a great long speech, now," John Rowlands said awkwardly. "But I was only saying, be careful not to forget that there are people in this valley who can be hurt, even in the pursuit of good ends. ↗

— Susan Cooper

#the-dark-is-rising #the-grey-king #men

I've seen, not surprisingly, no action taken against those people, but here I am, an anarchist website, not even close to what that is, not even close to what else you can find on the Internet. ↗

— Sherman Austin

#against #am #anarchist #close #else

When I began we did not really have a lot of First Amendment law. It is really surprising to think of it this way, but a lot of the law - most of the law that relates to the First Amendment freedom of the press in America - is really within living memory. ↗

— Floyd Abrams

#america #began #did #first #first amendment

He is now rising from affluence to poverty. ↗

— Mark Twain

#now #poverty #rising

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either. ↗

— Bodhidharma

#awareness #body #buddha #either #evil

You know, I was never totally thrilled with being a Fleetwood Mac member, but surprisingly, I was having such a good time reuniting with John, Mick, and Stevie. ↗

— Lindsey Buckingham

#fleetwood #fleetwood mac #good #good time #having