There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.
Jack London

That the sun will not rise to-morrow is no less intelligible a proposition, and implies no more contradiction, than the affirmation, that it will rise.
David Hume

The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.
David Hume

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
Lord Acton

From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.
Dick Cheney

Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.
Simone Weil

You can't make a souffle rise twice.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth

More stars in the north are seen not to set, while in the south certain stars are no longer seen to rise.
Nicolaus Copernicus

And the danger is - and it's happening - is we're seeing an incredibly big rise amongst young gay people, young heterosexual people as far as catching HIV, which is, you know, in an educated country like this or in Britain, it's frightening.
Elton John

There is no sea more dangerous than the ocean of practical politics none in which there is more need of good pilotage and of a single, unfaltering purpose when the waves rise high.
Thomas Huxley

Young leading cadres have risen up by helicopter. They should really rise step by step.
Deng Xiaoping

Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy, and dead.
James Thurber

An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.
Henry Clay

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.
Gustave Flaubert

No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with you.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah

Liquor prohibition led to the rise of organized crime in America, and drug prohibition has led to the rise of the gang problems we have now.
Drew Carey

With twelve horse power at our command, we considered that we could permit the weight of the machine with operator to rise to 750 or 800 pounds, and still have as much surplus power as we had originally allowed for in the first estimate of 550 pounds.
Orville Wright

Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
Wendell Berry

If I fall, I fall. I'll rise up like anybody else.
Ben Harper

He that fights and runs away, May turn and fight another day; But he that is in battle slain, Will never rise to fight again.
Tacitus