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

You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.
James Lane Allen

In the human heart new passions are forever being born; the overthrow of one almost always means the rise of another.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

Man cannot aspire if he looked down; if he rise, he must look up.
Samuel Smiles

I see all this and know that if we are to save the Jewish state and its three-and-a-half million Jews from terrible horrors, we must rise up and demand a fundamental change in the very system of government.
Meir Kahane

In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
Stephen Jay Gould

Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise.
Laurence J. Peter

In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
Laurence J. Peter

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
Andre Gide

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

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.
Washington Irving

Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.
John Greenleaf Whittier

Rise above principal and do what's right.
Joseph Heller

To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.
Michael Korda

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

I think the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. I don't think the black people are going to rise at all; I think most of them are going to die.
Nina Simone

The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise.
Kenny G

I see couples fighting about the stupidest things. You just have to rise above everything.
Sammy Hagar

The rise of the dramas in the thirteenth century, and the rise of the great novels in a later period, together with their frank glorification of love and the joys of life, may be called the Third Renaissance.
Hu Shih