If civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.
Jacques Barzun

If I revealed all that has been made known to me, scarcely a man on this stand would stay with me." and "Brethren, if I were to tell you all I know of the kingdom of God, I do know that you would rise up and kill me.
Joseph Smith, Jr.

That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil, with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise.
Kenneth Scott Latourette

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

A merely fallen enemy may rise again, but the reconciled one is truly vanquished.
Friedrich Schiller

All great enterprises have a pearl of faith at their core, and this must be ours: that Americans are still a people born to liberty. That they retain the capacity for self-government. That, addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy.
Mitch Daniels

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

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

And it also became clear that these conditions of inequality and historical injustice have given rise to a feeling of hate in the world - a deeply felt hate that cannot easily be overcome with a few good words.
Ulrich Beck

I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.
Martin Scorsese

No, only disappointment in myself on those occasions I didn't manage to rise to the occasion as I felt I should've done. I can always see how to do it, and then the challenge is, Can I manage that each and every day?
Christian Bale

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

Reality is something you rise above.
Liza Minnelli

Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise.
Ivan Pavlov

Compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.
Mason Cooley

I just think that some version of the past in our culture is going to rise up and become dominant.
Peter Davison

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

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

Dust does rise, doesn't it? And so can I.
Dionne Warwick