The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
Robert Green Ingersoll

The usefulness of a meeting rises with the square of the number of people present.
Lane Kirkland

There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.
Edith Wharton

There really can be no peace without justice. There can be no justice without truth. And there can be no truth, unless someone rises up to tell you the truth.
Louis Farrakhan

There's rises and falls and ups and downs in all music.
Tim McGraw

Today a new sun rises for me; everything lives, everything is animated, everything seems to speak to me of my passion, everything invites me to cherish it.
Ninon de L'Enclos

Trotsky rises to give me his hand, then sits at his desk, gently allowing his regard to light on my person.
Georges Simenon

Well, Barry, it's your film. So if it rises or falls, you're the man.
Robert Conrad

What concerns me, is the general social tendency to enforce a level, above which nothing rises and stands out.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

When anger rises, think of the consequences.
Confucius

When will the day come that our dignity will be fully restored, when the purpose of our lives will no longer be merely to survive until the sun rises tomorrow!
Thabo Mbeki

When your IQ rises to 28, sell.
Irwin Corey

Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.
Emile M. Cioran

Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.
George Meredith

Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
Honore de Balzac

You have to be very rich to afford Labour, with 66 tax rises since they came in power.
John Redwood

You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to our humanity - it's like a folk music that rises up out of a culture.
Sonny Terry

You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!
Sai Baba