#rise

It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner. ↗

— Vernon A. Walters

#expected #manner #never #occurs #procession

I actually think some of the rappers can help our image, because the thing I'm concerned about is the NBA's image. I always want our image to be on the rise, and if the rappers can help young players get business-minded, then I'm all for it. ↗

— Antonio Davis

#actually #always #because #concerned #get

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

— Peter Davison

#culture #dominant #going #i #just

Everybody's for democracy in principle. It's only in practice that the thing gives rise to stiff objections. ↗

— Meg Greenfield

#everybody #gives #objections #only #practice

Some people come to our shows and think they're gonna spend the night just listening to love songs, and they're pretty much surprised cause we do a lot of rock and roll. ↗

— Bobby Hatfield

#come #gonna #just #listening #lot

The cure for capitalism's failing would require that a government would have to rise above the interests of one class alone. ↗

— Robert Heilbroner

#alone #capitalism #class #cure #failing

At the moment of death I hope to be surprised. ↗

— Ivan Illich

#death #i #moment #surprised

I had a sense of what leadership meant and what it could do for you. So am I surprised that I am sitting up here on the 62nd floor of Rockefeller Plaza? No. ↗

— Vernon Jordan

#could #floor #had #here #i

The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers. ↗

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

#bold #both #conquers #difficulties #diminishes

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

#beyond #cannot #comes #complete #ecstasy