#rises

Beware of the man who rises to power from one suspender. ↗

— Edgar Lee Masters

#man #power #rises #who

A marriage without conflicts is almost as inconceivable as a nation without crises. ↗

— Andre Maurois

#conflicts #crises #inconceivable #marriage #nation

A Country is not a mere territory; the particular territory is only its foundation. The Country is the idea which rises upon that foundation; it is the sentiment of love, the sense of fellowship which binds together all the sons of that territory. ↗

— Giuseppe Mazzini

#country #fellowship #foundation #idea #love

Often devotion to virtue arises from sated desire. ↗

— Adela Florence Nicolson

#desire #devotion #often #sated #virtue

I do not believe they've run out of surprises. ↗

— Larry Niven

#i #i do #out #run #surprises

Four years ago, I promised to end the war in Iraq. We did. I promised to refocus on the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9/11. We have. We've blunted the Taliban's momentum in Afghanistan, and in 2014, our longest war will be over. A new tower rises above the New York skyline, al Qaeda is on the path to defeat, and Osama bin Laden is dead. ↗

— Barack Obama

#actually #afghanistan #ago #al #attacked

What surprises me is when people give me their mobile number. The other day, someone on a bus asked if I swear. I said I try not to, but of course I'm just a normal person. ↗

— Christopher Parker

#bus #course #day #give #give me

Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy. ↗

— Plato

#democracy #naturally #out #tyranny

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant. ↗

— Edgar Allan Poe

#arises #experience #irrelevant #larger #perhaps

Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature. ↗

— Marcus V. Pollio

#circumstance #consistency #custom #detail #found