#rising

Casting back her head, Arya gazed up at the twinkling sky, her long neck gold with firelight, her face pale with the radiance of the heavenx. "Do you ask out of friendly concern or your own self-interest?" She gave an abrupt, choked laugh, the sound of water falling over cold rocks. "Never mind. The night air has addled me. It has undone my sense of courtesy and left me free to say the most spiteful things that occur to me." "No matter." "It does matter, because I regret it, and I shall not tolerate it. Did I love Faolin? How would you define love? For over twenty years, we traveled together, the only immortals to walk among the short-lived races. We were companions...and friends. ↗

— Christopher Paolini

#love

Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#highly #himself #man #pleasure #pride

There is a rising generation in this country who do not know God because of a general decay of religion. ↗

— Arthur Middleton

#country #decay #general #generation #god

Without the United States, there simply would not have been an armed uprising in our country. ↗

— Daniel Ortega

#been #country #our #simply #states

I don't generally like running. I believe in training by rising gently up and down from the bench. ↗

— Satchel Paige

#bench #down #generally #gently #i

I loved making 'Rising Sun'. I got into the psychology of why she liked to get strangled and tied up in plastic bags. It has to do with low self-worth. ↗

— Tatjana Patitz

#get #got #i #into #liked

The President has no real plan to address the fiscal challenges arising from the retirement of the baby boom generation, let alone a plan to fix Social Security. ↗

— Jack Reed

#alone #arising #baby #boom #challenges

Women oftentimes are the ones making those economic decisions, sitting around the kitchen table and trying to figure out how to pay for rising gas prices or food prices or the health insurance costs. ↗

— Cathy McMorris Rodgers

#costs #decisions #economic #figure #food

In life there is nothing more unexpected and surprising than the arrivals and departures of pleasure. If we find it in one place today, it is vain to seek it there tomorrow. You can not lay a trap for it. ↗

— Alexander Smith

#departures #find #lay #life #more

There are all kinds of letters and protests that come from, not surprisingly, Japanese fishermen, the fishermen's wives; there are student groups, all different types of people; the protest against the Americans' use of the Pacific for nuclear testing. ↗

— Martha Smith

#come #different #different types #fishermen #groups