I've always felt that complement of opposites: body and soul, solitude and companionship, and in the dance studio, contraction and release, rise and fall.
We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.
Fears don't exist in isolation. They tend to rise and fall depending on what people think they can do about them.
There will come a time of fire and night, when enemies rise and empires fall, when the stars themselves begin to die.
If we don't participate in it, it ceases to be a democracy. So Obama will rise or fall based not so much on what he does but on what we do to support him.
Republics, like other forms of government, exist in history and can rise and fall.
With the publication of my book, Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship With the First Lady,' I have exercised my right to free expression.
In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color
Nations will rise and fall, but equality remains the ideal. The univeral aim is to achieve respect for the entire human race, not for the dominant few.
There is not, in my opinion, anything more mysterious in nature than this instinct in animals, which thus rise above reason, and yet fall infinitely short of it.
I have a multivolume history of the world from the 19th century that begins with Noah's flood as though it's as historical a fact as the rise and fall of Rome.
The truth is, I've been lucky. But just like the waltz, life has its own rhythm of rise and fall.
My family is just like most other families - we rise and fall on good and bad government policy. Politics affects us all.
Don’t be attached to visions or lights in meditation, don’t rise or fall with them. What’s so great about brightness? My flashlight has it. It can’t help us rid ourselves of our suffering.
My primary lesson, however, was that I'm a solo writer, happiest when I'm making all the executive decisions. I've always been willing to rise or fall on my own merits.
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity.
It accords with the most liberal spirit of philosophy to suppose that not a stone can fall, or a plant rise, without the immediate agency of divine power.
Corporate executives often buy or sell shares in their companies, and stocks rarely rise or fall significantly when those transactions are reported.
There's no such thing as a genius in politics, or at least I have never met one. There are only human beings, some better than others, who rise or fall on the challenges they meet.
The rise or fall of wages is common to all states of society, whether it be the stationary, the advancing, or the retrograde state.
To hurry through the rise and fall of a fine, full sentence is like defying the role of time in human life.
Wilderness designations should not be the result of a quid pro quo. They should rise or fall on their own merits.
One of the things that I'm fascinated about generally is the rise and fall of everything, from civilizations to families to companies.
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise.
You see the rise and fall of Sears and others. It's just a reminder that this can happen to us too.
An excellent introduction to the rise and fall of the British Raj, accurate, succinct, and engaging.
Soon I will fall asleep and I will wake from this terrible dream. The endless night will fall, and I will rise. I long for that night. I do not fear it. I have had my fill of fear. I have stared too long into the abyss, and now the abyss stares back at me.
Animals love and suffer, cry and laugh; their hearts rise up in anticipation and fall in despair...they feel.
The rise of Google, the rise of Facebook, the rise of Apple, I think are proof that there is a place for computer science as something that solves problems that people face every day.
Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.
Civilizations rise and fall on confidence. America had figured out a way to borrow money to manufacture it.
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
This man is freed from servile bands, Of hope to rise, or fear to fall; Lord of himself, though not of lands, And leaving nothing, yet hath all.
Observe any meetings of people, and you will always find their eagerness and impetuosity rise or fall in proportion to their numbers.
What people recognize is that there's a fear that the United States is in an unstoppable decline. They see the rise of China, the rise of India, the rise of the Soviet Union and our loss militarily going forward.
You know, you can be really quite subversive in popular fiction, which is capable of taking on big issues of politics, war, the rise and fall of commercial dynasties.
Unemployment rates tend to rise and fall in roughly equal proportion at all rungs of the ladder, and that happened between 1973 and 1985.
I look upon the judgment of right and wrong as the serpentine dance of a dragon, and the rise and fall of beliefs as but traces left by the four seasons.
In Adam's fall We sinned all. In the new Adam's rise, We shall all reach the skies.
As I discovered, there is a great deal of similarity between a boom-bust process in the financial markets and the rise and fall of the Soviet system.
Thus, during those nineteen years of torture and slavery, did this soul rise and fall at the same time. Light entered on the one side, and darkness on the other.
I’ve seen the nations rise and fall. I’ve heard their stories, heard them all, but love’s the only engine of survival.
You won't often find me in a pair of killer heels: my heel height doesn't rise above two and a half inches, as I would just fall over!
If a rise in wages does not raise prices, a fall will not reduce them.
Men fall from great fortune because of the same shortcomings that led to their rise.
How wonderful it would be to scatter words as they rise to consciousness, to let them lie where they fall.
I love studying Ancient History and seeing how empires rise and fall, sowing the seeds of their own destruction.
When the real history of the world is written, it will show god’s dealings with men, and the place the gospel has played in the rise and fall of nations.
Success is not achieved by winning all the time. Real success comes when we rise after we fall.
Permanent superiority has never been realized by any nation in history. After the rise comes the fall.
A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
The typical conditions for the birth of a bull market are here: you have a changed country, you have a deep fall in growth and everybody is perplexed by the rise of stocks.
I sort of use as my guiding principle that show The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin. Whenever possible, do the stupid thing.
The success of a leader will rise or fall on the decisions that he or she makes about the people around him or her.
A boy and a girl, fated to rule all. Two will rise, and One will fall.
Who rise from flesh to spirit know the fall:
The word outleaps the world, and light is all.
In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color.
You've got to rise from the floor alone or fall back alone.
One of the immutable patterns of history is the rise and fall of great powers. Those that survive are the ones that adapt as the world changes.
Winds wanders, and dews drip earthward; Rains fall, suns rise and set; Earth whirls, and all but to prosper A poor little violet.
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