Top 635 Lifted Quotes & Sayings

It was an instant weight lifted off my chest - both literally and figuratively.

I don't like to beat people down. They need to be lifted up.

If I ever really felt depressed, I would just start putting on all my old records that I played as a kid, because the whole thing that really lifted me then still lifted me during those other times. It was good medicine for me, and it still does that for me when I put something on. Isn't it wonderful that we've got all that good medicine? I think it's got to be all part of our DNA, this mass communication through music. That's what it is. It's got to be, hasn't it? Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn't let me down.

I think I was the most natural, charismatic player who ever lifted a cue.

Ah, the souls of those that die Are but sunbeams lifted higher.

Why is it you can never hope to describe the emotion Africa creates? You are lifted. Out of whatever pit, unbound from whatever tie, released from whatever fear. You are lifted and you see it all from above.

He lifted the violin to his shoulder then, and raised the bow. And he played.

They lifted their faces to the astonishing warmth. The sky arched over them, a pale, clear blue. Lina felt as though a lid that had been on her all her life had been lifted off. Light and air rushed though her, making a song, like the songs of Ember, only it was a song of joy. She looked at Doon and saw that he was smiling and crying at the same time, and she realized that she was, too.

Arsenal are a great team. But we lifted the trophy eight times in 11 years.

He lifted his arms to the crystaline, radiant sky. "I know myself," he cried, "but that is all.

From the ages of 18 to 50 I ran, rowed and lifted weights at my home gym.

I once received a letter from an old lady in California who informed me that when the tired reader comes home at night, he wishes to read something that will lift up his heart. And it seems her heart had not been lifted up by anything of mine she had read. I think that if her heart had been in the right place, it would have been lifted up.

When you are happy, when you are laughing, when you are loving, the radiance of your Soul shines through, and all are lifted by it.

When the shadow of the Presidential and Congressional election is lifted we shall, I hope to be in a better temper to legislate.

Charlie Parker lifted jazz music off the dance floor and into the stratosphere!

I've never lifted a single weight in my life.

I know how important '36 Chambers' is, and it inspired me to record 'Lifted.'

The moment our daughter was lifted up and we laid eyes on her was incredible.

The curse of Adam and Eve that fell upon the earth because of their sin will be lifted when Christ returns.

The Paralympians have lifted the cloud of limitation.

Remember when you had your face lifted... and the guy brought it back.

Elizabeth lifted her skirt, disregarding modesty, and delivered a swift kick to the creature's head.

When I lifted weights, I didn't lift just to maintain my muscle tone. I lifted to increase what I already had, to push to a new limit. Every time I worked, I was getting a little better. I kept moving that limit back and back. Every time I walked out of the gym, I was a little better than when I walked in.

Arya lifted her gaze from the dead man and his dead dog. Jaqen H'ghar was leaning up against the side of the Wailing Tower. When he saw her looking, he lifted a hand to his face and laid two fingers casually against his cheek.

It is my hope that everyone's valiant efforts will have a ripple effect that will carry us forth into a fairer future. 'The arc of the moral universe is long,' said Martin Luther King Jr., 'but it bends toward justice.' And because I have been witness to so many people who lent their support to this good cause, I am lifted up by them -- lifted up so high that I can see the end of that arc.

I sing my life. It's like I'm having group therapy 350 days a year, and the people who come to the show get that, and they're there for that - whether it's to be lifted up, or to be lifted out, or just entertained or inspired, or to feel not so alone.

He reached for my hand, lifted it to his lips, and kissed my fingertips. "I love you.

Snooker lifted me out of depression.

The old woman dies, the burden is lifted.

I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.

Faith is like a lily, lifted high and white.

The veil that clouds your eyes shall be lifted by the hands that wove it.

I don't know of a filmmaker who does not feel buoyed and lifted when their peers embrace the work.

A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.

You never realized how thick your fog was until it lifted.

I lifted my eyes to the heavens and asked for help because if God exists, there's no way he's French.

The biggest single thing that has lifted people out of poverty is free trade.

And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor, Shall be lifted -- Nevermore!

It's the feeling of being lifted out of my life into another world that is the thrill of writing fiction.

By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity.

I have pledged to work hard to get the state and local tax deduction cap lifted.

A metaphorical weight lifted from his allegorical chest and Artemis Fowl felt himself again.

The Lord's hand in in our lives; if we will but feel for it, in the darkness, we can grasp it and be lifted thereby.

[On plastic surgery:] My motto is: 'Anything that can be lifted should be lifted. Anything that falls should be caught. And try to catch any falling stuff before it hits the ground.

Let your tears fall because of sin; but, at the same time, let the eye of faith steadily behold the Son of man lifted up, as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, that those who are bitten by the old serpent may look unto Jesus and live. Our sinnership is that emptiness into which the Lord pours his mercy.

When I was a child, my society lifted me up - though education primarily, as well as through other kinds of cultural stimulation. It wasn't just my parents or my religious community. The entire society lifted me up to the bottom rung of the ladder. Then they said, "Girl, it's up to you whether or not you climb." I don't have a problem with that. I think that is the best way to go about living.

When I learned to forgive, it was like a million pounds were lifted from me.

It should be lifted above partisanship because it's a question of survival. It's a moral issue.

Man, I was drowning in sadness. And Angelina, she lifted me right up out of there.

That's lifted the crowd up into the air.

It seems everyone in Hollywood is getting pinched, lifted and pulled. I'm looking weird because I'm not.

Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted.

I was happy to complete 118kg. When I lifted it, I knew my place in the Olympics was secured.

Brian Laws has lifted his team out of precocious waters

Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.

I have never had my face lifted. I prefer to have my spirits lifted. In my opinion, the effect is very nearly the same.

I will not have my face lifted.

If God had meant them to be lifted and separated, He would have put one on each shoulder.

No champion has ever lifted a trophy that was not already being held inside.

A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything.