The sun never sets on the British Empire. But it rises every morning. The sky must get awfully crowded.
The star of the unconquered will, He rises in my breast, Serene, and resolute, and still, And calm, and self-possessed.
From the heart of the fountain of delight rises a jet of bitterness that tortures us among the very flowers.
The brassy wood-pigeons Bubble their colourful voices, and the sun Rises upon a world well-tried and old.
A lump rises in our throat at the sight of beauty from an implicit knowledge that the happiness it hints at is the exception.
The dawning of the light of awareness is the new birth, where the sun rises and the day breaks within you.
The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision of the world.
In theatre, after the curtain rises, it's all about me. I can either elevate myself with my performance or be mediocre.
Power rises to the top like cream and dominates the weak with cruelty disguised as -- and often even believed to be -- benevolence.
As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.
I think we all have a selfish gene which rises to the top, sometimes. But then we're also all capable of a sudden magnanimity.
'The Sun Also Rises' by Ernest Hemingway is my favorite book. You feel manly reading it.
A great tragedy passes from crest to hollow of passion, rises and sinks again, as rhythmically as sea-waves.
With all the outlets, if you have a strong comedic voice, there's a venue to do your thing. It's a bit of a meritocracy, where the best stuff rises to the top.
I did a lot of studying of great writers. I read that Hemingway rewrote 'The Sun Also Rises' 39 times.
Slowly but surely, I went through different phases of fame, and each rises you further into isolation and alienation.
The old ways of teaching are slow and expensive. But with mobile, cost plummets, access broadens, and pedagogy rises.
I don't think Tom Hardy has an actual voice of his own. Except maybe the one in 'The Dark Knight Rises,' as Bane.
Drum sound rises on the air, its throb, my heart. A voice inside the beat says, "I know you're tired, but come. This is the way.
Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy.
War is the supreme test of man in which he rises to heights never approached in any other activity.
I'm a morning person so I like to be up by 6 am to wash and pray before the sun rises, and then have a tea at the kitchen table.
The incompetence regarding body and vehicle armor rises almost to a level of criminal negligence.
One awakens, one rises, one dresses, and one goes forth;
One returns, one dines, one sups, one retires and one sleeps.
Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.
Peter's Principle: In an organization, each person rises to the level of his own incompetence.
No matter how dark the night, somehow the sun rises once again and all shadows are chased away.
The notion of education through handicrafts rises from the contemplation of truth and love permeating life's activities.
A hero usually rises above the ordinary because he or she exemplifies some virtue that everyone can recognize.
I'm doing this pilot called 'Demon.' Kevin Smith is directing it. It's a comedy drama. I play a guy who rises up from Hell.
Theatre is poetry that rises from the book and becomes human enough to talk and shout, weep and despair
The disparity between a restaurant's price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill.
Because He's near, we dont have to be anxious or feel out of control. We have peace that rises above any circumstance!
I need a dose of the natural environment on a regular basis. It balances the bitumen and high rises of Collins Street.
But the trek that starts with the feet always rises in time to the head. There had never been any of mankind's that didn't.
From so much of this seriously-intended pornography there rises, even when it is lewdly or boisterously comic, the acrid smell, unmistakable, of self-dislike.
The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time.
A man never rises higher than when he does not know whither his path can still lead him.
Anger, which, far sweeter than trickling drops of honey, rises in the bosom of a man like smoke.
A politicians willingness to listen to good advice rises in inverse proportion to how badly he thinks he is doing.
A noble life crowned with heroic death, rises above and outlives the pride and pomp and glory of the mightiest empire of the earth.
As we keep or break the Sabbath Day we nobly save or meanly lose the last best hope by which man rises.
You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!
You have to be very rich to afford Labour, with 66 tax rises since they came in power.
When a trout rises to a fly, it does not swim as much as tilt its fins and jet skyward.
I think it's much more important to keep people in work than have pay rises.
...like that star of the waning summer who beyond all stars rises bathed in the ocean stream to glitter in brilliance.
I surround people in unconditional acceptance and love to such a degree that everything that is unloving about them rises to the surface.
What concerns me, is the general social tendency to enforce a level, above which nothing rises and stands out.
Don't be afraid of a little opposition. Remember that the 'Kite' of success generally rises AGAINST the wind of Adversity, not with it.
If you've taken Econ 101, you know that the quantity of money rises only when the banking system makes a net loan.
Discontented women are like pressure cookers. The steam rises and one day they just reach boiling point.
For summer there, bear in mind, is a loitering gossip, that only begins to talk of leaving when September rises to go.
The autumn breeze rises on the shore at Fukiage- and those white chrysanthemums are they flowers? or not? or only breakers on the beach?
A person acting from a motivation of contribution and service rises to such a level of moral authority that worldly success is a natural result.
A warrior is worthless unless he rises above others and stands strong in the midst of a storm.
The council now beginning rises in the Church like the daybreak, a forerunner of most splendid light.
Bread takes the effort of kneading but also requires sitting quietly while the dough rises with a power all its own.
In all experience, there is something to be learned. In deepest sorrow, wisdom is found. In the well of despair, hope rises.
Everyday life is a stimulating mixture of order and haphazardry. The sun rises and sets on schedule but the wind bloweth where it listeth.
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