Rais'd Quotes

#1. The aspiring youth that fired the Ephesian domeOutlives in fame the pious fool that rais'd it.

Colley Cibber

#2. Not beauty, no, but virtue rais'd my fires, whose sacred flame did cherish chaste desires.

William Alexander, 1st Earl Of Stirling

#3. with ambitious aim against the throne and monarchy of God rais'd impious war in Heav'n and battel proud

John Milton

#4. Since, by your greatness, you
Are nearer heaven in place; be nearer it
In goodness: rich men should transcend the poor,
As clouds the earth; rais'd by the comfort of
The sun, to water dry and barren grounds.

Cyril Tourneur

#5. Nature ... is, as it were, a continual circulation. Water is rais'd in Vapour into the Air by one Quality and precipitated down in drops by another, the Rivers run into the Sea, and the Sea again supplies them.

Robert Hooke

#6. Love is a smoke rais'd with the fume of sighs; being purg'd, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears; what is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall, and a preserving sweet.

William Shakespeare

#7. The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed today, Had he thy reason, would he skip and play? Pleas'd to the last he crops the flow'ry food, And licks the hand just rais'd to shed his blood.

Alexander Pope

#8. If you accuse a man of murder, you might be believed, but if you accuse him of eating children for lunch and dinner like Gilles de Rais, no one will take you seriously.

Umberto Eco

#9. Having and raising children is doing something with your life! ... And I have to say that having your kids is one of the greatest things you can do.

Patricia Heaton

#10. I feel like one of the things I'm trying most to do is stretch my empathetic reach, as far as it will go. I got as far as Gilles de Rais' assistant, for example, and not really as far as de Rais himself.

Jim Shepard

#11. All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority. The universal in the novel-and isn't that what we're all clamoring for these days?-is reached only through the depiction of the specific man in a specific circumstance.

Ralph Ellison

#12. A speech belongs half to the speaker and half to the listener.

Michel De Montaigne

#13. I have the same feeling I get right before I start crying.

Jandy Nelson

#14. A cherub's face, a reptile all the rest.

Alexander Pope