Quotes for All
When I looked into the story of Soviet hockey and its players, I realized that it has nothing to do with hockey. It was a larger story using hockey as a window into the story of the rise and fall of the Soviet Union, the Russian people, with friendships and betrayals, paranoia and oppression, and … Read more
Man’s will and God’s grace rise and fall together Evelyn Underhill
the lady is almost the only picturesque survival in a social order which tends less and less to tolerate the exceptional. … In the age-long war between men and women, she is a hostage in the enemy’s camp. Her fortunes do not rise and fall with those of women but with those of men. Emily … Read more
The new religion will teach the dignity of human nature and its infinite possibilities for development. It will teach the solidarity of the race: that all must rise and fall as one. Its creed will be justice, liberty, equality for all the children of earth. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
In common with Michelangelo and Rembrandt I am more interested in the line, its rise and fall, than in color Edvard Munch
Men come and go, cities rise and fall, whole civilizations appear and disappear-the earth remains, slightly modified. The earth remains, and the heartbreaking beauty where there are no hearts to break….I sometimes choose to think, no doubt perversely, that man is a dream, thought an illusion, and only rock is real. Rock and sun. Edward … Read more
We are Americans, speaking the same language, adopting the same customs, holding the same general opinions… and shall rise and fall with Americans. Frederick Douglass
The rise and fall of images of the future precedes or accompanies the rise and fall of cultures. As long as a society’s image is positive and flourishing, the flower of culture is in full bloom. Once the image begins to decay and lose its vitality, however, the culture does not long survive. Fred Polak
Faith comes and goes. It rises and falls like the tides of an invisible ocean. If it is presumptuous to think that faith will stay with you forever, it is just as presumptuous to think that unbelief will. Flannery O’Connor
Even in the life of a Christian, faith rises and falls like the tides of an invisible sea. It’s there, even when he can’t see it or feel it, if he wants it to be there. You realize, I think, that it is more valuable, more mysterious, altogether more immense than anything you can learn … Read more