Quotes about Lifted

Lifted up so high I disdained subjection, and thought one step higher would set me highest. Votes: 3

Simon Collinson, of digital publisher Canelo and über-cool Aussie mag The Lifted Brow, is our digital producer; Sarah Shin, Verso's comms director, is helping us out with press publicity; Soraya Gilanni, who mainly does production and set design for films and commercials, is our art director. Votes: 3

I don't like to beat people down. They need to be lifted up. Votes: 2

Death is the veil which those who live call life; They sleep, and it is lifted. Votes: 2

Man, I was drowning in sadness. And Angelina, she lifted me right up out of there. Votes: 2

We believe that visa quotas should be lifted and people should visit anywhere they wish freely. Votes: 2

I'm very grateful that President Obama has lifted the restrictions on federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. Votes: 2

Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry. Votes: 2

That is when the crowd really lifted me. That last 600 meters I was not running with my own legs. It was incredible. Votes: 2

Our own sorrows seem heavy enough, even when lifted by certain long-term joys. But watching others hurt is the breaker of most any heart. Votes: 2

Oft when the white, still dawn lifted the skies and pushed the hills apart, I have felt it like a glory in my heart. Votes: 2

I stand ready to lead us down a different path where we're lifted up by our desire to succeed, not dragged down by a resentment of success. Votes: 2

Age should not have its face lifted, but it should rather teach the world to admire wrinkles as the etchings of experience and the firm line of character. Votes: 2

When I need to push myself, I think of all those nicely polished trophies waiting to be lifted up by the winner - and how that winner might be me. Votes: 2

I have had some cosmetic surgery, especially after I lost weight and stuff, and I've had my breasts lifted - but not injected. That would scare me to death, anyway. Votes: 2

I spent my whole life helping my mother carry around her psychic trunks like a bitter bellhop. So a great load was lifted when she died, and my life was much easier. Votes: 2

There are many ways to experience love. It can feel like a knife in your back, or it can feel like you're being lifted up by winged creatures towards a beautiful blinding light. Votes: 2

Woodrow Wilson called for leaders who, by boldly interpreting the nation's conscience, could lift a people out of their everyday selves. That people can be lifted into their better selves is the secret of transforming leadership. Votes: 2

To live for a principle, for the triumph of some reform by which all mankind are to be lifted up to be wedded to an idea may be, after all, the holiest and happiest of marriages. Votes: 2

Official history is merely a veil to hide the truth of what really happened. When the veil is lifted, again and again we see that not only is the official version not true, it is often 100% wrong. Votes: 2

You cannot see the Grand Canyon in one view, as if it were a changeless spectacle from which a curtain might be lifted, but to see it, you have to toil from month to month through its labyrinths. Votes: 2

Think of how dark that Friday was when Christ was lifted up on the cross... It was a Friday filled with devastating, consuming sorrow that gnawed at the souls of those who loved and honored the Son of God. Votes: 2

My prayer is that the good news of Jesus, the crucified and risen Messiah, would flood Jewish communities around the world, that the veil would be lifted, and that we would see a massive turning of Israel to the Lord Jesus. Votes: 2

I come out before the matches because it's important the fans see I am in a good mood. When I get to the club, my mood is always lifted. You can be in a terrible mood, but once you are at Fulham, you are happy. Votes: 2

I know theater can improve the quality of people's lives, and I know theater can heal. I've worked as a doctor clown in a hospital for two years. I have seen sick kids and sad parents and doctors be lifted and transported in moments of pure joy. I know theater unites us. Votes: 2

I never lifted a weight in my life. Why am I going to do steroids? That's not going to do me any good. We didn't have any weights in our clubhouse. We had one exercise bike and that was for the guy who tweaked his hamstring. And that thing didn't even work half the time. Votes: 2

The love of Christ reaches to the very depths of earthly misery and woe, or it would not meet the case of the veriest sinner. It also reaches to the throne of the eternal, or man could not he lifted from his degraded condition, and our necessities would not be met, our desires would be unsatisfied. Votes: 2

I went on a book tour immediately after 9/11. I was due to leave the following Wednesday, so I just did. It was an amazing thing, because planes hadn't been flying very many days, and I got on this plane and went to San Francisco, and the minute that plane lifted above the clouds, I felt this incredible sense of lightness. Votes: 2

Music lifted our spirit. Votes: 0

Chaos lifted on wings and flew. Votes: 0

That's lifted the crowd up into the air. Votes: 0

The old woman dies, the burden is lifted. Votes: 0

Music lifted our spirit and awakens our soul. Votes: 0

The Paralympians have lifted the cloud of limitation. Votes: 0

Faith is like a lily, lifted high and white. Votes: 0

Brian Laws has lifted his team out of precocious waters Votes: 0

We all get knock down in life. Encouragement lifted our spirit. Votes: 0

You never realized how thick your fog was until it lifted. Votes: 0

Every veil secretly desires to be lifted, except the veil of Hypocrisy. Votes: 0

Ah, the souls of those that die Are but sunbeams lifted higher. Votes: 0

Charlie Parker lifted jazz music off the dance floor and into the stratosphere! Votes: 0

I want to be a transitory fallen, lifted up by virtues every time. Votes: 0

Remember when you had your face lifted... and the guy brought it back. Votes: 0

Art makes the spirit soar. And when the spirit is lifted, life follows. Votes: 0

It was an instant weight lifted off my chest - both literally and figuratively. Votes: 0

A metaphorical weight lifted from his allegorical chest and Artemis Fowl felt himself again. Votes: 0

Arsenal are a great team. But we lifted the trophy eight times in 11 years. Votes: 0

No champion has ever lifted a trophy that was not already being held inside. Votes: 0

If you read Islamic creationist literature, it's pretty much lifted from American evangelical literature. Votes: 0

Elizabeth lifted her skirt, disregarding modesty, and delivered a swift kick to the creature's head. Votes: 0

He lifted the violin to his shoulder then, and raised the bow. And he played. Votes: 0

By two wings a man is lifted up from things earthly: by simplicity and purity. Votes: 0

When I learned to forgive, it was like a million pounds were lifted from me. Votes: 0

The veil that clouds your eyes shall be lifted by the hands that wove it, Votes: 0

Your soul either feels lifted by something that you read, or it feels squashed by it. Votes: 0

It should be lifted above partisanship because it's a question of survival. It's a moral issue. Votes: 0

Very quickly, without really looking back or trying, I was just suddenly lifted into another sphere. Votes: 0

A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control. Votes: 0

This is a tremendous assest for the club, a tremendous headache lifted from our shoulders, really. Votes: 0

The only weight I ever lifted weighed 24 ounces. It was a Schlitz. I always replaced my fluids. Votes: 0

It seems everyone in Hollywood is getting pinched, lifted and pulled. I'm looking weird because I'm not. Votes: 0

A persistent breeze lifted the thin curtains, fluttering a few moments of tranquility into the turbulent day. Votes: 0

Often when economic pressure is lifted, a man must pump back into himself a feeling of must. Votes: 0

She lifted the drooping muzzle with both hands...It was a special embrace saved for special occasions. Votes: 0

He reached for my hand, lifted it to his lips, and kissed my fingertips. "I love you. Votes: 0

The question is whether personal freedom is worth the terrible effort, the never-lifted burden and risks of self-reliance. Votes: 0

I never did cross training or lifted weights or put anything between myself and my passion for running. Votes: 0

He lifted his arms to the crystaline, radiant sky. "I know myself," he cried, "but that is all. Votes: 0

And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor, Shall be lifted -- Nevermore! Votes: 0

A great burden was lifted from my shoulders the day I realized that no one owes me anything. Votes: 0

A calamity does not descend except due to a sin and it is not lifted except with repentance. Votes: 0

If God had meant them to be lifted and separated, He would have put one on each shoulder. Votes: 0

The older I get the funnier I get...Think what I'll save in not having my face lifted. Votes: 0

I would go to war with words, not weapons. I would die talking before I lifted a weapon. Votes: 0

....and when Tatiana lifted her glistening eyes to him, Alexander was looking down at her with his I'll-get-on-the-bus-for-you-anytime face. Votes: 0

Being where I'm at, standing in these shoes, it feels amazing. It feels like a weight has been lifted. Votes: 0

Hate was just a legend and war was never known. The people worked together and they lifted many stones. Votes: 0

Faith and hope...are the wings by which our souls, rising above the world, are lifted up to God. Votes: 0

She's so hairy - when she lifted up her arm I thought it was Tina Turner in her armpit. Votes: 0

When a great burden is lifted, the relief is not always felt at once. The galled places still ache. Votes: 0

Wherever humanity has made that hardest of all starts and lifted itself out of mere brutality is a sacred spot. Votes: 0

I lifted my eyes to the heavens and asked for help because if God exists, there's no way he's French. Votes: 0

When I look back on when I grew up, not even football players lifted weights. That was back 50 years ago. Votes: 0

Drama can feel like therapy whereas comedy feels like there's been a pressure and a weight lifted off of you. Votes: 0

It really has lifted my spirits. It's intensified my faith, given me more hope. That's what music does for me. Votes: 0

I will always remember when the stars fell down around me and lifted me up above the George Washington Bridge. Votes: 0

how should tasting touching hearing seeing breathing any lifted from the no of all nothing human merely being doubt unimaginable You? Votes: 0

Every roof is agreeable to the eye, until it is lifted; then we find tragedy and moaning women, and hard-eyed husbands. Votes: 0

I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck. Votes: 0

If all you've got is somebody else's stuff that you've lifted, nothing really deep, then it is going to thin out. Votes: 0

The holiness of love inspired ordinary men and women to act like angels. It lifted them on wings closer to God. Votes: 0

Had I known that the Germans would not succeed in producing an atomic bomb, I would not have lifted a finger. Votes: 0

The curse of Adam and Eve that fell upon the earth because of their sin will be lifted when Christ returns. Votes: 0

Jessica felt like a heroine in a tragic, dramatic love story. She lifted her chin and turned away. It was all over. Votes: 0

It's for real though, let's connect, politic...ditto! We could trade places, get lifted in the staircases, Word up, peace, incarcerated scarfaces. Votes: 0

A suffering or tortured animal always filled her with such a surge of sympathy that it lifted her clean out of herself. Votes: 0

When I lifted up the skin, a fat kidney worm dripping with gore raised its bald, blind head and glared at me. Votes: 0

As I lifted the ash dagger, something inside me fractured so completely that there would be no hope of ever repairing it. Votes: 0

Three times during the show the drums are lifted over the audience - I go up and out, right, left and back. Votes: 0

All obstacles now vanish from my pathway. Doors fly open, gates are lifted and I enter the kingdom of fulfillment, under grace. Votes: 0

It is this trick of capitalism, of subjecting labor to competition, while lifted wholly above it by class law itself, that is objectionable. Votes: 0

Giving encouragement to others is a most welcome gift, for the results of it are lifted spirits, increased self-worth, and a hopeful future. Votes: 0

The violence of war admits no distinction; the lance, that is lifted at guilt and power, will sometimes fall on innocence and gentleness. Votes: 0

Her killer wrote a note on that stationary." "A note." Now Renquist's eyebrows lifted. "Well. That was rather arrogant of him, wasn't it? Votes: 0

When the shadow of the Presidential and Congressional election is lifted we shall, I hope to be in a better temper to legislate. Votes: 0

But how intolerable bright the morning is where we who are alive and remain, walk lifted up, carried forward by an effective word. Votes: 0

No one will make progress with God until our eyes are lifted to the faithfulness of God and we stop looking at ourselves! Votes: 0

Then love knew it was called love. And when I lifted my eyes to your name, suddenly your heart showed me my way Votes: 0

And as we watched, the Tsar of Death lifted up his eyelids like skirts and began to dance in the streets of Leningrad. Votes: 0

I can't see any difference in having your hair dyed, your teeth fixed, your nose done, or your face smoothed out or lifted. Votes: 0

Listen to the trees talking in their sleep,' she whispered, as he lifted her to the ground. 'What nice dreams they must have! Votes: 0

My soul is always lifted up, and my spirit cheered and comforted, when I hear good music. I rejoice in it very much indeed. Votes: 0

Mystical insight and enlightenment occur when the veil between the worlds is lifted, the worlds are bridged, the gap closes, and we cross over. Votes: 0

You know you were with the lessers, true?" Butch lifted one of his busted-up hands. "And here I thought I'd been to Elizabeth Arden. Votes: 0

I have never had my face lifted. I prefer to have my spirits lifted. In my opinion, the effect is very nearly the same. Votes: 0

Isana felt her throat tighten. "We failed." Serai lifted her chin and patted Isana's arm firmly. "We have not yet succeeded. There is a difference. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

You must never lose the awareness that in yourself you are nothing, you are only an instrument. An instrument is nothing until it is lifted. Votes: 0

I was still ringing. I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck. Votes: 0

Were there not these still mirrors to reflect the beauty of the heavens to us, it might be lost to eyes so seldom lifted upwards. Votes: 0

If the veil of the world's machinery were lifted off, how much we would find is done in answer to the prayers of God's children. Votes: 0

The single clenched fist lifted and ready, Or the open asking hand held out and waiting. Choose: For we meet by one or the other. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I am impressed when music matters, when genres are broken, when spirits are lifted, when people make a difference, and when people are true to themselves. Votes: 0

Lord Vetinari lifted an eyebrow with the care of one who, having found a piece of caterpillar in his salad, raises the rest of the lettuce. Votes: 0

It is easy to be humble when a greater is preferred; but when an inferior is lifted high above our heads, how can we bear it? Votes: 0

...you lifted the veil when you admitted you had no memory of that day - it was so special and your lack of recall so monstrous... Votes: 0

Flower lifted a brow, dubious. 'You have to pay for a place to be dead in?' Moon shrugged. 'Sometimes, in cities. It's a groundling thing. Votes: 0

After all, Fnick is Superman," said Iggy. "Shut up, Jeff," I said, but I was smiling. I lifted Iggy's fingers to my face so that he knew. Votes: 0

Look, whispered Chuck, and George lifted his eyes to heaven. (There is always a last time for everything.) Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out. Votes: 0

The burden imparted by God is lifted once we have prayed, but the heaviness from the enemy cannot be raised unless we fight and resist in prayer. Votes: 0

[Montesquieu] lifted the veil from the venerable errors which enslaved opinion, and pointed the way to those luminous truths of which he had but a glimpse himself. Votes: 0

I never would have made it if I could not have laughed. It lifted me momentarily out of this horrible situation, just enough to make it livable. Votes: 0

But music, don't you know, is a dream from which the veils have been lifted. It's not even the expression of a feeling, it's the feeling itself. Votes: 0

Cubism came about because, in the process of analyzing form, something that lay in the form, a plane, could be lifted out to float on its own... Votes: 0

..still to have loved her without return would have lifted you higher than all those, be they who they may, that have ever known her to love. Votes: 0

You marked the minutes," the old man said. "But did you use them wisely? To be still? To cherish? To be grateful? To lift and be lifted? Votes: 0

I want to get a big, lifted truck with mudflaps on the back. Where I'm from, it's an agricultural area, so that's just how I've been raised. Votes: 0

I like spiritual songs. They struck me as truthful and serious. They brought me down to earth and they lifted me up all in the same moment. Votes: 0

Her chin lifted. "Very well. Here is my best offer. Half of my nakedness for all of yours." He pretended to think on it. " It's a bargain. Votes: 0

Throw back the shoulders, let the heart sing, let the eyes flash, let the mind be lifted up, look upward and say to yourself ... nothing is impossible! Votes: 0

There seems to be within all of us an innate yearning to be lifted momentarily out of our own lives into the realm of charm and make believe. Votes: 0

I lifted the lid and found a piece of bread and some water"”and a rat that quickly darted off the tray. Talk about adding insult to injury. Votes: 0

Hope is the most treacherous thing in the world. It lifts you and lets you plummet. But as long as you're being lifted you don't worry about plummeting. Votes: 0

As we left the kitchen, I asked, "Can I hold your sword today?" Catcher glanced back over his shoulder and lifted a browThe sword," I correctedThe sword." We'll see." Votes: 0

In a sense, the fossil fuels are a onetime gift that lifted us up from subsistence agriculture and eventually should lead us to a future based on renewable resources. Votes: 0

See how ye Pharisee in the Temple stands, And justifies himself with lifted hands. Whilst ye poor publican with downcast eyes, Conscious of guilt to God for mercy cries. Votes: 0

...My sister Doreena who never lifted a royal finger growing up because she had the heart defect that we later found out was a fly on the X-ray machine. Votes: 0

Somewhere between psychotic and iconic/ Somewhere between I want it and I got it/ Somewhere between I’m sober and I’m lifted/ Somewhere between a mistress and commitment Votes: 0

I hold the key to his heart right here. He lifted a briefcase from his side to show her. All we have to do is wind it up again. Votes: 0

There in the windy flood of morning Longing lifted its weight from me, Lost as a sob in the midst of cheering, Swept as a sea-bird out to sea. Votes: 0

It is very grand to die in harness, but it is very pleasant to have the tight straps unbuckled and the heavy collar lifted from the neck and shoulders. Votes: 0

One old lady who wants her head lifted wouldn't be so bad, but you multiply her two hundred and fifty thousand times and what you get is a book club. Votes: 0

Behind the camera, I was invisible. When I lifted it up to my eye it was like I crawled into the lens, losing myself there. and everything else fell away. Votes: 0

You're the brightest thing in the room, he said. He lifted his hand from my waist, and slowly, carefully brushed a stray lock of hair from my cheek. You shine. Votes: 0

When we surrender when we do not fight with life when it calls upon us we are lifted and the strength to do what needs to be done finds us. Votes: 0

When will the veil be lifted that casts so black a night over the universe? God of Israel, lift at last the gloom: For how long will you be hidden? Votes: 0

On the night He was betrayed Jesus broke bread and lifted it up and gave THANKS. If Jesus can give thanks in that, can we not give thanks in all? Votes: 0

The effect is captivating as all of the tones mix, like a watercolor with hues swirled together, and lovely carrying notes long after the fingers are lifted from the keys. Votes: 0

One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame. Votes: 0

I've had great people come in my life, meaning not just men, but women, support me and empower me. So that has lifted me to be the woman I am. Votes: 0

He breathed once more, holding the air in his chest, as if it were not air but something more--a sweet taste of freedom, of all cares lifted, everything over and done. Votes: 0

When ATM machines came out and people were prosecuted for robbing ATM machines, I don't think anybody thought the banks were against technology because they didn't want their ATM machines lifted. Votes: 0

Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man. Votes: 0

Some nights stay up till dawn, as the moon sometimes does for the sun. Be a full bucket pulled up the dark way of a well, then lifted out into light. Votes: 0

Karakarof spat onto the ground at Dumbledore's feet. In one swift movement, Hagrid seized the front of Karkaroff's furs, lifted him into the air, and slammed him against a nearby tree. Votes: 0

The superstition that the hounds of truth will rout the vermin of error seems, like a fragment of Victorian lace, quaint, but too brittle to be lifted out of the showcase. Votes: 0

This is a war of the unknown warriors; but let all strive without failing in faith or in duty, and the dark curse of Hitler will be lifted from our age. Votes: 0

I kept on digging the hole deeper and deeper looking for the treasure chest until I finally lifted my head, looked up and realized that I had dug my own grave. Votes: 0

He lifted his eyes to the girl. She looked afraid. She always looked afraid, these days. The world was a scary place. She said: "Take me with you." He woke up. Votes: 0

I noticed you tore down Donovan's house." He lifted his gaze until it locked with mine. "He's alive because he left town. His house chose to stay. It paid the price. Votes: 0

The unreality of the past weeks lifted like a fog, but its residue remained. All of the past is like that, but most especially the parts that are out of the ordinary. Votes: 0

Landscape is the creation of the one God - his sensuous image and revelation, through the investigation of which, by science or its representation by art, men's hearts are lifted toward him. Votes: 0

The International Atomic Energy Agency is controlling this, the sanctions against Iran are lifted - but still the US are working on their missile defense system. What is the point of this? Votes: 0

Forever," Edward echoed in my ear. I couldn't speak anymore. I lifted my head and kissed him with a passion that might possibly set the forest on fire. I wouldn't have noticed. Votes: 0

Now it's like a fog has lifted. I sense Leetu just as clearly as I can see the moon.' Your eyes are closed, and the moon as a haze around it. Votes: 0

[A]ffirmative action in the United States has made blacks. . .who have largely lifted themselves out of poverty, look like people who owe their rise to affirmative action and other government programs. Votes: 0

[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. Votes: 0

I broke down on Thursday, Nov. 3, and told Sheriff Howard Wells the truth. It wasn't easy, but after the truth was out, I felt like the world was lifted off my shoulders Votes: 0

I used to lift very heavy weights in my mid-twenties - I used to bench press over 300lb. The most I ever lifted was 330lb; I couldn't do that today, no way. Votes: 0

The great poets have sympathized with the people. They have uttered in all ages the human cry. Unbought by gold, unawed by power, they have lifted high the torch that illuminates the world. Votes: 0

Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts. Votes: 0

We are formed by environment and grace, by politics and prayer, by church and conscience. All God's creatures conspire to teach us as well. We stumble. We stutter. We rise. We are lifted. Votes: 0

Those who sit at the feast will continue to enjoy themselves even though the veil that separates them from the world of toiling reality below has been lifted by mass revolts and critics. Votes: 0

I hadn't noticed before how his mouth lifted up at one corner, as if he found life to humorous to stop smiling completely. Such a smile should be preserved forever in a drawing." Votes: 0

a heart may be lifted up and cast down in the same moment, as sometimes sunshine comes while rain is falling and builds upward in the sky tall reaches of misty, unlikely beauty. Votes: 0

As an English player you are lifted when the crowd gets behind you. The atmosphere over here can be unsettling for the Australian players and I hope all our fans get behind us. Votes: 0

I have lifted the veil. I have created life, wrested the secret of life from life. Now do you understand? From the lives of those who have gone before, I have created life. Votes: 0

The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted. Votes: 0

On the rue de la Crosse, the Hotel of Bees becomes almost weightless for a moment, lifted in a spiral of flame, before it begins to rain the pieces back to the earth Votes: 0

Germany, Japan and, to a lesser extent, Britain and Italy, were lifted out of the debris of war by the Americans who poured in billions of dollars and forgave other billions in debts." Votes: 0

Eternity hums with every beating heart, with every up-lifted voice, with the crash of waves, the whirl of wind across the shifting dunes, the cry of sea birds, and the trumpets of heavenly angels. Votes: 0

And light has no weight, / Yet one is lifted on its flood, /Swept high, /Running up white-golden light-shafts, /As if one were as weightless as light itself - /All gold and white and light. Votes: 0

I have lifted my plane . . . for perhaps a thousand flights and I have never felt her wheels glide from the Earth into the air without knowing the uncertainty and the exhilaration of first-born adventure. Votes: 0

You okay now ?" he asked. "Okay." He tightened his arms and lifted me off my feet. "Mercy?" he growled into my ear. I wrapped my legs around his waist. " Yeah" , I said. "Me too. Votes: 0

This is pity, he thought, and then he lifted his head in wonder. He thought that there must be something terribly wrong with a world in which this monstrous feeling is called a virtue. Votes: 0

Prayer need not be an activity we engage in for only an hour each morning. Rather, let us live in the atmosphere of prayer, our hearts continually being lifted up in prayer to Him. Votes: 0

When I was little there was a picture in one of our books, a dark place into which a single weak ray of light came slanting upon two faces lifted out of the shadow. Votes: 0

Art is not a plaything, but a necessity, and its essence, form, is not a decorative adjustment, but a cup into which life can be poured and lifted to the lips and be tasted. Votes: 0

How those holy men of old could storm the battlements above! When there was no way to look but up, they lifted up their eyes to God who made the hills, with unshakable confidence. Votes: 0

Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern. Votes: 0

It was heavy, and I staggered when I lifted it; but it was strangely satifying to have a real burden upon my shoulders "“ a kind of counterweight to my terrible heaviness of heart. Votes: 0

Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern." Votes: 0

When I was 14, I saw someone getting their face and wrists slashed with a knife in a pub in Catford. Nobody lifted a finger. That's when I realised that violence wasn't funny. At all. Votes: 0

The fog lifted in the evening and a blue-black band at the horizon marked the end of the sea and the beginning of thought. Where does a beginning begin when nothing has gone on before? Votes: 0

Max lifted his head, with great sorrow and great astonishment. 'There were stars,' He said. 'They burned my eyes.' ...from a Himmel street window, he wrote, the stars set fire to my eyes. Votes: 0

The heart of our problem is the selfishness in our heart. The human spirit soars with hope when lifted by an encouraging word. The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. Votes: 0

As soon as Mr. Prosser realized that he was substantially the loser after all, it was as if a weight lifted itself off his shoulders: this was more like the world as he knew it. Votes: 0

But one sound always rose above the clamor of busy life and, no matter how much of a tintinnabulation, was never confused and, fora moment lifted everything into an ordered sphere: that of the bells. Votes: 0

No achievement can be higher than that of working in harmony with other nations so that the lash of war may be lifted from our backs and a peace of lasting friendship descend upon us. Votes: 0

Finally, you get the job, and you think you'll be dancing on the ceiling, but I just wanted to go take a nap. It was just like a weight had been lifted off or something. Votes: 0

In striving for the best, in losing onself in others, one is lifted above the common material furniture of life, above the gaudy trappings and encumbering paraphenalia... into the realm of peace which passeth understanding. Votes: 0