Quotation Explorer - 'Lifts'

Funny how nobody talks on the tubes, isn't it? I rarely catch the tube myself, or lifts. Confined spaces, everybody shuts down. Why is that? Perhaps we think everybody on the tube is a potential psychopath or a drunk,so we close down and pretend to read a book or something. - John Hannah
Sendak is in search of what he calls a "yummy death". William Blake set the standard, jumping up from his death bed at the last minute to start singing. "A happy death," says Sendak. "It can be done." He lifts his eyebrows to two peaks. "If you're William Blake and totally crazy. - Maurice Sendak
He lifts her breasts, which fit perfectly into his hands, though he knows this is no promise that he gets to keep them. A million things you can't have will fit in a human hand. - Barbara Kingsolver
Grace is what picks me up and lifts my wings high above and I fly! Grace always conquers! Be graceful in everything; in anger, in sadness, in joy, in kindness, in unkindness, retain grace with you! - C. JoyBell C.
Knowing God is like listening to beautiful music. His words have power. He lifts me up & soothes my soul. He makes me dance. He gives me joy. - Germany Kent
The most empowering relationships are those in which each partner lifts the other to a higher possession of their own being. - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
I can give not what men call love;But wilt thou accept notThe worship the heart lifts aboveAnd the heavens reject not:The desire of the moth for the star,Of the night for the morrow,The devotion to something afarFrom the sphere of our sorrow? - Percy Bysshe Shelley
Hard times lifts the seeking souls to higher spiritual realms. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch. It is anything that lifts another person. - C.Neil Strait
Love lifts you up. Love is giving and kindness. Love is encouraging. Love is healing. If these things do not surround you, you are in the wrong relationship. - Elizabeth Bourgeret
There is something about just setting the pen to paper that lifts me and helps to focus my energy and thoughts. - Susan Elaine Jenkins
Music lifts the soul to spiritual realms. - Lailah Gifty Akita
The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy. - Steven Weinberg
The path of repentance, though hard at times, lifts one ever upwards and leads to a perfect forgiveness.
Nothing can do what a book can do. Lifts you out of your life... to a whole new world, whole new perspective. A book is like a dream you're borrowing from a friend. - Dave Kellett
An ant lifts a stone because it believes in itself, not its obstacle. - Matshona Dhliwayo
Don't spread negativity, that stuff is contagious and ruins us. The good news is, positivity can also be contagious and it lifts us. - Joshua Neik
When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts. - Anzia Yezierska
It is easy to tell confidence from pride. Confidence lifts, encourages, helps, and is full of gratitude. Pride demeans, mocks, destroys, and is bitter and resentful. - Damon Throop
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