Top 111 Raises Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Raises Quotes from famous people such as Linda Ronstadt, Evan Bayh, Richard Brake, Ilyasah Shabazz, Andrew Sullivan, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I'll occasionally go and do an honor like the Mexican-A

I’ll occasionally go and do an honor like the Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund because it raises money for a very worthy organization.
Linda Ronstadt
The amount of U.S. debt held by countries such as China and Japan is at a historic high, with foreign investors holding half of America’s publicly held debt. This dependence raises the specter that other nations will be able to influence our policies in ways antithetical to American interests.
Evan Bayh
Obviously, the Night’s King is clearly a symbol of something very unpleasant in our psyche, and he even raises wights from the dead, which is probably everybody’s worst fear, being actually used after we’re dead.
Richard Brake
I don’t know that there is a, quote, ‘hip-hop lifestyle.’ I think the music responds to complex social issues and injustices; I think it also raises complex social questions.
Ilyasah Shabazz
Anything that raises any internal honesty about gay life is inherently suspect.
Andrew Sullivan
Do I believe God raises up authority? Do I believe he sets one up and puts one down?… I don’t believe that just for Trump, I believe that had Hillary been in. I believe that for Obama.
Paula White
The Mafia is a question every time an Italian raises his head.
Mario Cuomo
I like to see my hand raised at the end of the night. I like when the ref raises my hand. That’s why I shave my armpits like the professionals wrestlers. I like to see my arm raised.
Quinton Jackson
When human rights are systematically abused, it raises the question whether it may be legitimate in some circumstances for the international community to intervene within individual states as well as in conflicts between states.
Charles Kennedy
In the third month, the sun rising, the Boar and the Leopard on the field of Mars to fight; The tired Leopard raises its eye to the heavens, sees an eagle playing around the sun.
Nostradamus
The trouble with ghostwriting is that it raises the issue of whether the president is in a state of diminished responsibility for what he says. Does he actually grasp the implications of the words he speaks?
Jonathan Raban
I’m not sure I have a role model per se, but I do deeply admire every woman who raises children and has to walk for water.
Anna D. Shapiro
Consistently playing suited connectors like 8c-7c for raises and reraises will cause big chip swings. If that’s what you want, well, strap on your seatbelt, because you’ve got a turbulent ride ahead of you!
Phil Hellmuth
When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.
Jean de la Bruyere
Because God says that he raises up and places all people in places of authority, it is God who raises up a king. It is God that sets one down.
Paula White
If a man were living in isolation his income would be literally his product. Make him the monarch and owner of an island, and the fruits that he raises and the clothing that he makes constitute, in themselves, his income. This ceases to be true when trading begins.
John Bates Clark
Look, I think the worst case scenario is obvious. I think first of all it doesn’t work for very long. It’s an unstable government that raises taxes and destroys the image we’re building for Canada as a strong place to invest.
Stephen Harper
I’m part of a team that raises millions of dollars and raises awareness of HIV and AIDS all over the world.
Linda Evangelista
If Obama raises my company’s taxes by 20 percent, how am I going to be able to survive as a company? Well, if I’ve got 30 employees, that means I’m going to have to lay off 10 employees so I can be able to keep up with the health and benefits and pension plans for my other 20 employees.
Chuck Norris
If explicit metadata is a real problem, it raises problems that just can’t be solved. It’s not that we’re not good at it; it’s the problems cannot be solved because we’re not going to agree about these deep questions of how we organize.
David Weinberger
It raises questions about the natural instincts of Clinton that, when confronted with a serious domestic political scandal, she tries to blame the Russians, blame the Chinese, et cetera.
Julian Assange
The Go Red for Women campaign raises awareness of the risk of heart disease. I think a lot of people don’t realize that heart disease is the number one killer of women. So what we’re doing is encouraging women to tell five other women to learn more about heart disease and how they can prevent it.
Cheryl Hines
I think K-pop bands rock, and their success raises my spirit to perform better on stage.
Eric Nam
Women are often meeker in meetings and afraid to ask for raises and promotions. I’ve told countless female colleagues to stop apologizing when they ask for more. It’s not personal, it’s business.
Katharine Weymouth
Wars, however frequent and destructive they may be, have never been able to kill entirely the intellectual and moral sense which raises man above the beast.
Elie Ducommun
When a bowler bowls with the crowd support behind him, it naturally raises one’s morale.
Sarfaraz Ahmed
I’ve always felt that improv looks and feels more clever when you’re there to experience it live than when you have the degree of separation that television creates. Television raises expectations.
Alan Thicke
The action comedy ‘Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl’ raises one of the most overlooked and important cinematic questions of our time: Can a movie maintain the dramatic integrity of a theme park ride?
Elvis Mitchell
Divine love does not weigh down, nor carry his servant captive and enslaved to the lowest depths, but raises him, supports him and magnifies him above all liberty whatsoever.
Giordano Bruno
You’ve got to nip things that can be detrimental in the bud, even if this raises a few eyebrows or invites some opposition.
Ravi Shastri
Tom Cruise is just a machine. He really raises the bar as far as being a stud goes.
Josh Holloway
Hope raises no dust.

Hope raises no dust.
Paul Eluard
Research shows you get multiple tasks done faster if you do them one at a time. It also decreases stress and raises happiness.
Shawn Achor
Almost no one raises the real issue of tax avoidance, right? And of the rich just not paying their fair share.
Rutger Bregman
Everything about me is so odd: I look weird. I have a nasal voice. I’m arrogant. my singing raises the dead from the grave. I am inspired by Altaf Raja, as one report mentioned, and so much more. I have stopped fighting all these rumours and remarks.
Himesh Reshammiya
I feel sorry that whenever anybody raises his voice in the AAP in Punjab’s interest, it is suppressed.
Gurpreet Ghuggi
Sleep is my great indulgence, and I get eight hours every night. Being chronically overtired raises stress levels in a bad way and is responsible for a lot of depressive breaks.
Andrew Solomon
Something different has to be done before we make another budget deal that increases spending and raises the debt some more. Our current course is not reasonable. Our current course is insane.
Ron DeSantis
Climate change is happening, and humans are significant contributors, and that raises some really important policy questions.
Mark Walport
Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him.
Charles Peguy
The Trump administration’s assault against the FBI’s efforts to assess a national security threat posed by suspected foreign agents only raises more questions about what went on in 2016.
Asha Rangappa
Article 50 is very poorly written and raises more questions more answers.
Gina Miller
As with oil, water exploitation raises an inter-generational debt that will be hard to repay.
Rohini Nilekani
And it raises a fundamental question: How long can we move the world in one direction while we move in another direction, and do we want to backslide into an era that we finally emerged from where we had a nuclear weapon for every tactical mission?
John Spratt
People have to take control of their own lives. Education is key because it also raises other social indicators like healthcare.
Azim Premji
When you’ve seen a lot of bad stuff and just want to enjoy your life and be happy and have your kids happy and have your friends happy, you just have a value system where it raises the bar on what’s important.
Bob Saget
There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.
Robert Quillen
Trade has played a vital role in the social evolution of humankind. It allowed people to specialise, which raises both skill levels and efficiency. It brought people from different lands together, co-operating rather than competing over resources.
Julian Baggini
Mr. Gonzales’ failure to respond to questions legitimately posed to him by the Senate raises grave doubts in my mind as to his fitness to serve the people of the United States as their Attorney General.
Daniel Inouye
The ability to speak is a short cut to distinction. It puts a man in the limelight, raises him head and shoulders above the crowd.
Lowell Thomas
The most interesting thing in the world is another human being who wonders, suffers and raises the questions that have bothered him to the last day of his life, knowing he will never get the answers.
Will Durant
It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.
Horace
As African economies boom and businesses are created, one of the big questions this growth raises is that of third-level education: how can Africa develop a knowledge infrastructure to rival that of the west, a sort of Harvard University in Africa?
Richard Attias
In the big picture, few of our careers live up to the dreams we nursed when we were young. In fact, one underside of success is that it’s nearly always penultimate, and so every accomplishment merely raises the bar.
Lionel Shriver