Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.
Chinese Proverb
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I'm not going to raise taxes on middle-class Americans to pay for the programs I've recommended.
Bill Clinton
Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.
Ralph Marston
He who wishes to exert a useful influence must be careful to insult nothing. Let him not be troubled by what seems absurd, but concentrate his energies to the creation of what is good. He must not demolish, but build. He must raise temples where mankind may come and partake of the purest pleasure.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument.
Samuel Johnson
We both wanted to raise our daughter in a way similar to the way we were raised.
Johnnie Roark
(The council had) every right to raise the issue.
Alderman Scott Galvin
I will commit myself to making this state an even greater place to live, work and raise a family. I intend to reach out from border to border to hear first-hand from our citizens about their thoughts, concerns and ideas for our state.
Dave Heineman
You want to raise your child in such a way that you don%uFFFDt have to control him, so that he will be in full possession of himself at all times. Upon that depends his good behavior, his health, his sanity.
L. Ron Hubbard
The bond will raise property taxes about 10 percent, but it?s well worth it.
Jeff Taylor
The concert will raise money and awareness for AIDS in Africa. All the proceeds will go to the Kenyan Project at the Miriam Hospital. This organization sends doctors to Kenya to help in the fight against AIDS, and members of the organization will be at the concert to give a brief presentation.
Kerri Coletta
They say it takes a village to raise a child. Well, it takes a village to put on a triathlon.
Greg Hawkins
It hasn't been necessary to raise my prices. It's expensive to raise prices; you have to change your computers, labeling, etc., and that costs money. Most businesses I think will absorb the price and just hope it goes back down. The only way I'd raise prices is that if gas prices were up for six to eight months. Then I'd probably raise them because of the deliveries we make.
Robin Myers
Republicans will continue to out-raise Democrats. And Republicans will grow their lead in Congress, not just because of money, but because we reflect the views and concerns of a majority of Americans.
Tom Reynolds
My father was very proud of the fact he could put my brother through school. He worked very hard as a blue-collar man to raise a doctor, and he's very proud of that.
Jeri Waken
It's an opportunity for local and area Pagans to get together with each other. It's an opportunity to raise some money for charity and to enjoy each others' company.
Amanda Zuke
Never raise your hand to your children; it leaves your midsection unprotected.
Robert Orben
Why can't you buy the right educational experience for kids, buy that magic package that gets them into Yale? It might work in deciding what car to buy, but it doesn't work into how to raise kids. It's a long slog.
Jonathan Gross
He had a great game. He is extremely consistent. He scored and rebounded. He knew with Williams and Pappas out of the game, he needed to raise his level of play.
Steve Bado
So, we're going to raise that issue ? what the impact of paying workers cash has on the State of Minnesota.
Alan Kearney
The event will happen either way. It's really about how many teams and how many people will participate - and of course, how much money we raise - we just need a leader.
Ramona Cruz
If that's being done in such a way as to create an inaccurate reflection of what the full article said, then it does raise ethical issues.
Jane Kirtley
He is warning the markets that the Federal Open Market Committee will very likely continue to raise short-term interest rates, given the continued growth in the economy.
Preston Martin
We believe that investors are likely to interpret this ... as being positive for the gold market as it will raise speculation that China will increase its gold holdings.
John Reade
We've done this before, and I guess they'll hatch in a month or so. We've never been able to raise them, however. They're just too hard to feed or to find stuff to feed them. They need a lot of tiny plankton. So once they hatch, they'll go away pretty fast.
Keith Chandler
We appreciate the dedicated efforts of CTC and the Kannapolis Intimidators in helping us fight the battle against ALS through this annual event. The contributions they raise through the Celebrity Golf Classic help us provide the support our patients and families need while bringing awareness about the disease to the community - it is a true blessing.
Jerry Dawson
It would have to be traditional. One of the points that a number of people raise is how can anyone go around the state promising to cut different programs when they're getting their million dollars upfront for their campaign. There is an intellectual disconnect to that.
David Emery
You don't hear enough about basketball in Whistler however there are hundreds of people in Whistler who are quality ballplayers. I am just trying to raise awareness and connect people who play the game.
Laura Birks
I think if we raise (tuition) $2, we need to use it for specific reasons.
Jim Mcfarland
Our support was great this season. And we hope it continues next year when we raise our championship banner.
Joe Augustine
It is time to shed them now and raise our eyes into the future.
Seamus Mallon
Our goal is to collectively raise and contribute at least $1 million in aid to the victims.
Billy Hunter
I know that Montana is the greatest place in the world to raise a family, to start and grow a business. You know it, and I know it and now we will tell the world.
Brian Schweitzer
It is not about us asking for a raise. It is about whether [some controllers] would lose out on cost of living increases if they continued to work, compared with retiring.
Pat Mccormick
I don't blame the city for canceling the parade. I just wish they had told us sooner. We could have done something to help raise money for the parade.
James Spitz
It (not removing the panther) would very much raise the risk to the people in the area.
Darrell Land
Mike followed a legendary predecessor and responded to it with character, graciousness and the determination to raise our program to the highest level.
Adam Herbert
We are doing all this to raise funds to support the quake victims because music is something that can bring countries and cultures together.
Salman Iqbal
We must organize drives to raise money to respond to refugees' basic needs, which include proper housing, food, clothing, medical supplies and care, psychological counseling, and education for children.
Pesach Lerner
The two previous raffles worked out great. Our first raffle was done in 2002 and the second in 2004. This is our main fundraiser, so the funds we raise go toward the main function of the company.
John Kauffman
Let's raise more good men and women.
Michael Class
The question you raise, 'is digital TV ready for prime time?' And it's not. It's still in the concept stage.
Scott Cleland
What (insurance companies) do is target urban areas and raise the rates. It's a problem. It's led to rampant discrimination in the insurance industry.
Doug Heller
How much money is enough? That's a real important question to raise. I don't think we have defined that, per se, at this point. It would obviously be more than $25,000. How much more? Maybe double that.
John Scolaro
After the summer, when people have been driving through these zones every day without encountering any children, they tend to forget or disregard the zone, so this is a way to raise awareness.
Michael Parks
It can make or break their success if they're ready to hit the big time and can't raise the adequate funding. That can be the end of them.
Jane Teague
It's not an instant fix. But over a 3-5 year period, it should help raise car counts.
Larry Mattingly
This increase shortchanges American consumers and national security because automakers already have the technology to raise fuel economy much more significantly.
Daniel Becker
Not everybody is going to love this show, but it is definitely for an adult audience. We're not here to raise your kids.
Mick Garris
We will use the new money we hope to raise to help us to achieve our strategy of acquiring luxury hotels and resorts in high growth markets in the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Central and Eastern Europe.
Sarmad Zok
Nest boxes are incredibly easy to build or buy and can make a huge difference to the lives of our garden birds. In return you get the enjoyment of watching them raise a family. Blue tits love them but, depending on where you are in the country, you could get all manner of species moving in.
Jeff Baker
High oil prices may raise inflation but longer-term it's negative for growth and that's how the Fed sees it.
David Mann
The Federal Reserve does not want to have to raise interest rates. The next best thing is to have the market do it for them and that's exactly what happened.
Robert Froehlich
However, should the federations want to give higher salaries (than the limit), they would have to raise the money themselves.
Kusnan Ismukanto
The poets of the present day who would raise the epic song cry out, like Archimedes of old, "give us a place to stand on and we will move the world." This is, as we conceive, the true difficulty.
Jones Very
We want to raise a minimum of $600 to help purchase books.
Miguel Drew
One of them wasn't even looking to raise money.
John W. Warner
The message that playing poker for charity sends is that in the name of charity or other worthy causes, gambling is a way to compensate, to raise revenues for whatever the cause may be.
Pat Fowler
We have seen growth every year since our initial kick-off in 2003, ... Our goal is to see every golf club in Canada host an event and raise $1000 through our pledge program. This would translate into an annual contribution well over 1.6 million dollars, something that female golfers could be very proud of.
Jeff Thompson
I've had a bull's-eye on me for quite some time, ... That's because I've done my job. I've raised issues no one else has had the guts to raise.
Mike Gibson
We realized we will need to raise additional sums of money. We're going to be reaching out in the community.
Robert Denham
I don't feel I deserve a raise just because the price of gasoline is going up.
Buddy Allen
Now the task is to raise the bond money that the judge has set in this case.
Tommy Brewer
Parliament considered national interest and in as much as people raise their objections, no one will intimidate or deny the people in the town the right to vote.
Seabo Gaeganelwe
It takes a great deal of work to raise all of the children, on each level. Education and upbringing plays a large role, but the most important thing is love and a big heart.
Vladimir Chernenko
This is the first time we're going into a Fed meeting with an 'Are they or aren't they going to do it,' where the last one was 'How much are they going to raise it,' so there's caution.
Michael Lyons
The pay raise has already become an issue and caused challengers to emerge. This poses an issue for many of the incumbents and unfortunately became a larger issue than many anticipated.
Michael Russell
The budget is being eaten up pretty quickly because there are so many teams using the money. The irony is as they get more successful, they need to raise more of their own money.
Jerry Foster
We will have a presentation about the project. There will be a look at the progression of the project and how we plan to raise public equity. We want Washington area residents to benefit as much as possible.
Mike Bohannan
It is a contained number and we don't have to worry about inflation. With the Fed expected to raise rates again, it becomes even less of a concern.
Kazuaki Oh'e
For each 1 percent pay raise it is about a $600 million, so a billion dollars won't cut the mustard.
Ike Skelton
A raise should be based on performance and market data establishing the value of your job.
Bill Coleman
You'll have the photographer at the end, and you'll need to figure out when to raise your arms and smile. Try not to look at your watch.
Richard Stark
There is no incentive for the other members to [agree to] raise oil production. They won't see any benefits because oil prices will fall.
Peter Hitchens
We have always expected our opponents to raise more money than us, so it's no surprise that they did.
Scott Arceneaux
But we do not see much headway in this regard before general elections are held next year. We will raise the six-day work issue again.
Mir Nasir Hossain
Massachusetts consumers are being squeezed out of the concert so Schwarzenegger can raise millions of dollars to push his big-industry donors' agenda in California.
Doug Heller
If you can get the 10 other guys in the huddle to raise their game and play at a higher level, then you're going to be successful as a quarterback.
Josh Heupel
This is part of a general industry move to consolidate, reduce consumer choice and raise prices.
Paul Hudson
Any time you raise the price you are going to drive down consumption, as we saw in New York City. The smoking rate in New York City has fallen dramatically since they initiated the tax increase.
Russell Sciandra
The issues they raise have already been adjudicated before the commission. The order should be affirmed.
Steve Brash
He apparently made vague, veiled e-mail threats in the past, but nothing that would raise an alarm like this.
Linda Bowman
These areas will be great when they are completed. They were run down and had dilapidated houses. Through Brownback's partnership and ability to raise money, it's totally revitalized the neighborhood. It's a different scene night and day from what it originally was.
Michael Snodgrass
The threat of a strike is certainly going to raise a lot of anxiety for Ottawa residents.
Greg Geddes
We're very pleased the financing was well-received. Just a few weeks ago, there were some concerns raised and speculation that certain companies couldn't raise financing.
Mel Stephens
McDonald's does not close down and move across the state line when you raise the minimum wage.
Dan Cantor
You can buy two-years and finance them for the next six months if you don't think the Fed is going to raise rates until the fourth quarter.
David Winter
If there is blip in production costs or commodity prices, that's another thing, ... But right now, it's so competitive, retailers can't raise prices.
Karen Sack
What we are trying to do is raise awareness of the program. A lot of towns donate money to help the program, but not near the amount that we need. We wanted the people who participated to see first hand what the program does.
Sharon Willard
It's really an honor to help raise a memorial for the guys who fell in the line of duty.
George Wendt
Bloody Christmas, here again, Let us raise a loving cup, Peace on earth, goodwill to men, And make them do the washing up.
Wendy Cope
We really want to raise indigenous leaders on every continent who take this message and do what they need to do.
Avery Willis
A lot of people donate their miles. The Rotary only pays for hospitalization, the operation and medication. That's why my organization has to raise money for the other things.
Cecilia Carroll
We try to raise about $15,000 to $20,000 a year.
Jim Mccann
It doesn't raise the same concerns.
Gary Poulson
The timing of this report ... will certainly raise the level of debate on the central bank's next move.
Derek Burleton
I know we'll be able to raise a lot of awareness for an issue that plagues our world and could have devastating consequences down the road if nothing is done.
Doyle Brunson
The closer we get to the end of the window the more clubs raise the price of the players and try to force us into paying more than we should.
Alain Perrin
I'm up here to show the community we can raise money for needy people.
Joe Sanders
It is a very strong policy, and we don't expect or even want departments to adopt it fully, but it is an excellent guide. The goal of this program is to raise awareness. We want departments to train their employees and develop their own policies.
Lisa Holden
The main reason why we've set up the international school in Thailand in the first instance was to raise money for Harrow in the UK.
Barnaby Lenon
Our aim is to raise awareness of contemporary art. We want to encourage discussion, and sometimes people respond to things in different ways.
Rachel Tant
Just for one of our kids to get a job and raise a family well ... those are kids we're proudest of.
Dirk Matson
Since Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast region, I have been asked by many of our student-athletes and fans if they could pitch in and help raise funds.
Mike Thomas
But I hope that's about to change with Duane's help. His arrival is the lift we require and I'm sure we shall witness other players in the squad raise their games.
Roger Ashby
We have been and will be conducting a radical portfolio review process in the U.S., ... The objective is to assess the positioning of our divisions there to obtain critical mass and raise profitability.
Heinrich Von Pierer
Key to American's and the broader sector's future performance will be the industry's ability to raise prices and offset higher fuel costs, which is a function of capacity, in our view.
Gary Chase
I am honored to be part of this event, which will not only pay tribute to the nurses who provide advanced, compassionate care for all of us in our community, but which will also raise funds so that they will have access to the very best and most advanced nursing station possible at Emerson's new Surgical Center.
Susan Hunt
Put simply, the governor does not support tax increases and is opposed to Proposition 82 because it will raise taxes.
Katie Levinson
She's amazing. This mom has two jobs, comes from an area of an unsafe neighborhood and she's so thrilled to raise a family in this beautiful, safe neighborhood.
Launa Butler
There are many selfish people who are extremely original, then they take those pure ideas and use them to raise themselves up, that is an insincere move.
Daniel Smith
Doctors will purposely keep his pressure in his brain under control by heavily sedating him so as not to raise the pressure and make the swelling worse.
Dr. Maurizio Miglietta
He's been a very strong supporter of McDonald's and Ronald McDonald House and he's helped us raise millions for kids in need. He's been an ambassador for us and that certainly won't change.
Ron Christianson
If there's continued strength in employment costs, I believe the Fed will raise rates 50 basis points to slow economic growth by a couple of notches.
Richard Babson
The mission is to really raise awareness so that we can get involved in trying to prevent it from happening.
Linda Krug
To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time, any place, more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.
Marilyn French
Given the climate right now, naturally, I think all of us are taking a close look at lobbyists and the kind of relationships they have with legislators. There's nothing illegal about this . . . (but) it does raise questions about how cozy these relationships get.
Cynthia Canary
The Fed managed to keep most of the same buzzwords but gave us the message that this is more hawkish. There is no need to change the pace now but they would raise by a half-point if they had to.
Steve Van Order
Gov. Rell has every right to bring anyone she needs to into the state of Connecticut to help her raise money, but John McCain is not going to be able to do anything about the fact that Connecticut is last in job growth in the country and has 71,000 children who don't have health care coverage.
Chris Cooney
The concern is that the insurers might actually use the climate issue to boost their current strategy, which is to raise rates and slash coverage.
Birny Birnbaum
Nowadays, kids are not like when I was growing up. That is why it's important for parents to get involved with their kids' lives. It takes a village to raise a child.
Clarence Moore
The BOJ may want to move early to raise rates, but they should expect a big battle. It likely won't happen until October or later.
Hiromichi Shirakawa
President Bush is certainly expected to raise the issue of a possible visit by His Holiness to China and express his support for the ongoing dialogue between the envoys of His Holiness and Beijing.
Kate Saunders
We estimate cash-out refinancing for 2001 is going to raise cash from home equity of about $80 billion. About 60 percent [about $50 billion] of that will be spent.
Orawin Velz
We feel we can raise the money in six months once we know we have a partnership.
David Horn
Our reservations remain and we will continue to raise them with the appropriate authorities.
Sandro Bondi
Neither ecology, nor other factors make it necessary to raise the submarine.
Yevgeny Adamov
Now the Fed cannot raise interest rates.
Muriel Siebert
It will be expensive. It could be $100,000, by the time it's all said and done. Maybe more, maybe less. It'll depend on how much we raise.
Jim Keeling
I don't pay a health and safety fee to restaurants. If they want to raise the price of the meal, that's fine. But customers shouldn't order something and not know what is going into the bill.
David R. Bergmann
They don't normally raise money without reason.
Rickey Ward
For every dollar we raise, Scholastic matches it with one dollar. Then Scholastic takes their dollar and splits it between three charities.
Kerry Nelson
I was surprised, because I was assuming that either the no-limit would raise conversion so high that it would win, or that just keeping the threshold high, which would keep the average order value high, would win. I didn't expect the middle.
Brian Platter
We are not reducing our earnings estimates or our price target, but we do not have the confidence in current copper demand to raise our copper price estimate of $2 per pound to the current copper price of $2.31 or our price target above $160.
John Tumazos
It is very important that as we go along, we meet the commitments made to each other. And that we not move the goalposts or, as we say in American English, raise the bar.
Nicholas Burns
I asked if we could forgo the raise, but it's in the union contract [which would mean they] would have to go into bargaining...if the union people aren't going to give it up, I don't want to ask my library people to give it up.
Rosann Sanders
And that will raise your cholesterol.
Joel Isaacson
Some individuals, some communities, are looking seriously at what this means for the future. But we need to raise the level of awareness. This is going to affect us all.
Loren Coleman
We'd love to raise that much again this year.
Tisha Goodwin
This obviously suggests that if they were going to tighten monetary policy and raise rates, it would be in a very gradual fashion.
Carol Stone
Raise a red flag.
Robert Hanson
All of the money we raise is used locally to help people we know.
Michelle Hewitt
I think I went through everything anyone who had a long career needed. I needed quiet. I needed to raise my children.
Ron Darling
(Morgan is) going to raise the level of play of those around her. She knows when she's going to have to take over the level of game at times.
Dale Smith
A year old and older, then we can test the dog and know exactly what we're getting - the temperament of the dog, athletic ability, size, everything. When you try to raise a puppy, we don't really know what we have until he's about a year old.
Lloyd Williams
The governor is a prodigious fund-raiser, and he will continue to raise the funds he needs to support the candidates and advance the ideas that are important to the future of the Republican Party.
David Catalfamo
We've always cooked at the fire department to raise funds. We've probably cooked up a ton of barbecue. We decided let's do it competitively, and here we are.
Larry Brown
I really thought it was a beautiful piece of property. I thought, what a wonderful place to raise horses. But the longer I stayed here and the feeling I got from this place, I thought, this is not a place to raise horses. There's a karma here that's just so bad.
Muse Watson
Isn't the absence of DNA evidence, given the way the victim has described the crime, in and of itself almost enough to raise a reasonable doubt?
Robert Archer
How much money can you raise for a bake sale? Can you raise enough money to cover all of these costs for expenses we've had to expend. ... They don't comply with the law, and we have to have a bake sale. Is that a rule now?
Jon Preiksat
This raise is just keeping up the purchasing power of those people who deserve it.
Paul Hubbert
Over the longer term, Chris Bell is building a new foundation of statewide growth that will raise sufficient money to win in November.
Jason Stanford
U.S. consumer confidence will push up the dollar by backing speculation the Fed will raise rates further. The dollar's uptrend will likely continue today.
Michiyoshi Kato
We want to raise money to buy a thermal imaging camera.
Jim Daugherty
Mayor Bloomberg gave the teachers the largest raise in history and is optimistic that we can agree to another one.
Jordan Barowitz
When we did the Beatles band and Seven Nations, [that] pays for doing classical music in Columbia, Sometimes you have to do the pop series to raise more money for the classical.
Harvey Galloway
I suppose it is one time when you can really use your name to raise money. And if I am going to use it for anything, what more of a better opportunity (than) to use it here.
Prince Harry
It is going to put a lot of pressure on the US to get China to move further on yuan flexibility and to the extent that they don't, that's going to raise protectionist rhetoric in Congress.
Rebecca Patterson
It is an entry-level wage. It's not a wage you're expected to raise a family on. It is not one that you should be expected to remain on for a long time.
Paul Bukowski
We hope to raise funds to expand the parking lot. We just don't have the cash on hand.
Michael De Marsche
We believe that part of the reason of making the fundraising so high is because this event is going to change lives and people won't think we will be able to raise this much money. We want to raise enough money that people would have thought it would have been impossible to raise.
Chris Markl
It seems like every time we come up with something good to raise money, everybody all over the county starts doing something similar.
Jane Wilson
We're trying to raise some questions in an entertaining but thought provoking way without preaching.
John Clancy
Our company goal is to raise more than $5,000 through Helpful Hardware Card sales on Labor Day Weekend.
John Rutter
I am committed to take our mobile activities public in order to raise the necessary funds to create a mobile currency for future acquisitions, first in Europe and then globally.
Ron Sommer
When its size, both actual and financial, is considered, it would be easy to believe Beagle 2 could not be aiming to accomplish much other than just raise a flag on Mars.
Colin Pillinger
When I give a lecture, I accept that people look at their watches, but what I do not tolerate is when they look at it and raise it to their ear to find out if it stopped.
Marcel Achard
He sells it as a big program but it is only a 1.6 percent raise for teachers.
David Kochman
Don't let the wish stay in our hearts! Come on, come on! I have a fear of not seeing You! Everybody wants to see the Lord and Master of the Age! Mourn, raise your hands.
Mahdi Salashur
We decided that since the event would be free, we should combine the show with an effort to raise money for a good cause.
Leah Clarke
They are facing the same headwinds in terms of input costs and trying to raise selling prices.
Matthew Kaufler
We'd love to raise every penny (of that) so we're debt free, ... But I haven't been part of a Y that's done that yet.
Jim Everett
Domestic demand is incredibly resilient now. With consumers set to increase spending now that deflation concerns are fading, the Bank of Japan may raise rates by 25 basis points as soon as October.
Azusa Kato
Voting yourself a nice pay raise is not the reason you were sent to Harrisburg.
Marilyn Messina
We have another very enthusiastic crowd this year and we hope to raise well in excess of last year's total, but we should do as there are more climbers!
Andy Payne
The U.S. labor market continues to tighten and the implication is the Fed will need to raise rates. Anything above 250,000 jobs today and the dollar will continue to push higher.
Gavin Friend
We hope to raise awareness and consciousness regarding some of the broader issues that may not receive the kind of public discussion and debate that we believe is necessary.
Isabel Marcus
We're never going to be able to raise as much as Jim Talent. But we're committed to maintaining a competitive fundraising operation.
Adrianne Marsh
With the top-notch experience of foreign investors, Chinese insurers can expect to boost their profit margins. Foreign investors also help to raise investor confidence in the initial public offering (IPO).
Wang Guojun
I know we won't raise as much money as some of those other concerts, ... That's not the idea. It's just to get together as many people who have ties in Cincinnati and want to come and help.
Peter Frampton
Statistics show that the use is there. . . . I think (L.D. 1952) is a great idea; anytime you can raise awareness and educate people about the negative effects of those drugs, it's a huge plus.
Chris Hollingsworth
The first dog you raise is always a Labrador because they're easier.
Julianne Phillips
There's many, many people in need. We need to get the word out, now. There's a lot of ways to raise money and there's a lot of people that need help.
Ivan Olinsky
We want to support and raise funds for the 452nd.
Gloria Hartze
But don't go in and say I can do the job without raising taxes and then raise them once you are in.
Allen Sale
Even before the movie was such a big hit, we asked (Focus Features) for memorabilia. Next thing we knew we had the icon. We had no idea it would raise $100,000. Not in our wildest dreams.
Maria Schmidt
The bonus system seems to be a lot more prevalent in the industry these days, rather than giving a raise.
George Leaming
Not only will we get more money for children, to help them lead better lives, but this will continue to raise awareness of us and what we do.
Christine Squires
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