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Uphill, downhill, I like that. -- Peter Sagan
The road to success runs uphill. -- Willie Davis
I can't get hired in a studio movie. Everything is so uphill. -- Kyra Sedgwick
The road to freedom must be uphill, even if it is arduous and frustrating. -- Andrew Goodman
I do uphill skiing; I don't do downhill skiing. I think that's for nerd amateurs. -- Judah Friedlander
All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill. -- Babe Ruth
The trick to great romance is in overcoming adversity. In realizing that love is worth some uphill climbs. -- Sarah MacLean
It's always an uphill battle. You know, I'm a Republican in Maryland. This is the bluest of the blue. -- Bob Ehrlich
The big hurdle is going out and raising the revenue. There's no doubt about that; it's an uphill battle. -- Terry Porter
There's no limit to what you can accomplish, but there's always someone one step ahead of you, so it's a constant uphill battle. -- Catherine Mary Stewart
Living with a stammer is difficult. It's a daily uphill struggle with emotional baggage weighing you down. You can't be the person you want to be. -- Gareth Gates
The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh. -- Jonathan Edwards
Tiger Woods did not always win majors with ease; after his narrow victory in the 1999 PGA, he slumped and sighed as if he'd been carrying rocks uphill all afternoon. -- John Updike
Passion is different than desire. People that are successful recognize passion. You have to be willing to work at it. I love the image of pushing a boulder uphill - it will flourish you. -- John Schneider
With my history, unfortunately, with my family suffering through gun violence, it's something that I feel passionately about, that even though the odds are certainly always uphill, that doesn't mean that I will stop fighting to try to change that. -- Carolyn McCarthy
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Contours on the second half of a long putt have more impact on how the ball rolls because it's going slower. Adjust your speed if that last part is playing uphill or downhill. Don't get fooled by an early slope or break. -- Ernie Els
Our work for human dignity is often lonely, and almost always an uphill climb. At times, our efforts are misunderstood, and we are mistaken for the enemy. There has been a clear erosion of respect for U.N. blue and our impartiality. -- Ban Ki-moon
A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay for his water. I'm somewhere in between: I believe water should be free, but that water flows downhill. -- Theodore White
The independent-minded movies - it's always an uphill battle to get them made and seen. You do what you can, and go out there after and try to tell people about it, but at the end of the day, that's all you can do. -- Ray Liotta
Tackling malaria in a country like the Central African Republic is a huge uphill battle, and my experiences there have been a healthy dose of reality, fueling my own sense of urgency to do my part in reducing the preventable suffering of the incredible women I met. -- Mandy Moore
Working on 'Newsroom' has given me an appreciation of the struggle that you go through on the 24-hour news cycle. The people who are legitimately attempting to deliver honest news are really facing a tough, uphill climb that's a lot harder than any other time in history. -- Thomas Sadoski
I have felt for the last 10 years I have had this battle; I've been fighting so hard to have an education. It's been this uphill struggle. I was Warner Bros' pain in the butt. I was their scheduling conflict. I was the one who made life difficult. -- Emma Watson
The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved. -- Samuel Smiles
What can you do if a part of it is uphill? You can't work out another route. You've just got to run the one they give you. But they tell me London is a nice course. Even the cobbles, I hope, are not very much of a problem for me. -- Haile Gebrselassie
When you start a novel, it is always like pushing a boulder uphill. Then, after a while, to mangle the metaphor, the boulder fills with helium and becomes a balloon that carries you the rest of the way to the top. You just have to hold your nerve and trust to narrative. -- Jim Crace
My job is to build that belief in every coach and every owner, that they can put the franchise in my hands and I can take it uphill from there. Obviously, everyone wants to be No. 1, but I'm not going to campaign. I'm just going to go out and show what I've got. -- Robert Griffin III
Water flows uphill towards money. -- Marc Reisner
I can stick uphill ice, on my saucer -- Shane McConkey
You can't climb uphill by thinking downhill thoughts. -- Zig Ziglar
I walk firmer and more secure uphill than down. -- Michel de Montaigne
It's a real uphill challenge to battle the white-guyness. -- Billy Gibbons
Bowling would be more interesting if it were slightly uphill. -- Demetri Martin
Nothin wounded goes uphill, he said. It just dont happen. -- Cormac McCarthy
My hair is a battle. It's an uphill, fine, baby-haired battle. -- Emma Stone
The uphill climb is slow,but the downhill road is fast. -- John Wooden
If you are on the right path, it will always be uphill. -- Henry B. Eyring
Trails need to be reconstructed. Please avoid building trails that go uphill. -- Dave Barry
Making prohibition work is like making water run uphill; it's against nature. -- Milton Friedman
It's the equivalent of putting on the brakes suddenly while driving uphill. -- John Gunther
Innovations seem inevitable in retrospect, but at the time it's an uphill battle. -- Jessica Livingston
When you lose a goal so early, you've always got an uphill mountain. -- Steve Claridge
We never think lightly of those who walk with us on our uphill days. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
If you cast a film incorrectly, then you're going to be fighting an uphill battle. -- Clint Eastwood
Trying to make someone love you is like trying to climb uphill during an avalanche." -- Valerie J. Lewis Coleman
The rivers of Grace cannot flow uphill, up the steep cliff of the proud man's heart. -- Bernard of Clairvaux
There are no planes in the spiritual life; we are either going uphill or coming down. -- Fulton J. Sheen
Most ideas never happen. It's an uphill battle against the status quo and our own tendencies. -- Scott Belsky
You can always tell when you are on the road to success; it's uphill all the way. -- Paul Harvey
If we want to end this lifetime higher than we began, we can expect an uphill road. -- Richard Bach
God's Road is all uphill, but do not tire; Rejoice that we may still keep climbing higher. -- Arthur Guiterman
I've often felt that life is a hard deal and it's unrelentingly tragic and an uphill fight. -- Woody Allen
It's always an uphill battle to defeat a Supreme Court nominee, but this is a fight worth having. -- Kim Gandy
When the path ahead of you is uphill, surrounded by rough spots, hazards and obstacles: use a pitching wedge. -- J. Bracken Lee
Doesn't it seem sometimes that the whole world's uphill but at least we know the way back will be easy... -- Sarah Dessen
Players act like the floor is slanted; they run downhill on fast breaks and jog uphill when getting back on defense -- Tates Locke
Think chest/hips/ push, or CHP, when it's time for uphill running. Chest up, hips forward, push strongly off each foot. -- Jeff Galloway
It's a long, uphill fight to get back to original orthodoxy. We have two 'originalists' on the Supreme Court. That's something. -- Antonin Scalia
If you pray hard enough, water will run uphill. How hard? Why, hard enough to make water run uphill, of course! -- Robert A. Heinlein
A man's sorrow runs uphill; true it is difficult for him to bear, but it is also difficult for him to keep. -- Djuna Barnes
The reason so few people are successful is no one has yet found a way for someone to sit down and slide uphill. -- W. Clement Stone
My father walked to school 4 o'clock every morning with no shoes on, uphill, both ways, in 5 feet of snow and he was thankful. -- Bill Cosby
We have reached in this country an amazing degree of general prosperity, with American business on the whole no longer facing an uphill climb. -- Charles M. Schwab
What a joy it is that the road ahead is an uphill climb. For where it leads is all the way to the top. -- Ralph Marston
The way to paradise is an uphill climb whereas hell is downhill. Hence, there is a struggle to get to paradise and not to hell. -- Al-Ghazali
It isn't for the moment you are struck that you need courage, but for that long uphill climb back to sanity and faith and security. -- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
If you're fighting against a minimum wage increase, you're fighting an uphill battle, because most Americans, even most Republicans, are okay with raising the minimum wage. -- Frank Luntz
The soul that journey's to God, but doesn't shake off it's cares and quiet it's appetities, is like someone who drags a cart of dirt uphill. -- John of the Cross
Sometimes you won't feel pleasant during a meditation session; it seems like an uphill run. But when you get to the top, the view is rather breathtaking. -- Frederick Lenz
I was disappointed, but I kind of knew it was going to be an uphill struggle because of how strong the first season [of "True Detective"] was. -- Colin Farrell
It's always a struggle. It's an uphill battle the whole time. But you know what? The rewards are so graet, I wouldn't trade it for the world. -- Jennifer Lopez
I'm grateful that I had that uphill battle for 10 years of going onstage and having nobody know who I was, because you have to win them over. -- Patton Oswalt
If hope is a feeling that can defeat fear,then at that time I walked uphill through a bed of snow, my tracks were of joyful determination. -- Angelica Hopes
To ask for power is forcing uphill a stone which after all rolls back again from the summit and seeks in headlong haste the levels of the plain. -- Lucretius
The great thing about being an astronaut is you kind of get to do a little bit of everything. I mean, we're going to ride a rocket uphill. -- David M. Brown
Given the brief - and generally misleading - exposure most people have to mathematics at school, raising the public awareness of mathematics will always be an uphill battle. -- Keith Devlin
As soon as I got up on that stage, and I remembered how welcoming and warming the judges, their presence is, and it was just all uphill from there. -- James Durbin
But you also are facing an uphill battle if you are trying to be the first teacher who asks students to think in class and they are already 16 years old. -- Johnny Burnette
But until we get rid of that shame, then people are going to stay underground, they are not going to get tested, and we're facing an uphill battle [with AIDS]. -- Elton John
Lost' did alright, you know. Not that I didn't get into it - I just never watched enough of them; but the uphill battle is that you've got to stay tuned. -- Jason Wiles
Luck is buying a lottery ticket along with your Yoo-hoo and striking it rich. Nothing about my life is lucky- it is all about hard work, it is all uphill struggle. -- Emily Giffin
If anyone ever said biopic I would say, "It's not a biopic." We're fighting uphill against the weight of history. I was like, why don't we just call it historical fiction? -- Don Cheadle
... War is for everyone, for children too. I wasn't going to tell you and I mustn't. The best way is to come uphill with me And have our fire and laugh and be afraid. -- Robert Frost
This is for writers yet to be published who think the uphill climb will never end. Keep believing. This is also for published writers grown jaded by the process. Remember how lucky you are. -- Terry Brooks
I believe that humanity has an uphill battle to wage in its fight to attain real health, and I honestly believe - from hard-earned experience - that homeopathy can offer some solution to this problem. -- George Vithoulkas

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