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In Hollywood you just fail upwards. -- Kevin Smith
I've made upwards of a million bucks in the cops-and-robbers business. -- Broderick Crawford
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another. -- Plato
Knowledge has always flowed upwards to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves. -- Julian Assange
But even now, when people see me in the street, they point upwards to the sky. -- Barry Gibb
Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards. -- Fred Hoyle
In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table. -- H. G. Wells
It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened. -- Philip Sidney
Even in decline, a virtuous man increases the beauty of his behavior. A burning stick, though turned to the ground, has its flame drawn upwards. -- Sakya Pandita
An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards. -- John Locke
Yeah, I am a little bit, and I think it is a natural progression of the sport, of going upwards in technical ability and everything like that. -- Brian Boitano
I've never tried to enhance my reputation. Never moved upwards from one thing to another. That sort of thing is of no interest to me at all. -- Nicolas Roeg
It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other. -- Plato
It's morally wrong, and economically self-defeating, that so much wealth flows upwards towards the richest of Americans, while millions work full time but still can't provide for their families. -- Charles B. Rangel
Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below. -- George Orwell
The natural movement of one's soul is upwards. But just as any object is dragged down when a heavy weight is tied to it, the burden of the body drags down the soul. -- Vinoba Bhave
I used to look at these pictures of trumpeters pointing their instrument to the ceiling. Stunning pictures, but if you play the trumpet and point it upwards, all the spit comes back into your mouth! -- Humphrey Lyttelton
What does the truth matter? Haven't we mothers all given our sons a taste for lies, lies which from the cradle upwards lull them, reassure them, send them to sleep: lies as soft and warm as a breast! -- Georges Bernanos
PLease, do not visualize that we exist above you such as in heaven. The concepts above and below are products of your mind. The soul does not swing upwards. It exists in the center and orients itself in every direction. -- Hans Bender
In the Fall of 1774 & Winter of 1775, I was one of upwards of thirty, chiefly mechanics, who formed ourselves into a committee for the purpose of watching the movements of the British soldiers, and gaining every intelligence of the movements of the Tories. -- Paul Revere
I've never been under the illusion that everybody on death row is innocent - far from it. My own guess is upwards of 90 percent are guilty. But a ten percent error rate if that's what it is, or even five percent, is really way too high. -- Scott Turow
In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards. -- Bertrand Russell
What's a space elevator? Simply described, it's a thin ribbon, about 3 feet wide and 60 thousand miles long, stretching upwards from the surface of the Earth. The lower end is bolted to a heavy anchor (think of an oil drilling platform), and the top is capped with a counterweight. -- Seth Shostak
Then we did what we called basically I suppose a club tour in England, which was the time I think that our second album came out, we club toured around the whole country where the venues were hold to five hundreds upwards to that sort of thing you know. -- John Deacon
The debate on healthcare was not done like most of our conferences are done - meaning it was not all on television. There was this procedural feeling that the bill wasn't done thoroughly and didn't reflect peoples' wishes. It's not coincidence that upwards of 60 percent of folks in my district are against it. -- Timothy Griffin
In most sports, your brain and your body will cooperate... But in rock climbing, it is the other way around. Your brain doesn't see the point in climbing upwards. Your brain will tell you to keep as low as possible, to cling to the wall and not get any higher. You have to have your brain persuading your body to do the right movements. -- Jo Nesbo
Envy, like flames, soars upwards. -- Livy
In Hollywood you kind of fail upwards -- Kevin Smith
Love and knowledge led upwards to the heavens. -- Bertrand Russell
The journey towards success is not always easy or upwards. -- Eugenie Bouchard
A vow must lead one upwards, never downwards towards perdition. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Every bird that upwards swings Bears the Cross upon its wings. -- Martial
Onwards and upwards, and never give your failures a second thought. -- George Lois
Man alone resists the direction of gravitation: he constantly wants to fall--upwards. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The ladies--Heaven bless them!--are, as a general rule, coquettes from babyhood upwards. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
There is a reason we used to build Cathedrals that drew the eye upwards. -- Michael Gungor
Iâ??ve made upwards of a million bucks in the cops and robbers business. -- Broderick Crawford
The fountains of sacred rivers flow upwards (i.e., everything is turned topsy turvy.) -- Euripides
I go back to what Mrs. Roosevelt taught me: 'Always compromise, but compromise upwards.' -- Esther Peterson
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another -- Plato
The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar. -- Bertolt Brecht
One way to be sure you are not making the wrong decision, is to lookvertically upwards -- Oche Otorkpa
There is an ecstatic mechanism in birds that makes them fly upwards in spite of worms. -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
On 'Game of Thrones,' all of my closest friends are 30 upwards, which is quite strange. -- Sophie Turner
Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards. -- Vladimir Nabokov
Mankinds struggle upwards, in which millions are trampled to death, that thousands may mount on their bodies. -- Clara Lucas Balfour
Vision looks inwards and becomes duty. Vision looks outwards and becomes aspiration. Vision looks upwards and becomes faith. -- Stephen Samuel Wise
Any time you have, you know, upwards of 90 percent of a demographic voting against somebody, that's a statement. -- Ta-Nehisi Coates
Two people cannot be alone together for upwards of half an hour without one emerging as the superior. -- Lord Chesterfield
We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps. -- Hermann Hesse
Well has it been said that man is the only animal that naturally looks upwards; every other animal naturally looks down. -- Swami Vivekananda
Whatever you do, make sure you go right to the top, because you sure as hell can't piss upwards on people. -- Grant Morrison
The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies. -- Mark Twain
Each time we enter imaginatively into the life of another, it's a small step upwards in the elevation of the human race. -- Susan Vreeland
Our way is not soft grass; it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards, forward, toward the sun. -- Ruth Westheimer
Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle. -- George Bancroft
We have only one consciousness stream. When we associate with Truth, we ascend upwards, and when we associate with untruth we fall down. -- Tulsi
I always feel bad for people getting married and spending upwards of a hundred thousand dollars. It just seems so absurd to me. -- Jack Black
I compare arithmetic with a tree that unfolds upwards in a multitude of techniques and theorems while the root drives into the depths. -- Gottlob Frege
The constant man loses not his virtue in misfortune. A torch may point towards the ground, but its flame will still point upwards. -- Bhartrhari
At Sequoia, upwards of a hundred entrepreneurs a week present, and if we're lucky, maybe a dozen of them are focusing on the enterprise. -- Jim Goetz
The graphics elevator lurched upwards again. This time the new dimension is multimedia, which means adding sound and fury to the smoke and mirrors. -- Edward Tenner
Our tax plan by the way shows the vast, vast majority of Americans, upwards of 96 percent can fill out their taxes on a postcard. -- Paul Ryan
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. -- John Sullivan Dwight
Even in decline, a virtuous man increases the beauty of his behavior. A burning stick, though turned to the ground, has its flame drawn upwards. -- Sakya Pandita
I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best. -- Herman Melville
Maybe there are only three kinds of stories: those we live, those we tell, and those that help our souls fly upwards to a greater life. -- Ben Okri
I think maybe I might tackle something that doesn't reach down to a very, very young audience, like more of a kind of teenager and upwards. -- Joe Wright
Refinement is the lifting of one's self upwards from the merely sensual; the effort of the soul to etherealize the common wants and uses of life. -- Henry Ward Beecher
Do you not weep? Other sins only speak; murder shrieks out. The element of water moistens the earth, But blood flies upwards and bedews the heavens. -- John Webster
The Strange Loop phenomenon occurs whenever, by moving upwards (or downwards) through levels of some hierarchial system, we unexpectedly find ourselves right back where we started. -- Douglas Hofstadter
Terror is trump. Common, brutal suppression methods are considered as sanctified laws. "Old Fighters" are holy ones. From the district leader upwards there are only Gods! -- Friedrich Kellner
Looking behind, I am filled with gratitude. Looking forward, I am filled with vision. Looking upwards, I am filled with strength. Looking within, I discover peace. -- Robert Muller
It would be a miracle, for example, if I dropped a stone and it rose upwards. But is it no miracle that it falls to the ground? -- Alfred Polgar
Once more a red fire blows steeply upwards...the factory will do no more work for Herr Churchill...tomorrow morning Coventry will lie in smoke and ruins. -- Joseph Goebbels
We fear our passage will be attended with difficulties by reason of the great number of passingers which are one hundred and eighty and upwards in number. -- Nathaniel Smith
The plant is blind but it knows enough to keep pushing upwards towards the light, and it will continue to do this in the face of endless discouragements. -- George Orwell
For man is a plant, not fixed in the earth, nor immovable, but heavenly, whose head, rising as it were from a root upwards, is turned towards heaven. -- Plutarch
Trust is the one thing that affects everything else you're doing. It's a performance multiplier which takes your trajectory upwards, for every activity you engage in, from strategy to execution. -- Stephen Covey
I'm always looking upwards and looking forwards and so when someone says, "Hey, would you consider a TV show?" I say, "Hell yeah, I'll consider that. I'll check that out." -- Henry Rollins
The wicked will gnaw their tongues for anguish and pain; they will curse God and look upwards. There the dogs of hell, pride, malice, revenge, rage, horror, despair, continually devout them. -- John Wesley
In history, the evidence is overwhelming: Stock market bottoms happen, and then stocks jolt upwards while the economy keeps getting worse - sometimes by a lot and for a long time. -- Kenneth Fisher
In a world that we know can feed itself, upwards of 40,000 children die very day from conditions of malnutrition. Surely we must question why we are allowing this carnage to continue -- Betty Williams
Writing in a lot of ways feels more like excavation than construction. It feels like you're uncovering this thing bit by bit, discovering what it is, instead of constructing it upwards. -- Rian Johnson
Man is born unto the trouble as the sparks fly upwards.' In other words suffering is germane to our existence; indeed, how without it, should we be able to 'fly upwards -- Andrei Tarkovsky
Though weary, it is not tired: though pressed it is not straightened; though alarmed, it is not confounded; but as a living flame it forces itself upwards and securely passes through all. -- Thomas a Kempis
We seldom break a leg as long as we are climbing wearily upwards in our lives, instead we do it when we start going easy on ourselves and choosing the comfortable paths. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Sometime in the eighties, Americans had a new set of 'traditional values' installed. ... the poor and the middle class were shaken down, and their loose change funneled blithely upwards to the already overfed. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
Her eyes, mostly cast downward, occasionally flicker upwards to meet his before falling again. She is apologetic for everything, as always, constantly saying sorry to the world, as though as her very presence offends. -- Cecelia Ahern
Altars should face the east, and should always be placed on a lower level than are the statues in the temples, so that those who are praying and sacrificing may look upwards towards the divinity. -- Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

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