Onwards And Upwards Movie Quotes

#1. Love feels like a great misfortune, a monstrous parasite, a permanent state of emergency that ruins all small pleasures.

Slavoj Zizek

#2. We live by information, not by sight.

Baltasar Gracian

#3. At the beginning of every semester, I ask my graduate students whether there is something I should read that will help me understand their work.

Alice McDermott

#4. See it? Oh, I have no interest in seeing it. Seeing it might get in the way of my opinion.

Richard Greenberg

#5. Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.

Sam Harris

#6. It is easier to know the truth than to seek the truth.

Charles Kimball

#7. That was the time calculated by the barber who based his estimate on the length of his customers' stubble.

Jeff VanderMeer

#8. Destiny might drop you off somewhere but it's your job to get where you're going, to decide your own ending ...

Rebecca Serle

#9. If the tenth of the population that is gay became visible tomorrow, the panic of the majority of people would inspire repressive legislation of a sort that would shock even the pessimists among us.

Jane Rule

#10. When I am generous, I enjoy blessings that far exceed whatever selfish pleasure I can grab for myself.

Lori Hatcher

#11. Marketing is every bit of contact your company has with anyone in the outside world. Every bit of contact. That means a lot of marketing opportunities. It does not mean investing a lot of money.

Jay Conrad Levinson

#12. The abortion controversy is important for what it says about our stance toward procreation and children altogether.

Leon Kass