Quotes About Looking Upward

#1. I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

Charlotte Bronte

#2. The dignity of self is greatly enhanced by looking upward in the search for holiness. Like the giant trees, we should reach up for the light. The most important source of light we can come to know is the gift of the Holy Ghost. It is the source of inner strength and peace.

James E. Faust

#3. Coming from light into the dark, he was looking ahead of him, not down at me. My lunge, as I came to my feet, took him in the chest as I drove the sword upward with the strength of my legs. Even rusted, the sword slid through him, and I found, for the first time, how easy it is to kill a man.

Megan Whalen Turner

#4. I feel like people can feel when something is natural. I think they can tell.

Pusha T

#5. The TV licence people just can't believe we don't have a television. I'm a bolshie git. I shout at them things like, 'I don't need TV, I'm an intellectual.'

Julian Cope

#6. If I toss something upward, it comes back down." "Except when it doesn't." "It's a law." "No," Syl said, looking upward. "It's more like . . . more like an agreement among friends.

Brandon Sanderson

#7. People would say to him, "When you finish a movie, did it come out as good as you thought it was going to?" Or, "Did it come out the way you intended it to come out?"

Brian Henson

#8. To imagine that trauma casts out fantasy is a dangerous mistake.

Ellen Willis

#9. Looking behind, I am lifted with gratitude. Looking forward, I am filled with vision. Looking upward, I am filled with strength. Looking within, I discover peace.

Sukhraj S. Dhillon

#10. But why look back at all? Why turn your eyes to your shadow, when, by looking upward, you see your rainbow in the same direction?

Maria Mitchell

#11. I'm not even tone deaf, that's the arse-mothering, fuck-nosed, bugger-sucking wank of the thing.

Stephen Fry

#12. If any one be in rapture with his own knowledge, looking only on those below him, let him but turn his eye upward towards past ages, and his pride will be abated, when he shall there find so many thousand wits that trample him under foot.

Michel De Montaigne

#13. This is the team that when you look at it, you say, 'This is our time.

Shaquille O'Neal

#14. I had no desire to be an upward-mobile-rising yuppie with a trophy wife, a trophy house, a trophy car. I wasn't looking for any of those things. I already had what I wanted.

Burt Shavitz

#15. The blues is not the creation of a crushed-spirited people. It is the product of a forward-looking, upward-striving people.

Albert Murray

#16. We may be focused on looking forward and upward yet looking inward can be the easiest path to take.

Raphael Zernoff

#17. Equality,' said Steerpike,' is the thing. It is the only true and central premise from which constructive ideas can radiate freely and be operated without prejudice. Absolute equality of status. Equality of wealth. Equality of power.

Mervyn Peake

#18. An entire tree swept past the door, upside down, its roots sprouting upward like horns. "You see that?" "Yeah. It's gonna wake up in the middle of the ocean, say, 'Wait a second. This isn't right.' "'I'm supposed to be over there.' "'Took me years to get that hill looking the way I wanted it.

Dennis Lehane

#19. If you wish to write, write.

Epictetus

#20. Constantly scanning the world for the negative comes with a great cost. It undercuts our creativity, raises our stress levels, and lowers our motivation and ability to accomplish goals.

Shawn Achor

#21. Character is what you are. Reputation is what people think you are.

Ashwin Sanghi

#22. As foreign minister of Norway, I learnt how natural changes provoked by climate change are creating new sources of political instability.

Jonas Gahr Store