Top 100 Up Because Quotes
#1. I think relationships are broken up because of the media.
Jay-Z
#2. Then all this started to pick up because I signed with ForeFront when I was in seventh grade. It got a lot busier and I was traveling a lot and it wasn't making sense. Especially at a private school, you miss two days, and you get so behind.
Stacie Orrico
#3. Music has the power to transcend your physical being and take you up. Because music has a metaphysical quality it really makes your life beautiful.
Wayne Coyne
#4. It's the person that calls you up because they're eating at 'our favorite spot,' and it made them think of you and miss being there with you. That's a friend, to me.
Crystal Woods
#5. I'm only talking to one person here. If that's you, then you need to shut up and listen. If it's not, then you need to shut up because no one's talking to you.
Tana French
#6. If you have a heartbeat ... you can have hope. If you have hope ... you have the tools that can bring you to a better tomorrow. These tools have the power to bring you out of all despair. Now keep your head up ... Because Anything Is Possible.
Timothy Pina
#7. It is a miracle a musical gets up because of all the different departments and how much it costs. It is a miracle.
Susan Stroman
#8. If you want to have your dreamed husband, you better not wake up; because in real life, all men are assholes.
M.F. Moonzajer
#9. I don't remember any sibling rivalry growing up, because by the time I was really conscious, Tom was going away to college. My relationship with him, which is a very close one, really developed in more recent years.
David Hyde Pierce
#10. I passed up a lot of work 'cause a lot of movies that may be out there right now I passed em up because there may have been a lot of cussin' in 'em.
Kel Mitchell
#11. So when my film career took off, I always felt like I was trying to play catch-up because I hadn't studied acting before. I didn't know how to manage money or my career. When I look back, I think I was a little bit shell-shocked.
Lea Thompson
#12. Is it possible that we never feel grown-up because, as our capabilities increased with age, so increased our responsibilities?
R.C. Sproul Jr.
#13. We learn that CONTROL IS UP because we experience fights in which the victor ends up on top, that GOALS ARE DESTINATIONS because we walk toward something we want, and that TIME IS A MOVING OBJECT because things that approach us get closer and closer as time elapses.
Steven Pinker
#14. Wealth, in terms of dollars and so forth, could be counted up, because dollars were finite. It doesn't make any difference how many dollars you have-at a certain point you only have dollars. You start with finite, you end with finite.
Michael Nesmith
#15. I paid for my name a lot when I was growing up because other kids teased me.
Karin Slaughter
#16. I always challenged men, in foot races or whatever as a kid growing up, because it was a way of pushing myself and challenging myself against the best - but you have to know and accept that men are born with testosterone. You can beat them for so long, but eventually they'll catch up.
Katie Uhlaender
#17. I have two pairs of stretchy maternity leggings and jeans, which I will never give up, because once you experience an elastic band for a waist, you will never go back.
Daphne Oz
#18. Our world opens up because we can let go. We can relinquish, and we are not afraid. We do not have to hold on.
Sharon Salzberg
#19. Someone who makes me laugh." The twitching went into overdrive. "Are you making stuff up?" Because, really? Kulti laughing? Ha.
Mariana Zapata
#20. Never give up because you never know what the tide will bring in the next day.
Tom Hanks
#21. Don't ever, ever, ever give up, because you're here for a reason, even if it's just to laugh at cats on the internet.
Jenna Marbles
#22. I lie on my back
And you open me up, because
Positions change but not the axiom:
One cannot be top
If one cannot be bottom.
Ronald Baytan
#23. The poet is like the wise fool or like a version of the stand-up, because we're standing, we're doing stand-up. That's exactly what we're doing.
Eileen Myles
#24. Don't give up because of the dark days. Succeed in spite of them. The dark days make the bright days seem even brighter. So bright you can hardly stand it.
Sarah Addison Allen
#25. People in Ethiopia, the Sudan, etc., don't know Audrey Hepburn, but they recognize the name UNICEF. When they see UNICEF, their faces light up, because they know that something is happening. In the Sudan, for example, they call a water pump 'UNICEF.'
Audrey Hepburn
#26. I feel I've always got to keep my stand-up because I never want to lose it.
Carol Leifer
#27. I've waited my entire life to be busy. Whenever I hear actors complain about being busy, I think, 'shut up.' Because you do, you wait to be successful or to be able to work.
Steve Carell
#28. I have so many plans! Sometimes it's hard to keep up because at this point it's just been me and the little bit of help my label gives me.
Meredith Brooks
#30. I am not comfortable telling people I am trying stand-up because to me that implies confidence. I'm - well, I'm not.
Jessie Cave
#31. I had a dream about you. We were in a canoe, and we were paddling across the desert. You said you were thirsty, and I pointed to the sand that surrounded us and said, "No, I will not urinate in your mouth." At that point I woke up, because I realized I really had to pee - and get a drink of water.
Dora J. Arod
#32. Prices have stayed up because people in control of supply decided they could keep them up.
John Wilson
#33. The question companies have to ask, or governments have to ask is, where do we allow crazy ideas to bubble up? Because if there is a failure, what happens? Someone gets blame. There's a lawsuit, there's a congressional investigation. And so, those things shut down the creative engine.
Peter Diamandis
#34. People don't show up here (at the courtroom) because they believe evolution is bad science. They show up because they believe that if they accept evolution, then they are abandoning their religious beliefs. They see it as an either/or proposition: Either evolution happened, or God loves you.
Eugenie Scott
#35. I'm excited about the state of women's spiritual life and interior life and who women are. I wish the political establishment would catch up, because we still don't have equal rights in America.
Patricia Arquette
#36. One of the key differences between galaxies with super massive black holes is whether or not the black holes are lit up, because they are basically bingeing on a lot of material in its surroundings.
Andrea M. Ghez
#37. Sisters are supposed to fight and make up, because they are sisters
and sisters always find their way back to each other. But the thing that scares me is that maybe we won't.
Jenny Han
#38. We think the purpose of a child is to grow up because it does grow up. But its purpose is to play, to enjoy itself, to be a child. If we merely look to the end of the process, the purpose of life is death
Alexander Herzen
#39. Teachers are expendable, overworked, underpaid, and many times disrespected by students, parents and higher-ups. Nonetheless, these teachers still show up because there are some who are teachers indeed.
Monica Johnson
#40. It was a tiny sound but it woke me up because it was a human sound.
Miranda July
#41. That still has to be there. And so, it's kind of an interesting question you brought up. Because, on the one hand, yeah, it'd be lovely. I certainly don't see that happening. In fact, I see the opposite happening.
Danny Elfman
#42. Change is vital to any actor. If you keep playing lead after lead, you're really gonna dry up. Because all those vehicles wean you away from the truths of human behaviour.
Gary Oldman
#43. When I first thought about leaving the traditional route of a 9-to-5 career to pursue full-time YouTube, it was terrifying - not many people were doing it. The thought was I have to have money saved up, because this very likely might fail. From the start, I had to give it my all for it to work.
Tyler Oakley
#44. Life is a lot like surfing ... When you get caught in the impact zone, you've got to just get back up. Because you never know what may be over the next wave.
Bethany Hamilton
#45. Most of the town couldn't stand Momma, yet would show up because it was the proper thing to do then proceed to judge us on the pageantry of her burial.
Denise Grover Swank
#46. Adam said, I bet you couldn't sleep if you stayed in bed. You know what I bet? I bet you get up because you want to, and then you take credit for it - like taking credit for six fingers.
John Steinbeck
#47. Because sometimes the only way to keep from losing everything is to give everything up. Because sometimes strength must for the sake of winning give in to
Ken Kesey
#48. REENTERING SPACECRAFT HEAT UP because they're compressing the air in front of them (not, as is commonly believed, because of air friction).
Randall Munroe
#49. Mookie came out. They're hot to go, Jamie. I'll roll some sound, if you want. I sure can't fuck it up, because these guys make the Dead Milkmen sound like the Beatles.
Stephen King
#50. They will find the cake and they will gobble it up, because, having no mother, they don't know how dangerous 'tis to eat rich damp cake.
J.M. Barrie
#51. The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.
Ralph Nader
#52. If the animal caught in the trap or by a predator will fight to the last atom of its strength to seek for redemption and to avoid death, why must you give up because of because? Awake and move!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#53. We live in a society running from pain through alcohol, through too much exercise, through sugar, through drugs - as opposed to realizing that these things come up because they are lessons. It's a way to wake you up.
Mariel Hemingway
#54. The crowds at West Ham haven't been rewarded by results, but they keep turning up because of the good football they see. Other clubs will suffer from the old bugbear that results count more than anything. This has been the ruination of English soccer.
Ron Greenwood
#55. Jenna's crying both gutted Easy and built him up - because she didn't fear him. Instead, she'd turned to him for comfort.
Laura Kaye
#56. People don't work in a dotcom because they have to. There are many professions that don't require that sort of time. But people sign up because they want to make world-changing differences, to build something that affects millions of people.
Kevin Systrom
#57. The first two months were painful and they really tested my manhood because there were times I didn't want to get up because I was in pain. That willpower has to kick in.
Adrian Peterson
#58. I get up, because I'm supposed to, but if it were up to me, I'd stay in my seat for the rest of time.
Veronica Roth
#59. If you give up because you announce the phenomenon cannot be explained, you are missing out.
Patricia Churchland
#60. I'd made it this far and refused to give up because all my life I had always finished the race.
Louis Zamperini
#61. Adults are always asking kids what they want to be when they grow up because they are looking for ideas. - PAULA POUNDSTONE
Timothy Ferriss
#62. Let not our trials of this day be our final sentence. For our difficulties of today is definitely shared by another in our world. Therefore, be encouraged and don't give up because tomorrow a new dawn will surely shine, and once we have life we have the most precious gift-Genevieve Sarpong.
Genevieve Sarpong
#63. Sometimes we make love when the sun is up, because I love a good, slow fuck first thing in the morning.
Christina Lauren
#64. I found myself in network always trying to play catch up because once things get going there's no time to fix this and that. And also the writing, it was more inclined to be by committee in network which drowns out the purity and the voice of the show.
Dennis Quaid
#65. I know people are saying they like you. I'm not being insulted or pushed around or anything. People are coming up because they like me. Nevertheless, I can't be everybody's ... none of us can. I hate saying no to people.
Morgan Freeman
#66. Food is a coping mechanism; people are afraid of giving it up because then they'll feel confused and lost.
Phil McGraw
#67. I have seen too many young writers give up because they couldn't handle the repeated failures their profession threw at them. They had talent, but they lacked determination and resilience. Marina had all three, and that's why I am certain she would have succeeded.
Marina Keegan
#68. My dad is a carpenter, a joiner, and I used to watch him make things. So I always imagined that I'd do something where I made things, too. I was really more interested in architecture growing up because I would work with my dad on houses.
Christopher Bailey
#69. The ad revenues still go up because nothing dependably delivers the eyeballs that successful series do.
Dick Wolf
#70. I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat more. It feels more 'done' when your hair is up.
Zara Phillips
#71. I don't begrudge a coach for trying to get all that he or she can. I don't resent a school feeling it needs to pay to keep top talent. I'm just afraid to think where all of this will end up because the overall impact seems to be stretching far beyond the scoreboard.
LZ Granderson
#72. People try to make sense of things, and if they don't know the answers, they make them up,because for some, a wrong answer is better than none.
Ann Aguirre
#73. The kundalini energy is often compared to a snake that is coiled up. Because it is coiled up it can spring very quickly. It can jump and extend itself very far.
Frederick Lenz
#74. To paraphrase Lorne Michaels (my countryman), it's the kind of place where they award Miss Canada to the runner-up, because the prettiest already gets to be prettiest.
David Rakoff
#75. When you assume negative intent, you're angry. If you take away that anger and assume positive intent, you will be amazed. Your emotional quotient goes up because you are no longer almost random in your response.
Indra Nooyi
#76. Sometimes life takes you into a dark place where you feel it's impossible to breathe. You think you've been buried, but don't give up, because if truth be told, you've actually been planted.
Karen Gibbs
#77. I want to feel every ounce of pain and happiness life can serve up, because it'll mean I've survived. It'll mean I'm alive.
Alexandra Bracken
#78. It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
Robert Benchley
#79. I think I got hooked up because I try to do good things with the NBA, and they always want somebody who's notable and who's personable with people.
Darryl Dawkins
#80. I hated high school and got to college and realized they didn't care if I showed up because I'd already paid. So I decided, 'I'm going to turn this around.' And I did: I got straight A's and was named 'outstanding senior.'
Pauley Perrette
#81. Revolutions are usually started by people who are hungry. Sure, there are ideological revolutions, but, again, people rise up because they feel that the alternative is no longer livable. They have to be desperate.
Julianna Baggott
#82. I was beginning to realize that what I wanted was the noise of people living near me, but not near enough to cause any inaudible noises to show up because I knew that those sorts of noises often shift into inaudible minor chords and I am unable to deal with that shift.
Catherine Lacey
#83. I think I'm playing grown up because I have kids now. But I don't feel grown up yet.
Adam Sandler
#84. My daughter, I can't give up because she's watching and she's here and she's waiting for me to be an example. So, between her, myself, and my will, and me pushing myself, that's my inspiration.
Brandy Norwood
#85. I've lost count of the plane tickets I've had in my pocket for people's weddings and other celebrations which I've had to tear up because I was making a film. How many things like that can you miss and still be in people's lives?
Beeban Kidron
#86. A year ago, you wanted to give up because we were losing, and now, you want to give up because we're winning.
Ann Althouse
#87. I don't know why it's so hard for people to admit that sometimes they're just assholes who screw up because they don't expect to get caught.
Karen M. McManus
#88. We fail because we give up, and we give up because we never had a plan in the first place
Robin Sieger
#89. Grace is humbling and restorative. It pulls you down because Christ had to die for you, but also lifts you up because he wanted to die for you.
Timothy Keller
#90. Spirit is infinitely creative! You don't sign up to follow Jesus because you know what'll happen and you want to get on board. You sign up because you have absolutely no idea what will happen but you can't wait to find out. You take the leap of faith.
Daniel Fusco
#91. You were afraid to look up because you felt your face might be seen from above.
Laura Hillenbrand
#92. Because, of course, of how intelligent you are. And funny. Not that you aren't attractive. Because you are. Attractive. Oh, bugger ... "
I wait.
"Are you still there, or did you hang up because I'm such a bleeding idiot?"
"I'm here."
"God, you made me work for that.
Stephanie Perkins
#93. Don't give up because things are hard, but work harder, when you think of giving up.
Anthony Liccione
#94. It is five in the morning. I have woken up without any alarm. I have woken up because the thoughts are so loud, and none of them mean me well.
Ned Vizzini
#95. I used to be gay, but I was forced to give it up, because it made my eyes water.
Michael Gambon
#96. When you feel homesick,' he said, 'just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go.
Donna Tartt
#97. Our schools too often want to shut people up so they can't talk about real solutions. People who think differently tend to clam up because they think something is wrong with their ideas.
Ben Carson
#98. And I asked the world to open up, I said, world, please open up, because I'd love to fall into a river of magma and die, just a little bit, but the world couldn't hear me ...
Tahereh Mafi
#99. There is a demographic catastrophe happening in Europe that nobody wants to talk about, that we daren't bring up because we are so cagey about not offending people racially.
John Rhys-Davies
#100. I now understand that there's a difference between giving up because you don't want to try and giving up because you know you're beaten.
Arno Geiger
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