Top 100 Upton Quotes
#1. All the Utopias - Brook Farm, Robert Owen's sanctuary of chatter, Upton Sinclair's Helicon Hall - and their regulation end in scandal, feuds, poverty, griminess, disillusion.
Sinclair Lewis
#2. I've commissioned an adaptation of 'The Jungle', by Upton Sinclair, a story of a young immigrant from Lithuania to the meat-packing industry of Chicago in 1904, and the rise of the unions in America.
David Schwimmer
#4. The great muckraker Upton Sinclair had expressed a deep insight into the relationship between the world of ideas and the world of practical men: 'It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.'34
John Kay
#6. I never consciously set out to model myself after Upton Sinclair.
Eric Schlosser
#7. I had never read Upton Sinclair. I didn't read 'The Jungle' in high school or anything like that. But it's pretty terrific writing.
Paul Thomas Anderson
#8. As Upton Sinclair famously observed: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!
Naomi Klein
#9. Upton Sinclair is his own King Charles' head. He cannot keep himself out of his writings, try though he may; or, by this time, try though he doesn't.
Dorothy Parker
#10. Fiction about mining has a long tradition - Emile Zola's 'Germinal' and Upton Sinclair's 'King Coal' come to mind - and most readers will be aware of the industry's harsh conditions.
Floyd Skloot
#11. Despite his persecutions, Mr. [Upton] Sinclair reveals himself in Money Writes! to be an enviable man. Always the thing he desires to believe is the thing he feels he knows to be true.
Dorothy Parker
#12. Suddenly Adam (Upton) hated death just as much as he hated life, and now he had absolutely no idea how to unsolve that equation.
-- From my upcoming novel "Streaks of Blue: How the Angels of Newtown Inspired One Girl to Save Her School.
Jack Chaucer
#13. The bottom line is that we are all inclined to denial when the truth is too costly - whether emotionally, intellectually, or financially. As Upton Sinclair famously observed: "It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!"36
Naomi Klein
#14. Fascism is a marriage between corporations and the government. Upton Sinclair defined it as capitalism plus murder,
Glen Yeadon
#15. With iron and blood, it seems, and from the rich depths of the earth, John Griswold has fashioned a classic American novel, its dignified intonations of our young nation's sweat and tears evocative of the indelible storytelling of Dos Passos, Frank Norris, and Upton Sinclair.
Bob Shacochis
#17. He was, as the novelist and muckraking journalist Upton Sinclair wrote, "willing by deliberate and shameful lies, made out of whole cloth, to stir nations to enmity and drive them to murderous war.
Stephen Kinzer
#18. Wall Street had been doing business with pieces of paper; and now someone asked for a dollar, and it was discovered that the dollar had been mislaid.
Upton Sinclair
#19. Here was one more difficulty for him to meet and conquer.
Upton Sinclair
#20. They were trying to save their souls- and who but a fool could fail to see that all that was the matter with their souls was that they had not been able to get a decent existence for their bodies?
Upton Sinclair
#21. We are the ones who have distanced ourselves from God and then we've blamed him for the distance.
Jason Upton
#22. Cuts in carbon emissions would mean significantly higher electricity prices. We think the American consumer would prefer not to be skinned by Obama's EPA.
Fred Upton
#23. I would love to have my own lingerie line.
Kate Upton
#24. Other than the voices in my head, I think I'm pretty normal.
Tom Upton
#25. My dream was always to be on the cover of 'Sports Illustrated.'
Kate Upton
#26. Listen: I like my bikinis very small, and I also like, uh, nude-colored bikinis because people double-take - they think I'm naked on the beach.
Kate Upton
#27. The advent of the log-linear model ... has to some extent outdated the use of any single measure of association
Graham J.G. Upton
#28. Under President Obama's new health care law, Medicaid will become a very different health coverage program than first envisioned.
Fred Upton
#29. Giving governors more leeway in administering health care could represent a small, positive development in the ongoing saga of Obamacare. Unfortunately, instead of choosing flexibility, President Obama and his left-leaning advisers always default to rigid 'Washington knows best' answers.
Fred Upton
#30. Of late years, however, since his children were growing up, he had begun to value respectability, and had had himself made a magistrate; a position for which he was admirably fitted, because of his strong conservatism and his contempt for foreigners.
Upton Sinclair
#31. Apparently I couldn't even pretend to be normal.
Tom Upton
#32. In a lot of minds, God is big enough to raise dead people, but He's not big enough to deal with our running.
Jason Upton
#33. So, I have my own horse and two ponies. I grew up around horses, and that really is my passion.
Kate Upton
#34. Can you not see that the task is your task - yours to dream, yours to resolve, yours to execute?
Upton Sinclair
#35. I'm a Reagan Republican, which means I don't speak ill of other Republicans.
Fred Upton
#36. I just put on what the lady says. I've been married three times, so I've had lots of supervision.
Upton Sinclair
#37. I want to be able to sing well, but I have the worst voice in the world.
Kate Upton
#38. I am sustained by a sense of the worthwhileness of what I am doing; a trust in the good faith of the process which created and sustains me. That process I call God.
Upton Sinclair
#39. It's pretty simple, really: having fun can only led to having more fun
it cannot led to injury, pain, or dismemberment.
Tom Upton
#40. Now I ask you: could any muck-raker in a rage make up a list of titles more completely expressive of vulgarity, commercialism and general "bunk" than the above real ones? I
Upton Sinclair
#41. Every time there was an unspoken promise that this would be the last time, but it would only be the last time until the next time.
Tom Upton
#42. They use everything about the hog except the squeal.
Upton Sinclair
#43. Obamacare is a seriously flawed law that makes health care coverage less affordable, costs taxpayers more than advertised and fails to deliver on most of its other grand promises.
Fred Upton
#44. In a society dominated by the fact of commercial competition, money is necessarily the test of prowess, and wastefulness the sole criterion of power. So
Upton Sinclair
#45. I'm not a rubber stamp, and people know that. If you can convince me of the merits, you will have my vote every time.
Fred Upton
#46. The American people thoroughly despise and hate their newspapers; yet they seem to have no idea what to do about it, and take it for granted that they must go on reading falsehoods for the balance of their days!
Upton Sinclair
#47. How we perceive of the world around us determines the outcome of what it is we choose to see or not see
Christine Upton
#48. It is impossible to get a man to understand something if his livelihood depends on him not understanding.
Upton Sinclair
#49. I have never been reduced to begging somebody to leave me alone, but in your case I'll make an exception.
Tom Upton
#50. How could they find out that their tea and coffee, their sugar and flour, had been doctored; that their canned peas had been colored with copper salts, and their fruit jams with aniline dyes?
Upton Sinclair
#51. We've heard this before; 'things are bad, we are gonna fix them,' and they remain unfixed.
Fred Upton
#53. Together, we will protect the sanctity of life, ensuring early next Congress that no federal funds are used for abortion.
Fred Upton
#54. It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
Upton Sinclair
#56. I just think that pick-up lines in general are horrible. None of them work.
Kate Upton
#57. The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.
Upton Sinclair
#58. I'm sure every designer has a certain person in mind who they would ideally like to wear their clothes, but the problem is that a lot of the time that person doesn't actually exist, unless she is a 15-year-old model.
Kate Upton
#59. If everything is perfect, nobody has to say a word.
Tom Upton
#60. All of this might seem diabolical, but the saloon-keeper was in no wise to blame for it. He was in the same plight as the manufacturer who has to adulterate and misrepresent his product. If he does not, some one else will.
Upton Sinclair
#61. My mom is from Texas, but I was raised in Florida.
Kate Upton
#62. Prior to passage of Obamacare, Americans spoke out against the individual mandate; they didn't want to change the health care they had; they didn't want a 3,000-page bill that empowered 15 Washington bureaucrats to decide the future of the doctor-patient relationship.
Fred Upton
#63. What, then, was the difference between America and Moscow? The "muckraker" said it was a question of who owned the state. In America the people were supposed to own it, but most of the time the big businessmen bought it away from them. "It is privilege which corrupts politics," was his phrase.
Upton Sinclair
#64. It is not easy being trapped in a school that is caught between cornfields and cows.
Tom Upton
#65. Do you realize how hard it is to keep your mind clear when somebody's telling you to keep your mind clear?
Tom Upton
#66. The supreme crime of the church to-day is that everywhere and in all its operations and influences it is on the side of sloth of mind; that it banishes brains, it sanctifies stupidity, it canonizes incompetence.
Upton Sinclair
#67. Life is much simpler if you don't notice anything ...
Tom Upton
#68. Pessimism is mental disease. It means illness in the person who voices it, and in the society which produces that person.
Upton Sinclair
#69. The rich people not only had all the money, they had all the chance to get more; they had all the know-ledge and the power, and so the poor man was down, and he had to stay down.
Upton Sinclair
#70. Like all religious thinkers, he carries with his scholar's equipment a pair of metaphysical wings, wherewith at any moment he may soar into the empyrean, out of reach of vulgar materialists, like you and me.
Upton Sinclair
#71. He was carried over the difficult places in spite of himself; and he went plunging away in mad career - a very Mazeppa-ride upon the wild horse Speculation.
Upton Sinclair
#72. Our friends were not poetical, and the sight suggested to them no metaphors of human destiny; they thought only of the wonderful efficiency of it all.
Upton Sinclair
#73. People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. It's actually funny. I'm always like, I'm about to pull something on you, and you're so focused on thinking I'm dumb, you're not even going to know.
Kate Upton
#74. Lanny smiled to himself. His chief called himself a "liberal," and Lanny had been trying to make up his mind just what that meant. He decided that a liberal was a high-minded gentleman who believed the world was made in his own image.
Upton Sinclair
#75. You can't believe in fate only when it sends you something you want, only when things turn out right. You have to accept what fate sends you or doesn't send you, no matter whether or not you like it.
Tom Upton
#76. I think it's very hard to find a good friend. That's why I'm so lucky to have two sisters, because they're my best friends, and they have to be with me forever. They're stuck with me.
Kate Upton
#77. But I have a conscience and a religious faith, and I know that our liberties were not won without suffering, and may be lost again through our cowardice. I intend to do my duty to my
country.
Upton Sinclair
#78. So he went on, tearing up all the flowers from the garden of his soul, and setting his heel upon them.
Upton Sinclair
#79. Never believe what they say; they always lie. I have a saying: Whatever they say, do the opposite, and you'll never go wrong.
Tom Upton
#80. It lives and breathes in the light, because it has thousands of unfortunates toiling in the darkness. It lives and has its being in proud liberty because thousands are slaving for it, whose thraldom is the price of this liberty. This
Upton Sinclair
#81. We need to know why NHTSA, which has officials who are paid to do nothing else but monitor accidents, have been asleep at the wheel when it had information served up to it on a silver platter by State Farm Insurance Company which would suggest grave problems with Firestone tires,
Fred Upton
#82. American journalism is a class institution, serving the rich and spurning the poor.
Upton Sinclair
#83. He learned that love is not all pleasure, but can be agony and heartache, martyrdom and sacrifice. He learned what the clergyman was talking about in the marriage service: for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish till death do us part.
Upton Sinclair
#85. Your dad and I have been talking."
"You need to stop that. The marriage will last longer.
Tom Upton
#87. One of the necessary accompaniments of capitalism in a democracy is political corruption.
Upton Sinclair
#88. I understand why my male followers like me.
Kate Upton
#89. You find your strengths and play them up.
Kate Upton
#90. It is foolish to be convinced without evidence, but it is equally foolish to refuse to be convinced by real evidence.
Upton Sinclair
#91. But the devil is a subtle worm; he does not give up at one defeat, for he knows human nature, and the strength of the forces which battle for him.
Upton Sinclair
#92. I just want to get married in a bathing suit ... Deal with it.
Kate Upton
#93. It wasn't human nature to leave things alone. It was normal for people to try to fix things that didn't need to be fixed; or, infinitely worse, trying to fix things that were broken, because some things are meant to be broken
Tom Upton
#94. I grew up in Florida riding horses, so for the majority of my life I was either in boots and jeans or a bathing suit.
Kate Upton
#96. The Obama administration is on notice - they will not be allowed to regulate what they have been unable to legislate.
Fred Upton
#97. I have a paralyzing fear of snakes.
Kate Upton
#98. Originally created to serve the poorest and sickest among us, the Medicaid program has grown dramatically but still doesn't include the kind of flexibility that states need to provide better health care for the poor and disadvantaged.
Fred Upton
#99. I always had career goals. And I figured out a path I wanted to take to accomplish those goals. If that meant calling the best modeling agency in the world, that's what it meant.
Kate Upton
#100. This was in truth not living; it was scarcely even existing, and they felt that it was too little for the price they paid. They were willing to work all the time; and when people did their best, ought they not to be able to keep alive?
Upton Sinclair
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