Top 100 Upwards Quotes
#1. I likewise felt several slender ligatures across my body, from my arm-pits to my thighs. I could only look upwards; the sun began to grow hot, and the light offended my eyes. I heard a confused noise about me; but in the posture I lay, could see nothing except the sky.
Jonathan Swift
#2. The rain Never falls upwards. When the wound Stops hurting What hurts is The scar.
Bertolt Brecht
#4. You need to understand your potentials to transform it. look in to Yourself, upwards to God then outwards to your environ
Ikechukwu Joseph
#5. Without 'tis autumn, the wind beats on the pane
With heavy drops, the leaves high upwards sweep.
You take old letters from a crumpled heap,
And in one hour have lived your life again.
Mihai Eminescu
#6. The constant man loses not his virtue in misfortune. A torch may point towards the ground, but its flame will still point upwards.
Bhartrhari
#7. His hips back down to the bed. Reaching upwards as I spread my knees even wider, I slid the blindfold
Selena Kitt
#8. 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
#9. Bung upwards, she means, Your Grace, a tart called out.
Loretta Chase
#10. 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
#11. After upwards of two thousand years Epicurus has been exonerated from the reproach that the doctrines of his philosophy recommended the pleasures of sensuality and voluptuousness as the chief good. Calumny may rest on genius a considerable part of a world's duration; what then is the value of fame?
William Benton Clulow
#12. There are no hard problems, only problems that are hard to a certain level of intelligence. Move the smallest bit upwards [in intelligence] and some problems move from "impossible" to "obvious." Move a substantial degree upwards, and all of them will become obvious.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#13. It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.
Philip Sidney
#14. Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.
Fred Hoyle
#15. We leave our home," she pointed upwards, "and come here. When we're done down here in the swamp of humanity, whatever you want to call it, we go home. To our real home. We all do. No choice. Whether you believe it or not.
Jonas Saul
#16. If I hadn't learned my lesson, I would have wished we could stay there forever. But I knew better now. We'd seen what we'd come to see. The way to trick death. Breathe in. Breathe out. Watch as it all rises upwards, black and blue into the even bluer sky.
Alice Hoffman
#17. It was as though the great black bird which had all the night nested the egg of the earth lifted its wings and let light under and then with gigantic thrust of pinion flew upwards and it was day.
Glendon Swarthout
#18. You are all human but what makes, what makes you really really spiritual? What you are here for. What you are really here for? What you are really here for is to make a fundamental change upwards. It is simply crossing a border from one place in your mind to another. That's all.
Roy Masters
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. We are not going in circles, we are going upwards. The path is a spiral; we have already climbed many steps.
Hermann Hesse
#22. On 'Game of Thrones,' all of my closest friends are 30 upwards, which is quite strange.
Sophie Turner
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. I think there are people in this Congress who actually believe that government does not have a benign role in the lives of the people, except as an engine to redistribute the wealth of the Nation upwards.
Dennis Kucinich
#28. So this was the reverse of dazzling Nauset.
The flip of the coin - the flip of an ocean fallen
Dream-face down. And here, at my feet, in the suds,
The other face, the real, staring upwards.
Ted Hughes
#29. If a man is not rising upwards to be an angel, depend upon it, he is sinking downwards to be a devil . He cannot stop at the beast. The most savage of men are not beasts; they are worse, a great deal worse.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. Remember the day when our heads,
immersed in freedom and love,
like colorful balloons -
upwards to the clouds, constant we floated.
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
#33. Knowledge has always flowed upwards to bishops and kings, not down to serfs and slaves.
Julian Assange
#34. There is a reason we used to build Cathedrals that drew the eye upwards.
Michael Gungor
#35. Do you not weep?
Other sins only speak, murder shreaks out:
The element of water moistens the earth,
But blood flies upwards and bedews the heavens.
John Webster
#36. Natural Selection never made it come to pass, as a habit of nature, that an unsupported stone should move downwards rather than upwards. It applies to no part of inorganic nature, and is very limited even in the phenomena of organic life.
Chauncey Wright
#37. Just as we cannot stop the birds flying off and upwards at our approach, so there is no way of preventing the acts which we perform from giving rise to moral values.
Philip Thody
#38. Heights by great men reached and kept, were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, kept toiling upwards through the night!!!! Mi haffi mek it...
Tan Morgan
#39. O grant, that in the trials by which we must be daily exercised, we may raise upwards our minds to thee, and never cease to think that thou art near us;
John Calvin
#40. You're not fat unless you're bigger outwards than upwards. Anyway, better fat than tall.
T.J. Dixon
#41. Where is the subject that does not branch out into infinity? For every grain of sand is a mystery; so is every daisy in summer, and so is every snowflake in winter. Both upwards and downwards, and all around us, science and speculation pass into mystery at last.
William Mountford
#42. I put both my thumbs under my chin and pushed upwards. Chin up, Shirley, I commanded
Jacqueline Wilson
#43. 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
#44. The experience of the Mayas is one more reminder that any interpretation of human evolution based on the idea of unilineal progress forwards (or upwards) is an illusion. Peoples decline as well as rise.
Hugh Thomas
#45. And what, if you don't mind me asking, is really important?"
Valkyrie holds her hand palm upwards, and it starts to glow from within. She smiles at him.
"Magic," she says.
Derek Landy
#46. Hank looked upwards for a second or two and said, "Hmm - well, in the Japanese way, if we don't know for sure, we always tell the person the worst possible result. That way, when they find out the actual case, they can only have the good feeling.
Richard Cezar
#47. Give Bethod a kick from me, once you have him under your boot."
"That I will, unless he gets me under his."
"Never easy, kicking upwards.
Joe Abercrombie
#48. 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
#49. We have only one consciousness stream. When we associate with Truth, we ascend upwards, and when we associate with untruth we fall down.
Tulsi
#50. The hill road wound upwards, as hill roads do, unless you're coming down them, of course.
Robert Rankin
#51. 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
#52. To be able to use the Japanese tongue as a Japanese uses it, one would need to be born again, and to have one's mind completely reconstructed, from the foundation upwards.
Anonymous
#53. 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
#54. There is an ecstatic mechanism in birds that makes them fly upwards in spite of worms.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
#55. Aside from velcro, time is the most mysterious substance in the universe. You can't see it or touch it, yet a plumber can charge you upwards of seventy-five dollars per hour for it, without necessarily fixing anything.
Dave Barry
#56. For Milady was well aware that her most seductive power was in her voice, which could run skilfully through the whole scale of tones, from mortal speech, upwards to the language of heaven.
Alexandre Dumas
#57. In the history of a soul's evolution there is a critical point of the human incarnation that decides for us whether we stay there, go down or progress upwards. There is a knot of worldly desires impeding us; cut the knot by mastering desires and go forward. This done, progress is assured.
Virchand Gandhi
#58. All who have travelled through the delicious scenery of North Devon must needs know the little white town of Bideford, which slopes upwards from its broad tide-river paved with yellow sands, and many-arched old bridge, where salmon wait for Autumn floods, toward the pleasant upland on the west.
Charles Kingsley
#59. 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
#60. I go back to what Mrs. Roosevelt taught me: 'Always compromise, but compromise upwards.'
Esther Peterson
#61. 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
#62. The jam had filled the courtyard and foyer and pushed the water out of the swimming pool. Where it touched the walls, little tendrils snaked their way upwards like searching fingers. There was an overpowering stench of strawberries.
Yahtzee Croshaw
#63. The strength of a human being is in one's hierarchical level, characterised by say separation from physiological needs upwards.
Priyavrat Thareja
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. If you are with the quality, or at a funeral, or trying to go to sleep when you ain't sleepy - if you are anywheres where it won't do for you to scratch, why you will itch all over in upwards of a thousand places.
Mark Twain
#68. Two people cannot be alone together for upwards of half an hour without one emerging as the superior.
Lord Chesterfield
#69. Did you suppose that fornication was the straight line upwards that I'd been trying to find?
Tennessee Williams
#70. As all true virtue, wherever found, is a ray of the life of the All-Holy; so all solid knowledge, all really accurate thought, descends from the Eternal Reason, and ought, when we apprehend it, to guide us upwards to Him.
Henry Parry Liddon
#71. Where Pan protects them. In the cool, wet places Of bushy clefts, nature's nymphs live hidden, 9880 The crowding trees reach upwards with their branches Longingly, after a higher region.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#72. It is full of interest, it has noble poetry in it and some clever fables and some blood drenched history, some good morals and a wealth of obscenity and upwards of a thousand lies.
(Re The Bible)
Mark Twain
#73. The fountains of sacred rivers flow upwards (i.e., everything is turned topsy turvy.)
Euripides
#74. My journey has begun
and the direction is upwards.
I am shooting for the stars
and will come back with a shine
like never before.
I am blessed beyond measure.
Gerard Johnson
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. As we gaze upon the wonders of creations, we look up towards the heights of a God who is merciful in His ways and magnificent in His deeds. The life of worship always points us upwards.
Matt Redman
#78. 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
#79. I am but a poor struggling soul yearning to be wholly good, wholly truthful and wholly non-violent in thought, word and deed, but ever failing to reach the ideal which I know to be true. It is a painful climb, but each step upwards makes me feel stronger and fit for the next.
Mahatma Gandhi
#80. 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
#81. She felt the adagio from Joaquin Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez strumming at her inner thighs like a guitar, and then slowly moving upwards until it wrapped around her heart in its denouement.
Lawren Leo
#82. 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
#83. The Bible has noble poetry in it ... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.
Mark Twain
#84. THAT NO ONE knows what happened to Jesus's foreskin is particularly interesting because there used to be upwards of a dozen in circulation.
Peter Manseau
#85. A seed doesn't stay beneath the soil, too afraid to grow. It journeys upwards boldly, for that is all it knows.
Atalina Wright
#86. Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.
Vladimir Nabokov
#88. The Welsh were a god-cursed, stiff-necked, and utterly vexatious people, John said bitterly, but they did have an inexplicable ability to rise phoenixlike from the ashes of defeat, to soar upwards on wings too scorched for flight.
Sharon Kay Penman
#89. Onwards and upwards, and never give your failures a second thought.
George Lois
#91. The white bowl of the street began to fill with darkness, from the pavement upwards, like somebody pouring tea into a cup.
Pat Barker
#92. We are like prison soldiers committed to an idea. The hills slant upwards tall and unmoving, like giant watchful things if we were not rushing and moving so intently it would be nice to stop and appreciate their own silent ancient beauty.
Annie Fisher
#93. No sin is so great but the satisfaction of Christ and His mercies are greater; it is beyond comparison. Fathers and mothers in tenderest affections are but beams and trains to lead us upwards to the infinite mercy of God in Christ.
Richard Sibbes
#94. Whatever you do, make sure you go right to the top, because you sure as hell can't piss upwards on people.
Grant Morrison
#95. A vow must lead one upwards, never downwards towards perdition.
Mahatma Gandhi
#96. In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.
H.G.Wells
#97. was several yards away, Kate spun on her heel, lifting the gun upwards. She took a step back to lead him into the lamp glow that shone bright in a nearby window. If he would attack
Erica Monroe
#98. Our universe, one could almost say, is actually built out of loneliness; and that fundamental loneliness persists upwards to haunt every one of its residents.
Paul Murray
#99. But even now, when people see me in the street, they point upwards to the sky.
Barry Gibb
#100. 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
