Quotes About Upward

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My rescue, engineered by the upward dynamic of a power accomplishing what I could not.

'Vert' is, like, straight to the top, like a vertical leap.

The skull lay tilted in such a manner that it stared, sightless, up at me as though I, too, were already caught a few feet above him in the strata and, in my turn, were staring upward at that strip of sky which the ages were carrying farther away from me.

As a family they still flew the flight of the immigrant rocket, the upward, unbroken immigrant trajectory from slave-driven great-grandfather to self-driven grandfather to self-confident, accomplished, independent father to the highest high flier of them all, the fourth-generation child for whom America was to be heaven itself. No wonder he couldn't shut up.

la geometría es conocimiento de lo que siempre existe. -Entonces, ¡oh, mi noble amigo!, atraerá el alma hacia la verdad y formará mentes filosóficas que dirijan ha­cia arriba aquello que ahora dirigimos indebidamente hacia abajo.

all in the flick of a moment during which conscious involvement attenuated and allowed the deeper self to shove upward the completed problem.

The word never means the spirit which sits with folded hands and simply bears things. It is victorious endurance … Christian steadfastness, the brave and courageous acceptance of everything life can do to us, and the transmuting of even the worst into another step on the upward way. It is the courageous and triumphant ability to bear things, which enables a man to pass breaking point and not to break, and always to greet the unseen with a cheer.7

There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over... Faint to my ears came the gathered rumour of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone.

Regret is the quintessential upward counterfactual—the ultimate If Only. The source of its power, scientists are discovering, is that it muddles the conventional pain-pleasure calculus.[10] Its very purpose is to make us feel worse—because by making us feel worse today, regret helps us do better tomorrow.

Vision looks upward and becomes faith.

When you spend your whole life living in a hole, the only way you can go is up. (Zero/Hector Zeroni)

Zero wasnt worried, " When you spend your whole life living in a shole", he said, "the only way you can go is up.

fragrance of the short grass and sturdy mountain-plants, for the way is steep and leads directly up to the summits above.

The nightsea journey may be absurd, but here we swim, will-we nill-we, against the flood, onward and upward, toward a shore that may not exist and couldn't be reached if it did.

I venture that those of us who are most serene when faced with the possibility of nothingness are the ones who've reached furthest to the downward and upward of their beings.

The upward thrust of evolution as part of the design becomes something to preserve and revere.

It used to be you wanted to marry up.

But many southern whites were not under the racist hold of the Democrats. As they became more prosperous, these whites came to see the GOP reflect their beliefs in economic opportunity and upward mobility. They also found Republicans more in tune with their patriotism as well as their socially conservative views. Quite naturally, they moved over to a party that better reflected their interests and aspirations.

In a remarkable book, The End of Southern Exceptionalism, Byron Shafer and Richard Johnston make the case that white southerners switched to the Republican Party not because of racism but because they identified the GOP with economic opportunity and upward mobility.

you are in it for the long term, look for areas that have not yet peaked but have great upward potential.

We have the opportunity to move not only toward the rich society and the powerful society, but upward to the Great Society.

Dim as the borrowed beams of moons and stars To lonely, weary, wandering travelers, Is Reason to the soul; and, as on high Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light us here, so Reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day.

All signs were pointing upward; his wheel was revolving skyward.