Americans are better off in a dynamic, free-enterprise-based economy that fosters economic growth, opportunity and upward mobility instead of a stagnant, government-directed economy that stifles job creation and fosters government dependency.
America being behind France in upward mobility is a little bit like France being behind America in Croissants and Afternoon Sex.
The risk exists that, with aggregate demand exhibiting considerable momentum, output could overshoot its sustainable path, leading ultimately in the absence of countervailing monetary policy action to further upward pressure on inflation.
The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
But as I pursued that dream of upward mobility preparing for college, things just didn't fit together. As I read Scriptures about how the last will be first, I started wondering why I was working so hard to be first.
Nor love they least Who strike with right good will To vanquish ill And fight God's battle upward from the beast.
Envy, like fire, soars upward.
Deep in the soul, below pain, below all the distraction of life, is a silence vast and grand - an infinite ocean of calm, which nothing can disturb; Nature's own exceeding peace, which "passes understanding". That which we seek with passionate longing, here and there, upward and outward; we find at last within ourselves.
In a nation ruled by swine, all pigs are upward mobile.
The way to a man's heart is through his stomach. . . just make sure you thrust upward through his ribcage.
I know that every difficulty we face in life, even those that come from our own negligence or even transgression, can be turned by the Lord into growth experiences, a virtual ladder upward. I certainly do not recommend transgression as a path to growth. It is painful, difficult, and so totally unnecessary. It is far wiser and so much easier to move forward in righteousness. But through proper repentance, faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, and obedience to His commandments, even the disappointment that comes from transgression can be converted into a return to happiness.
The Bible holds up before us ideals that are within sight of the weakest and the lowliest, and yet so high that the best and the noblest are kept with their faces turned ever upward. It carries the call of the Saviour to the remotest corners of the earth; on its pages are written the assurances of the present and our hopes for the future
Devotion, like fire, goeth upward.
It's very easy to go down, so always live up. Incline yourself upward.
All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
You see somewhere along the way, we've allowed the pursuit of fame and things to blind us to the issues that prevent us from moving upward.
Things at the worst will cease or else climb upward To what they were before.
O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?
Love is watchful. Sleeping, it does not slumber. Wearied, it is not tired. Pressed, it is not straitened. Alarmed, it is not confused, but like a living flame, a burning torch, it forces its way upward and passes unharmed through every obstacle.
Religion and science, then, in my analysis are the two great sister forces which have pulled, and are still pulling, mankind onward and upward.