The Bible has noble poetry in it. . . and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies.
And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth and mount upwards for the sake of that other beauty, using these steps only, and from one going on to two, and from two to all fair forms to fair practices, and from fair practices to fair notions, until from fair notions he arrives at the notion of absolute beauty, and at last knows what the essence of beauty is.
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.
Whatever you do, make sure you go right to the top, because you sure as hell can't piss upwards on people.
I’ve made upwards of a million bucks in the cops and robbers business.
Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
We have only one consciousness stream. When we associate with Truth, we ascend upwards, and when we associate with untruth we fall down.
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.
Our way is not soft grass; it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards, forward, toward the sun.
Trust is the one thing that affects everything else you're doing. It's a performance multiplier which takes your trajectory upwards, for every activity you engage in, from strategy to execution.
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.
Two people cannot be alone together for upwards of half an hour without one emerging as the superior.
The journey towards success is not always easy or upwards.
There is an ecstatic mechanism in birds that makes them fly upwards in spite of worms.
In Hollywood you kind of fail upwards
I compare arithmetic with a tree that unfolds upwards in a multitude of techniques and theorems while the root drives into the depths.
Writing in a lot of ways feels more like excavation than construction. It feels like you're uncovering this thing bit by bit, discovering what it is, instead of constructing it upwards.
I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.
Envy, like flames, soars upwards.
The ladies--Heaven bless them!--are, as a general rule, coquettes from babyhood upwards.
