Upper Quotes

The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if it has common sense on the ground floor.

It is easy to go down into Hell; night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide; but to climb back again, to retrace one's steps to the upper air - there's the rub, the task.

Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.

You not supposed to feel down over whatever happen to you.

I mean, you're supposed to use whatever happen to you as some type of upper, not a downer.

People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.

Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them.

We met with the poet Frank O'Hara, who was a link between Upper and Lower Bohemia, and who worked at the Museum of Modern Art, where we had hoped to do the readings.

I love my accent, I thought it was useful in Gone In 60 Seconds because the standard villain is upper class or Cockney. My Northern accent would be an odd clash opposite Nic Cage.

My position as regards the monied interests can be put in a few words.

In every civilized society property rights must be carefully safeguarded; ordinarily and in the great majority of cases, human rights and property rights are fundamentally and in the long run, identical; but when it clearly appears that there is a real conflict between them, human rights must have the upper hand; for property belongs to man and not man to property.

Everyone detected with AIDS should be tattooed in the upper forearm, to protect common needle users, and on the buttock, to prevent the victimization of other homosexuals.

Geez, if I could get through to you, kiddo, that depression is not sobbing and crying and giving vent, it is plain and simple reduction of feeling. Reduction, see? Of all feeling. People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile.

The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound.

Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals.

The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other; given the upper, to find the under side.

There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate soil gapes at the vanity of toil, laughs without mirth. This is the death of the earth.

In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.

A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf... For a month or two it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine; and it will then be withdrawn, to make room for the forthcoming novelties.

When winds are raging o'er the upper oceanAnd billows wild contend with angry roar,'Tis said, far down beneath the wild commotionThat peaceful stillness reigneth evermore.Far, far beneath, the noise of tempests diethAnd silver waves chime ever peacefully,And no rude storm, how fierce soe'er it flyethDisturbs the Sabbath of that deeper sea.

Men now monopolize the upper levels depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.

Look, there is a sort of old view about class which is a very simplistic view that we have got the working class, the middle class and the upper class, I think it is more complicated than that.

If anything, taxes for the lower and middle class and maybe even the upper middle class should even probably be cut further. But I think that people at the high end - people like myself - should be paying a lot more in taxes. We have it better than we've ever had it.

I do love shoes that make my legs longer.

I have the upper body of someone who's 5ft 8in, so high heels help me even out the discrepancy.

I think my legs are a strong point, so I try to draw attention to them rather than the upper part of my body.

As for swimming, I'm now in the pool 5 days a week from 8 to 10 a.

m. And I'm in the gym for an hour and a half, 4 days a week. Two days upper body, two days lower.

I'm more proud of my upper body. Let's just say I'm a typical female in that way.

I was never concretely aware of the extent of anti-Semitism in the United States and in the upper levels of the State Department.

Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.

The nearest we have to a Henry James or an Edith Wharton of the East Coast's Wasp upper classes.

And though hard be the task, 'Keep a stiff upper lip'.

There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class.

Men now monopolize the upper levels... depriving women of their rightful share of opportunities for incompetence.

The decisive moment in the defeat of upper class, capital-S, Society may have come when, in newspapers all over the nation, what used to be call the Society page was replaced by the Style section.

Half the time I feel like I'm appealing to the downer freaks out there.

We start to play one downer record after another until I begin to get down myself. Give me something from 1960 or something; let me get up again. The music of today is for downer freaks, and I'm an upper.

Development in this county is always going to be an issue.

Until development and zoning are handled on a regional basis, rather than each municipality left to its own devices, we will suffer from developers having the upper hand in suits and in front of zoning boards.

I'd like to see an arrested growth of development.

You can't stop it, but it's important we do something about the developers having the upper hand.

Many of the master chefs in the South, both the upper South as well as the deep South, were blacks and many of those people came here to Washington, D.C., and opened up establishments. Very, very few of them have survived. But they certainly were very prominent.

Fully 57 percent of American college students are women.

Life insurance companies sell more policies to women than to men. As women continue to draw on experience and education, they're accelerating their numbers in upper management, too.

At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.

I'm a little top heavy, so I have to pay attention to that area.

I think it was from my years of swimming in school when I was a kid and it just overdeveloped my upper body. In fact, when I started modeling, my back was so developed, I could not fit into any dresses.

This CD became something of a personal journey for me.

The tone of the whole CD is uplifting and inspirational. It's an upper. We have enough downers in the world.

The Legislature of Lower Canada, consisting chiefly of Roman Catholics, could hardly be expected to support a church which they were taught to consider heretical, and in Upper Canada the scanty means at the disposal of the Government, precluded all hope.

At the first general meeting of this Corporation in 1820, his Lordship presided;

a circumstance, which may well be considered an era in the history of the Church of Upper Canada.

While the wealthiest families completely benefit from the tax cuts targeted towards the upper brackets, middle-income families were hit with the unwelcome surprise of higher taxes on tax day.

These ivy league students are in the upper echelon of the college boards and had great opportunity in front of them regardless of where they go to college. Its in their very nature and it is something they expect.

Almost 70 percent of U.S. ag exports travel the upper Mississippi River and the Illinois waterway system.

I did have a big following in the upper New York area.

I was at the New York State Fair a few times over the years. I have areas that I say are my areas.

Today's symphonic music is sponsored by the upper structures of society.

Bach and Beethoven, all of them, they had to write something to please the upper structure, those with money and power.

The Upper Bohemia people wore tuxedos in an art gallery, and Lower Bohemia was all of us.

Since the turn of the 20th century, members of the Jewish community in Upper East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia have been meeting together to celebrate and worship.