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I put both my thumbs under my chin and pushed upwards. Chin up, Shirley, I commanded — Jacqueline Wilson

Refinement is the lifting of one's self upwards from the merely sensual; the effort of the soul to etherealize the common wants and uses of life. — Henry Ward Beecher

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

On her one glance upwards, enough paintings are created by heavenly maidens on the magical canvas of god. — Manan Sheel

Even in decline, a virtuous man increases the beauty of his behavior. A burning stick, though turned to the ground, has its flame drawn upwards. — Saskya Pandita

Man alone resists the direction of gravitation: he constantly wants to fall
upwards. — Friedrich Nietzsche

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

The strength of a human being is in one's hierarchical level, characterised by say separation from physiological needs upwards. — Priyavrat Thareja

Our way is not soft grass; it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards, forward, toward the sun. — Ruth Westheimer

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

On 'Game of Thrones,' all of my closest friends are 30 upwards, which is quite strange. — Sophie Turner

At Sequoia, upwards of a hundred entrepreneurs a week present, and if we're lucky, maybe a dozen of them are focusing on the enterprise. — Jim Goetz

The fountains of sacred rivers flow upwards (i.e., everything is turned topsy turvy.) — Euripides

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. — Herman Melville

The hill road wound upwards, as hill roads do, unless you're coming down them, of course. — Robert Rankin

There is an ecstatic mechanism in birds that makes them fly upwards in spite of worms. — Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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

The white bowl of the street began to fill with darkness, from the pavement upwards, like somebody pouring tea into a cup. — Pat Barker

Two people cannot be alone together for upwards of half an hour without one emerging as the superior. — Lord Chesterfield

Each time we enter imaginatively into the life of another, it's a small step upwards in the elevation of the human race. — Susan Vreeland

Maybe there are only three kinds of stories: those we live, those we tell, and those that help our souls fly upwards to a greater life. — Ben Okri

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

The Bible has noble poetry in it ... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies. — Mark Twain

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

I've made upwards of a million bucks in the cops-and-robbers business. — Broderick Crawford

In Hollywood you kind of fail upwards — Kevin Smith

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened. — Philip Sidney

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

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