Top 1200 Measuring Up Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Where you're not allowed to be woken up by any outside sources, you wake up naturally.

How refreshing. A suspect beaten up BEFORE the LAPD showed up.

I grew up in Vermont, so we didn't really have a TV, growing up, or a football team.

I was always brought up to have a cup of tea at halfway up a rock face.

When you crash and burn, you have to pick yourself up and go on and hope to make up for it.

The jovial party broke up next morning. Breakings-up are capital things in our school-days, but in after life they are painful enough. Death, self-interest, and fortune's changes, are every day breaking up many a happy group, and scattering them far and wide; and the boys and girls never come back again.

The thing about stand-up is that you end up meeting your idols.

You guys pair up in groups of three, then line up in a circle.

I was not so lucky to grow up with toys as I grew up in a remote area of Kenya.

I'm delighted to be involved with 'Glow Up.' The make-up artists are so impressive and talented.

If men had more up top we'd need less up front

Growing up is a trap," snapped Dr. Robbins. "When they tell you to shut up, they mean stop talking. When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing. Reach a nice level plateau and settle there, predictable and unchanging, no longer a threat.

Hit the ball up to the hole... You meet a better class of people up there.

I'm set up where I make a lot of money doing stand-up, and it's easy.

If you don’t say what you’re thinking, you end up lying when you really need to speak up.

I tend to stand up and speak up when I see something dysfunctional happening.

I don't think it's up to you to say you belong in The Hall of Fame. That's up to someone else.

And I try to be as diplomatic as I can, but it always ends up being a psychodrama up there on stage.

My kids wake up at 7 o'clock every morning, so I'm normally up around 7.

When I was growing up, the top movies dealt with grown-up, complex emotions.

My career has been up and down, and I like it much better being up.

I started as a stand-up comedian. I wanted to be Carol Burnett when I was growing up.

We need to heal the environment - that's a big thing - because we messed it up and we have a responsibility to heal and clean up what we have messed up before we think about leaving here. We can't really heal the outer environment on those levels until we heal our families.

Fashion has been something that I have been really into since a very long time. Every girl likes dressing up, and I am that kind of a girl who take a little time to dress up. I love to dress up at occasions.

The incumbents just have a ton more money because they have rigged the system to help themselves, because they have these networks of small donors. Meanwhile, the amount of people, the incumbents being reelected has just been - that has been going up and up and up.

Jesus didn't tell us not to store up treasures. On the contrary, he commanded us to. He simply said, "Stop storing them up in the wrong place, and start storing them up in the right place."

A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.

It's always great to be playing against someone you looked up to growing up.

That's what I take pride in in my stand-up, is changing things up. Being special.

Conceit may puff a man up, but never prop him up.

I believe that if you'll just stand up and go, life will open up for you.

I gave up medicine. So I'll give up fashion. . . I could be a colorist of spaceships.

It is by standing up for the rights of girls and women that we truly measure up as men.

There's certainly a huge element of luck in me ending up where I've ended up.

What's the point of blowing up if you can't give back to the people who helped you blow up?

It's up to men to build things ... it's up to God to blow them down.

It's a difficult thing in this league to match up, to line up and play one-on-one football.

A lot of people in my era didn't grow up on 2Pac, they grew up on me.

Hollywood can jack you up and then help you fall, but it can also raise you up.

I didn't grow up around a lot of souped-up automobiles. I love my Prius.

When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they've given up on you.

I always love to dress up, but I usually end up in a leather jacket and boots!

I like almonds as a snack - keeps your energy up but doesn't fill you up.

When we clean up after ourselves, we have nothing to blame. When we begin to live our lives in that way, cleaning up after ourselves, what is left is further vision and further openness, which leads to cleaning up the rest of the world.

Just as I lay back, she sat up. I sat up, and she flopped back down. Awkward. That was my every move when it came to her. Now we were both lying down, staring up at the blue sky.

Hey." She said, looking up from an open book propped up on one knee. She brushed a few strands of pale hair out of her face. Her boyfriend, Christian, lay on the floor near her, his head propped up on her other knee. He greeted me by way of a nod. Concidering the antagonism the sometimes flared up between us, that was almost on par with him giving me a bear hug.

Maybe if I didn't pick up that one person, I wouldn't have picked up forty-two thousand.

If they could offer up a way to go to the moon that wouldn't kill you, I'd sign up.

Tore up from the floor up. Followed by a big outtie. John Mathew

I would hole up in my bedroom growing up and teach myself guitar.

I gave up coffee. It's almost worse than giving up a lover.

You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can't, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don't give up.

Things don't turn up in this world until somebody turns them up.

When our time's up, it's up. All the money in the world won't buy you one more day.

A person who has a dream knows what he is willing to give up in order to go up.

People are seeing me as the guy who wants to get hurt, who wants to break a bone, get bruises. And that's how it was growing up with six brothers. I got beat up, and I beat up people.

People will call you anything. It's up to you either to pick up the phone or not.

Inspiration is constantly in the air. It's up to us to develop the sensitivity to pick up on it.

Up! Children of Zulu, your day has come. Up! and destroy them all!

I'm a total bottoms-up kind of person. I like things to bubble up.