Top 1200 Measuring Up Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

Growing up, I had always looked up to LG as a big brand and they are doing very well.

The truth is I was nicely brought up and taught not to show my rage even though it was building up inside.

I look at some of the great novelists, and I think the reason they are great is that they're telling the truth. The fact is they're using made-up names, made-up people, made-up places, and made-up times, but they're telling the truth about the human being- what we are capable of, what makes us lose, laugh, weep, fall down, and gnash our teeth and wring our hands and kill each other and love each other.

I'm not an awards-driven person in anything. Anytime you do get caught up in that, you usually end up getting whacked.

One of the challenges we set up for 'Puscifer' was to come up with a core identity and see how far we can push it.

My great grandfather from my father's side, Sir Akbar Hydari, was the prime minister of the Nizam of Hyderabad. He was instrumental in setting up the Osmania university. His wife set up the Hydari club for women so that they could play tennis, and she also set up the first girls' school in Hyderabad.

Americans are brought up to believe they can grow up to be the president of the United States. Brits are told, It won't happen to you.

Hard work spotlights the character of people: some turn up their sleeves, some turn up their noses, and some don't turn up at all.

I grew up reading 'British Vogue' - I am so honoured and humbled to be taking up the mantle of editor.

But I think it's up to a local congregation to determine whether or not a marriage should be blessed of God. And it shouldn't be up to the government.

I am born and brought up in Mumbai. I have grown up watching Hindi films. So I belong here, I feel.

When you feel powerful, you are willing to stand up for your rights, you are willing to stand up for what you believe in, you're more willing to stand up and be counted.

I grew up abroad, so I would love to have my child grow up the same way and experience the world.

Make stuff up. Anyone who ever did something new or interesting was making it up as they went along.

I think photography is being recognized and collected. Its values have certainly gone up and continue to go up.

Remain in wonder if you want the mysteries to open up for you. Mysteries never open up for those who go on questioning. Questioners sooner or later end up in a library. Questioners sooner or later end up with scriptures, because scriptures are full of answers. And answers are dangerous, they kill your wonder.

Giving up a lot of yourself isn't really that hard when you realize that you get more than you give up.

The teacher will never give up on the student no matter how mixed up he or she might be

The church is like manure. Pile it up, and it stinks up the neighborhood. Spread it out, and it enriches the world.

[The White House staff] start bringing in their kids, who you think should be babies and now are in second grade or something, and you've watched them grow up. So I think what ends up happening is you end up maintaining those networks and those contacts, but the concentrated interactions and experience that you have here, I don't think, I don't expect you can duplicate anyplace else.

Prices have stayed up because people in control of supply decided they could keep them up.

What has roots as nobody sees, Is taller than trees Up, up it goes, And yet never grows? A mountain.

I feel like I grew up differently, when you're a child actor you grow up differently, but it's not that different than growing up as, like, a child basketball player who goes to the NBA. There are certain kids who become professionals at a very young age. There's a lot of sacrifice that goes into that.

One of my biggest regrets in coaching was my eighth or ninth game of my career. I was wound up about a conference game in December - I was wound up tight, and we ended up playing really tight. Our players were bickering with the officials, I was bickering... and then all of a sudden we lose.

Because when does anybody really grow up? I mean, I feel more grown up now, more in a place of solidity and peace. But I think a lot of people take on these roles as parents, or husband or wife, and immediately think 'That's it. I'm grown up now. Done.'

When I first got to college, in my mind, I was going to end up playing professional football. When I tell people this story, they always end up laughing, and I chuckle about it at my own expense. I was a big fan of American football; I played in high school, and I ended up earning the opportunity to play in college.

When you come slam bang up against trouble, it never looks half as bad if you face up to it.

I grew up on the beach and I grew up surfing and I grew up swimming in this very genuine beach town back in Australia, and it's just something I really want to reflect in my lifestyle and in the way I am, the way I represent myself, the way I dress and the music that I make.

Women never have a half-hour in all their lives (excepting before or after anybody is up in the house) that they can call their own, without fear of offending or of hurting someone. Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have 'no time in the day to themselves.' 1852

I found that if I got up on the stage to entertain the troops I could make them shut up and look.

Well, I think that I pretty much grew up grow up wanting to represent the West Indies.

I wake up every morning and it's like when you break up with somebody who has really broken your heart.

I never saw a gun until I was 24. I didn't grow up in Mayberry; I grew up in Southern California.

Technology sounds quick and easy, but it ends up taking up too much of your time.

I was like, oh, I want to sign up for "Catwoman," and then Anne Hathaway had already signed up for it.

I grew up without any money, but the one thing that we did was sit up in the gods to watch the ballet.

I grew up in Kentucky, but I did not grow up like that. I had heat, and I didn't have to shoot my dinner or anything.

I grew up in the countryside, so I had quite a feral life up until the age of about fourteen.

I grew up in a household of girls, so I would just pick up naturally what everyone else was doing.

I'm not a big sleeper. It just feels like wasting time. If I wake up, and it's after 5 A.M., I stay up.

I always had crazy, curly hair up in a bun, messy, running up and down, sweaty.

I can go any style - hook up, lock up, take you down - and do all kinds of amateur moves.

I trip over my legs all the time. I'll wave to somebody, look up, and end up eating pavement.

It got to the point where I would wake up at 6 A.M. and go on my phone and tweet something and have it be really good and get lots of retweets... and then I would wake up, because it was actually a dream; I would wake up with my hand holding nothing - an air phone.

He who lives up to a little light shall have more light; he who lives up to a little knowledge shall have more knowledge; he who lives up to a little faith shall have more faith, and he who lives up to a little love shall have more love. Verily the main reason why men are such babes and shrubs in grace is because they do not live up their attainments.

I come from a family of storytellers. Growing up, my father would make up these stories about how he and my mother met and fell in love, and my mother would tell me these elaborately visual stories of growing up as a kid in New York, and I was always so enrapt.

Hannibal Buress keeps popping up. His delivery cracks me up. He's smart and funny.

Some day I'm gonna call me up on the phone, so when I answer, I can tell myself to shut up.

I'm going to stash up my cash and invest in real estate. I want to be set up for the end of fighting.

Clean up. Clean up, everybody, everywhere. Clean up. Clean up, everybody do your share.

I just want to inspire all those people who gave up and said 'I quit,' Never give up!

I go to bed very late. I usually stay up till 2:30 A.M. but am up by seven in the morning.

I'm singing these songs to inspire you, to keep you going, to lift you up and give you a reason to get up in the morning.

Incomes went up for everybody. Manufacturing jobs went up also in the 1990s, if we're actually going to look at the facts.

My wife's family lives up in South Carolina, so we go back and forth quite a bit up there.

I am sure that, had I grown up with both parents, had I grown up in a safe environment, had I grown up with a feeling of safety rather than danger, I would not be the way I am.

The night I turned twenty-two, I drank a shot for every year. I was so drunk, I'd just walk up to people in the bar and hit them in the balls. My friends drove me home and left me propped up on the couch holding a bucket. I woke up with vomit all over me. The bucket was clean as a whistle.

What are the aspects of yourself that line up with the character? You magnify those, and the ones that don't match up you kind of kick to the curb.

A Texas girl who grew up in terrible poverty, I ended up leading a pretty glamorous life.

Told you I was going to mess up your make up," he said, a smug grin on his face.