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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
It's not going to be a straight upward progression, but there's no doubt that consciousness is growing. Prejudices die regularly in the Western world. We don't burn witches anymore.
Those who think of freedom in this country as one long, broad path leading ever onward and upward are dead damned wrong.
The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women
Try to bring me down, but you will never succeed because I'm always moving upward. Maybe not before, but now ... I am.
The idea of Utopia is mischievous as well as unrealistic. And dull, to boot. Man is born pushing and shoving as the sparks fly upward.
Success is not arriving at the summit of a mountain as a final destination. It is a continuing upward spiral of progress. It is perpetual growth.
Obama's perverse view of fairness threatens to create reverse incentives, militating against growth, jobs, expansion and upward mobility.
If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin.
Takeovers wouldn't cause the stock market to rise unless there is an upward reassessment of earnings (potential). People are more optimistic and confident about the future.
Be like a tree in pursuit of your cause. Stand firm, grip hard, thrust upward. Bend to the winds of heaven. And learn tranquility.
The small seed of despair cracks open and sends experimental tendrils upward to the fragile skin of calm holding him together.
Presidential candidates don't get quite the upward favorable rating surge they used to after their nominating conventions.
For a while I didn't have a car . . . I had a helicopter . . . no place to park it, so I just tied it to a lamp post and left it running. [slow glance upward]
The blues is not the creation of a crushed-spirited people. It is the product of a forward-looking, upward-striving people.
I consider myself fortunate to have grown up in Brooklyn. It's what gave me my drive to succeed, the upward mobility I've been after my whole life.
The recollection of one upward hour
Hath more in it to tranquilize and cheer
The darkness of despondency, than years
Of gayety and pleasure.
2005 opens with the promise of a number of substantial direct private investments that can swiftly transform the economy and set all sectors on a pronounced upward curve.
When you look at the biggest study of the American dream, the number-one correlate for upward mobility is having two parents in a home. It doesn't matter if they're male or female.
Politics moves upward into ethics, and ethics ascends to theology.
I venture that those of us who are most serene when faced with the possibility of nothingness are the ones who've reached furthest to the downward and upward of their beings.
The data show we can do something about upward mobility. Every extra year of childhood spent in a better neighborhood seems to matter.
I think in reality the Japanese have to make changes in monetary policy, otherwise we're still going to be dealing with some upward pressure on the yen against the dollar.
We believe that the government has an important role to create the conditions that promote entrepreneurship, upward mobility, and individual responsibility.
We are now in the Me Decade - seeing the upward roll of the third great religious wave in American history.
The dust's for crawling, heaven's for flying, Wherefore, O Soul, whose wings are grown, Soar upward to the sun!
Be a role model of happiness and joy, which will pull everyone - including yourself - upward.
Well, I've obviously been a great source of inspiration to the academic population of Salford! They're citing me as a major contribution to their upward trajectory!
This assumes an upward revision of the European Budget, which is precisely what Jacques Chirac refuses to do. On the contrary, he has demanded a reduction.
Trump's claims that he's making taxes more democratic for the people, but it actually is a vast sucking of income and wealth upward.
Have you ever watched a leaf leave a tree? It falls upward first, and then it drifts toward the ground, just as I find myself drifting towards you.
The eternal feminine doth draw us upward.
[Ger., Das Ewig-Weibliche zieht uns hinan.]
The problem, gentlemen, is that Obama is right: The promise of upward mobility is dying in America, and no amount of political demagoguery will fix it.
From forty to fifty a man must move upward, or the natural falling off in the vigor of life will carry him rapidly downward.
She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches, with sad eyes, the slow dance of the infinite stars.
Nor love they least
Who strike with right good will
To vanquish ill
And fight God's battle upward from the beast.
Let me be one of the upward and outward lookers, not one of the downward and inward lookers.
When you and I are inclined to nestle down in indolence and self indulgence. God "stirs up our nests" and bids us fly upward.
Operating under the conscious capitalism model will show that businesses are the true value creators that can push all of humanity upward for continuous improvement.
White men seem to have difficulty in realizing that people who live differently from themselves still might be traveling the upward and progressive road of life.
Religion and science, then, in my analysis are the two great sister forces which have pulled, and are still pulling, mankind onward and upward.
The kundalini flows upward. It also flows downward in different ways. It is quite complex, actually.
Have I not walked without an upward look Of caution under stars that very well Might not have missed me when they shot and fell? It was a risk I had to take-and took.
Start your day in a upward direction, and the rest of the day will follow the uphill path.
The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
Love is the dynamic motivation behind every worthy purpose; it is the upward thrust that lifts men to the heights.
The inside must be made entirely calm and quiet and there should reign an upward aspiration - a state of awaiting.
5 opens with the promise of a number of substantial direct private investments that can swiftly transform the economy and set all sectors on a pronounced upward curve.
Throw back the shoulders, let the heart sing, let the eyes flash, let the mind be lifted up, look upward and say to yourself ... nothing is impossible!
We should continue to grow our economy and create employment opportunities, particularly quality jobs to help the upward mobility of young people.
History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.
I think it's better to be overly ambitious and fail than to be underambitious and succeed in a mundane way. I have been very fortunate. I failed upward in my life!
Tomorrow, the market will probably continue upward driven by the dollar, but it won't go up much because of caution before the employment figures.
Low rents mean families have more resources to improve their quality of life and invest in the next generation, facilitating upward mobility.
The American nation, in its march onward and upward, can not publicly choke the intellectual and political activity of half its citizens by narrow statutes.
The force that propels the human spirit on the clear way forward and upward is the abstract spirit.
O human race, born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou so fall?
The joy of all mysteries is the certainty which comes from their contemplation, that there are many doors yet for the soul to open on her upward and inward way.
History could claw upward as well as down. The powerful could be deafened by the cries of the poor.
It seems to me an indictment of the Republican Party that if you talk about issues of poverty and upward mobility, people assume you're a Democrat.
In the first debate the bulges create the impression of a letter T with a small feature which appears similar to a wire under the jacket running upward from the right.
