Upper Quotes

The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others. (Anton Chekhov)
YOU are the big drop of dew under the lotus leaf, I am the smaller one on its upper side,' said the dewdrop to the lake. View quote
Rabindranath Tagore
And though hard be the task, keep a stiff upper lip. View quote
Phoebe Cary
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. View quote
Christopher Eccleston
I'd been brought up on the Upper East Side in a WASP society, which was death on crutches. View quote
Harry Mathews
People who keep stiff upper lips find that it's damn hard to smile. View quote
Judith Guest
Most of the locks and dams on the upper Mississippi River system are over 60 years old and many are in serious need of repair and rehabilitation. View quote
Ron Kind
Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them. View quote
Germaine Greer
Washington is in the clear upper sky. View quote
Daniel Webster
It was a still afternoon--the golden light was lingering languidly among the upper boughs, only glancing down here and there on the purple pathway and its edge of faintly sprinkled moss an afternoon in which destiny disguises her cold awful face behind a hazy radiant veil, encloses us in warm downy wings, and poisons us with violet-scented breath. View quote
George Eliot
Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future. (Ayn Rand)
In one of my latest conversations with Darwin he expressed himself very gloomily on the future of humanity, on the ground that in our modern civilization natural selection had no play, and the fittest did not survive. Those who succeed in the race for wealth are by no means the best or the most intelligent, and it is notorious that our population is more largely renewed in each generation from the lower than from the middle and upper classes. View quote
Alfred Russel Wallace
Those families, you know, are our upper crust-not upper ten thousand. View quote
James Fenimore Cooper
Getting the call to be in The Goblet of Fire was like being welcomed into the most exclusive upper circle of some elite actors' club. You sit on set with the cream of the National Theatre and the RSC, all clutching wands or wearing witches' hats. View quote
David Tennant
Thus night with all her snares passed through the upper world and baited all heads sweetly, fed all foolish hopes, for night can bring to men all shrewish day denies, wrapped as a gift in the green leaves of opiate dream. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
Belts distract the eye from a bloated tummy, a heavy-set upper body and all manner of sins. They can be a superb way to update your wardrobe without breaking the bank, and there's no reason to stop wearing them, ever! View quote
Twiggy
Not since the Black Panthers sailed into their Upper East Side tea party has there been so daffy an exercise in radical chic. View quote
Camille Paglia
The harvest of this world is to the resolute, and he that is infirm of purpose is ground betwixt the upper and the nether millstone. View quote
Eric Rücker Eddison
Inequality has the natural and necessary effect, under the present circumstances, of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalizing our lower class. View quote
Matthew Arnold
How marvellously lie our anxieties, in filmy layers, one over the other! Take away that which has lain on the upper surface for so long – the care of cares – the only one, as it seemed to you, between your soul and the radiance of Heaven – and straight you find a new stratum there. View quote
Sheridan Le Fanu
The poor yield to the rich, the common people to the upper ten, the servants to their masters, the ignorant to the scholars; but there is nobody who does not imagine that he is really better than others. (John Calvin)
The Earth is cylindrical, three times as wide as it is deep, and only the upper part is inhabited. But this Earth is isolated in space, and the sky is a complete sphere in the center of which is located, unsupported, our cylinder, the Earth, situated at an equal distance from all the points of the sky. View quote
Anaximander
Soft-heartedness, in times like these, Shows sof'ness in the upper story. View quote
James Russell Lowell
Hence, as the line of sight to the upper part is the longer, it makes that part look as if it were leaning back. But when the members are inclined to the front, as described above, they will seem the beholder to be plumb and perpendicular. View quote
Vitruvius
Man is the higher Sense of our Planet; the star which connects it with the upper world; the eye which it turns towards Heaven. View quote
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