Up Quotes

I have this theory that, depending on your attitude, your life doesn't have to become this ridiculous charade that it seems so many people end up living.

The "what should be" never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no "what should be," there is only what is.

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.

No matter how much you think you love somebody, you'll step back when the pool of their blood edges up too close.

As long as you as an individual... can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you can you have to be optimistic, you can be described as 'one of the faithful,' one of those people who can say, 'Well, look, something's going to happen! Let's just keep trying. Let's not give up.

Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.

Christmas can have a real melancholy aspect, 'cause it packages itself as this idea of perfect family cohesion and love, and you're always going to come up short when you measure your personal life against the idealized personal lives that are constantly thrust in our faces, primarily by TV commercials.

There will be a meeting of the great powers who will disagree, and the next noise we hear will be the screeching of elevators going up and down from heaven to hell.

Most people wouldn't know music if it came up and bit them on the ass.

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.

No matter what you study, the thing that you know best is what you grew up with.

It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun?... Or does it explode?

I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

I've realised that when I don't play people who are complex I get very, very bored, and then lazy, and end up being rubbish.

If you want to give up the admiration of thousands of men for the distain of one, go ahead, get married.

One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.

We must not sit still and look for miracles; up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

My soul is not my own any more. I cannot live like I want to. I am going to give up films.

What is a danger is that we stay stuck in a new normal where unemployment rates stay high, people who have jobs see their incomes go up, businesses make big profits. But they're learned to do more with less, and so they don't hire.

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

The whole celebrity thing is not something I'm overly interested in. I don't pop up at parties. It's just not my thing.

A guy is a lump like a doughnut. So, first you gotta get rid of all the stuff his mom did to him. And then you gotta get rid of all that macho crap that they pick up from beer commercials. And then there's my personal favorite, the male ego.

I'd like to play Ian Paisley, actually. I'd need building up, though he's very frail now.

People can try to reinvent themselves. I don't think you can really change who you are, though, because who you are is pretty much where you came from and what you've done up to now.

My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.

Bear up, my child, bear up; Zeus who oversees and directs all things is still mighty in heaven.

Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you're gonna be rewarded.

Winter is nature's way of saying, "Up yours."