Up Quotes

A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride.

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.

The artists I look up to are the ones who push their own limits.

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Keeping the Union together, freeing slaves and being assassinated all added up to creating 'Lincoln the myth.' He overcame a lot of his own prejudices and became what many would consider the first black man's president.

Those issues are biblical issues: to care for the sick, to feed the hungry, to stand up for the oppressed. I contend that if the evangelical community became more biblical, everything would change.

We had training camp for a week, and we used the actual military drills of that period. We didn't have to work out much after hours, because going up and down hills all day was a good workout in itself.

I was brought up Roman Catholic. I'm not even baptized.

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.

The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun.

In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring.

If it's a modern-day story dealing with certain ethnic groups, I think I could open up certain scenes for improvisation, while staying within the structure of the script.

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

And I laugh at myself when I screw things up, which happens all the time.

The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up.

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

I know my family and I would always go up to the mountains just for fun. We always skied. Then, all of a sudden, my brother started snow boarding. Older brother thing, I had to do what he was doing. So I started snow boarding.

First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.

Manners is the key thing. Say, for instance, when you're growing up, you're walking down the street, you've got to tell everybody good morning. Everybody. You can't pass one person.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

As I said there is nothing wrong with failing. Pick yourself up and try it again. You never are going to know how good you really are until you go out and face failure.

I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn't know how to get along without it.

Freedom and democracy are dreams you never give up.

I will not have my son grow up in a tension-filled home.

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black people to be anti-Semitic,' or 'It is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of African descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor,' it's crucial to say that.

Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.

Now, most dentist's chairs go up and down, don't they? The one I was in went back and forwards. I thought 'This is unusual'. And the dentist said to me 'Mr Vine, get out of the filing cabinet.