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«Mankind's struggle upwards, in which millions are trampled to death, that thousands may mount on their bodies»
Author: Clara Lucas Balfour | About: Mankind | Keywords: upwards
«Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards.»
«In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.»
«Our way is not soft grass, it's a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards, forward, toward the sun.»
Author: Ruth Westheimer | Keywords: rocks, upwards
«Even in decline, a virtuous man increases the beauty of his behavior. A burning stick, though turned to the ground, has its flame drawn upwards.»
Author: Saskya Pandita | Keywords: decline, upwards
«Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another»
Author: Plato (Philosopher) | About: Astronomy | Keywords: astronomy, compels, leads, upwards
«Uriah, with his long hands slowly twining over one another, made a ghastly writhe from the waist upwards.»
«Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.»
Author: George Orwell (Essayist, Novelist) | Keywords: upwards
«An excellent man, like precious metal, is in every way invariable; A villain, like the beams of a balance, is always varying, upwards and downwards.»