Up Quotes
65526 quotes by 19207 authors
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Lots of ambitious work by young artists ends up in a dumpster after its warehouse debut. So an unknown artist's big glass vitrine holding a…
— Charles Saatchi
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It's not up to anyone else to make me give my best.
— Hakeem Olajuwon
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Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt…
— Lewis Gannett
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An optimistic gardener is one who believes that whatever goes down must come up.
— Unknown Author
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The problem with children is that you have to put up with their parents.
— Charles de Lint
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All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick up a work…
— Steve Almond
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Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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What can be said in New Year rhymes, That's not been said a thousand times? The new years come, the old years go, We know…
— Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely…
— George MacDonald
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Money never made a fool of anybody; it only shows them up.
— Elbert Hubbard
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What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or…
— Seneca the Younger
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Everyone gets scared, and everyone falls. The key is to get right back up and try again.
— Shannon Miller
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As long as you've done your best, making mistakes doesn't matter. You and I are human; we will mess up. What counts is learning from…
— Shawn Johnson
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I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Through some strange and powerful principle of mental chemistry which she has never divulged, nature wraps up in the impulse of strong desire, that something…
— Napoleon Hill
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Again and again I am brought up against it, and again and again I resist it: I don't want to believe it, even though it…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be;…
— George Eliot
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What I tell these young people is, the world is not as dangerous as the older generation would like you to believe. Anyone I know…
— Jonathan Kozol
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The principle element in a performance is risk, and if you're losing interest then by scaring yourself to death the audience will feel it and…
— Leo Kottke
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Government, religion, property, books, are nothing but the scaffolding to build men. Earth holds up to her master no fruit like the finished man.
— Wilhelm von Humboldt
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