Upper Quotes

386 quotes by 342 authors

In Britain, eponymous lifestyle branding as we know it started in the late 1960s, with two fascinating families - the Conrans and the Ashleys -… — Peter York
Only that Swiss in the heart want still a king or at least a strong Upper House of Parliament. Swiss long themselves for less democracy… — Peter Bichsel
I am of the international upper class, the Swedish petit bourgeoisie of Jewish extraction with poor language skills, a conveyor of a few expressions and… — Erland Josephson
Just as words have two functions - information and creation - so each human mind has two personalities, one on the surface, one deeper down.… — E. M. Forster
Whither away, Bluebird, Whither away? The blast is chill, yet in the upper sky Thou still canst find the color of thy wing, The hue… — Edmund Clarence Stedman
Water creates a neurosis in golfers. The very thought of this harmless fluid robs them of their normal powers of rational thought, turns their legs… — Peter Dobereiner
The contemporary tendency in our society is to base our distribution on scarcity, which has vanished, and to compress our abundance into the overfed mouths… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
We are in the more blessed category, the upper class who lived by faith and believed even though we hadn't seen! — David Berg
Environmentalism is not an upper-income issue, it's not a white issue, it's not a black issue, it's not a South or a North or an… — Barack Obama
Next to a shot of some good, habit-forming narcotic, there is nothing like travelling alone as a 'builder-upper. — Robert Benchley
If your body is a temple, you can pile up too much deferred maintenance. If your body is a temple, mine was a real fixer-upper. — Chuck Palahniuk
Many things happen between the cup and the upper lip. — Aulus Gellius
Microsoft has built loyalty at the end-user level, including upper management, .. That works for a while in the early stages of a product, but… — Murphy J. Foster, Jr.
You have these 'hot towers', tropical storm clouds acting like chimneys to carry heat to the upper atmosphere. — Peter May
The upper hand is with those who are pushing regime change rather than those who are advocating more diplomacy. — Richard N. Haass
Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class. — Matthew Arnold
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. — Matthew Arnold
Morality for the upper classes, the gallows for the rabbles. — Napoleon Bonaparte
The finest of the glacier meadow gardens lie ...imbedded in the upper pine forests like lakes of light. — John Muir
When winds are raging o'er the upper ocean And billows wild contend with angry roar, 'Tis said, far down beneath the wild commotion That peaceful… — Harriet Beecher Stowe

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