#upward

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#admit #america #applies #doctrine #does

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened. ↗

— Philip Sidney

#ever #heart #like #most #nature

We fear our passage will be attended with difficulties by reason of the great number of passingers which are one hundred and eighty and upwards in number. ↗

— Nathaniel Smith

#difficulties #eighty #fear #great #great number

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#climb #except #lawful #mankind #miseries

In the first debate the bulges create the impression of a letter T with a small feature which appears similar to a wire under the jacket running upward from the right. ↗

— Robert Nelson

#create #debate #feature #first #impression

Anger is an agro-chemical that makes self-destruction to grow faster. Like a stone thrown upward, all angry people eventually fall down into the dirty ditch of sorrowful self-harm and a pathetic loss of real-self. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#anger #fall #fertilizer #grow #real-self

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women. ↗

— Elizabeth II

#course #due #heart #history #long

A study of the history of wages back through the years indicates clearly that when the cost-of-living rises appreciably wages have shortly been adjusted upward also. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

#also #back #been #clearly #history

Vision looks upward and becomes faith. ↗

— Stephen Samuel Wise

#becomes #looks #upward #vision

But even now, when people see me in the street, they point upwards to the sky. ↗

— Barry Gibb

#even now #me #now #people #point