#upward

It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward. ↗

— Andre Gide

#follow #good #leads #long #own

When interest rates are high you want the average direction in which interest rates are moving to be downward; when interest rates are low you want the average direction to be upward. ↗

— John Hull

#direction #downward #high #interest #low

2005 opens with the promise of a number of substantial direct private investments that can swiftly transform the economy and set all sectors on a pronounced upward curve. ↗

— Baldwin Spencer

#direct #economy #investments #number #opens

The natural movement of one's soul is upwards. But just as any object is dragged down when a heavy weight is tied to it, the burden of the body drags down the soul. ↗

— Vinoba Bhave

#body #burden #down #dragged #drags

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. ↗

— Charlotte Bronte

#backward #forward #i #keep #looking

The problem, gentlemen, is that Obama is right: The promise of upward mobility is dying in America, and no amount of political demagoguery will fix it. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#amount #demagoguery #dying #fix #gentlemen

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. ↗

— John Locke

#balance #beams #downwards #every #excellent

Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#companions #flight #great men #heights #kept

I used to look at these pictures of trumpeters pointing their instrument to the ceiling. Stunning pictures, but if you play the trumpet and point it upwards, all the spit comes back into your mouth! ↗

— Humphrey Lyttelton

#ceiling #comes #i #instrument #into

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. ↗

— George Orwell

#best #child #eyes #faces #few