A liberal is a person who believes that water can be made to run uphill. A conservative is someone who believes everybody should pay for his water. I'm somewhere in between: I believe water should be free, but that water flows downhill.
Theodore White

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.
Babe Ruth

As soon as I got up on that stage, and I remembered how welcoming and warming the judges, their presence is, and it was just all uphill from there.
James Durbin

I can't get hired in a studio movie. Everything is so uphill.
Kyra Sedgwick

I have felt for the last 10 years I have had this battle; I've been fighting so hard to have an education. It's been this uphill struggle. I was Warner Bros' pain in the butt. I was their scheduling conflict. I was the one who made life difficult.
Emma Watson

It's the equivalent of putting on the brakes suddenly while driving uphill.
John Gunther

The battle of life is, in most cases, fought uphill; and to win it without a struggle were perhaps to win it without honor. If there were no difficulties there would be no success; if there were nothing to struggle for, there would be nothing to be achieved.
Samuel Smiles

The big hurdle is going out and raising the revenue. There's no doubt about that; it's an uphill battle.
Terry Porter

The road to freedom must be uphill, even if it is arduous and frustrating.
Andrew Goodman

The road to success runs uphill.
Willie Davis

The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.
Jonathan Edwards

What can you do if a part of it is uphill? You can't work out another route. You've just got to run the one they give you. But they tell me London is a nice course. Even the cobbles, I hope, are not very much of a problem for me.
Haile Gebrselassie