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

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

All ambitions are lawful except those that climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.
Henry Ward Beecher

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

And I have been able to give freedom and life which was acknowledged in the ecstasy of walking hand in hand across the most beautiful bridge of the world, the cables enclosing us and pulling us upward in such a dance as I have never walked and never can walk with another.
Hart Crane

Ethical religion can be real only to those who are engaged in ceaseless efforts at moral improvement. By moving upward we acquire faith in an upward movement, without limit.
Felix Adler

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
Andre Gide

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

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

If you knew the upward mobility that South Dakota's kids have gotten from the opportunity to intern and to work and to be employed and to have upward mobility in that company and move on, it's been phenomenal for South Dakota.
Bill Janklow

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

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

It seems obvious to me that the notion of God has never been anything but a kind of ideal projection, a reflection upward of the human personality, and that theology never has been and never can be anything but a more and more purified mythology.
Alfred Loisy

Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder.
Carl Sandburg

Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.
Carl Jung

Our tree is actually a tree of the short-term interest rate. The average direction in which the short-term interest rate moves depends on the level of the rate. When the rate is very high, that direction is downward; when the rate is very low, it is upward.
John Hull

The history of the past is but one long struggle upward to equality.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

This assumes an upward revision of the European Budget, which is precisely what Jacques Chirac refuses to do. On the contrary, he has demanded a reduction.
Laurent Fabius

This seems to be the law of progress in everything we do; it moves along a spiral rather than a perpendicular; we seem to be actually going out of the way, and yet it turns out that we were really moving upward all the time.
Frances E. Willard