Up - Quotes
An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
Anything anyone is still trying to explain to you after two minutes is probably important and anything they give up after a mere minute or so is almost certainly something they shouldn't have been bothering you with in the first place.
Many children can do extraordinary things; we are all geniuses up to the age of ten.
You prefer to be natural? [...] It is such a very difficult pose to keep up.
People think that professional soldiers think a lot about fighting, but serious professional soldiers think a lot more about food and a warm place to sleep, because these are two things that are generally hard to get, whereas fighting tends to turn up all the time.
First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up, and finally you forget to pull it down.
Summing up, it is clear the future holds great opportunities. It also holds pitfalls. The trick will be to avoid the pitfalls, seize the opportunities, and get back home by six o`clock.
When you sell your time, you are giving up your right to decide what's worth doing.
Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? There isn't a religion on the planet that doesn't long for a comparable ability - precise, and repeatedly demonstrated before committed skeptics - to foretell future events. No other human institution comes close.
Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush to the net.