Best Upper Hand Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“You call that a kiss?" "Yep." Okay, so I'm in shock the girl put my hand on her creamy cheek. Damn, you'd think I was on drugs by the way my body reacted. She had me totally under her spell a minute ago. Then the pretty witch turned my game around so she was the one with the upper hand.”

Kiss Game Spell Trick Alex Fuentes Upper Hand Brittany Ellis

Book:Perfect Chemistry

Source: Perfect Chemistry

“Suspense was an excellent tool for keeping powerful people off balance. It gave one bargaining power.”

People Powerful Power Balance Advantage Suspense Bargaining Bargain Upper Hand Leverage Tool

Book:City of Dragons

Source: City of Dragons

“I don't doubt it, but in ruining me, you would also ruin your chances at Falconwell." He stiffened. Penelope was breathless with excitement as she waited for his reply. "Name your price." She had won. She had won. She wanted to crow her success, her defeat of this great, immovable beast of a man.”

Upper Hand Penelope Marbury Penelope And Michael

Book:A Rogue by Any Other Name

Source: A Rogue by Any Other Name

“Listen very carefully. Because I'm only going to lay this out for you once. I'm no longer the easy prey I once was and if you go up against me I will make sure you end up behind bars. You've fraudulently pocketed the money from the video. Our lawyers already have a criminal suit against you ready to go. Unless you're particularly keen on jail, you will leave my family alone, and you will withdraw the video and return all that money to the people you stole it from." Julia opened her mouth, but Trisha held up her hand and she closed it. "And if you do one thing to harm DJ"- because suddenly Trisha was sure Julia had something on DJ; her nineties-Bollywood-plot theory didn't seem so farfetched- "I will make sure that every one of the families you've preyed on to make money off their tragedies gets together and sues your ass until every penny you've ever leeched is gone. Now get out of my office. Get out of my building- which by the way is private property. Soliciting business here is illegal. So the next time you think of setting foot here, know that I will have security throw you out on your cowardly, pathetic ass.”

Threatening Upper Hand Shots Fired Trisha Raje

Book:Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors

Source: Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors

“Sometimes there’s no way to get the upper hand without taking a few uppercuts.”

Triumph Boxing Fight Whatever It Takes Winning Mentality Upper Hand Hard Knock Life Hard Knocks Last Laugh Lost Battles

Author:Curtis Tyrone Jones

“If freedom rings, then bondage bombs.”

Light Powerful Liberty Stronger Slavery Heavy Loud Bombs Control Powerless Kill Servitude Destroy Soft Upper Hand Explode Weaker Freedom Rings Bondange

Author:Anthony Liccione

“A democracy is a state in which the poor, gaining the upper hand, kill some and banish others, and then divide the offices among the remaining citizens equally, usually by lot.”

States Hands Poor Democracy Citizens Office Divides Upper Hand

Author:Plato

“The upper hand is with those who are pushing regime change rather than those who are advocating more diplomacy.”

Hands Pushing Regimes Diplomacy Advocating Upper Hand Regime Change

Author:Richard N. Haass

“My position as regards the monied interests can be put in a few words. In every civilized society property rights must be carefully safeguarded; ordinarily and in the great majority of cases, human rights and property rights are fundamentally and in the long run, identical; but when it clearly appears that there is a real conflict between them, human rights must have the upper hand; for property belongs to man and not man to property.”

“Throughout the history of mankind there have been murderers and tyrants; and while it may seem momentarily that they have the upper hand, they have always fallen. Always.”

May Has Beens Hands Seems Mankind Fallen Tyrants Murderer Upper Hand

Author:Mahatma Gandhi

“The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley of ties that bound man to his "natural superiors," and left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous "cash payment.”

Source: Marx: Selected Writings

“Looking back on the long-stretched-out body of one's work, it is interesting to mark the endless duel fought within a man between the emotional and critical sides of his nature, first one, then the other, getting the upper hand, and too seldom fusing till the result has the mellowness of full achievement. One can even tell the nature of one's readers, by their preference for the work which reveals more of this side than of that.”

Men Firsts Long Body Hands Sides Interesting Results Emotional Reader Achievement Mark Critical Endless Working It Looking Back Preference Upper Hand

Author:John Galsworthy

“We Communists have got to string along with the capitalists for a while. We need their agriculture and their technology. But we are going to continue massive military programs. . . (soon) we will be in a position to return to a much more aggressive foreign policy designed to gain the upper-hand.”

Needs Hands Technology Military Policy Position Return Gains Program Strings Massive Communist Aggressive Capitalist Foreign Policy Agriculture Upper Hand

Author:Leonid Brezhnev

“There'd been studies over the years supporting the proposition that groups composed exclusively of women usually made intelligent decisions, that exclusively male groups did a bit less well, and that mixed groups did most poorly of all, by a substantial margin. It appeared that, when women were present, testosterone got the upper hand and men took greater risks than they might otherwise. Correspondingly, women in the mixed group tended to revert to roles, becoming more passive, and going along with whatever misjudgment the males might perpetrate.”

Men Years Wells Made Hands Might Bits Decision Roles Study Greater Risk Groups Becoming Intelligent Males Passive Propositions Margins Becoming More Testosterone Upper Hand

Book:Chindi

Source: Chindi

“It's the first company to build the mental position that has the upper hand, not the first company to make the product. IBM didn't invent the computer; Sperry Rand did. But IBM was the first to build the computer position in the prospect's mind.”

Mind Firsts Hands Company Position Products Computer Ibm Upper Hand

Author:Al Ries

“I remember asking one of the [cyber experts], I said, "Knowing what you know, and you exist behind the curtains so to speak, and you see behind the curtain, do you look at the world differently? Do you feel you have an upper hand?" He just started laughing and said, "Man, people have no idea how exposed they are, how vulnerable, and what's possible."”

People Knows Men World Feels Looks Said Ideas Hands Remember Speak Behinds Laughing Knowing Asking Vulnerable No Idea Experts Exposed Curtains Cyber Upper Hand

Author:Chris Hemsworth

“In this world, man has two significant possessions: intelligence and emotion. These two possessions govern our day-to-day life. But very often we see that emotion (ego) gets the upper hand in our life. We know that even if someone is extremely intelligent, when his emotion comes to the fore it will devour him. He is compelled to do what his emotion asks him to do.”

Ifs Knows Men World Two Hands Asks Emotion Our Lives This World Ego Intelligent Possession Significant Day To Day Compelled Day Life Day To Day Life Upper Hand

Author:Sri Chinmoy

“Nothing, that is say no one, can be such an inexorable tour-conductor as one's own conscience or sense of duty, if one allows either the upper hand: the self-bullying that goes on in the name of sight-seeing is grievous.”

Ifs Self Hands Names Seeing Duty Goes On Travel Conscience Sight Bullying Conductor Inexorable Upper Hand

Author:Elizabeth Bowen

“The one who decides who goes ahead has the upper hand, regardless of who gets to go. This is why many women do not feel empowered by such privileges as having doors held open for them. The advantage of going first through the door is less salient to them than the disadvantage of being granted the right to walk through a door by someone who is framed, by his magnanimous gesture, as the arbiter of the right-of-way.”

Way Feels Firsts Hands Walks Power Doors Advantage Privilege Granted Gestures Empowered Disadvantages Framed Arbiter Upper Hand Magnanimous

Book:That's Not What I Meant!: How Conversational Style Makes or Breaks Relationships

Source: That's Not What I Meant!: How Conversational Style Makes or Breaks Relationships

“I felt sure we could gain the upper hand by putting ourselves in the mindset of the Incas.”

Hands Felt Gains Mindset Upper Hand Incas

Book:House of the Tiger King Paperback

Source: House of the Tiger King Paperback

“Guests can be, and often are, delightful, but they should never be allowed to get the upper hand.”

Should Hands Friendship Guests Delightful Upper Hand

Author:Elizabeth von Arnim

“It is better to have a cat and mouse game where the cat has the upper hand than a cat and mouse game where the mice are ruling. Because the latter means that the market participants are given free range. That was actually the big misconception of our national hero Ronald Reagan, who always talked about the magic of the market.”

Mean Hands Bigs Games Given Magic Hero Cat Range Latter Mice Ruling Misconception Participants Upper Hand Cat And Mouse

Author:George Soros

“The Stately Homes of England, How beautiful they stand, To prove the Upper Classes, Have still the Upper Hand.”

Stills Home Humor Hands Funny Beautiful Class Prove England Upper Class Upper Hand

Author:Noel Coward

“The music is the imperative. It has the upper hand. I think all music, even though it's an abstraction, does motivate a particular meaning. Then it's the job of the musician to honor that meaning and to somehow implement lyrical material that can accommodate that emotional environment.”

Thinking Doe Hands Jobs Environment Emotional Particular Materials Honor Musician Music Is Abstraction Imperatives Accommodate Lyrical Upper Hand

Author:Sufjan Stevens

“Today we're seeing fundamental conflicts within political Islam, with the fundamentalists on the one side and the moderates on the other. Who gains the upper hand means a great deal to the world.”

World Mean Hands Today Political Sides Deals Seeing Conflict Gains Fundamentals Islam Moderates Upper Hand

Author:Zalmay Khalilzad

“I remember being in the audition with Mark [Duplass] and I remember not being able to dominate him. He's so smart and centered and grounded. I can't do what I'd normally do to someone in this situation. I can't get the upper hand in the scene. I was really impressed and excited about the possibility to work with him.”

I Can Hands Able Remember Situation Possibility Scene Smart Mark Excited Impressed Auditions Grounded Upper Hand

Author:Jackie Schaffer

“I can only hope that Trump comes to realize the grave dangers of adopting a policy of confrontation toward Iran. Among these dangers is the likelihood that hardliners would again gain the upper hand in the governing process in Tehran, and the moderates who have sought to end national and regional tensions would be marginalized, or worse.”

I Can Ends Hands Would Be Process Realizing Danger Policy Trump Gains Graves Tension Iran Moderates Governing Confrontation Likelihood Adopting Marginalized Tehran Upper Hand

Author:Richard A. Falk

“Hundreds upon hundreds of news outlets - okay, thousands - are interested in following the happenings at the White House. Yet the number of news sources at the White House - people who know what's happening - is finite. Dozens maybe. With that imbalance hanging over the enterprise, it's hard for a group of reporters competing against one another to secure the upper hand.”

People Knows Hard Hands House White Numbers Groups Source News Happenings Okay Following Secure Enterprise White House Dozen Reporters Competing Finite Outlets Imbalance Upper Hand

Author:Erik Wemple

“The press is hostile to Donald Trump, they always will be. And Donald Trump is happy to return the favor. And you know what, he actually has the upper hand in that relationship.”

Knows Hands Return Trump Presses Favors Hostile Upper Hand

Author:Ari Fleischer

“In fighting a bull you're always aware of a paradox concerning your perceptions of the bull. On the one hand it's your perceptions of the bull that give you the upper hand. You read the bull, you learn to read the bull more and more accurately, and this reading of the bull is how you deploy your intelligence against the bull's intelligence. Your accuracy in reading the bull is a weapon, maybe your most important weapon, against all the bull's weapons. On the other hand, you're human, you have the human tendency to read into the bull things which may not actually be there.”

Giving Humans May Important Hands Fighting Reading Perception Weapons Tendencies Paradox Bulls Accuracy Upper Hand

Author:Bette Ford

“It's funny how the hippies and the punks tried to get rid of the conservatives, but they always seem to get the upper hand in the end.”

Ends Hands Seems Punk Hippie Upper Hand

Author:Bjork

“Exoticism can give you an edge: it makes people assume you're cleverer than you are and gives you the upper hand.”

People Giving Hands Assuming Edges Upper Hand

Author:Kristin Scott Thomas

“There are times when I look over the various parts of my character with perplexity. I recognize that I am made up of several persons and that the person that at the moment has the upper hand will inevitably give place to another. But which is the real one? All of them or none?”

Giving Looks Persons Made Real Moments Character Hands Various Real Ones Perplexity Upper Hand

Author:W. Somerset Maugham

“Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off - then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.”

Source: Moby-Dick: A Picture Voyage : an Abridged and Illustrated Edition of the Original Classic

“And wonder, dread and war have lingered in that land where loss and love in turn have held the upper hand.”

War Hands Turns Loss Wonder Land And Love Dread Upper Hand

Book:Sir Gawain e il Cavaliere Verde

Source: Sir Gawain e il Cavaliere Verde

“Intelligence has got the upper hand to such an extent that it transforms the real task into an unreal trick and reality into a play.”

Real Play Hands Reality Tasks Tricks Unreal Upper Hand

Author:Soren Kierkegaard

“Fifteen minutes later I was an expert. That's all you need. I think I was even getting the upper hand, which is very simple with a guy. Anything seems to turn them on.”

Thinking Needs Hands Seems Guy Turns Simple Minutes Experts Fifteen Upper Hand

Book:Looking for Alibrandi

Source: Looking for Alibrandi

“There is not much to be got anywhere in the world. It is filled with misery and pain; if a man escapes these, boredeom lies in wait for him at every corner. Nay more; it is evil which generally has the upper hand, and folly that makes the most noise. Fate is cruel and mankind pitiable.”

Ifs Men World Hands Pain Lying Evil Waiting Fate Mankind Filled Misery Corners Noise Folly Upper Hand Wait For Him Misery And Pain

Book:Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer

Source: Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer

“A comfort zone can be a mental state:Belief in God is a lot of peoples's comfort zone. Dont get me wrong, I'm not knocking faith; I just dont think you should have it because it makes you feel safe. I think you should have it because you do. Because somewhere deep inside you, you know beyond equivocating that something greater, wiser and infinitely more loving than we're capable of understanding has a vested interested in the universe, in the way things turn out. Because you can feel that, as much as the forces of darkness might try to gain the upper hand, there is an Upper Hand.”

“In control. Out of control. Sometimes they're the same thing. The trick is knowing that, realizing it's okay to feel out of control once in a while, as long as you're sure you can regain the upper hand when you absolutely need to.”

Needs Feels Long Sometimes Hands Realizing Knowing Okay Tricks Upper Hand

Book:Identical

Source: Identical

“I know all about the despair of overcoming chronic temptation. It is not serious, provided self-offended petulance, annoyance at breaking records, impatience, etc., don't get the upper hand. No amount of falls will really undo us if we keep picking ourselves up each time...The only fatal thing is to lose one's temper and give up.”

Ifs Knows Giving Self Hands Happiness Fall Loses Records Serious Amount Despair Giving Up Overcoming Temptation Etc Temper Offended Impatience Annoyance Upper Hand Petulance

Author:C. S. Lewis

“The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.”

Philosophy Body Hands Powerful Grief Compassion Medicine Senses Sensations Thirst Soma Upper Hand

Author:Anton Chekhov

“And yet, we know how fatal the pursuit of liveliness may be: it may result in ... tiresome acrobatics. ... Flashy effects distract the mind. They destroy their persuasiveness; you would not believe a man was very intent on ploughing a furrow if he carried a hoop with him and jumped through it at every other step. ... When virtuosity gets the upper hand of your theme, or is better than your idea, it is time to quit.”

Ifs Knows Men Mind Believe May Ideas Hands Results Steps Know How Effects Quitting Pursuit Crafts Theme Tiresome Flashy Upper Hand Virtuosity Ploughing Acrobatics

Author:Katherine Anne Porter

“There are flood and drought over the eyes and in the mouth, dead water and dead sand contending for the upper hand. The parched eviscerate soil gapes at the vanity of toil, laughs without mirth. This is the death of the earth.”

Hands Eye Earth Death Water Laughing Mouths Environmental Vanity Soil Sand Pollution Flood Toil Famine Drought Mirth Contending Upper Hand

Author:T. S. Eliot

“Politically speaking, you don't necessarily give away information that allows your enemy to get an upper hand. But at the same time you don't keep reality from the population.”

Giving Hands Reality Enemy Information Population Upper Hand

Author:Dwight Schultz

“The workplace has become a psychological battlefield and the millennials have the upper hand, because they are tech savvy, with every gadget imaginable almost becoming an extension of their bodies. They multitask, talk, walk, listen and type, and text. And their priorities are simple: they come first.”

Firsts Body Hands Simple Walks Type Becoming Priorities Psychological Workplace Extensions Battlefields Gadgets Millennials Savvy Upper Hand

Author:Morley Safer

“Most leaders would agree that they’d be better off having an average strategy with superb execution than a superb strategy with poor execution. Those who execute always have the upper hand.”

Hands Motivational Poor Leader Agree Strategy Average Execution Better Off Superb Upper Hand

Book:The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness

Source: The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness

“In the absence of evidence to the contrary, always assume you have the upper hand.”

Hands Evidence Assuming Absence Contrary Upper Hand

Author:Ronnie Montrose

“Women are quite unlike men. Women have higher voices, longer hair, smaller waistlines, daintier feet and prettier hands. They also invariably have the upper hand.”

Men Hands Women Voice Feet Hair Higher Men Women Upper Hand

Author:Stephen Potter

“I'd go dance at talent shows, and because I was young I had the upper hand on a lot of other crews. People thought it was cute. I used that to my advantage.”

People Shows Hands Young Used Talent Advantage Cute Crew Upper Hand Talent Show

Author:Jermaine Dupri