Upon Quotes

I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me.

God himself took this human flesh upon him.

Exercise to stimulate, not to annihilate. The world wasn't formed in a day, and neither were we. Set small goals and build upon them.

Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.

Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.

Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.

It also called upon traditional people in the Four Directions to strengthen the healing ceremonies and asked people to heed the warnings of Mother Earth.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

Actors are an insecure breed. It's hard to have your career depend upon other people's opinions of what you do.

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

At first I threw my weight upon my heels, as one does naturally in a boot, and was a good deal bruised, but after a few hours I learned the natural walk of man, and could follow my guide in any portion of the island.

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

It is needless to say how great has been the influence of the doctrine of Evolution, or rather perhaps of the method of investigation to which it has given birth, upon the study of history, especially the history of institutions.

The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real.

I don't want to remember 2005 as a year that the government heaped unnecessary burdens upon American families. Stealing from the poor and middle class and giving to the rich, while increasing the deficit, is hardly responsible.

Pray in your family daily, that yours may be in the number of the families who call upon God.

But my method of the pillar, as it throws the horse yet more upon the haunches, is still more effectual to this purpose, and besides always gives him the ply to the side he goes of.

We are naive and moralistic women. We are human beings who find politics a blight upon the human condition. And do not know how one copes with it except through politics.

A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek.

The more we focus on using renewable fuels, the less we are dependent upon foreign oil.

I am deeply grateful to the citizens of Sarajevo and the Sarajevo Canton assembly for bestowing upon me this incredible honor of citizenship. I am so proud to now be a part of such an extraordinary part of the world and fellow citizen to the people I deeply love and admire.

The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.

Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.

I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.

Our soldiers have nobly fought to protect freedom since our country's birth, and have fought to protect those that could not protect themselves, even in foreign lands when called upon.

The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.

Worldly wealth is the Devil's bait; and those whose minds feed upon riches recede, in general, from real happiness, in proportion as their stores increase, as the moon, when she is fullest, is farthest from the sun.

Whilst our Hearts are violently set upon any thing, there is no convincing us that we shall ever be of another Mind.

The American people do not have the information upon which they can hold the administration and responsible agencies accountable. I call that a coverup.

God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires.