Comes Upon Quotes
32 quotes by 28 authors
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My friends, whoever has had experience of evils knows how whenever a flood of ills comes upon mortals, a man fears everything; but whenever a…
— Aeschylus
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Religion points to that area of human experience where in one way or another man comes upon mystery as a summons to pilgrimage.
— Frederick Buechner
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I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which,…
— William James
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If war comes upon us, it will come as a thief in the night
— Eamon de Valera
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When you are playing with someone who really has something to say, even though they may be otherwise quite different in style, there’s one thing…
— John Coltrane
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We can't float through life. We can't be incidental or accidental. We must fix our gaze on a guiding star as soon as one comes…
— Ossie Davis
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When a vision comes from the thunder beings of the west, it comes with terror like a thunder storm; but when the storm of vision…
— Black Elk
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But alas, the most terrifying aspect of the whole fascist episode is the dark fact that most of its poisons are generated not by evil…
— John T. Flynn
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The hour of death waits for no order. Death does not even come from the front. It is ever pressing on from behind. All men…
— Yoshida Kenko
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This journey then, is nothing more, yet nothing less than a period of acclimating to a new way of seeing, a time of transition and…
— Bernadette Roberts
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The thing I fear comes upon me
— Eric Butterworth
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Chess has this in common with making poetry; that the desire for it comes upon the amateur in gusts.
— A A Milne
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Angels are always with you. You're never alone, especially in your time of need. Listen in stillness for our guidance, which comes upon wings to…
— Doreen Virtue
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Whenever the urge to exercise comes upon me, I lie down for a while and it passes.
— Robert M. Hutchins
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Opportunity beckons more surely when misfortune comes upon a person than it ever does when that person is riding the crest of a wave of…
— Epictetus
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In the liberal remake of 'Casablanca,' the police captain comes upon the scene of the shooting and orders his men to 'round up the usual…
— Charles Krauthammer
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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
— Abraham Lincoln
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The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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I like to believe that everyone is born with the same skill set, and that it is the influences that one comes upon.
— Ron Perlman
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Of the seven days God gave to us in a week, He said to take six, and use them for our business. Yet we think…
— Charles Spurgeon
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