Upon Quotes
10257 quotes by 4642 authors
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I have made up my mind that if there is a God, he will be merciful to the merciful. Upon that rock I stand. That…
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Do not grieve over the temptations you suffer. When the Lord intends to bestow a particular virtue on us, He often permits us first to…
— Philip Neri
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...pay your tithes and offerings out of honesty and integrity because they are God's rightful due...Paying tithing is not a token gift we are somehow…
— Jeffrey R. Holland
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True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest…
— Seneca the Elder
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The grace of God, says Luther, "is like a flying summer shower." It has fallen upon more than one land, and passed on. Judea had…
— Alexander MacLaren
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From within or from behind, a light shines through us upon things, and makes us aware that we are nothing, but the light is all.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Emotional Literacy means being able to recognise what you are feeling, so that it doesn't interfere with thinking. It becomes another dimension to draw upon…
— Susie Orbach
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The curse of Adam and Eve that fell upon the earth because of their sin will be lifted when Christ returns.
— Tim LaHaye
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How fortunate for civilization, that Beethoven, Michelangelo, Galileo and Faraday were not required by law to attend schools where their total personalities would have been…
— Joel Henry Hildebrand
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It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it…
— Winston Churchill
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The truth is not wonderful enough to suit the newspapers; so they enlarge upon it, and invent ridiculous embellishments.
— Anne Sullivan Macy
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Once upon a time we were just plain people. But that was before we began having relationships with mechanical systems. Get involved with a machine…
— Ellen Goodman
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Once upon a time we did not focus on a president's private life.
— Tom Ford
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Once upon a time the world was sweeter than we knew. Everything was ours; how happy we were then, but then once upon a time…
— Johnny Mercer
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Once upon a time ... the only autonomous intelligences we humans knew of were us humans. We thought then that if humankind ever devised another…
— Dan Simmons
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Had I been brighter, the ladies been gentler, the Scotch been weaker, had the gods been kinder, had the dice been hotter, this could have…
— Mickey Rooney
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Revolution does not insure progress. You may overturn thrones, but what proof that anything better will grow upon the soil?
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so…
— John Updike
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Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.
— Hilaire Belloc
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Those who can least bear a jest upon themselves, will be most diverted with one passed on others.
— Samuel Richardson
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