Upon Quotes
10257 Upon quotes by 4366 unique authors
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If you’d just center your thoughts and affections upon the Lord, you’d be better off accidentally than you’ve ever been on purpose!
— Andrew Wommack
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I, a woman, find wearing high heels agreeable only on the very rare occasion that (1) I will be ferried between destinations upon a palanquin…
— Unknown Author
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I am no martyr upon cross, but I would gladly give my life so that those more deserving may live.
— Gannicus
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No one has a monopoly on knowledge the way that, say, IBM had in the 1960s in computing, or that Bell Labs had through the…
— Henry Chesbrough
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In order to align your life choices with your values, you will need to inquire about the effects of your actions (and inactions) on yourself…
— Zoe Weil
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He's only harming himself who's bent upon harming another
— Hesiod
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Of themselves diseases come upon men continually by day and by night, bringing mischief to mortals silently; for wise Zeus took away speech from them.…
— Hesiod
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Happiness is not fame or riches or heroic virtues, but a state that will inspire posterity to think in reflecting upon our life, that it…
— Herodotus
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I have commanded that my [titulary] abide like the mountains; when the sun shines its rays are bright upon the titulary of my majesty; my…
— Unknown Author
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Children understand that 'once upon a time' refers not only--not even primarily--to the past, but to the impalpable regions of the present, the deeper places…
— Stephen Mitchell
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Happily ever after doesn't begin with Once upon a time: it begins with Now.
— Stephen Mitchell
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The old people came literally to love the soil and they sat or reclined on the ground with a feeling of being close to a…
— Luther Standing Bear
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Those other lands were Christian, and they boiled with bigotry. The rulers themselves were more or less tolerant, for they depended upon Jews as their…
— Lewis Browne
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The greatest barrier to own own healing is not the pain, sorrow or violence inflicted upon us as children. Our greatest hindrance is our ongoing…
— Wayne Muller
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Never forget that you must die; that death will come sooner than you expect... God has written the letters of death upon your hands. In…
— Unknown Author
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Contrary to popular accounts, very few scientists in the world - possibly none - have a sufficiently thorough, 'big picture' understanding of the climate system…
— Roy Spencer
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To finish building the free society dreamed of by Washington, Franklin, and Jefferson, we must draw upon the resources of the enlightened imagination, which can…
— Robert Thurman
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If a tablet is not wiped clean of it's figures, nothing can be written upon it. A single heart cannot serve as the place for…
— Ibn Ata Allah
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When the heart becomes empty, the mimbar of the Divine Oneness is placed therein and the sultan of gnosis sits upon it.
— Ibn Ata Allah
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If I were you I'd promise to live life for all it's worth, take all you've been given and leave your mark upon this Earth.…
— Collin Raye
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Prosperity has this property; it puffs up narrow souls, makes them imagine themselves high and mighty, and leads them to look down upon the world…
— Plutarch
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We do not attach any intrinsic value to the Cross; this would be sinful and idolatrous. Our veneration is referred to Him who died upon…
— James Gibbons
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Upon that cross of Jesus Mine eye at times can see The very dying form of One Who suffered there for me; And from my…
— Unknown Author
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I have heard it said that as we keep our birthdays when we are alive, so the ghosts of dead people, who are not easy…
— Charles Dickens
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There was a frosty rime upon the trees, which, in the faint light of the clouded moon, hung upon the smaller branches like dead garlands.
— Charles Dickens
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