Upon Quotes
10257 Upon quotes by 4366 unique authors
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We are not to be anxious about the unknown future or to fret about it. We are to live in a moment-by-moment dependence upon God.
— James Montgomery Boice
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The house that is built upon the sand will crumble at the first sign of a windstorm.
— R C Sproul
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When Jesus invites sinners, 'Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest,' he immediately adds,'take my yoke…
— Wayne Grudem
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The Christian community is a community of the cross, for it has been brought into being by the cross, and the focus of its worship…
— John Stott
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Sooner could a fish live upon a tree than the wicked in Paradise.
— Kevin DeYoung
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The world is not yet finished, but everyone is behaving as if everything was known. This is not true. In fact, the computer world as…
— Ted Nelson
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There is a kind of laughter that sickens the soul. Laughter when it is out of control: when it screams and stamps its feet, and…
— Mervyn Peake
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Greed is but a word jealous men inflict upon the ambitious.
— Marcus Licinius Crassus
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Human communities depend upon a diversity of talent not a singular conception of ability. and at the heart of the challenge is to reconstitute our…
— Ken Robinson
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Typically [professors] live in their heads. … They look upon their body as a form of transport for their heads. It’s a way of getting…
— Ken Robinson
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No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are…
— John Selden
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The happiness of married life depends upon making small sacrifices with readiness and cheerfulness.
— John Selden
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Ambition, I have come to believe, is the most primal and sacred and fundament of our being. To feel ambition and to act upon it…
— Steven Pressfield
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In the beginning war looks and feels like love. But unlike love it gives nothing in return but an ever-deepening dependence, like all narcotics, on…
— Chris Hedges
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This too is a jihad. Yet we Americans find ourselves in the dangerous position of going to war not against a state but against a…
— Chris Hedges
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A detective with his murder mystery, a chemist seeking the structure of a new compound, use little of the formal and logical modes of reasoning.…
— Gilbert N. Lewis
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So it was that the war in the air began. Men rode upon the whirlwind that night and slew and fell like archangels. The sky…
— H.G. Wells
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Victory smiles upon those who anticipate the change in the character of war, not upon those who wait to adapt themselves after the changes occur.
— Giulio Douhet
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It was only since the turn of the century that one returned to the immense role that abstraction plays in the human mind by its…
— Sigfried Giedion
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Some breakfast food manufacturer hit upon the simple notion of emptying out the leavings of carthorse nose bags, adding a few other things like unconsumed…
— Frank Muir
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Color is seductive. It changes as it interacts with other colors, it changes because of the light falling upon it, and it changes as it…
— Jay Maisel
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Pay no heed to the average photographer's remarks upon "flat" and "weak" negatives. Probably he is flat, weak, stale, and unprofitable; your negative may be…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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That Francis Bacon retains his reputation gained, is not strange to any that knows him. The unusual words wherewith he had spangled his speech, were…
— Edward Coke
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We must do something about the cross, and there’s only one of two things we can do- flee it or die upon it!
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Among the sentiments of most powerful operation upon the human heart, and most highly honorable to the human character, are those of veneration for our…
— John Quincy Adams
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