Uppermost Quotes

22 quotes by 20 authors

The point I wish to make is that those things cause the soldier to remember that the people at home are behind him. You do… — John J. Pershing
If men would avoid that general language and general manner in which they strive to hide all that is peculiar, and would say only what… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall today be uppermost. — Confucius
The mill wheel turns, it turns forever, though what is uppermost remains not so. — Bertolt Brecht
When I write, the story is always uppermost in my mind, and I feel that everything must be sacrificed to it. All elegant passages, all… — Paul Auster
The most fundamental in me is coming uppermost, and the transient, the sensational, is dispersing, because it can't adversely influence what is essential to me. — Oskar Kokoschka
I was raised in an Irish-American home in Detroit where assimilation was the uppermost priority. The price of assimilation and respectability was amnesia. Although my… — Tom Hayden
Republicans ought to propose conservative answers to the concerns that are uppermost on most votersâ€™ minds. The libertarian-populist method seems to be to start with… — Ramesh Ponnuru
Shakespeare possesses the power of subordinating nature for the purposes of expression, beyond all poets. His imperial muse tosses the creation like a bauble from… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are sending out thoughts of greater or less intensity all the time, and we are reaping the results of such thoughts. Not only do… — William Walker Atkinson
Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost. — Herbert Spencer
Walking aft a few feet we stand at the steering gear of the ship. There is no cozy; wheel-house on the bridge for the quartermaster… — Paul J. H. Schoemaker
The beauty of the living world I was trying to save has always been uppermost in my mind - that, and anger at the senseless,… — Rachel Carson
There aren't that many people who have written seven-book series, taken them 17 years. Actually finishing was (the) most remarkable feeling I've ever had. (I)… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
I made a tentative conclusion. It seemed from all of this that uppermost among human joys is the negative one of restoration: not going to… — Peter De Vries
Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions… — Frederick Jackson Turner
At Sarah Lawrence, I realized that everybody was already what they were going to be. The painters were painting, the writers writing, the dancers dancing.… — Alice Walker
My priority is to ensure peace and harmony in Malaysia. That is uppermost in my mind. — Najib Razak
We have a media that presents every politician as being as bad as the next. There is no distinguishing between one good idea or another;… — David Blunkett
I always had the desire to inflict pain on others and to have others inflict pain on me. I always seemed to enjoy everything that… — Albert Fish

Who Wrote These Uppermost Quotes

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