Upon Quotes

Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper in sinks into the mind.

The progress of freedom depends more upon the maintenance of peace, the spread of commerce, and the diffusion of education, than upon the labors of cabinets and foreign offices.

The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.

I didn't wish those tragedies upon the people who played them out. It was certainly tragic for them, but not for me. All of those things brought me to where I am. Without those things, I couldn't be who I am, I wouldn't be here.

The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power.

The United States have fulfilled in good faith all their treaty stipulations with the Indian tribes, and have in every other instance insisted upon a like performance of their obligations.

Faith is the virtue by which, clinging-to the faithfulness of God, we lean upon him, so that we may obtain what he gives to us.

Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores.

We are not hungry... Why foist this food upon us? We don't want to be choked. We have enough.

Well, first of all, going off with dianetics was based upon a thought of mine.

I'm usually called upon to play the dreary suicidal girl.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

Nor is it that truly a belief at all which has not some influence upon the actions of him who holds it.

Men are limited by the knowledge of their minds, the worth of their characters and the principles upon which they are building their lives.

I do not intend, we do not intend, that any party shall survive, if we can help it, that will lay the confiscating hand upon Americans in the interest of England or of Europe.

Revenge... is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

Age does not depend upon years, but upon temperament and health. Some men are born old, and some never grow so.

The humblest individual exerts some influence, either for good or evil, upon others.

There has been talk in Europe about American hegemony being somehow based upon the use of the dollar in the world. I just don't see that connection at all.

A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.

A man man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner.

Be careful in dealing with a man who cares nothing for comfort or promotion, but is simply determined to do what he believes to be right. He is a dangerous uncomfortable enemy, because his body, which you can always conquer, gives you little purchase upon his soul.

If our titles recall the known myths of antiquity, we have used them again because they are the eternal symbols upon which we must fall back to express basic psychological ideas.

We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.

PETA has a proven track record of success. Each victory PETA wins for the animals is a stepping stone upon which we build a more compassionate world for all beings - and we will never give up our fight until all animals are treated with respect and kindness.

Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics.

Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.

At an expense trifling indeed, compared to what she frequently spends upon unprofitable contests, she might place the moral world on a new foundation, and to rise the pinnacle of moral glory.

Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.