Upon Quotes

How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.

Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.

Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?

If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you.

Religious fanatics want people to switch off their own minds, ignore the evidence, and blindly follow a holy book based upon private 'revelation'.

We will look upon the earth and her sister planets as being with us, not for us. One does not rape a sister.

All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.

If war comes upon us, it will come as a thief in the night.

All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.

We were now, as I before mentioned, upon this St. Joseph's trail. It was evident, by the traces, that large parties were a few days in advance of us; and as we too supposed them to be Mormons, we had some apprehension of interruption.

My first plan of escape having failed, I now determined upon another.

The dependence of one people upon another, even for the benefits of legislation, is the deepest source of national weakness.

I know the disposition of women: when you will, they won't; when you won't, they set their hearts upon you of their own inclination.

And that's really what's happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country entrenched in idolatry, and that idolatry is the dependency upon our government. We're supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government.

Many individual growers now are growing organic fruit, and many are taking it upon themselves to market their own products to the public, as opposed to necessarily going through big processors, although, obviously, the bulk of the fruit still is dealt with that way.

Nothing wise was ever printed upon an apron.

I've had a lot of very positive feedback about those stories, and seem to have struck upon something that most people feel. I can also tap dance, and don't know many other authors who can.

All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.

I look upon it as a Point of Morality, to be obliged by those who endeavour to oblige me.

God himself took this human flesh upon him.

Exercise to stimulate, not to annihilate. The world wasn't formed in a day, and neither were we. Set small goals and build upon them.

Just as the science and art of agriculture depend upon chemistry and botany, so the art of education depends upon physiology and psychology.

Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.

Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts.

It also called upon traditional people in the Four Directions to strengthen the healing ceremonies and asked people to heed the warnings of Mother Earth.

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.

Actors are an insecure breed. It's hard to have your career depend upon other people's opinions of what you do.

As human beings, we are endowed with freedom of choice, and we cannot shuffle off our responsibility upon the shoulders of God or nature. We must shoulder it ourselves. It is our responsibility.

At first I threw my weight upon my heels, as one does naturally in a boot, and was a good deal bruised, but after a few hours I learned the natural walk of man, and could follow my guide in any portion of the island.