#upon

I am perhaps a late follower of Zoroaster and I believe that the foundation of life is built upon the struggle between the two opposing forces of Good and Evil. ↗

— Eugenio Montale

#believe #between #built #evil #follower

If you don't have solid beliefs you cannot build a stable life. Beliefs are like the foundation of a building, and they are the foundation to build your life upon. ↗

— Alfred A. Montapert

#build #building #cannot #foundation #life

It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back. ↗

— Marianne Moore

#cannot #critic #cruel #enchantment #forever

A pretty wife is something for the fastidious vanity of a rougue to retire upon. ↗

— Thomas Moore

#pretty #retire #something #upon #vanity

A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#advantage #appearance #appears #because #chances

They're different kinds of challenges depending upon what phase of life I'm in. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

#depending #different #different kinds #i #kinds

In London, before I set out, I had paid one shilling; another was now demanded, so that upon the whole, from London to Richmond, the passage in the stage costs just two shillings. ↗

— Karl Philipp Moritz

#before #costs #demanded #had #i

I have always looked upon alchemy in natural philosophy to be like enthusiasm in divinity, and to have troubled the world much to the same purpose. ↗

— William Temple

#always #divinity #enthusiasm #i #like

I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that there was something deficient about such people. ↗

— Toni Morrison

#acts #always #deficient #exclusion #i

I'm still shy - I'm no good at my children's parent-teacher conferences, and I'm slowly learning how to ask for what I want. But I now know that I have a reserve of courage to draw upon when I really need it. There's nothing that I'm too scared to have a go at. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#children #conferences #courage #draw #go