#upon

I have now taken a serious task upon myself and I fear a greater one that is in the power of any man to perform in the given time-but it is too late to go back. ↗

— Eli Whitney

#back #fear #given #go #greater

In the book I define conservatism, as I believe it is fit upon four categories of principle: respect for The Constitution, respect for life, less government, and personal responsibility. ↗

— Jonathan Krohn

#book #categories #conservatism #constitution #define

Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without. ↗

— Joseph Wood Krutch

#depends #how #much #security #upon

I think I should be active politically. Because I look upon myself as a politician. That's not a dirty work you know. Some people think that there are something wrong with politicians. Of course, something wrong with some politicians. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#because #course #dirty #dirty work #i

Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it. ↗

— Charles Lamb

#clap #extinguisher #irony #unhappily #upon

We may ascertain the worth of the human race, since for its sake God's Only-begotten Son became man, and thereby ennobled the nature that he took upon him. ↗

— Thomas Sydenham

#became #ennobled #god #him #human

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#even #foolproof #his #impress #knew

A sense that with the blessings that God bestowed upon this land, came the responsibility to make the world a better place. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#better #better place #blessings #came #god

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled. ↗

— John Ruskin

#architecture #beautiful #been #dead #ever

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you. ↗

— John Ruskin

#darkness #lest #light #upon #walk