#upon

When I became White House press secretary, there were other limitations that were thrust upon me. Bill Clinton was under pressure to appoint women to visible positions. I was 31, I'd never worked in Washington. Was I ready for this large and visible job? Still he wanted the credit. So he gave me the job but diminished the job. ↗

— Dee Dee Myers

#became #bill #bill clinton #clinton #credit

The biggest crime in Nabokov's 'Lolita' is imposing your own dream upon someone else's reality. Humbert Humbert is blind. He doesn't see Lolita's reality. He doesn't see that Lolita should leave. He only sees Lolita as an extension of his own obsession. This is what a totalitarian state does. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#blind #crime #does #dream #else

We call upon all sides to stop hostilities and restart peace talks. ↗

— Nursultan Nazarbayev

#hostilities #peace #restart #sides #stop

Schools are successful only insofar as they reduce the dependence of a child's opportunities upon his social origins. ↗

— James S. Coleman

#dependence #his #insofar #only #opportunities

When rough times have fallen upon our state in the past, Texans have always responded with generosity and an eagerness to help. The compassionate response to the fires has proven that this community spirit is alive and well. ↗

— Randy Neugebauer

#always #community #compassionate #eagerness #fallen

The "kingdom of Heaven" is a condition of the heart - not something that comes "upon the earth" or "after death." ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#comes #condition #death #earth #heart

Teapot Dome involved the conservation of the oil resources of the United States, especially those situated upon the public lands. ↗

— George William Norris

#dome #especially #involved #lands #oil

If any man, out of an humour, should turn all his Estate into Money, and keep it dead, he would soon be sensible of Poverty growing upon him, whilst he is eating out of the quick stock. ↗

— Dudley North

#dead #eating #estate #growing #him

It may be said, let him take Money at Interest, and not buy at Time. But then Men must be found, that will lend; the Legislative must provide a Fund to borrow upon. ↗

— Dudley North

#buy #found #fund #him #interest

The terrorists that we are up against today do not rely upon cell phones and SAT phones and emails. They rely on couriers. You cannot intercept what a courier is telling somebody. ↗

— Oliver North

#cannot #cell #cell phones #emails #intercept