#upon

I don't think humor is forced upon my universe; it's a part of it. ↗

— Manuel Puig

#humor #i #part #think #universe

We pay for the navy, and we have no commerce for the navy to protect; we pay for the army, and we loathe and execrate the work upon which it has been engaged. ↗

— John Edward Redmond

#been #commerce #engaged #loathe #navy

I do not write often now - not for want of something to say, but from a loathing of all I see and hear. Why dwell upon it? ↗

— Mary Chesnut

#hear #i #i do #i see #loathing

No nation now sets forth to despoil another upon the avowed ground that it desires the spoils. ↗

— Elihu Root

#avowed #desires #forth #ground #nation

My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence. ↗

— Samuel Rutherford

#faith #omnipotence #sleep #upon

I remember a hundred lovely lakes, and recall the fragrant breath of pine and fir and cedar and poplar trees. The trail has strung upon it, as upon a thread of silk, opalescent dawns and saffron sunsets. ↗

— Hamlin Garland

#breath #cedar #dawns #fragrant #hundred

I have many times asked myself whether there can be more potent advocates of peace upon earth through the years to come than this massed multitude of silent witnesses to the desolation of war. ↗

— King George V

#come #desolation #earth #i #many

It is no exaggeration to say that the English Bible is, next to Shakespeare, the greatest work in English literature, and that it will have much more influence than even Shakespeare upon the written and spoken language of the English race. ↗

— Lafcadio Hearn

#english #english literature #even #exaggeration #greatest

First of all it must be known who the God of heaven is, since upon that all the other things depend. ↗

— Emanuel Swedenborg

#first #first of all #god #heaven #known

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

— Emile M. Cioran

#inflicts #itself #mind #result #torments