#upon

The chains of military despotism, once fastened upon a nation, ages might pass away before they could be shaken off. ↗

— William Henry Harrison

#away #before #chains #could #despotism

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also. ↗

— Carl Jung

#also #error #knowledge #rests #truth

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them. ↗

— Joseph Heller

#born #mediocre #mediocrity #men #some

While there used to be one or two Pops orchestras, now there are all kinds of European orchestras that suddenly look upon this as a golden wand that can enable them to make money recording this music. ↗

— Skitch Henderson

#european #golden #kinds #look #make

She bowed her head, clasping her hands tightly before her upon the arm of his chair, for her heart yearned towards him, yet could not reach him, and it made her throat ache with unhappiness to meet that look of his that rested on her face without seeing it. ↗

— Georgette Heyer

#before #bowed #chair #could #face

It is incumbent upon all of us to build communities with the educational opportunities and support systems in place to help our youth become successful adults. ↗

— Ruben Hinojosa

#build #communities #educational #educational opportunities #help

Sometimes I think that the biggest difference between men and women is that more men need to seek out some terrible lurking thing in existence and hurl themselves upon it. Women know where it lives but they can let it alone. ↗

— Russell Hoban

#between #biggest #biggest difference #difference #existence

The Papacy is not other than the Ghost of the deceased Roman Empire, sitting crowned upon the grave thereof. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#deceased #empire #ghost #grave #other

Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

#consequences #dependence #fact #knowledge #science

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself. ↗

— Epictetus

#any #contest #depend #does #enter