#upon

I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#characters #desperate #easier #found #fragile

Our recent 5-year labour agreements, in Canada as well as the United States, are based upon experience, logic and principle rather than on pressure, propaganda and force. ↗

— Charles E. Wilson

#based #canada #experience #force #labour

A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#behavior #choice #corrosive #economic #economic growth

Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#creatures #dead #dependent #land #leading

The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#foundations #liberty #made #must #peace

That's kind of the weird thing that M. Night Shyamalan has sort of unleashed upon the world is this need for every movie to have these ridiculous endings. ↗

— Alex Winter

#every #kind #movie #need #night

I was a tried seaman when, for the first time, I set foot upon the soil of my country, and took up my residence where my people had lived for over two hundred years. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

#first #first time #foot #had #hundred

The attack of John Brown upon Harper's Ferry came upon Virginia like a clap of thunder out of a clear sky. ↗

— John Sergeant Wise

#brown #came #clap #clear #ferry

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#belief #central #conviction #curious #existence

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#father #form #less #odious #profession