#upon

The nation demands a movement which has written upon its banner the internal and external national freedom that it will act as if it were the spiritual, social and political conscience of the nation. ↗

— Franz von Papen

#banner #conscience #demands #external #freedom

However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream. ↗

— Paracelsus

#anyone #awakening #back #comes #dream

Medicine rests upon four pillars - philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics. ↗

— Paracelsus

#astronomy #ethics #four #medicine #philosophy

The Sparks have always been committed to success and making the right moves to build upon their rich tradition in the WNBA. ↗

— Candace Parker

#been #build #committed #making #moves

And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing the desolation and the poverty, to show something beautiful for somebody as well. ↗

— Gordon Parks

#beautiful #desolation #hard #i #i think

At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action. ↗

— Walter Pater

#bury #calling #experience #external #external objects

One's teachers all belonged to that generation who were imperialists, and the whole narrative throughout my adolescence was of countries leaving the empire. I find it extraordinary that this purpose which drove how we viewed the world is now considered to be something that has no effect upon us. ↗

— Jeremy Paxman

#belonged #considered #countries #drove #effect

The fact is, if a young man is naturally indolent, the spur of necessity will drive him but a very little way, while the having enough to live upon is often the means of preserving his self-respect. ↗

— James Payn

#enough #fact #having #him #his

The Reform Bill has destroyed the ancient conduits and strainers, and brings Public Opinion to act upon the government with the rapid, turbulent, and uncertain violence of a flood! ↗

— Robert Peel

#ancient #bill #brings #destroyed #flood

Lord, Bless our enemies; have mercy upon them, may they turn their course and let us alone, and let us live in peace at our homes in our own native land. ↗

— William Pennington

#bless #course #homes #land #let us