#upon

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping. ↗

— A. C. Benson

#climbing #creeping #doing #meanest #men

I cannot understand for the life of me why DOE is going forward with this licensing procedure when we do not know whether or not the scientific documentation upon which you are basing your decisions is, in fact, flawed. ↗

— Shelley Berkley

#cannot #decisions #documentation #doe #fact

Consult: To seek approval for a course of action already decided upon. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#already #approval #consult #course #decided

Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#idleness #leisure #meditate #place #retirement

The habit of building houses upon piles, which was first forced upon the people by the position they had chosen, was afterwards followed as a matter of taste, just as it is in Holland. ↗

— Edward Burnett Tylor

#building #chosen #first #followed #forced

Fame - a few words upon a tombstone, and the truth of those not to be depended on. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#fame #few #those #tombstone #truth

It is ever the invisible that is the object of our profoundest worship. With the lover it is not the seen but the unseen that he muses upon. ↗

— Christian Nestell Bovee

#invisible #lover #muses #object #our

Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#essential #every #make #move #operations

We are anthill men upon an anthill world. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#upon #world

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

#depends #order #shape #upon #which