The uppermost idea with Hellenism is to see things as they really are; the uppermost ideas with Hebraism is conduct and obedience.... Nothing can do away with this ineffaceable difference. The Greek quarrel with the body and its desires is, that they hinder right thinking; the Hebrew quarrel with them is, that they hinder right acting.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The question that's probably uppermost in the child's mind is: Why do my parents want to have a baby? Don't they love me? And if t...hey love me, why do they need another one? Aren't I enough? Imagine for a minute yourself in a similar situation. Your husband comes home and says: "Honey I love you so much, I've decided to go get another wife so I can have two." How would you feel?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It will be difficult for me not to make sport for the Philistines by pulling down a house or two, since when I once take pen in ha...nd, I must say what comes uppermost, or fling it away.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If men would avoid that general language and general manner in which they strive to hide all that is peculiar and would say only w...hat was uppermost in their own minds after their own individual manner, every man would be interesting.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A poet is no rattlebrain, saying what comes uppermost, and, because he says every thing, saying, at last, something good; but a he...art in unison with his time and country. There is nothing whimsical or fantastic in his production, but sweet and sad earnest, freighted with the weightiest convictions, and pointed with the most determined aim which any man or class knows of in his times.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As far back as memory can carry me, the desire for fame was uppermost in my thoughts.... The reputation which I desire is not that... of momentary eminence which is gained without merit and lost without regret. Give me the popularity which runs after, not that which is sought for. For honest merit to succeed amid the tricks and intrigues which are now so lamentably common, I know is difficult; but the honor of success is increased by the obstacles which are to be surmounted. Let me triumph as a man or not at all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All those who dwell in the depths find their happiness in being like flying fish for once and playing on the uppermost crests of t...he waves. What they value most in things is that they have a surface, their "epidermality"Msit venia verbo.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »