Sentence examples for minds upon from inspiring English sources

They were heavenly bodies without bodies.... "The shadow planets act upon us from a distance and focus our minds upon our instincts.

He goes on to say how "whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one object, and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it, till their attention is caught by some new folly more captivating than the first".

Mackay observed: "We find that whole communities suddenly fix their minds upon one subject, and go mad in its pursuit; that millions of people become simultaneously impressed with one delusion, and run after it, till their attention is caught by some new folly more captivating than the first".

VI) Mill agreed, "it is a misapprehension of the utilitarian mode of thought to conceive it as implying that people should fix their minds upon so wide a generality as the world, or society at large".

As P.T. Barnum would say, "Those who really desire to attain an independence, have only to set their minds upon it, and adopt the proper means... and the thing is easily done".

No cash prize on offer for guessing what ran through Sir Alf's mind upon witnessing that particular transaction.

He is able to put this idea out of his mind upon return to New York until about a year later.

But somewhere there is a runner alive, right now, who has glimpsed the mountain top, and who will set his mind upon its conquest.

Carol Ann Duffy, in her poem "Anne Hathaway," imagines what might have gone through Hathaway's mind upon receiving the news of her inheritance.

Instead, the adjective that comes to my mind upon spotting him in his high-waisted cotton trousers, mismatched jacket and skew-whiff hair is "gentle".

It's got that elusive and addictive quality that a great midnight movie has to have: it blissfully widens and expands in your mind upon repeat viewings.