Whereas Quotes
1000 Whereas quotes by 809 unique authors
-
I can definitely tell when mum has got money because then she likes to go shopping to spend it, whereas dad is steadier and avoids…
— Sophie Ellis Bextor
-
Music to me is so internal. It's physical and it's emotional. Whereas fashion is so much about the external that it's almost like a break.…
— Florence Welch
-
Certain it is that scandal is good brisk talk, whereas praise of one's neighbor is by no means lively hearing. An acquaintance grilled, scored, devilled,…
— William Makepeace Thackeray
-
It is safer to try to understand the low in the light of the high than the high in the light of the low. In…
— Leo Strauss
-
There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence.
— Newton Lee
-
If you have your own agenda and your own style and you don't easily conform to what the masses are doing, you're looked upon as…
— Anita Baker
-
The one thing that matters is the effort. It continues, whereas the end to be attained is but an illusion of the climber, as he…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
-
I never really enjoyed getting a portfolio together then sending it out; whereas, putting up the website is quite an enjoyable experience. The net's just…
— Anton Corbijn
-
To take something from a person and keep it for oneself: that is robbery. To take something from one person and then turn it over…
— Octave Mirbeau
-
I have been much afflicted again lately by visitors . . . and they gave me to understand that if they had had the arranging…
— Elizabeth von Arnim
-
But at least if you hint and are rejected, the rejection is blurable rather than blistering. Whereas if you ask outright and are refused, the…
— Anna Maxted
-
But whereas a puppy will cringe away or roll on its back, groveling, a little boy may cover his shyness with nonchalance, with bravado, or…
— John Steinbeck
-
All official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery.
— Vladimir Lenin
-
Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits.
— Heloise
-
In America, there's more of the question, should music be political or should it just be for entertainment purposes, whereas around the world that's not…
— Serj Tankian
-
If you asked someone, 'Can you play the violin?' and he says, 'I don't know, I have not tried, perhaps I can,' you laugh at…
— Leo Tolstoy
-
The teacher pretended that algebra was a perfectly natural affair, to be taken for granted, whereas I didn't even know what numbers were. Mathematics classes…
— Carl Jung
-
Whereas you have someone like Houdini, who works really, really hard to get really, really famous, and then has actual intellectual ideas that he puts…
— Penn Jillette
-
Anger is always concerned with individuals, ... whereas hatred is directed also against classes: we all hate any thief and any informer. Moreover, anger can…
— Aristotle
-
I admire the assurance and confidence everyone has in himself, whereas there is hardly anything I am sure I know or that I dare give…
— Michel de Montaigne
-
It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession begets tyranny.
— Aristotle
-
One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, Whereas I should keep to the…
— Jean de La Fontaine
-
We prefer to think that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has…
— Clifton Fadiman
-
I'm right-handed, whereas the fellow in my mirror is left-handed. I start shaving from the left; he starts from the right. Differences only in perception,…
— Robert Breault
-
It is my belief that whereas the twentieth century has been a century of war and untold suffering, the twenty-first century should be one of…
— Dalai Lama
Who Wrote These Whereas Quotes
809 authors contributed a total of 1,000 Whereas Quotes, led by these top contributors: