Whereas Quotes
1000 Whereas quotes by 809 unique authors
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It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas…
— Thomas Huxley
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What separates sports from entrepreneurism, however, is that in business we constantly have to overcome undefined and unpredictable challenges. Athletes train for specific events and…
— Naveen Jain
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You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than…
— Samuel Johnson
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My dad's family were political and he was always a theatrical creature, whereas my mum is really musical and her father was the touring pianist…
— Grace Jones
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Women speak because they wish to speak, whereas a man speaks only when driven to speak by something outside himself like, for instance, he can't…
— Jean Kerr
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A nice person is a 'yes' person, whereas a good person is a person who accepts their responsibility in things and moves forward and tries…
— Miranda Kerr
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It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.
— Soren Kierkegaard
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Marriage is an institution fits in perfect harmony with the laws of nature; whereas systems of slavery and segregation were designed to brutally oppress people…
— Jack Kingston
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Each song has its own secret that's different from another song, and each has its own life. Sometimes it has to be teased out, whereas…
— Mark Knopfler
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
— Karl Kraus
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Bananas are great, as I believe them to be the only known cure for existential dread. Also, Mother Teresa said that in India, a woman…
— Anne Lamott
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The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without…
— C.S. Lewis
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We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Words cannot express quite a lot of feelings, whereas a noise or tone or drone or sound, an accordion falling down a staircase, can somehow…
— John Lydon
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For me, one of the major reasons to move beyond just the planting of trees was that I have tendency to look at the causes…
— Wangari Maathai
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It follows that if you are not a mother you are not a grandmother. Your life has become unpunctuated, whereas the lives of other women…
— Hilary Mantel
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Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.
— Yann Martel
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There's a constantly applicable nature to soul music, whereas sometimes pop music can be a periodical.
— John Mayer
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True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for…
— Bryant H. McGill
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Mysteries and thrillers are not the same things, though they are literary siblings. Roughly put, I would say the distinction is that mysteries emphasize motive…
— Jon Meacham
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In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely, and without passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers.
— Herman Melville
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I don't have joy in watching myself, whereas, actually, I quite like listening to my own music.
— George Michael
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I'm always represented as a bit of a class warrior - a bit Down With Men and Down With Middle-Class People. Whereas I'm actually very…
— Denise Mina
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Whereas for me, touring tends to be a very strange and isolating experience.
— Moby
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