Whereas Quotes
1000 Whereas quotes by 809 unique authors
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The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the…
— Samuel Smiles
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I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the…
— Sylvester Stallone
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It seems to be that southern Europeans are just more intimate socially, whereas I like a lot of personal space - like, a mile from…
— Peter Steele
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Whereas religious prayers sing of peace and harmony, religion has divided human beings through an atrocious history of enmity and bloodshed. Yet, behind the veil…
— Radhanath Swami
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Even if we didn't have greenhouse gases, were going to have to move away from fossil fuels, as we're going to run out. They're finite,…
— Ted Turner
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In the land of my birth I cannot vote, whereas a young person of eighteen can vote. And why? Because he or she possesses that…
— Desmond Tutu
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As a citizen, as a public scientist, I can tell you that Einstein essentially overturned a so strongly established paradigm of science, whereas Darwin didn't…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Drama can feel like therapy whereas comedy feels like there's been a pressure and a weight lifted off of you. You come to work and…
— Gabrielle Union
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Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.
— Peter Ustinov
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The world has changed - through technology, through wine-making techniques, the quality of wine is greater than it's ever been. Whereas ten, fifteen years ago…
— Gary Vaynerchuk
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Here in England, everyone's a pop star, innit, whereas in America they believe in the term artist.
— Amy Winehouse
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You don't have to conform to a very specific aesthetic today, whereas 1950s women definitely had to.
— Romola Garai
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We delude ourselves into believing that morality comes from somewhere else, whereas in reality we behave as we've been told to behave.
— Greg Graffin
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Intelligence is a harder gift. For this you must work, you must practice it, challenge it, and maybe toward the end of your life you…
— Bryce Courtenay
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Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it…
— Jasper Fforde
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Some writers have so confounded society with government, as to leave little or no distinction between them; whereas they are not only different, but have…
— Thomas Paine
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It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves…
— James A. Baldwin
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The term ignorant is indeed perhaps an overstatement, implying as it does that something is known somewhere, whereas in reality we are not even sure…
— John Ashbery
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Whereas it is difficult for everything to work out easily, A man cannot even afford to be a human
— Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib
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Just as doubt, despair, and desensitization go together, so do faith, hope, and charity. The latter, however, must be carefully and constantly nurtured, whereas despair,…
— Neal A. Maxwell
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If thou hadst thy will what wouldst thou reserve?" said Manwe. "Of all thy realm what dost thou hold dearest?" All have their worth," said…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Hegel seems to me to be always wanting to say that things which look different are really the same. Whereas my interest is in showing…
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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But miracles are not for the asking; they come only when the stern eyes of God droop shut for a moment, and Our Lady takes…
— Michel Faber
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For in Calormen, story-telling (whether the stories are true or made up) is a thing you're taught, just as English boys and girls are taught…
— C.S. Lewis
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Pleasure is always derived from something outside you, whereas joy arises from within.
— Eckhart Tolle
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