Whilst Quotes

257 Whilst quotes by 186 unique authors

When indeed Religion is kindled into enthusiasm, its force like that of other passions is increased by the sympathy of a multitude. But enthusiasm is… — James Madison
Whilst accidents and assaults injure and kill people quickly and spectacularly, bullying and consequent prolonged negative stress injure and kill people slowly and secretively. The… — Tim Field
The Bully has a Jekyll and Hyde nature - is vile, vicious and vindictive in private, but innocent and charming in front of witnesses; no-one… — Tim Field
I suddenly became strangely inebriated. The external world became changed as in a dream. Objects appeared to gain in relief; they assumed unusual dimensions; and… — Albert Hofmann
The edifice of science not only requires material, but also a plan. Without the material, the plan alone is but a castle in the air-a… — Dmitri Mendeleev
The earliest signs of living things, announcing as they do a high complexity of organization, entirely exclude the hypothesis of a transmutation from lower to… — Roderick Murchison
Each thing tends to move towards its own nature. I always desire happiness which is my true nature. My nature is never a burden to… — Adi Shankara
Is it not the glory of the people of America, that whilst they have paid a decent regard to the opinions of former times and… — James Madison
Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier. In the divided or social state these functions are parcelled out to individuals, each… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The difference between a man who faces death for the sake of an idea and an imitator who goes in search of martyrdom is that… — Soren Kierkegaard
Whilst the last members were signing it Doctr. Franklin looking towards the Presidents chair, at the back of which a rising sun happened to be… — James Madison
Avoiding the temptation to sin and being patient upon that, is greater than being patient whilst being afflicted with trials. — Ibn Taymiyyah
After Titanic it would have been completely foolish for me to go and try and top that. I'm an English girl, I've always loved England,… — Kate Winslet
I've had tonsilitis and I'm not sure if I can sing on Saturday [whilst out on the town in the West End] — Leona Lewis
I don't read novels whilst I'm writing one; I just haven't got a wide enough brain to concentrate on incoming and outgoing in the same… — Dawn French
A man in love will jump to pick up a glove or a bouquet for a silly girl of sixteen, whilst at home he will… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own. — Edmund Burke
Precedents are dangerous things; let the reins of government then be braced and held with a steady hand, and every violation of the Constitution be… — George Washington
It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich. — Frank Herbert
Juan Fangio was the great man of racing, whilst Stirling Moss was the epitome of a racing driver. — Jackie Stewart
Some men mistake generosity for charity: these flatter themselves that they are giving gratuitously, whilst they are merely rewarding secret services offered their vanity. — Norm MacDonald
Let it never be forgotten that it is not by means of war that states are rendered fit for the enjoyment of constitutional freedom; on… — Richard Cobden
Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret… — Honore de Balzac
No clouds gathered in the skies and the polluted streams became clear, whilst celestial music rang through the air and the angels rejoiced with gladness.… — Gautama Buddha
A 'Hitler myth' was cultivated which built on people's desire for strong leadership, and presented Hitler as an almost God-like figure. Hitler's image was laboured… — Unknown Author

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