Whilst Quotes
257 Whilst quotes by 186 unique authors
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Good design emphasises the usefulness of a product whilst disregarding anything that could possibly detract from it.
— Dieter Rams
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The man who forgets does not forgive, he only loses the remembrance; forgiveness is the offspring of a noble heart, of a generous mind, whilst…
— Giacomo Casanova
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When you cut facilities, slash jobs, abuse power, discriminate, drive people into deeper poverty & shoot people dead whilst refusing to provide answers or justice,…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Our moods do not believe in each other. To-day I am full of thoughts, and can write what I please. I see no reason why…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We've been surrounded by images of space our whole lives, from the speculative images of science fiction to the inspirational visions of artists to the…
— Honor Harger
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Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow…
— Edmund Burke
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A product is bought to be used. It has to satisfy certain criteria, not only functional, but also psychological and aesthetic. Good design emphasizes the…
— Dieter Rams
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This goes back to the main challenge we are facing, because Europe at the moment is not competitive. We have many imbalances and my big…
— Mark Rutte
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Go to your business, pleasure, whilst I go to my pleasure, business.
— William Wycherley
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O my brethren, my heart is enlarge towards you. I trust I feel something of that hidden, but powerful presence of Christ, whilst I am…
— George Whitefield
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I also made it quite clear that Socialism means equality of income or nothing, and that under socialism you would not be allowed to be…
— George Bernard Shaw
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The worthy gentleman who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the middle of the contest, whilst his desires…
— Edmund Burke
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What I build upon I shall be told is a folly that wise men are not guilty of: I own it; but whilst it proceeds…
— Sylvester Graham
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A mother is always a mother, since a mother is a biological fact, whilst a father is a movable feast.
— Angela Carter
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The bureaucracy is a circle from which one cannot escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge. The top entrusts the understanding of detail to…
— Karl Marx
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I love the walk although my security team weren't too sure to begin with but I was anxious to be able to lead a near…
— David Blunkett
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I need no bodyguard at all, for even the bravest men who approach me get weak at the knees and their hearts turn to water,…
— Shaka
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Scottish operative lodges began in the seventeenth century to admit non-operative members as accepted or gentleman masons and that by the early eighteenth century in…
— John Hamill
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That was a frustrating race for me. I pushed as hard as possible at the start on the medium tyres whilst everyone around me was…
— Pastor Maldonado
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The fly ought to be used as the symbol of impertinence and audacity; for whilst all other animals shun man more than anything else, and…
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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To every man it is decreed: Thou shalt live alone. Happy they who imagine that they have escaped the common lot; happy, whilst they imagine…
— George Gissing
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A man is like a phonograph with half-a-dozen records. You soon get tired of them all; and yet you have to sit at table whilst…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Thou fair-hair'd angel of the evening, Now, whilst the sun rests on the mountains, light Thy bright torch of love; thy radiant crown Put on,…
— William Blake
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Whilst our Hearts are violently set upon any thing, there is no convincing us that we shall ever be of another Mind.
— Mary Astell
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It's impossible to look cool whilst picking up a Frisbee.
— Peter Kay
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