Whilst Quotes
257 Whilst quotes by 186 unique authors
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In circumstances as dark as these, it becomes us, as Men and Christians, to reflect that whilst every prudent measure should be taken to ward…
— John Hancock
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We are going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery because whilst others might free the body, none but ourselves can free the mind. Mind is…
— Marcus Garvey
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A page of Addison or of Irving will teach more of style than a whole manual of rules, whilst a story of Poe's will impress…
— H P Lovecraft
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Whilst there's a competition still on we're still a chance,
— Adam Gilchrist
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Women are not angels. They are as foolish as men in many ways; but they have had to devote themselves to life whilst men have…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Thus suicidal selfishness, that blights The fairest feelings of the opening heart, Is destined to decay, whilst from the soil Shall spring all virtue, all…
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
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I have often been surprised that Mathematics, the quintessence of Truth, should have found admirers so few and so languid. Frequent consideration and minute scrutiny…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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I was so fortunate to work closely with the designer Nolan Miller whilst on 'Dynasty' to create the wardrobe for Alexis Carrington Colby, and we…
— Joan Collins
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Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray.
— William Cowper
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Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.
— Alice James
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Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by…
— William James
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It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.
— Immanuel Kant
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I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was…
— Nelson Mandela
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British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British…
— Alexander McQueen
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My brain kind of rolls pretty fast when I'm conscious. It's constantly looking for stuff to do. Like if I'm in my house and I'm…
— Dominic Monaghan
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I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on…
— Isaac Newton
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I have self-actualized. Pardon me whilst I adjust my glowing halo.
— Ted Nugent
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All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his…
— Plutarch
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I don't know what the future is, but you just do it whilst it's there, don't you?
— Karl Pilkington
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
— Quintilian
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For there is no friend like a sister in calm or stormy weather; To cheer one on the tedious way, to fetch one if one…
— Christina Rossetti
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For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New…
— Douglas Adams
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How noble. Oh we would fell many...-you with magic and blade, whilst my weapons would be tooth and claw-but it would be futile in the…
— Christopher Paolini
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Whilst part of what we perceive comes through our senses from the object before us, another part (and it may be the larger part) always…
— William James
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There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that,…
— Charles Darwin
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