Whither Quotes

78 quotes by 67 authors

We must ask where we are and whither we are tending. — Abraham Lincoln
A deep man believes that the evil eye can whither, the heart's blessing can heal, and that love can overcome all odds.... — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column. — George Bernard Shaw
Needy knife-grinder! whither are ye going? Rough is the road, your wheel is out of order; Bleak blows the blast-your hat has got a hole… — George Canning
I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's… — Abraham Lincoln
As rivers, the nearer they come to the ocean whither they tend, the more they increase their waters, and speed their streams; so will grace… — John Owen
Dissections daily convince us of our ignorance of disease, and cause us to blush at our prescriptions. What mischief have we done under the belief… — Benjamin Rush
Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say "thus it shall be!", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of mankind, and they… — Friedrich Nietzsche
But whither am I strayed? I need not raise Trophies to thee from other men's dispraise; Nor is thy fame on lesser ruins built; Nor… — John Denham
Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then: to get on… — D. H. Lawrence
Where was my heart to flee for refuge from my heart? Whither was I to fly, where I would not follow? In what place should… — Saint Augustine
People who don't cherish their elderly have forgotten whence they came and whither they go. — Ramsey Clark
Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him what… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The man with the knapsack is never lost. No matter whither he may stray, his food and shelter are right with him, and home is… — Horace Kephart
True piety admits no other rule than that whatsoever things have been faithfully received from our fathers the same are to be faithfully consigned to… — Vincent of Lerins
No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going. Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it… — Oliver Cromwell
When I go out of the house for a walk, uncertain as yet whither I will bend my steps, [I] submit myself to my instinct… — Henry David Thoreau
But whoever is a genuine follower of Truth, keeps his eye steady upon his guide, indifferent whither he is led, provided that she is the… — Edmund Burke
The regenerating Spirit is compared to the wind. His first attempts on the soul may be so secret that the creature knows not whence they… — William Gurnall
Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night? — Jack Kerouac

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