Whom Quotes
3859 Whom quotes by 2236 unique authors
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He to whom many objects of pursuit arise at the same time, will frequently hesitate between different desires till a rival has precluded him, or…
— Samuel Johnson
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Let be the future: mind the present need and leave the rest to whom the rest concerns ... present tasks claim our care: the ordering…
— Sophocles
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The candle burns not for us, but for all those whom we failed to rescue from prison, who were shot on the way to prison,…
— Peter Benenson
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The stellar universe is not so difficult to understand as the real actions of other people, especially of the people with whom we are in…
— Marcel Proust
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By the consultation of books, whether of dead or living authors, many temptations of petulance and opposition, which occur in oral conferences, are avoided. An…
— Samuel Johnson
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The dog is a religious animal. In his savage state he worships the moon and the lights that float upon the waters. These are his…
— Anatole France
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[I have seen] workers in whom certain morbid affections gradually arise from some particular posture of the limbs or unnatural movements of the body called…
— Bernardino Ramazzini
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And they beat. The women for having known them and no more, no more; the children for having been them but never again. They killed…
— Toni Morrison
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Only men to whom the family is sacred will ever have a standard or a status by which to criticize the State. They alone can…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Cheerful givers do not count the cost of what they give. Their hearts are set on pleasing and cheering the person to whom the gift…
— Julian of Norwich
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Whom God has put asunder, why should man put together?
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Love, for too many men in our time, consists of sleeping with a seductive woman, one who is properly endowed with the right distribution of…
— Ashley Montagu
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Where young boys plan for what they will achieve and attain, young girls plan for whom they will achieve and attain.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plate, and not less great is the man to whom all his plate is…
— Seneca the Younger
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I surrender this rifle to you through my young son, whom I now desire to teach in this manner that he has become a friend…
— Sitting Bull
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Disraeli was now at the height of his fame and popularity. He still had his enemies... But the people as a whole now admired and…
— Christopher Hibbert
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Probe the universe in a myriad of points. ... He is a wise man who has taken many views; to whom stones and plants and…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The world will belong to passionate, driven leaders - people who not only have enormous amounts of energy, but who can energize those whom they…
— Jack Welch
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I love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one must also know against whom.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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He [man] abuses equally other animals and his own species, the rest of whom live in famine, languish in misery, and work only to satisfy…
— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
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Above all, those to whom the care of young minds has been entrusted should see to it that they respect both the smallest and largest…
— Samson Raphael Hirsch
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Praise God, from whom all blessings flow! Praise Him, all creatures here below! Praise Him above, ye heavenly host! Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost!
— Thomas Ken
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To see the convulsions, agonies and tortures of a poor fellow-creature, whom they cannot restore nor recompense, dying to gratify luxury and tickle callous and…
— Unknown Author
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Men are fair, and they have learned not to personalize anger - they can disagree with you and argue to the bone, but afterward they…
— Warren Farrell
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You are beginning to see that any man to whom you can do favor is your friend, and that you can do a favor to…
— Mark Cane
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