Whose Quotes

883 quotes by 772 authors

Woe to the man whose heart has not learned while young to hope, to love - and to put its trust in life. — Joseph Conrad
Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God. — William Cowper
My grandmother was a kind of Scarsdale, New York, society woman, best known in her day as the author of the 1959 book 'Growing Your… — Sloane Crosley
A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what they have in common… — Rachel Cusk
Creatures whose mainspring is curiosity enjoy the accumulating of facts far more than the pausing at times to reflect on those facts. — Clarence Day
I have always had trouble recognizing myself in the features of the intellectual playing his political role according to the screenplay that you are familiar… — Jacques Derrida
I always had a sense that I would fall in love with Tokyo. In retrospect I guess it's not that surprising. I was of the… — Junot Diaz
I think there's something really painful about your identity being entirely composed of ghosts. For me, I didn't want to be this kid whose Dominicanness… — Junot Diaz
A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the… — Benjamin Disraeli
Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely. — Theodore Dreiser
Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is 'The Book of British Birds,' and you have a rough idea of… — Terry Eagleton
Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it. — Alexandre Dumas
Friendship is held to be the severest test of character. It is easy, we think, to be loyal to a family and clan, whose blood… — Charles Alexander Eastman
The mobile phone... is a tool for those whose professions require a fast response, such as doctors or plumbers. — Umberto Eco
Certainly, light fiction exists and encompasses mysteries or second-class romance novels, books that are read on the beach, whose only aim is to entertain. These… — Umberto Eco
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world. — Thomas A. Edison
There is no person in this room whose basic rights are not involved in any successful defiance to the carrying out of court orders. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
Do not tell secrets to those whose faith and silence you have not already tested. — Elizabeth I
Whose leadership, whose judgment, whose values do you want in the White House when that crisis lands like a thud on the Oval Office desk? — Rahm Emanuel
What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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