Whose Quotes
883 quotes by 772 authors
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Early on I saw the plastic quality in colored people and had friends among them; and later was to work from colored models and friends,…
— Jacob Epstein
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There are very few works of fiction that take you inside the heads of all characters. I tell my writing students that one of the…
— Julia Glass
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Let us wait in patience for the Christ-child whose own life depended on the lives of Mary and Joseph. The Word of God was made…
— Stanley Hauerwas
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William James was not a prophet. He was a philosopher whose philosophy reflected his profound humanity.
— Stanley Hauerwas
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In world mythology, there are countless examples of tragic characters whose greatest strength is also the source of their undoing. But the ancient Greeks and…
— Simon Van Booy
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Hardest of all for Europeans to negotiate are traditional African religions, whose transactions with unseen powers are central to the running of life in many…
— Neil MacGregor
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The Maldives, a string of islands off the coast of India whose highest point above sea level is eight feet, may be the first nation…
— Michael Specter
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It was in August or September of 1995 that I met Diana, Princess of Wales. Diana and I met through Oonagh Toffolo, whose husband was…
— Hasnat Khan
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Delayed gratification is a sweet lesson whose teacher knows the best is not right now, it is yet to be.
— Maximillian Degenerez
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I always knew I was brainy. It struck me when I was a child that I wanted to be an adult because I never felt…
— Maximillian Degenerez
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The communities and countries best at using energy to optimize a microclimate for human life are also the ones whose people have the longest average…
— Chris Hadfield
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Meditation had never been tried before in a medical center, so we had no idea whether mainstream Americans would accept a clinic whose foundation was…
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
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The rabbi is often the regular preacher in the synagogue, the man whose sermons offer his community more general theological and moral guidance.
— David Novak
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I have spent seven of the 12 years I have been married a victim of political persecution. I must be the first male spouse being…
— Asif Ali Zardari
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I had had a father whose shoes I could never fill, against whom I would never measure up; yet, I felt no pressure do so.
— Mark Shriver
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There are a lot of bands and performers whose careers are permanently derailed by spectacularly bad management.
— Amanda Marshall
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Fatah is a political party and movement, whose chairman is Mahmoud Abbas.
— Elliott Abrams
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Obama is like the kid brother whose only standard for judging his own achievements is the records his big brother set.
— Elliott Abrams
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The first voyagers to the stars will be creatures whose life cycle is matched to the voyage: the aeons involved in traversing the galaxy are…
— Martin Rees
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When we lift the wage floor, it not only betters the lives of those whose wages are directly affected, it also lifts the economy as…
— Thomas Perez
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