Whose Quotes
883 quotes by 772 authors
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All those people whose faces decorate the shopping bags of Barnes and Noble, with a few exceptions, would never get published today.
— Mark Crispin Miller
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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
— Victor Hugo
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It is precisely because the issue raised by this case touches the heart of what makes individuals what they are that we should be especially…
— Harry A. Blackmun
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We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being.
— William O. Douglas
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For a dyed-in-the-wool author, nothing is as dead as a book once it is written. She is rather like a cat whose kittens have grown…
— Rumer Godden
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The tendency of old age to the body, say the physiologists, is to form bone. It is as rare as it is pleasant to meet…
— Bob Wells
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I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
— Victor Hugo
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An amateur is someone who supports himself with outside jobs which enable him to paint. A professional is someone whose wife works to enable him…
— Ben Shahn
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The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need men who…
— John F. Kennedy
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The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.
— Robertson Davies
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The family, that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor in our innermost hearts never quite wish to.
— Dodie Smith
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Journalism: A profession whose business is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.
— Lord Northcliffe
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There is no force so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
— Everett Dirksen
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They are best dressed, whose dress no one observes.
— Anthony Trollope
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I ever will profess myself the greatest friend to those whose actions best correspond with their doctrine; which, I am sorry to say, is too…
— J G Stedman
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An art whose medium is language will always show a high degree of critical creativeness, for speech is itself a critique of life: it names,…
— Thomas Mann
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Search not to find things too deeply hid; Nor try to know things whose knowledge is forbid.
— John Denham
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I have never known a really chic woman whose appearance was not, in large part, an outward reflection of her inner self.
— Mainbocher
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There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.
— Theodore Roosevelt
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