Top 1200 Which Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Each of us has something which is our own and which only you yourself can pass on to others.

The happiest of pillows is not that which love first presses! it is that which death has frowned on and passed over.

I am alone so I dream of the being who has cured my solitude, who would be cured by solitudes. With its life, it brought me the idealizations of life, all the idealizations which give life a double, which lead life toward it summits, which make the dreamer too live by splitting.

The lesson one can learn from Firbank is that of inconsequence. There is the vein which he tapped and which has not yet been fully exploited.

There are faults which show heart and win hearts, while the virtue in which there is no love, repels.

Today we understand that reality corresponds to a model - or, even better, the sum of various models - which in science are termed "complex systems" - not complicated or difficult, that's a different thing! This complexity is what creates that which we all know - the World - is connected in a system of networks - and I'm not referring only to the internet but also to thousands of analog networks in which we are all immersed at every instant.

There is nothing in this world which men desire and struggle for, and that is good for them, of which there is not enough for everybody.

Why do you seem so annoyed at what I'm saying?" "Because we're too much like each other. I loathe your face, which is a caricature of mine, I loathe your voice, which is a mockery of mine, I loathe your pathetic syntax, which is my own.

It is but a poor establishment where there are not many superfluous things which the owner knows not of, and which go to the thieves.

In naming that which is right before me, that which I'd otherwise miss, the invisible becomes visible.

How do you do original work when culture is telling you which font face to use, which layout.

The faults of which we ask you [God] the remittance, it is you who make us commit them; the traps of which we implore you to deliver us, it is you who has set them for us; and the Satan which surrounds us, this Satan, it is you.

Law and equity are two things which God has joined, but which man has put asunder.

The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.

Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire.

It doesn't matter which city, which country my opponent is from - and I am not worried about fighting in Moscow.

Music is so elevated that it is beyond the reach of intellect and there flows from it an influence which is all-potent, and which noone can explain.

If you look at my life, generally, I've been put in situations which were difficult and which I conquered.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution of your country and the government established under it. Leave evils which exist in some parts of the country, but which are beyond your control, to the all-wise direction of an over-ruling Providence. Perform those duties which are present, plain and positive. Respect the laws of your country.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

This imperiousness which aids us in all things is merely a fitting authority which comes from superior spirit.

Nothing can be true which is either complete or vacant; every touch is false which does not suggest more than it represents, and every space is false which represents nothing.

This world in which we live needs beauty in order not to sink into despair. Beauty, like truth, brings joy to the human heart, and is that precious fruit which resists the erosion of time, which unites generations and enables them to be one in admiration. And all this through the work of your hands . . . Remember that you are the custodians of beauty in the world.

All we can say is that, as the result of a process which went on from the fourth century to about the eighth, a standard type of text was produced, which is found in the vast majority of the manuscripts that have come down to us. At least ninety-six per cent of the extant manuscripts of the Greek New Testament are later than the eighth century; and of those only a handful preserve traces of the other types of text which were in existence before the adoption of the standard text, and out of which it was created.

If I am to be a thoroughfare, I prefer that it be of the mountain brooks, the Parnassian streams, and not the town sewers. There is inspiration, that gossip which comes to the ear of the attentive mind from the courts of heaven. There is the profane and stale revelation of the barroom and the police court. The same ear is fitted to receive both communications. Only the character of the hearer determines to which it shall be open, and to which closed.

Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.

It is (often) the quiet gesture which carries the most significance - the one which suddenly directs the symphony.

There is a medium in all things. There are certain limits beyond, or within which, that which is right cannot exist.

That which we know is but little; that which we have a presentiment of is immense; it is in this direction that the poet outruns the learned man.

In drama school, I entered a singing competition, which I ended up winning, which was great.

What is the city in which we sit here, but an aggregate of incongruous materials, which have obeyed the will of some man?

It is the small things in life which count; it is the inconsequential leak which empties the biggest reservoir.

That's the only sense in which I've been lucky: I have the kind of face to which cosmetics could be applied.

Life is filled with problems to be solved and tensions to be managed. Sometimes it helps to know which is which.

What I did have, which others perhaps didn't, was a capacity for sticking at it, which really is the point, not the talent at all. You have to stick at it.

The end for which Christ lives, and for which He has left His church in the world, is the salvation of sinners.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire is that which he exercises over himself.

there are virtues which are very well in the abstract, but which, encountered in the flesh, can be a source of extreme irritation.

At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

No picture can be good which deceives by its imitation, for the very reason that nothing can be beautiful which is not true.

Medicine considers the human body as to the means by which it is cured and by which it is driven away from health.

God does not regret saving you. There is no sin which you commit which is beyond the cross of Christ.

Although we know nothing of what an atom is, yet we cannot resist forming some idea of a small particle, which represents it to the mind ... there is an immensity of facts which justify us in believing that the atoms of matter are in some way endowed or associated with electrical powers, to which they owe their most striking qualities, and amongst them their mutual chemical affinity.

A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

I please myself with imagining a State at least which can afford to be just to all men, and to treat the individual with respect as a neighbor; which even would not think it inconsistent with its own repose if a few were to live aloof from it, not meddling with it, nor embraced by it, who fulfilled all the duties of neighbors and fellow-men. A State which bore this kind of fruit, and suffered it to drop off as fast as it ripened, would prepare the way for a still more perfect and glorious State, which also I have imagined, but not yet anywhere seen.

There is only one thing which interests me vitally now, and that is the recording of all that which is omitted in books

I suppose at some point, we all have to decide which memories - real or otherwise - to hold on to, and which ones to let go.

The ability to discriminate between that which is true and that which is false is one of the last attainments of the human mind.

The art which is grand and yet simple is that which presupposes the greatest elevation both in artist and in public.

The things which cannot be adequately represented by words are more important than those which can.

We may neglect the wrongs which we receive, but be careful to rectify those which we are the cause of to others.

There is a slumbering subterranean fire in nature which never goes out, and which no cold can chill.

One is responsible to life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return.

There's two things that you don't listen to: flattery, which can't help you, and abuse, which can't hurt you. You have to look at the facts.

As we move into an era in which personal devices are seen as proxies for public needs, we run the risk that already-existing inequities will be further entrenched. Thus, with every big data set, we need to ask which people are excluded. Which places are less visible? What happens if you live in the shadow of big data sets?

Know that for the human mind there are certain objects of perception which are within the scope of its nature and capacity; on the other hand, there are, amongst things which actually exist, certain objects which the mind can in no way and by no means grasp: the gates of perception are closed against it.

Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.

every generation has a conceit of itself which elevates it, in its own opinion, above that which comes after it.

The ultimate verification of our religion consists of the changed lives to which it can point and for which it is responsible.