Top 1200 Which Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

The picture which the philosopher draws of the world is surely not one in which every stroke is necessitated by pure logic.

In the ordinary business of life, industry can do anything which genius can do, and very many things which it cannot.

The climate of Ohio is perfect, considered as the home of an ideal republican people. Climate has much to do with national character.... A climate which permits labor out-of-doors every month in the year and which requires industry to secure comfort--to provide food, shelter, clothing, fuel, etc.--is the very climate which secures the highest civilization.

There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.

By the needle you shall draw the thread, and by that which is past, see how that which is to come will be drawne on.

Southeast Asia food uses many different types of spices which are quite new to me, like the curry leaves which I saw at the Kreta Ayer wet market in Chinatown. With such spices used in cooking, this usually imparts a strong aroma to Southeast Asian food, which appeals to the senses.

What is common sense? That which attracts the least opposition that which brings most agreeable and worthy results.

Egnaro is a secret known to everyone but yourself. It is a country or a city to which you have never been; it is an unknown language. At the same time it is like being cuckolded, or plotted against. It is part of the universe of events which will never wholly reveal itself to you: a conspiracy the barest outline of which, once visible, will gall you forever.

Let me keep my mind on what matters, which is my work, which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished.

That blessed mood in which the burthen of the mystery, in which the heavy and the weary weight of all this unintelligible world is lightened.

Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up.

Virulence appears in a new light which cannot but be alarming to humanity; unless nature, in her evolution down the ages (an evolution which, as we now know, has been going on for millions, nay, hundreds of millions of years), has finally exhausted all the possibilities of producing virulent or contagious diseases - which does not seem very likely.

As a sensible actor, I can easily judge which scene looks vulgar and which will look aesthetic.

Jealousy, which serves the struggle for survival, can deteriorate into the envy which draws defeat even from victory.

The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything.

Buddhas have a strength which is not of this world. Their strength is totally of love... Like a rose flower or a dewdrop. Their strength is very fragile, vulnerable. Their strength is the strength of life not of death. Their power is not of that which kills; their power is of that which creates. Their power is not of violence, aggression; their power is that of compassion.

Ascribe not to any soul that which thou wouldst not have ascribed to thee, and say not that which though doest not.

I went to the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, which was in Carnegie Hall, which itself was exciting - just to walk into it.

That within us which seeks to know and to progress is not the mind but something behind it which makes use of it.

Our modern, deadline-a-day lifestyle overtaxes our adrenal glands, which end up overproducing cortisol, which in turn makes it nearly impossible to sleep and can put you at risk for a heart attack. Raised cortisol also boosts your insulin levels, which can cause you to pack on the pounds, especially around the midsection.

We spend our time responding rationally to a world which we understand and recognize, but which no longer exists.

Ultimately, clean lines have greater longevity, which women appreciate, and to which they can add their own personality

Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has a good a right to be in deep affliction, as the most graceful set of limbs in the world. But, fair or not fair, there are unbecoming conjunctions, which reason will pa tronize in vain,--which taste cannot tolerate,--which ridicule will seize.

If in this supreme test, in face of which the braggart falls silent and every heroic gesture is paralyzed, a man walks straight up to the cause of his fear and is not deterred from doing that which is good -- which ultimately means for the sake of God, and therefore not from ambition or from fear of being taken for a coward -- this man, and he alone, is truly brave.

I come from a very small island which is packed with people. I mean, jam-packed with people. I've lived a life which has been pretty much full up with ambition, ideas, stimulus, creativity, some negativity, which I try to avoid. Austin is a great sort of stepping-off point, if you like. I'm from a temperate climate.

The State which we have founded must possess the four cardinal virtues of wisdom, courage, discipline and justice ... Justice is the principle which has in fact been followed throughout, the principle of one man one job, of minding one s own business , in the sense of doing the job for which one is naturally fitted and not interfering with other people.

I have a beautiful sofa, which is my writing corner, on which I sit every day and look outside the window.

If the Christian religion, as I understand it, or as you understand it, should maintain its ground, as I believe it will, yet Platonic, Pythagoric, Hindoo, and cabalistical Christianity, which is Catholic Christianity, and which has prevailed for 1500 years, has received a mortal wound, of which the monster must finally die. Yet so strong is his constitution, that he may endure for centuries before he expires.

The continually progressive change to which the meaning of words is subject, the want of a universal language which renders translation necessary, the errors to which translations are again subject, the mistakes of copyists and printers, together with the possibility of willful alteration, are themselves evidences that human language, whether in speech or print, cannot be the vehicle of the Word of God.

If you follow the ways in which you were trained, which you may have inherited, for no other reason than this, you are illogical.

That is what I seek, to essay interesting and challenging characters, which develop me as an actor and at a personal level to work with people who inspire me to push my boundaries and work on interesting scripts which which turn into refined work of art and leave a mark on me and the audience.

He had a head which statuaries loved to copy, and a foot the deformity of which the beggars in the streets mimicked.

The universal and absolute law is that natural justice which cannot be written down, but which appeals to the hearts of all.

We need to make a world in which fewer children are born, and in which we take better care of them.

If we cannot know what's possible, then we are free to do that which is pulling our hearts and that which is life serving.

Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.

Curiosity began my journey, which led to regret, which brings me always to wonder and dedication.

Financiers live in a world of illusion. They count on something which they call the capital of the country, which has no existence.

The solution of the difficulties which formerly surrounded the mathematical infinite is probably the greatest achievement of which our age has to boast.

While photography is the easiest medium in which to be competent, it is the hardest in which to develop an idiosyncratic personal vision.

My work consists of two parts: of the one which is here, and of everything which I have not written. And precisely this second part is the important one.

The perfect disinterestedness and self-devotion of which men seem incapable, but which is sometimes found in women.

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.

All men and women are connected by an energy which we call love, but which is, in fact, the raw material from which the universe was built. This energy cannot be manipulated, it leads us gently forward, it contains all we have to learn in this life. If we try to make it go in the direction we want, we end up desperate, frustrated, disillusioned, because that energy is free and wild.

A jealous person is doubly unhappy-over what he has, which is judged inferior, and over which he has not, which is judged superior. Such a person is doubly removed from knowing the true blessing of creation.

No, nothing is sacred. And even if there were to be something called sacred, we mere primates wouldn't be able to decide which book or which idol or which city was the truly holy one. Thus, the only thing that should be upheld at all costs and without qualification is the right of free expression, because if that goes, then so do all other claims of right as well.

Religion is the centre which unites, and the cement which connects the several parts of members of the political body.

It's difficult for me to imagine a circumstance in which you're disguising your origins in which someone doesn't get hurt.

Quotation is a method of appropriation which is invincible, I think. It's not a procedure which displeases me, contrary to recycling.

The whole language of nature informs us, that in animated beings there is something above our powers of investigation; something which employs, combines, and arranges the gross elements of matter - a spark of celestial fire, by which life is kindled and preserved, and which, if even the instruments it employs are indestructible in their essence, must itself, of necessity, be immortal.

I am influenced by books which don't have their eye on the endgame, but which try to be entertaining on each and every page.

The green reed which bends in the wind is stronger than the mighty oak which breaks in a storm.

I have rarely seen the face of a mechanic in the action of creation which was not fine, never one which was not earnest and impressive.

Probably in all history there is no instance of a society in which ecclesiastical power was dominant which was not at once stagnant, corrupt and brutal.

The landlady of a boarding-house is a parallelogram - that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything

I had more trouble than I had a sense of utility or satisfaction. But it served to occupy me and to keep me occupied in a field that I love - which was cinema - while I was waiting to realize the film that I wanted to do, which was Once Upon a Time in America, which took ten years of thinking and working to realize.

Reform is a good replete with paradox; it is a cathartic which our political quacks, like our medical, recommend to others, but will not take themselves; it is admired by all who cannot effect it, and abused by all who can; it is thought pregnant with danger, for all time that is present, but would have been extremely profitable for that which is past, and will be highly salutary for that which is to come.

What, then, is this blue sky, which certainly does exist, and which veils from us the stars during the day?

Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner, honest water, which ne'er left man i' the mire.

There is a basic truth which man can know and which can transform his life if he will become the embodiment of it.