Whether Quotes

When you write biographies, whether it's about Ben Franklin or Einstein, you discover something amazing: They are human.

Only in the most unusual cases is it useful to determine whether a book is good or bad; for it is just as rare for it to be one or the other. It is usually both.

You should take some responsibility for the way you present yourself. But you should not be hung up on your looks, whether you are ugly or handsome, because it isn't an achievement.

I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.

This is the basis, and I am not being tried for whether I am a Communist, I am being tried for fighting for the rights of my people, who are still second-class citizens in this United States of America.

I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price.

Whether in chains or in laurels, liberty knows nothing but victories.

The moment-of-conception fallacy implies that fertilization is a simple process with never a doubt as to whether it has or has not happened.

There are some heterosexuals that have heterosexual behavior that is appalling sexually, that is deviant and bad and not really moral and Christ-like and biblical. But those people are never questioned as to whether or not they're allowed to be a parent.

They all matter to me, whether I'm working on a Sam Jackson film for a week or I'm the star of my own TV series - I take it all very seriously, and I have a healthy respect for the work in general, despite the role.

It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.

Every man's work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself.

Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain.

Whenever you have two characters in a book, whether it's a novel or nonfiction, you run the risk that the reader is going to like one more than the other. They're going to read one chapter and say, 'I can't wait to get back to the other guy.'

All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.

I'm not going to say whether I'm a Republican or a Democrat.

It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.

Deciding whether to trust or credit a person is always an uncertain task.

I can paint and draw. I believe this myself and a few other people say that they believe this too. But I'm not certain of whether it's true.

Foucault was the one person I met in France that I could talk to. He was a mensch. You know whether you agree with him or not because you know what he is saying.

A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.

Theatre has no national identity. It is something for the world, whether it is Irish, English, or French.

Whether gods exist or not, there is no way to get absolute certainty about ethics. Without absolute certainty, what do we do? We do the best we can.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

The relation between a poet and audience is really insignificant. What matters is the poet is hearing something that he is broadcasting. And whether there is anybody with a receiver isn't the reason he does it. He hopes there is somebody receiving it.

Whether people like it or not, my marketing thought is if you keep something in front of people for too long, they get used to it.

The terrible, diabolic thing with this disease is that you are always looking behind your shoulder every couple months with the most recent checkup to see whether there is any sign of it, and I thank God to say at this point there is not.

The most important thing about global warming is this. Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to the scientists, but it's all of our responsibility to leave this planet in better shape for the future generations than we found it.

Our country is wounded and bleeding now if we don't know whether or not habeas corpus exists.

Life is denied by lack of attention, whether it be to cleaning windows or trying to write a masterpiece.