Which Quotes

What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.

Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.

If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

You wait for fate to bring about the changes in life which you should be bringing about by yourself.

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes.

As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.

I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live.

A person however learned and qualified in his life's work in whom gratitude is absent, is devoid of that beauty of character which makes personality fragrant.

Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.

Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission.

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.

When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.

There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

Our souls may lose their peace and even disturb other people's, if we are always criticizing trivial actions - which often are not real defects at all, but we construe them wrongly through our ignorance of their motives.

What makes all doctrines plain and clear? About two hundred pounds a year. And that which was proved true before, prove false again? Two hundred more.

A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait.

Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.

When we are in love we often doubt that which we most believe.

I see myself capable of arrogance and brutality... That's a fierce thing, to discover within yourself that which you despise the most in others.

We don't have enough support for maternal leave and the kinds of things that some of the European countries do. So we still make it hard on women to go into the work force and feel that they can be good at work but then doing the most important job, which is raising your children in a responsible and positive way.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.

The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.