Which Quotes

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.

I have always loved truth so passionately that I have often resorted to lying as a way of introducing it into the minds which were ignorant of its charms.

It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.

Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.

I like video games, but they are very violent. I want to create a video game in which you have to help all the characters who have died in the other games. 'Hey, man, what are you playing?' 'Super Busy Hospital. Could you leave me alone? I'm performing surgery! This guy got shot in the head, like, 27 times!'

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.

Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.

Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.

I have no desire to crow over anybody or to see anybody eating crow, figuratively or otherwise. We should all get together and make a country in which everybody can eat turkey whenever he pleases.

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

It's that wonderful old-fashioned idea that others come first and you come second. This was the whole ethic by which I was brought up. Others matter more than you do, so 'don't fuss, dear; get on with it.'

My greatest environments in which I can grow, or grow up, is in personal romantic relationships with a man.

I detest life-insurance agents: they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so.

Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

That is never too often repeated, which is never sufficiently learned.

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.