Which Quotes

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else.

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality is more important than the feeling for pictures.

Timidity is a fault for which it is dangerous to reprove persons whom we wish to correct of it.

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

I like everything. Boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny. Which is a problem when I'm walking down the street.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.

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.

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

On receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided on my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success.

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.

Some of the companies we helped start are names you know. An office supply company called Staples - where I'm pleased to see the Obama campaign has been shopping; The Sports Authority, which became a favorite of my sons. We started an early childhood learning center called Bright Horizons that First Lady Michelle Obama rightly praised.

If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is the other side of silence.

In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?

I, for one, respect those who believe with all their hearts and conscience that there are no circumstances under which any abortion should ever be available.

Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.

When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,' and so forth, I switch off quite early.

A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

Genteel women suppose that those things do not really exist about which it is impossible to talk in polite company.

All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.

Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

By not caring too much about what people think, I'm able to think for myself and propagate ideas which are very often unpopular. And I succeed.

The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.

Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.