Which Quotes

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.

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.

A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities.

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.