Whereas Quotes

Hardly anyone has noticed that in the Northern Hemisphere people stir their drinks counterclockwise, whereas the same people stir their drinks clockwise when visiting the Southern Hemisphere.

The difference between a contemporary liberal and a socialist is that to a liberal the most beautiful word in the English language is 'forbidden', whereas to a socialist the most beautiful word is 'compulsory'.

Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting oneself be tossed and swept along by every wind of teaching, look like the only attitude acceptable to today's standards.

Whereas there's a wealth of galleries in Australia, everyone's got a gallery in Australia or wants your work. Because the art scene is smaller in Indonesia, there's not so much competition.

Being from North Carolina, it's kind of slow-paced. There's not too much going on there, whereas in New Orleans, there's always something going on. I just love all the people, going out to dinner and enjoying anything I want.

Being an actor, you are recognized for being somebody else, whereas these books are distilled from me.

I don't have joy in watching myself, whereas, actually, I quite like listening to my own music.

When people say to me don't the years go fast I have to be honest and say that whereas I don't realise where they go in the long term, I pack so much into a year it seems to take forever.

Whereas with us - what you hear is what's happening right then and there on the stage - so we don't need no stinking technology.

It seems to be that southern Europeans are just more intimate socially, whereas I like a lot of personal space - like, a mile from the nearest person is fine for me.

You can spend an entire day walking around in New York, whereas in L.A., it always ends at some point because you have to find a way to get home.

History uses a unit of measure for time that is different from that of the lifespan of the individual, whereas man is only too ready to measure the evolution of history by his own yardstick.

Everyone in L.A. is very positive and upbeat, whereas London can get quite miserable at times.

My mother was an artist and highly strung, whereas my father was much calmer.

We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary.

It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy.

Who is to say that 5 men 10 years ago were right whereas 5 men looking the other direction today are wrong.

Whereas European films have traditionally been able to go into adult relationships. I think there's a huge audience in America for those kinds of films.

The only difference between doctors and lawyers is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you, too.

After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion.

Wilson thought in terms of the whole world; Harding was for America first. And, finally, whereas Wilson wanted America to exert itself nobly, Harding wanted to give it a rest.

Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state, whereas the despot and the oligarch find their protection in suspicion and in armed guards.

The natural capital is not income, but we spend our natural capital as if it were revenue, as if it were going to come back next year without any problems, whereas these renewals in nature can take hundreds of years.

They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we're not 100 per cent human, that we're always letting ourselves down. We're constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment.

In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion.

Buddhism has become a socially recognized religious philosophy for Americans, whereas it used to be considered an exotic religion.

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it.

One problem with ideas, however valid, is that they are static and impersonal, whereas a person is active and dynamic.

When you kill somebody in the movies, it matters, whereas in literature it can be allegorical.

The secret of freedom lies in educating people, whereas the secret of tyranny is in keeping them ignorant.