Which Quotes

Jealous, adj. Unduly concerned about the preservation of that which can be lost only if not worth keeping.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

Strange - is it not? That of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too.

There is a fifth dimension, beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition.

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

Millions of people die every day. Everyone's got to go sometime. I've came by this particular tumor honestly. If you smoke, which I did for many years very heavily with occasional interruption, and if you use alcohol, you make yourself a candidate for it in your sixties.

Do not share the knowledge with which you have been blessed with everyone in general, as you do with some people in particular; and know that there are some men in whom Allah, may He he glorified, has placed hidden secrets, which they are forbidden to reveal.

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.

The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided not to see.

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.

I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.

No accurate thinker will judge another person by that which the other person's enemies say about him.

Character... is a habit, the daily choice of right over wrong; it is a moral quality which grows to maturity in peace and is not suddenly developed on the outbreak of war.

And I'm afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust.

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

That government is best which governs least.

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.

The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.

Having embraced Islam, I felt as if I were born again. I found in Islam the answers to those queries which I had failed to find in Christianity.

Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.

We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names.

I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us.