Whose Quotes

I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha.

Time, whose tooth gnaws away everything else, is powerless against truth.

For the last half of my life I have had the doubtful benefit of a brother whose literary reputation is much greater than my own.

There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind.

A people whose souls are so little tuned to joy.

One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.

There has been only a civil rights movement, whose tone of voice was adapted to an audience of liberal whites.

The astrologers and historians write that the ascendant as of Oxford is Capricornus, whose lord is Saturn, a religious planet, and patron of religious men.

The reason I talk to myself is that I'm the only one whose answers I accept.

I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.

For the 95 per cent whose only means of schooling is the district or the city school, we must provide what we are not now providing, an education that will better fit them for the struggle of life.

I'm happy to report that everybody whose face I've wanted to punch on Earth has already been punched.

It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of it's own reason.

Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.

I had a friend whose family had dinner together. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. They even had a spare bike for a friend. It just seemed so amazing to me.

It is possible to build a virtual-reality generator whose repertoire includes every possible environment.

I cannot doubt that women will line up, like the men elected, with the groups whose political thinking and convictions are in accord with their own political convictions.

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.

I don't understand why people whose entire lives or their corporate success depends on communication, and yet they are led on occasion by CEOs who cannot talk their way out of a paper bag and don't care to.

The populations of Central America are very, very small indeed, so that while no one was denying and this was one of the great debates we used to have, whose fault was it that there were communists were able to do so well down there, well, that wasn't the point.

I feel like B sides are always better, no matter whose record it is.

The United States are a political state, or organized society, whose end is government, for the security, welfare, and happiness of all who live under its protection.

At 15, I knew someone whose mother cooked macrobiotic, so I persuaded my mother to go macrobiotic with me.

The dangers which threaten us are twofold: First, from the Confederate forces, composed of men whose earnest convictions and reckless bravery it is idle to deny.

Today's youth cannot miss something they have never known, but I fear that there are no current fictional characters whose impact and influence will last with such abiding affection into their 'sore and yellow' as this splendid man's creations have in mine!

A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.

Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it is, it's the truth.

Women's roles are diminished for obvious reasons. It's the men whose names are on the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, and who were generals and soldiers.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.