Whose Quotes

More and more these days what I find myself doing in my stories is making a representation of goodness and a representation of evil and then having those two run at each other full-speed, like a couple of PeeWee football players, to see what happens. Who stays standing? Whose helmet goes flying off?

When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion.

Beauty, sweet love, is like the morning dew, Whose short refresh upon tender green, Cheers for a time, but till the sun doth show And straight is gone, as it had never been.

The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.

Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance.

By adopting the other trade, we place ourselves by the side of those whose measures tend not only to the improvement of their own subjects, but to the emancipation of the slave everywhere.

I beg you to speak of Woman as you do of the Negro, speak of her as a human being, as a citizen of the United States, as a half of the people in whose hands lies the destiny of this Nation.

Perhaps it's the people whose lives have taken sudden new twists - people who have learned to embrace the creative possibilities of change - who stand the best chance of penetrating life's mysteries.

There are whole precincts of voters in this country whose united intelligence does not equal that of one representative American woman.

I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

A witness, in the sense that I am using the word, is a man whose life and faith are so completely one that when the challenge comes to step out and testify for his faith, he does so, disregarding all risks, accepting all consequences.

We frequently define an acid or a base as a substance whose aqueous solution gives, respectively, a higher concentration of hydrogen ion or of hydroxide ion than that furnished by pure water. This is a very one sided definition.

I mean, whose songs don't focus on tragedy and loss?

That whose existence is necessary must necessarily be one essence.

Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

Journalist: a person without any ideas but with an ability to express them; a writer whose skill is improved by a deadline: the more time he has, the worse he writes.

Today, the theory of evolution is an accepted fact for everyone but a fundamentalist minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire adherence to religious principles.

The evening news is a concept whose time has come and gone.

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.

My story is the story of countless millions of children whose families and nations were torn apart for money in the name of Jesus Christ.

There are many men whose tongues might govern multitudes if they could govern their tongues.

I hope I've lived a life of science whose style will encourage younger people.

God is concerned with nations, but nations also need to be concerned with God. No nation can have a monopoly on God, but God will bless any nation whose people seek and honor His will as revealed by Christ and declared through the Holy Spirit.

Each of the Arts whose office is to refine, purify, adorn, embellish and grace life is under the patronage of a Muse, no god being found worthy to preside over them.

The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

The little windflower, whose just opened eye is blue as the spring heaven it gazes at.

If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!

I found college useful for a lot of other reasons. It exposed me to a great many influences I wouldn't otherwise have encountered, and gave me a lot of time with some very intelligent people whose thoughts are still with me.

Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground.

In not having an appointment at Harvard, I'm in the company of a great many people whose work I admire tremendously, in particular women of color.