Top 100 For Whom Quotes
#1. I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I'm praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I'm grateful that I'm heard.
Maya Angelou
#2. The trouble with "sacrifices as symbolic acts" is that the immediate impact on those for whom the sacrifice is made quickly fades, while the impact on those who actually make the sacrifice can go on and on.
Preston Manning
#3. He had known in times of the greatest misery or danger that his dreams of home, in which all things seemed beautiful, were in essence his longing for the woman for whom he had been made. That was how, as a soldier, he had seen it, and it was how he had come through.
Mark Helprin
#4. The collaboration wish list is huge, very long. It goes from people like Elton John, for whom I have an unbelievable amount of respect, to Snoop Dogg, whom I also respect a great deal.
Dave Koz
#5. Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt.
Jean Rostand
#6. For, whom the Muses smile upon,
And touch with soft persuasion,
His words like a storm-wind can bring
Terror and beauty on their wing;
In his every syllable
Lurketh nature veritable.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#7. A.J. is an agent like me, but for whom or for what no one has been able to discover. It is rumored that he represents a trust of giant insects from another galaxy ...
William S. Burroughs
#8. I think of her as a woman for whom every act is done for show, is acting rather than a real act. She does such things to look good, I think. She's out to make the best of it.
Margaret Atwood
#9. A creative writer is one for whom writing is a problem.
Roland Barthes
#10. It loves the other, not because of attractiveness, or talents, or sympathy, but because of God. To the Christian, a person is one for whom I must sacrifice myself, not one who must exist for my sake.
Fulton J. Sheen
#11. Joy is designing and building something that actually sees the light of day and is enjoyably used and widely adopted by the people for whom it was intended.
Richard Sheridan
#12. Philanthropy is the market for love. It is the market for all those people for whom there is no other market coming.
Dan Pallotta
#13. The thing I love about political interviews is, if you're really prepared, you can make great headway because these are the people for whom, theoretically at least, the buck stops.
Soledad O'Brien
#14. The servants of Mary are as sure of getting to Paradise as though they were already there. Who are they who are saved and who reign in Heaven? Surely those for whom the Queen of Mercy intercedes ... The clients of Mary will necessarily be saved.
Alphonsus Liguori
#15. In Christ, the other is given as the neighbor. I encounter the other as one for whom Christ became human, was crucified, and resurrected, and this sets them free to be who they are.
Brian Gregor
#16. I dare you to read a book this weekend! War and Peace? To Kill a Mocking Bird? Catcher in the Rye? The Heart is a Lonely Hunter? For Whom the Bell Tolls? As i lay Dying? Giovanni's Room? The Bell Jar? These books changed my life. #artforfreedom #rebelheart
Madonna Ciccone
#17. Gratitude is a species of love, excited in us by some action of the person for whom we have it, and by which we believe that he has done some good to us, or at least that he has had the intention of doing so.
Passions, III, 193. XI, 473-474. Trans. John Morris
Rene Descartes
#18. I can allow myself to write the truth; all the people for whom I have lied throughout my life are dead.
Marlen Haushofer
#19. To lunch with the important ... that should be the daily goal of those for whom life is not a playground but a ladder.
Rose Macaulay
#20. An act of love always tends towards two things; to the good that one wills, and to the person for whom one wills it.
Thomas Aquinas
#21. If it's not good enough for adults, it's not good enough for children. If a book that is going to be marketed for children does not interest me, a grownup, then I am dishonoring the children for whom the book is intended, and I am dishonoring books. And words.
Madeleine L'Engle
#22. She isn't my mother." He meant, of course, by simple mathematical extension, that his mother wasn't Teddy's mother either. Which meant that Bernadette, for whom he had lit a thousand candles, was the mother to whom his enormous love and devotion had no claim.
Ann Patchett
#23. One is understood to be in full knowledge whose every endeavor is devoid of desire for sense gratification. He is said by sages to be a worker for whom the reactions of work have been burned up by the fire of perfect knowledge.
Anonymous
#24. While Einstein was still a patent clerk he had studied the work of the Austrian physicist Ernst Mach, for whom the goal of science was not to discern the nature of reality, but to describe experimental data, the 'facts', as economically as possible.
Manjit Kumar
#25. As for whom I would like to fight, I always want to fight a guy coming off a win, because the guys coming off a loss are always very tough. They're fighting for their lives.
Diego Sanchez
#26. In 'For Whom the Bell Tolls,' Hemingway cozies up to revolution by romanticizing it (and not only with those execrable love scenes).
Madison Smartt Bell
#27. There are people in this life for whom even the best of things don't work out. They could wear cashmere suits and still look like tramps; be very rich but badly in debt; be tall but lousy at basketball.
Martin Page
#28. We should learn ... to do our best for the sake of our communities and for the sake of those for whom we pave the way.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
#29. Those for whom war is lucrative are rarely satiated.
C.S. Harris
#30. Phryne looked at a large statue of St. Joseph, for whom she had always had an admiration. It can't have been easy, managing a girl with an inexplicable pregnancy. But he had accepted the word of the Lord and not put her away. Later generations had not been so forgiving.
Kerry Greenwood
#31. The man for whom time stretches out painfully is one waiting in vain, disappointed at not finding tomorrow already continuing yesterday.
Theodor Adorno
#32. If caregivers are not healthy, mentally well-balanced and spiritually sound, then those for whom they care will suffer.
Leeza Gibbons
#33. Stale words, what are they worth?
A moment comes and God help those for whom it never comes.
When love of such nobility possesses this shaking frame
That even the sweetest word, the ultimate honey, stings like vinegar.
Edmond Rostand
#34. Michael is a funny character, for whom I have a great deal of affection. He sat across his desk and seemed to be a bit of a blunt fellow. We began talking about the characters and he opened up about his vision.
Madeleine Stowe
#35. Note to the ladies, for whom peanut butter seems to be like crack: the tablespoon scoop should be no more than a small mound, not half the jar balanced on a spoon.
Timothy Ferriss
#36. But before you set out to make your mark, you should ask yourself, "For whom will this be done?
James C. Dobson
#37. I would give the world to have one more person for whom I would lay down my life.
Julia Quinn
#38. We must remember that the people for whom this change represents a first taste of freedom and a new and brighter future did not allow their resolution to falter, no matter how great the suffering by which they bought this independence.
Hjalmar Branting
#39. The sinner is the gospel's reason for existence. You, my friend, to whom this word now comes, if you are undeserving, ill-deserving, hell-deserving, you are the sort of man for whom the gospel is ordained, and arranged, and proclaimed. God justifieth the ungodly.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#40. Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankind; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
John Donne
#41. Lesson learned: One person's success can be perceived as another's loss. Productivity is more important to some people than others. Those same people for whom productivity is not so important are often green-eyed with envy when someone else makes money. The
Douglas Wallace
#42. If a sinner comes into your assembly or you otherwise come into contact with him, remember that he is a human being for whom Christ died. He stands at the foot of the cross, just as you stand at the foot of the cross.
J. Vernon McGee
#43. And send not to ask for whom the fucking bell tolls, because you're not going to like the answer.
Mike Carey
#44. Every literature, in its main lines, reflects the chief characteristics of the people for whom, and about whom, it is written.
Edith Wharton
#45. Terrorism is a real despair. These are people for whom life has been so negative that they're willing to die if they can take down some of their enemies.
John Shelby Spong
#46. There will always be people for whom hate is easier when it's not backed up by anything but fear.
Mira Grant
#47. ...the schoolmaster was one of those men for whom virtuous indignation was a necessity.
Gabriel Chevallier
#48. There have been heroes for whom this world seemed expressly prepared, as if creation had at last succeeded; whose daily life was the stuff of which our dreams are made, and whose presence enhanced the beauty and ampleness of Nature herself.
Henry David Thoreau
#49. History has tongues Has angels has guns has saved has praised Today proclaims Achievements of her exiles long returned Now no more rootless, for whom her printed page Glazes their bruised waste years in one Balancing present sky.
Stephen Spender
#50. The Saviour would have passed through the agony of Calvary that one might be saved in His kingdom. He will never abandon one for whom He has died.
Ellen G. White
#51. Oh, you know. The lingering sensation that in pursuit of my own exacting goals and objectives I might not have been as generous in spirit as I could have been with regard to the needs and dreams of the people I cared most about or for whom I was emotionally responsible.
Chris Cleave
#52. Woman for whom Botox and fillers are the norm don't feel dressed without it. It's like going to the hairdresser's for them. Also, famously, lipstick sales go up in a recession: you may not be able to afford the shoes and the dress but you are sure going to keep your lips pillow perfect.
Imogen Edwards-Jones
#54. Those who take the most from the table, teach contentment. Those for whom the taxes are destined, demand sacrifice. Those who eat their fill, speak to the hungry, of wonderful times to come. Those who lead the country into the abyss, call ruling difficult, for ordinary folk.
Bertolt Brecht
#55. I have no ego investment in being on the air. I don't knock others for whom that kind of attention is like oxygen, but I don't miss anything about it.
Hugh Downs
#57. I cannot but be grieved to go from my native land, and especially from that part of it for whom and with whom I desired only to live; yet the dreadful apprehensions I have of what is coming upon this land may help to make me submissive to this providence, though more bitter.
Donald Cargill
#58. Believers are increasingly aware that, unless the Good News is made known also in the digital world, it may be absent in the experience of many people for whom this existential space is important.
Pope Benedict XVI
#59. They looked to each other for support, for strength, and at times, motivation, to remember why and for whom they lived.
Sage Steadman
#60. I know writers for whom the act of writing is a necessary chore. They suffer to write great work. I am very lucky that for me writing is a delight.
Denise Duhamel
#61. To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you, of what is seen as abuse of you, are reduced as part of the definition of your status.
Catharine MacKinnon
#62. She was the sort of person for whom fear was the natural response to that beyond explanation.
Kate Morton
#63. Paul declared in Philippians 3:8: "I count all things to be loss in view of the surpassing value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and count them but rubbish so that I may gain Christ" (NASB).
Charles F. Stanley
#64. I think there will be a 200-story skyscraper someday. However, it will require a developer who will not think in conventional terms and for whom economic restraints won't apply.
Helmut Jahn
#65. There are certainly numberless women of fashion who consider it perfectly natural to go miles down Fifth Avenue, or Madison Avenue, yet for whom a voyage of half a dozen blocks to east or west would be an adventure, almost a dangerous impairment of good breeding.
Jules Romains
#66. I see a lot of actors for whom life becomes one big schedule. I guess I try to be more sensitive to my private life - to take a breath of fresh air and be in the countryside or on a golf course.
Gerard Butler
#67. We have one solid comfort amidst this little tripping about, our hearts can always be in the same place, centered in God, for whom alone we go forward or stay back.
Catherine McAuley
#68. It is not the opinion of the common man that matters, but the opinion of men for whom you admire and truly respect.
Bohdi Sanders
#69. I avoid clients for whom advertising is only a marginal factor in their marketing mix. They have an awkward tendency to raid their advertising appropriations whenever they need cash for other purposes.
David Ogilvy
#70. I know people for whom the search for how to be well has been a positive journey. It's empowering to face your issues and try and take care of yourself. It can be positive too.
Maya Forbes
#71. There is no embarrassment quite like the embarrassment of listening to a person for whom one has a regard making a fool of himself.
Margaret Deland
#72. Judging people for whom they love (a same sex partner) rather than by whom they harm, should in itself merit a psychiatric diagnosis.
Harriet Lerner
#73. There are certain persons for whom pure Truth is a poison.
Andre Maurois
#74. She talked that night of all those out in the dark (she was thinking of Esteban alone, she was thinking of Pepita alone) who had no one to turn to, for whom the world perhaps was more than difficult, without meaning.
Thornton Wilder
#75. All things good come to those for whom the Good is all things.
Guy Finley
#76. The door of illumination is open to those for whom other doors are closed.
Idries Shah
#77. Those for whom things came easily usually made less of an effort, not more.
David McCullough
#78. Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
Dag Hammarskjold
#79. Why do ants alone have parasites whose intoxicating moistures they drink and for whom they will sacrifice even their young? Because as they are the most highly socialized of insects, so their lives are the most intolerable.
Cyril Connolly
#80. The film of tomorrow will not be directed by civil servants of the camera, but by artists for whom shooting a film constitutes a wonderful and thrilling adventure.
Francois Truffaut
#81. Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a chance to celebrate the worth of his enterprise.
Arthur Erickson
#82. Tariff policy beneficiaries are always visible, but its victims are mostly invisible. Politicians love this. The reason is simple: The beneficiaries know for whom to cast their ballots, and the victims don't know whom to blame for their calamity.
Walter E. Williams
#83. If you want to be known for whom you are as a person, then your responsibility it to make your qualities more visible. I believe if you don't you are becoming a victim.
Marla Runyan
#84. That person is lonely who has no one for whom he or she is Number One.
Helene Deutsch
#85. There are two kinds of people in one's life-people whom one keeps waiting-and the people for whom one waits
S. N. Behrman
#86. You know, the only important thing is that there was a person for whom you were the most important being in the world. Everything else is inconsequential.
Mikhail Shishkin
#87. Children, for whom suburban life was supposed to make wholesome little Johns and Wendys, became the acid-dropping, classroom-burning hippies of the 1960s.
Ronald Steel
#88. We must regard Sarah Palin as the Carmella Soprano of the GOP
an enabling wife of organized crime, who sees, hears and speaks no evil of the boys in her old-boy network for whom she does this ideological lap dance.
Cintra Wilson
#89. My mother, whose interest in chemistry was rather minimal, nevertheless went to graduate school in the subject and married my father, for whom it was as important as life itself.
George Akerlof
#90. War is just to those for whom it is necessary, and arms are clear of impiety for those who have no hope left but in arms.
Livy
#91. In a love affair, most seek an eternal homeland. Others, but very few, eternal voyaging. These latter are melancholics, for whom contact with mother earth is to be shunned. They seek the person who will keep far from them the homeland's sadness. To that person, they remain faithful.
Walter Benjamin
#92. Ancient person, for whom I
All the flattering youth defy,
Long be it ere thou grow old,
Aching, shaking, crazy, cold;
But still continue as thou art,
Ancient person of my heart.
John Wilmot
#93. Peter Wessel and Peter Van Daan have grown into one Peter, who is beloved and good, and for whom I long desperately.
Anne Frank
#94. It was through the private world of family that the public world of politics came alive for me: living in intimate proximity with people for whom larger questions of ideology and belief, as well as issues relating to politics and governance, were vivid daily realities.
Sonia Gandhi
#95. It is difficult to enjoy people for whom we have waited too long. And in this familiar situation, which evokes such intensities of feeling, we wait and we try to do something other than waiting, and we often get bored - the boredom of protest that is always a screen for rage.
Adam Phillips
#96. Somebody said to me that I speak English almost like somebody for whom English is not their first language.
Christopher Walken
#97. Religion based on divine sovereignty is religion for God's sake. Religion is for God, for whom all things exist. Whereas all forms of Arminianistic Christianity make man the final arbiter of his own salvation, in Calvinism, God saves sovereignly, immediately, whom He wills.
Henry R. Van Til
#98. There's no one who's ever been significantly in my life for whom I don't have a sort of tenderness because they helped to shape who I am.
Rachel McAdams
#99. A designer is someone who constructs while he thinks, someone for whom planning and making go together.
John Maeda
#100. For whom is the funhouse fun? Perhaps for lovers. For Ambrose it is a place of fear and confusion.
John Barth
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