Top 100 On Whether Quotes
#1. They are focused on whether they can do something. They never think whether they should do something.
Michael Crichton
#2. As strange as it may sound, our experience of a Chagall painting actually depends to some extent on whether our language has a word for blue.
Guy Deutscher
#3. The problem with experiments has always been that human beings make the decisions on whether or not the animals have benefitted from the treatment.
James Randi
#4. I said, Allah wouldn't test us on whether we condemn somebody who became pregnant outside of marriage; He would test us on our hospitality and charity.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
#5. It's unwise to let rage get the better of you. And you shouldn't hinge everything on whether you'll get to see the Emperor. Being obsessed with one thing like that has made him a sad, lonely man.
Joanne Owen
#6. Of course I had written a film about Elizabeth I, and I loved the Tudor period, and I think at the time Working Title and I had debated on whether to do Elizabeth I or Henry VIII. I'd always wanted to do Henry VIII. Like Elizabeth, I'd had this feeling that it had never properly been addressed.
Michael Hirst
#7. The intensity of a conviction that a hypothesis is true has no bearing on whether it is true or false. The importance of the strength of our conviction is only to provide a proportionately strong incentive to find out if the hypothesis will stand up to critical evaluation.
Peter Medawar
#8. Katrina was an extreme version of what goes on in many disasters,wherein how you behave depends on whether you think your neighbors or fellow citizens are a greater threat than the havoc wrought by a disaster or a greater good than the property in houses and stores around you.
Rebecca Solnit
#9. Sometimes I think our future existence will depend on whether we can keep false information from proliferating too rapidly. If our power to verify the facts does not keep pace, then distortions of information will eventually choke us.
Norman Mailer
#10. I love men's company, but I don't feel I have to be married. Men are a wonderful part of life, like chocolate. But my life goes on whether they're there or not.
Jerry Hall
#11. I think social networking is absolutely here to stay. Now, whether or not the label will Facebook forever, depends in part, I think, on whether Facebook wants to try to be less proprietary, be more central to the operation of defining and stewarding identity online.
Jonathan Zittrain
#12. Focus less on whether or not you win in the end. You still have to be sharp; that's why you prepare well. But once you've prepared, you need to calm down. And you can. You know why? Because it really doesn't matter that much.
David Jensen
#13. I don't think every movie should be made in 3-D, and it should depend on whether it's one of these films that's more immersive or needs to be taken to another world. I'm interested in other formats.
Joseph Kosinski
#14. Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.
R.D. Laing
#15. What a piece of bread looks like depends on whether you are hungry or not.
Rumi
#16. Geekiness is that feeling of overwhelming passion for that thing in life that you focus on. Whether it be a nephew's first few steps or the timbre in one's voice when discussing the latest Cohen brothers film.
Harry Knowles
#17. I don't do facials or any of that stuff, but my workout regime does tend to depend on whether I have to take my top off in my next film because otherwise I know I'm too heavy.
Clive Owen
#18. I always chose all my friends on whether they were funny. What's a better way to pass the time than laughing or smiling?
Ricky Gervais
#19. We try to press against the boundaries of what we are allowed, walk a step past the edge. Our records will be scrutinized by Congress one day and decisions on whether to enlarge our jurisdiction will be made.
Louise Erdrich
#20. The success of my journey depended on whether my heart walked forward - toward my people - instead of backward, away from them.
Anasazi Foundation
#21. It is we who nourish the Soul of the World, and the world we live in will be either better or worse, depending on whether we become better or worse.
Paulo Coelho
#22. What is in our hearts when we pray has more effect on whether our prayers are answered than the actual prayer itself. That's why, when we come before God to pray, He asks us to first confess anything in our hearts that shouldn't be there. He does that so nothing will separate us from Him.
Stormie O'martian
#23. Being a detective isn't all about torture and murder and monsters. Sometimes it gets truly unpleasant ... The fate of the world may depend on whether or not you can bring yourself to visit your relatives.
Derek Landy
#24. I feel that one must deliberate then act, must scan every life choice with rational thinking but then base the decision on whether one's heart will be in it.
Jean Shinoda Bolen
#26. I learned that man lives differently, depending on whether he is in a horizontal or vertical position. The shadows on the walls, on the faces, are not the same.
Elie Wiesel
#27. Idea, " he said, "but before I tell you what it is, I think we have to agree on whether or not we have business to do here. Do we want to try again to do what we tried to do once before? Do we want to try to kill It again? Or do we just divide the check up six ways and go back to what we were doing?
Stephen King
#28. And that was when I said 'Henry, the placement of the comma depends on whether 'I ate grandmother' or 'I ate, grandmother'.
Mia Castile
#29. And the world we live in will be either better or worse, depending on whether we become better or worse. And that's where the power of love comes in. Because when we love, we always strive to become better than we are.
Paulo Coelho
#30. I wondered if having conversations with your dog was less crazy than babbling to yourself when no one else was around. I guess it depended on whether or not the dog answered.
Deb Baker
#31. The best of American television is thought-provoking, original, brilliant, exciting - from 'The Sopranos' on, whether it's 'The Wire' or 'Breaking Bad' or 'House of Cards,' they're fantastic pieces of art.
Martin Freeman
#32. The criterion for what is good is based on whether it relieves someone, brings joy, or soothes a distress.
Bert Hellinger
#33. In this lifetime you're nothing more than you appear to be: a stupid, selfish, ignorant, spoiled little girl who thinks the world lives or dies on whether she gets to go out with some good-looking boy at school ... I'd still relish this moment ... killing you.
Lauren Kate
#34. 92% of respondents reported that a positive recommendation from a friend,
family member, or someone they trust is the biggest influence on whether they buy a product or service.
Paul M. Rand
#35. Everything would go on, whether he did or not. That was its beauty and its strength. His life, his hope, his dreams. Nothing cared, so he'd better.
Lesley Howarth
#36. Okay, you're right about that. But this whole ghost thing's irritating."
"Park benches are irritating to you in some moods."
"Depends on whether or not I want to sit down.
Nora Roberts
#37. Academics lack perspective. In a debate on whether the world is round, they would argue, 'No,' because it's an oblate spheroid. They suffer from 'the curse of knowledge': the inability to imagine what it's like not to know something that they know.
Steven Pinker
#38. I am Asha of House Greyjoy, aye. Opinions differ on whether I'm a lady.
George R R Martin
#39. I never felt comfortable with making political decisions based on whether, you know, it was the right thing to do in terms of a poll.
Jeb Bush
#40. We all have a dark side, our quality of life rests on whether or not we have the strength to control it.
Adam Steven Page
#41. Everybody gets inspired. We all have these moments. It just depends on whether you've got the ability to seize it.
Jeffrey Smart
#42. If we have an honest discussion on whether the war on poverty should be fought with welfare or with economic growth in the private sector, Democrats will lose black votes.
Alveda King
#43. The choice of moves should not be made on an exact verdict of the final position, but on whether or not your position has improved or worsened.
Jacob Aagaard
#44. The future economic success of Silicon Valley will be contingent on whether we have a good quality of life. World-class workers will only want to come to a world-class living environment.
Carl Guardino
#45. Whether all is really lost or not depends entirely on whether or not I am lost.
Vaclav Havel
#46. I think fundamentally, I had to make a decision really on whether this was a film about the past or the present. And 'The Act Of Killing' is a film about the present.
Joshua Oppenheimer
#47. Life goes on whether you choose to move on and take a chance in the unknown or stay behind, locked in the past, thinking of what could've been. I don't want to live in the past anymore. I'm so lonely here, there's nothing for me here anymore.
Stephanie Smith
#48. The shows are so different from each other, depending on whether I play with my band, Nine Stories, other musicians, an orchestra, only one or two members of my band.
Lisa Loeb
#49. When I start writing a poem, I can usually know quite early on whether it's a lineated or prose poem, but I don't think I can explain how. It's like deciding whether to wear a skirt or a pair of pants.
Matthea Harvey
#50. But when it became an international hoopla where careers lived and died on whether or not you did or didn't get an Oscar, then it got out of hand.
George C. Scott
#51. Reasonable people can differ on whether or not we should have gone into Iraq.
Mike Pence
#52. The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
P.G. Wodehouse
#53. There are still journalists who risk their lives in situations of conflict, versus those who sit behind a desk at 'News of the World' to report on whether someone is going out with somebody or not.
Romola Garai
#54. I would make a poor princess,' she said.
'Why?'
'Have you ever wished to be a princess?' Ash challenged her.
'That depends,' Kaisa said.
'On what?'
'On whether I'd have to marry a prince,' she said and her tone was lighthearted, inviting Ash to share her smile.
Malinda Lo
#55. Like Garth Brooks said about it, you need to live where you could honestly choose, if you had to, on whether to give up one yesterday for one more tomorrow, you have to be able to say no to that.
John Schmidt
#56. What constitutes wise policy . . . will depend on whether the immediate objective of policy is the promotion of political ends, the protection of vested interests, or the satisfaction of consumer needs.
George W. Stocking
#57. I had become a bit annoyed with Fermi . . . when he suddenly offered to take wagers from his fellow scientists on whether or not the bomb would ignite the atmosphere, and if so, whether it would merely destroy New Mexico or destroy the world.
Richard Rhodes
#58. I'm not terribly focused on whether I even could ever become the Leader of the Liberal Party or the Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party in the future.
Alexander Downer
#59. Everything depends on whether we have for opponents those French tricksters or those daring rascals, the English. I prefer the English. Frequently their daring can only be described as stupidity. In their eyes it may be pluck and daring.
Manfred Von Richthofen
#60. And you and Dex?"
"What about us?" ...
"What's the deal with you?"
"There is no deal. We're just partners."
"Are you sure? Because we all have bets on whether you guys are banging each other or not.
Karina Halle
#61. I didn't do so well in the academic world, so I think the only way I could express myself was through visual art - anything I could get my hands on, whether it was glassblowing, sculpture, painting, or photography. I always wanted to be a painter. Or a farmer.
Steven Klein
#62. So what you're left with is: either Christ was who He said He was - the Messiah - or a complete nutcase. I mean, we're talking nutcase on the level of Charles Manson. - Bono on whether Jesus was Son of God was far-fetched.
Bono
#63. In the traditional Islamic world, the hierarchy of the arts was not based on whether they were "fine" or "industrial" or "minor". It was based upon the effect of art on the soul of the human being.
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
#64. Now I'm way into suits that I can put on whether I took a shower or not, and wear barefoot and paint my toes black or whatever color the suit is. It's very cool to wear suits like that. Roll up the sleeves and just say yee-haw.
Steven Tyler
#65. What the hell does it all mean? Does 11:11 really mean anything at all? Well, that simply depends on whether you believe life has meaning in the first place.
Harry Whitewolf
#66. I don't find it hard to direct myself. I can easily think of me as a horrible performer or a good performer. I work with actors who cannot stand watching or looking at themselves, which is not my case. I can have an eye and perspective on whether I'm terrible or good enough for me.
Xavier Dolan
#67. I loved the fact that I was suddenly no longer dependent on whether a store took out an ad in the right place, or on the word on the street.
Neil Gaiman
#68. Luckily my sense of self is not predicated on whether or not you find me interesting.
Eden Sharp
#69. Physical courage in whatever scene ... seems to hinge on whether the individual can feel he is fighting for others as well as himself.
Rollo May
#70. Yesterday, the Supreme Court spent over an hour listening to arguments on whether Obamacare is unconstitutional. Yeah, listening to arguments about Obamacare for an hour, or as most people call that, 'Thanksgiving Dinner.'
Jimmy Fallon
#71. But if one's dreams having to come true was the only referendum on whether they were beautiful, or worth dreaming, well then, no one would wish for anything. And that would be so much sadder.
David Rakoff
#72. I don't look at stories in genres. A good story is a good story, no matter what planet it happens on, whether the characters are mice or human or whatever. That's how I look at it.
Tony DiTerlizzi
#73. Private Bi Prudie advises a woman married to a man on whether she should tell people she's bisexual.
Anonymous
#74. I usually say Latina, Mexican-American or American Mexican, and in certain contexts, Chicana, depending on whether my audience understands the term or not.
Sandra Cisneros
#75. A new life begins for us with every second. Let us go forward joyously to meet it. We must press on, whether we will or not, and we shall walk better with our eyes before us than with them ever cast behind.
Jerome K. Jerome
#76. But suppose we take the noun 'truth': here is a case where the disagreements between different theorists have largely turned on whether they interpreted this as a name of a substance, of a quality, or of a relation.
J.L. Austin
#77. Men will gather knowledge no matter what the consequences. Science will go on whether we are pessimistic or optimistic, as I am. More interesting discoveries than we can imagine will be made, and I am awaiting them, full of curiosity and enthusiasm.
Linus Pauling
#78. I'm making this decision based on whether I believe in my heart that I'm ready to be president of the United States and that I want to be president of the United States right now.
Chris Christie
#79. The decision on whether to ban anyone from the U.K. is made by the home secretary on the basis of the evidence at the time.
Theresa May
#80. I'm not ready to give you a clear answer on whether electoral politics holds any particular hope for progressives. It would mean that nothing I did ever mattered.
Tom Hayden
#81. It is a strange fact, characteristic of the incomplete state of our current knowledge, that totally opposite conclusions are drawn about prehistoric conditions on Earth, depending on whether the problem is approached from the biological or the geophysical viewpoint.
Alfred Wegener
#82. Any place where they got to vote on whether English is the official language don't belong in the United States.
Patricia Cornwell
#83. A man's satisfaction with his salary depends on whether he makes more than his wife's sister's husband.
H.L. Mencken
#84. I was slinging whatever I could get my hands on. Whether it was chronic, whether it was crack.
Nelly
#85. Even if my film does well, you will not see me blowing my own trumpet. There is no time to sit and dwell on whether it's done well or not done well.
Sonakshi Sinha
#86. In Louisiana, we don't bet on football games, we bet on whether a politician is going to be indicted or not.
Mark Duffy
#87. The DC Universe Animated made for videos, which we do in cooperation with Warner Animation, are very intentionally scheduled at 3-4 a year, depending on whether or not there's a theatrical tent pole release in a given year, in which case we may choose to do four of them a year.
Diane Nelson
#88. When an opponent predicted Wilkes would die from either hanging or the pox, Wilkes fired back, "That depends, my Lord, on whether I embrace your lordship's principles or your mistress.
Mike Lee
#89. I have a few uniforms - depending on whether I'm going to a college campus or meeting a head of state. But clean and easy works best for me.
Nancy Pelosi
#90. I actually don't have a view on whether someone watching certain material that may be legal in some places, but might be obscene to somebody else, can trigger a violent streak in someone.
Killi Krupa Rani
#91. How much do people really want to learn? I mean, some people get into a groove and they stay with it indefinitely. And what starts off as a great moment of explosive passion can end up as cabaret 25, 30 years later. It just depends on whether you go and find the right habitat to extend yourself.
Robert Plant
#92. We have a legal immigration system that's outdated, it's primarily based on whether you have family members living here. In the 21st century, it has to be more of a merit-based system, and that is why our legal immigration system is in need of modernization.
Marco Rubio
#93. Fairy Tales always have a happy ending.' That depends ... on whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Queen.
Jane Yolen
#94. Let it be, that our outward circumstances in life have no bearing on whether or not we have joy and peace, simply because our joy and peace are found in the Person and presence of Jesus.
Eric William Gilmour
#95. Invalidating laws has absolutely nothing to do with judicial activism. It depends on whether the law is unconstitutional or not. That's really the key point.
Ann Coulter
#96. Do you always ask me the same questions you ask him?"
"It depends on whether or not I get an answer.
Anne Bishop
#97. The decision on whether there is another referendum is down to the Scottish people.
Nicola Sturgeon
#98. The Bible's truth does not depend in any way on whether or not a person believes the truth.
R.C. Sproul
#99. That was the first major social sciences conference at which social scientists from all cultures wanted to reach a consensus on whether we can continue to pursue a national course in the social sciences or whether we need a cosmopolitan path that also connects us in a new way.
Ulrich Beck
#100. The right of free speech cannot be parceled out based on whether we want to hear what the speaker has to say or whether we agree with those views. It means, quite often, tolerating the expression of views that we find distasteful, perhaps even repugnant.
Andrew Rosenthal
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