Top 100 Quotes About Whatever
#1. Speak the truth.
Give whatever you can.
Never be angry.
These three steps will lead you
Into the presence of the gods.
Gautama Buddha
#2. I certainly never felt rejected because they had given me up. My parents knew nothing about my birth mother, yet always explained with certainty that she didn't "give me up" or "give me away" - she made a plan for me, the best one she could make under her circumstances, whatever those were.
Emily Giffin
#3. If one is continually surviving the worst that life can bring, one eventually ceases to be controlled by a fear of what life can bring; whatever it bring must be borne. And at this level of experience one's bitterness begins to be palatable, and hatred becomes too heavy a sack to carry.
James Baldwin
#4. Whatever defamation of character my enemies are spreading about me, I do not feel the need to justify myself toward them. While discretion obliges me to remain silent, my duty compels me to prevent them from doing any more harm.
Toussaint Louverture
#5. My great lesson from Auschwitz is: whoever wants to dehumanize any other must first be dehumanized himself.
The oppressors are no longer really human, whatever uniform they wear.
Hajo Meyer
#6. I know now that I want to do more voice-over projects. They really have the ability to transport you into the world of whatever movie it is you are working on.
Bridgit Mendler
#7. From the time you are a tiny baby, a parent's love is usually unconditional. Whatever you do, your parents think you are the tops, but when their memory goes, you stop recouping the love you've put in.
Kevin Whately
#8. To want is to have a weakness. It's this weakness, whatever it is, that entices me. It's like a small crack in a wall, before now impenetrable.
Margaret Atwood
#9. Vague expression permits the hearer to imagine whatever suits him and what he already thinks in any case.
Theodor Adorno
#10. Watched as they flashed clips of people dancing, bartenders fixing whatever drink was en vogue, and a montage of interviews with delighted patrons. Maybe I really should try going out, it looks like fun ... but drunk people always look like they're having a good time.
Amber Lynn Natusch
#11. The androcentric, patriarchal cultures, whatever you want to call it, are quite new. So, every economic statement should start with reproduction, not production. Every statement for human rights ought to include reproduction as a basic human right, like freedom of speech.
Gloria Steinem
#12. Whatever America's founders believed about Christianity - and they believed a wide range of things - they clearly rejected the idea of an established church.
Parker Palmer
#13. Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action.
Virginia Woolf
#14. You have this special connection with someone if you're their first record or their first concert or their first poster or whatever it is.
Shaun Cassidy
#15. To be honest with you, I still eat whatever I want. It's all about portion control. I still love pizza, but instead of eating half, I eat a slice.
Bill Engvall
#16. I started dancing in my room ... I wanted to find out more about my movements. I wanted to elaborate on whatever it was that I was doing there.
Kyle Abraham
#17. Don't try to use what you learn from Buddhism to be a Buddhist; use it to be a better whatever-you-already-are.
Sukhraj S. Dhillon
#18. Family or love or romance, whatever it is, is not restricted to perfect people. If it were, it wouldn't exist. All of that comes out in my work in some way.
Sara Zarr
#19. You can be! You can have! You can do whatever you want! But you're going to have to free yourself!
Eric Thomas
#20. Between now and then and I just felt it was ready and it was a long enough period gone by. I obviously didn't want to hurt anybody, you know. It was done out of a genuine memorial or tribute whatever you want to call it.
Jack Bruce
#21. In the past it seemed like I was making fun of rap a little bit. But it was more me making fun of myself, since I'm not technically a rapper, whatever that means.
Beck
#22. When I was in my 20s, I used to go crazy. I used to work out two or three hours a day, like cycling; I was never anorexic, just picky. When I was in my 30s, I'd go back and forth, now that I'm 41, I'm like, 'Whatever, man!' For the most part, I just do a regular workout.
Justina Machado
#23. I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind.
Alfred Russel Wallace
#24. Whatever the price, identify it now. What will you have to go through to get where you want to be? There is a price you can pay to be free of the situation once and for all. It may be a fantastic price or a tiny one - but there is a price.
Harry Browne
#25. That's a hobby of mine - to do whatever I can for unusual for-hire creative projects. I am waiting for someone to really challenge me - obviously I'm often approached to do film related work, but I would be very happy to design a bar or an amusement park ride. I would love to be an imagineer!
Roman Coppola
#26. I'm not an aggressive person, but obviously on the sporting field I'll do whatever it takes.
James Spithill
#27. Whatever God has called your husband to be or do, He has also called you to support it and be part of it, if in no other way than to pray, encourage, and help in whatever way possible.
Stormie O'martian
#28. I don't think about race before I start drawing. I think about how to make that mark to fit whatever purpose I need it to fulfill.
Toyin Odutola
#29. Ircumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society.
Ashley Montagu
#30. I may not know what is in store for me. However, I always know how I prefer to respond to my circumstances whatever they may be.
Raphael Zernoff
#31. There are times, however, when whatever your metabolism you have to take a deep breath.
Douglas Adams
#32. People will justify whatever for a good cause.
Julie Taymor
#33. Whatever man feels deeply or images clearly, is impressed upon the subconscious mind, and carried out in minutest detail.
Florence Scovel Shinn
#34. Anyway,' she said more seriously this time, 'whatever it takes, find out what it is you're willing to suffer for. You've got to balance pleasure with pain in this life.
Okamoto Kanoko
#35. The social pact, far from destroying natural equality, substitutes, on the contrary, a moral and lawful equality for whatever physical inequality that nature may have imposed on mankind; so that however unequal in strength and intelligence, men become equal by covenant and by right.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
#36. Heroic deeds, to use whatever dower Heaven has bestowed, to test our utmost power.
Sarah Knowles Bolton
#37. Freedom of choice is possible. Life is going to unfold however it does: pleasant or unpleasant, disappointing or thrilling, expected or unexpected, all of the above! What a relief it would be to know that whatever wave comes along, we can ride it out with grace [p. 35].
Sylvia Boorstein
#38. I was signed by L.A. Reid on Arista Records when I was 16. He understood me and believed in me. Arista folded and I got put on RCA or whatever, then there were new people there, and every six months it changes and more new people come in.
Avril Lavigne
#39. This fierce basilisk, this ungrateful, cruel, supercilious wretch, will neither seek, serve, own, nor follow you in any shape whatever.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#40. Whatever you put your attention on becomes energized.
Whatever you take your attention away from dwindles
Deepak Chopra
#41. I can never do better than Fawlty Towers whatever I do. Now I very much want to teach young talent some rules of the game.
John Cleese
#43. Fantasy for me as a kid was real, and I had a fantasy about what life was, whether it was sort of wicked and dire, or wholly normal, or whatever. Anything really close to home is not, it seems to me, what a good book should be about.
Diana Wynne Jones
#44. Whatever God has created us to do is the best way to spend the rest of your life.
John Berry
#45. Leaders, whatever the size of their organizations, are those willing to put the interests of other people before their own.
Simon Sinek
#46. Ashrams and gurukulas (spiritual schools) are the pillars of spiritual culture. If we perform sadhana according to the guru's advice, we need not go anywhere else. We will get whatever we need from the guru.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#47. Wherever love comes from, whatever is its genesis, it isn't like a quantity of gold or diamonds, even water in the earth-a fixed quantity, Fos thought. You can't use up love, deplete it at its source. Love exists beyond fixed limits. Beyond what you can see or count.
Marianne Wiggins
#48. I believe, even when I'm doing my standup or my acting or whatever I'm doing, I believe in painting pictures.
J. B. Smoove
#49. I think I have a habit of, in my head, taking notes on whatever, you know, whether they're verbal or pictorial or just making a note of things as they're happening.
Roz Chast
#50. I've always been clever enough to surround myself with the best in whatever field I'm working in ... Good people make you look good.
Maggie Tabberer
#51. Whatever distinguishes one lump of flesh from another when we're alive, we're all the same once we're dead. Just used-up shells.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#52. Whatever it is that occurs at death, I believe it deserves to be called a miracle. The miracle, ironically, is that we don't die. The cessation of the body is an illusion, and like a magician sweeping aside a curtain, the soul reveals what lies beyond.
Deepak Chopra
#53. Happiness is gained by complying with the duties of whatever condition of life one is in, and you must constrain yourself to rise to that exalted station in which destiny has placed you.
Giacomo Casanova
#54. We had in the West a very romantic vision of Russia back in 1991, when the Soviet Union died and whatever is Russia began to emerge. And we began to think of it as a democracy. We're going to bring it into the West. All is going to be wonderful. That was never in the cards.
Marvin Kalb
#55. Getting stress out of your life takes more than prayer alone. You must take action to make changes and stop doing whatever is causing the stress. You can learn to calm down in the way you handle things.
Joyce Meyer
#56. Spiritual growth depends on two things: first a willingness to live according to the Word of God; second, a willingness to take whatever consequences emerge as a result.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
#57. Whatever one wants to say about the conduct of the Iraq War, going to war to remove Saddam Hussein in 2003 was a necessary act. It should and could have been done earlier, had not the Clinton White House, which understood the need, not wasted the opportunity through timidity and bluster.
Arthur L. Herman
#58. I want to win some Super Bowls, and so thats really my focus, to do whatever I have to do to lead this team to a championship,
Kurt Warner
#59. How are you practicing what you preach - whatever you preach, and who is exactly listening?
Audre Lorde
#60. A lot of actors just do whatever they do, and wherever the camera is, it is. They don't pay much attention, but I always did. I was always very close to the camera crew. They were my best buddies, no matter what movie or show I was doing.
Donna Mills
#61. After all this window is whatever I want it to be, up to a point, that's right, don't compromise yourself. What strikes me to begin with is how much rounder it is than it was, so that it looks like a bull's-eye, or a porthole. No matter, provided there is something on the other side.
Samuel Beckett
#62. Depends on how badly you want it. It's worth whatever you're willing to pay for it.
Katja Millay
#63. My ruthless desire to win at all costs served me well on the bike but the level it went to, for whatever reason, is a flaw. That desire, that attitude, that arrogance.
Lance Armstrong
#64. I do admit there are things in the universe I don't understand. But my response to that is not to make up silly stories ... or to believe intellectually embarrassing myths from the Bronze Age, but you believe whatever you want.
Bill Maher
#65. If you let the image of the messenger get in the way of whatever message there may be, however large or small, that's your problem, not his.
Harlan Ellison
#66. My Father, Thou hast denied me this outward and seeming good, now enrich me with Thy love. Give me the gold of Thy favor, bless me indeed. Then, allot to others whatever Thou wilt, Thou shalt divide my portion, my soul shall wait Thy daily will. Do Thou bless me indeed, and I shall be content.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#67. A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.
Cyril Connolly
#68. Whatever discoveries have been made in the land of self-delusion, many undiscovered regions remain to be explored.
Paul Hoffman
#69. He took a step back the way he had come.
No, he decided. Going back is Da's way. Whatever happens, I'm going forward.
Peter V. Brett
#70. There's only really two things about a man that matter: what he wants, and what he'll do to get it. Everythin' else we pretend is important
whether you're tough, or good-lookin', smart, stupid, honorable, whatever
that's just details.
Matthew Woodring Stover
#71. On the course, what is feared is like a magnet. Water, bunkers, trees, ravines, high grass - whatever you fear turns magnetic.
Wiffi Smith
#72. He wanted to ask her what sound a heart made when it broke from pleasure, when just the sight of someone filled you the way food, blood, and air never could, when you felt as if you'd been born for only one moment and this, for whatever reason, was it.
Dennis Lehane
#73. Whenever I am worried about anything," said this guy Ben,"I like to think about China. China has a population of like two billion people, and not one of them even remotely cares about whatever you think is so important." I acknowledged that this was a great comfort.
Elif Batuman
#74. When a woman is pregnant, her freedom to choose her future for herself - and to act on that choice, whatever it may be - is the most powerful express of human agency there can be.
Ann Furedi
#75. Whatever you eye falls on - for it will fall on what you love - will lead you to the questions of your life, the questions that are incumbent upon you to answer, because that is how the mind works in concert with the eye. The things of this world draw us where we need to go.
Mary Rose O'Reilley
#76. But you've got to have style in whatever you do -- writing, music, painting, fashion, boxing, anything.
Miles Davis
#77. Dad made it to Gold Shield Detective, so he always busted Robin, my oldest brother, and me. Always got caught, whatever we were doing.
Kevin Eubanks
#79. In our early youth we sit before the life that lies ahead of us like children sitting before the curtain in a theatre, in happy and tense anticipation of whatever is going to appear. Luckily we do not know what really will appear.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#80. Whatever the world thinks, he who hath not much meditated upon God, the human soul, and the summum bonum, may possibly make a thriving earthworm, but will most indubitably make a sorry patriot and a sorry statesman.
George Berkeley
#81. I eat whatever I want. I can get away with it. There are some strict regiment eatings, but I don't follow them.
Tyler Posey
#82. Even in bad times, always say thank you. Whatever you are going through, God is using you to get through. God has already put a rainbow in the cloud.
Oprah Winfrey
#83. Whatever, Sam.
Whatever! Sam laughed, a booming guffaw. I love this word. It is my favorite from your generation.Decker smiled, unable to keep a straight face when Sam looked so awkward laughing.
Lizzy Ford
#84. An eye for nothing can first make you blind, whatever may be fate of the world in future, you won't see it.
Sipendr
#85. Whatever you think again and again affects your feelings and is impressed upon subconscious mind and becomes a part of your personality.
Hina Hashmi
#86. Players would empty their souls to me; you cannot fathom the stories I've heard, everything from the good to the bad. I tried whatever I could to work things out.
Morgan Wootten
#87. I think that everybody in the world, whatever colour or creed, has a jerk like JR in his or her family somewhere. Whether it is a father, uncle, cousin or brother, everybody can identify with JR and that certainly had something to do with the success of 'Dallas.'
Larry Hagman
#88. ... Oh dear, I sometimes think ... whatever would I do if anything happened ... But thinking's no good, is it, madam? Thinking won't help. When I find myself doing that, I say to myself, come along, Ellen! Stop it this moment, my girl! Stop that silly thinking ... !
Katherine Mansfield
#89. The nation's image has become more like a chameleon - accepting whatever trend marketers concoct. Gone are the days of reverencing a holy God in the church or within ourselves. Yet the Bible tells us, "Happy is the man who is always reverent" (Proverbs 28:14 NKJV).
Billy Graham
#90. The main purpose of an administrative meeting is to establish collective guilt for whatever fuck-up arises out of its decisions. That
Ben Aaronovitch
#91. It may be that Tolstoy and Virginia Woolf were sitting around fretting about their Amazon reviews or their pre-pub whatever, but I kind of doubt it. I don't think that's how the work probably got made.
Garth Risk Hallberg
#93. I had great schooling, and my parents were always in front of me, or next to me, or behind me, making sure I had whatever I needed.
Marcus Samuelsson
#94. I think it's such a blessing to be able to have a child, and good and bad, whatever you go through, it's so worth it, and it's such an unbelievable time - you have someone growing inside of you!
Brooke Burke
#95. When you are doing endurance swimming you just need to take in as many carbs as possible to put on as much weight as you can. Basically you can eat whatever you want, which can be quite fun. Everything is guilt-free.
David Walliams
#96. No looking back. Life goes one way only. And whatever opinions you hold about the past have nothing to do with anything but your own damn weakness. Nothing changes what already happened. It will always have happened. You either let it break you down or you don't. A simple enough lesson ...
Charles Frazier
#97. Whatever you focus on, expands. If you see the world through your dreams, prosperity materializes before your very eyes. If you see the world through your fears, poverty multiplies all around you.
Robert G. Allen
#98. Whatever the reason, too many are no longer willing to call evil by its name. There is no vision. And when there is no vision, the people perish.
Glenn Beck
#99. Never forget that it is we New Yorkers and New Englanders who have the monopoly of whatever oxygen there is in the American continent.
Van Wyck Brooks
#100. We should do whatever we can to cut through the scum that has grown on our understanding and rediscover freshness.
Philip Yancey
