Top 100 To Whom Quotes
#1. I suppose it's the way we are, humans that we are. Always finding it easier to make ourselves the victim in someone else's tragedy.
Though it is true, too, that sometimes it is hard to know to whom the tragedy really belongs.
Chinelo Okparanta
#2. And ye peoples, to whom God gave the liberty to choose your own magistrates, see to it, that ye do not forfeit this favor, by electing to the positions of highest honor, rascals and enemies of God.
John Calvin
#3. I'm to be married."
"To whom?"
"I haven't yet chosen him. Never fear, I'll be sure to notify him before the wedding. Naturally.
Rachel Van Dyken
#4. It is in the ardent revolutionist to whom the joys of art, of science, even of family life, seem bitter, so long as they cannot be shared by all, and who works despite misery and persecution for the regeneration of the world.
Pyotr Kropotkin
#5. The man who has entered into a beautiful union is sure of at least one person to whom he can give the best that he possesses.
Georges Duhamel
#6. As I said, I had this fabulous college education. At college I met the man to whom I've been married for 34 years and who is the father of those three kids. I seriously considered going to another college, and my life would have been completely different in every way.
Anna Quindlen
#7. Of him to whom less is given, less will be required, but our utmost exertions are required of us all.
Anne Bronte
#8. Andy Warhol says everyone will be famous for 15 minutes in the future, but even he couldn't have imagine today's fame is due to whom you sleep with.
Steve Kaufman
#9. When God contemplates some great work, He begins it by the hand of some poor, weak, human creature, to whom He afterwards gives aid.
Martin Luther
#10. To whom much is given, much is required - not expected, but required.
Andrew Young
#11. Those who seek for much are left in want of much. Happy is he to whom God has given, with sparing hand, as much as is enough.
Horace
#12. The best translations cannot convey to us the strength and exquisite delicacy of thought in its native garb, and he to whom such books are shut flounders about in outer darkness.
Edwin Booth
#13. A name pronounced is the recognition of the individual to whom it belongs. He who can pronounce my name aright, he can call me, and is entitled to my love and service.
Henry David Thoreau
#14. Oh, how miserable it is to have no one to share your sorrows and joys, and, when your heart is heavy, to have no soul to whom you can pour out your woes.
Frederic Chopin
#15. That the entire People of God, to whom Christ entrusted the mandate to go and preach the Gospel to every creature, may eagerly assume their own missionary responsibility and consider it the highest service they can offer humanity.
Pope Benedict XVI
#16. 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
#17. Tell me, when you give alms do you look into the eyes of the man or woman to whom you give alms? ... And when you give alms, do you touch the hand of the one to whom you give alms, or do you toss the coin?
Pope Francis
#18. Behold, he said, the wisdom of Socrates; he refuses to teach himself, and goes about learning of others, to whom he never even says Thank you.
Plato
#19. It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life." ... "Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life." JOHN 6:63, 68 (NKJV)
Andrew Murray
#20. War is just to those to whom war is necessary.
Livy
#21. Friendships are the family we make - not the one we inherit. I've always been someone to whom friendship, elective affinities, is as important as family.
Salman Rushdie
#22. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.
Oscar Wilde
#23. It is by means of these that we attain perfect love, through the grace and compassion of our Lord Jesus Christ, to whom be glory through all the ages. Amen.
John Cassian
#24. Having firstrate people on the team is more important than designing hierarchies and clarifying who reports to whom
Warren Buffett
#25. Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed.
Quintus Ennius
#26. For everything that God desires to do in the earth, He enters into partnership with those to whom He has already given dominion.
Myles Munroe
#27. I have just been conversing with one man, to whom no weight of adverse experience will make it for a moment appear impossible that thousands of human beings might exercise towards each other the grandest and simplest sentiments, as well as a knot of friends, or a pair of lovers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#28. Among those Christians to whom hell means little, Calvary means less.
Billy Graham
#29. Become aware of God, in whose presence you are while you pray ... Then take a formula of prayer and recite it with perfect attention both to the words you are saying and to the Person to whom you are saying them.
John Climacus
#30. A sentence of death and infamy was often founded on the slight and suspicious evidence of a child or a servant: the guilt [of the defendant] was presumed by the judges [due to the nature of the charge], and paederasty became the crime of those to whom no crime could be imputed.
Edward Gibbon
#31. If we meet someone who owes us a debt of gratitude, we remember the fact at once. How often we can meet someone to whom we owe a debt of gratitude without thinking about it at all!
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#32. Doubly happy, however, is the man to whom lofty mountain tops are within reach.
John Muir
#33. I do not believe anyone has reached such perfection, surpassing all others, except Christ, to whom God immediately revealed - without words or visions - the conditions which lead to
salvation.
Baruch Spinoza
#34. Eloquence is an art of saying things in such a way (1) that those to whom we speak may listen to them without pain and with pleasure; (2) that they feel themselves interested, so that self-love leads them more willingly to reflection upon it.
Blaise Pascal
#35. My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.
W. H. Auden
#36. Those who unlock your compassion are those to whom you've been assigned.
Mike Murdock
#37. I think the biggest part of a good party is the host and then going around making sure nobody's left alone and knows enough about the people in the room to know who to introduce to whom.
Imogen Heap
#38. Since then, I have just read and read - but, that said, I suppose there is a raft of writers to whom I return again and again, not so much because I want to write like them, even if I were capable of it, but simply for a sort of stylistic shot in the arm.
Penelope Lively
#39. New-Year's Day arriving, and the ministers, to whom I wrote, remaining silent, I consider their silence as evidence, that they cannot prove what I said not to be from the Lord, and have therefore published as I was directed.
Joanna Southcott
#40. Say, "I am only a man like you, to whom has been revealed that your god is one God. So whoever would hope for the meeting with his Lord - let him do righteous work and not associate in the worship of his Lord anyone.
Qur'an
#41. To realize one's dream. To whom is this accorded? There must be elections for this in heaven; we are all candidates, unknown to ourselves; the angels vote.
Victor Hugo
#42. Manners require showing consideration of all human beings, not just the ones to whom one is close.
Judith Martin
#43. Oops! This young scientist tried to clean his friends' copper ID bracelets. But the acid was too strong and it removed part of each letter! Question: Can you add the missing lines to complete the letters and see to whom each bracelet belongs?
Tom Robinson
#44. It seems that great minds a hundred years ago saw what would happen today or tomorrow, while we to whom it is happening blind ourselves in order not to be disturbed in our daily routine.
Erich Fromm
#45. How naive and foolish the young are to imagine that they understand the loneliness of great age, the outliving of your contemporaries, anyone to whom your century of memory might make any sense.
Bill Holm
#46. I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity. Books are unconvertible assets, to be passed on only to those who possess them already.
Anthony Powell
#47. Oh! not for the great departed, Who formed our country's laws, And not for the bravest-hearted, Who died in freedom's cause, And not for some living hero To whom all bend the knee, My muse would raise her song of praise - But for the man to be ...
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#48. It is God to whom and with whom we travel, and while He is the end of our journey, He is also at every stopping place.
Elisabeth Elliot
#49. What did I fear, and why? - I, to whom the night had been
a more familiar face
than that of man
I, in whom that element of hereditary superstition from which none of us is altogether free had given to solitude and darkness and silence only a more alluring interest and charm!
Ambrose Bierce
#50. How loved, how honored once, avails thee not, To whom related, or by whom begot A heap of dust alone remains of thee 'Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be!
Alexander Pope
#51. It is not the Government, the members of Parliament to whom the ultimate decision belongs, it is up to you to go forward sure of your sacred right of free opinion, sure of your patriotism.
John Amery
#52. I would give anything, anything, to be the man to whom this has not happened. I can not accommodate myself to it. In a lifetime of trying, I can not accommodate myself to it.
And now I will have to be that person forever.
Robert Goolrick
#53. One speaks of acceptable risks, the question is always acceptable to whom?
Stephen King
#54. We have to do with God, to whom no one can look without the need of being good waking up in his heart; to think about God is to begin to be good.
George MacDonald
#55. There should be a study of a house directly elected by the people of the world to whom the nations are accountable.
Ernest Bevin
#56. And when the mood took her to fall for the handsome young lawyer Will Bankhead, she happily threw over the man to whom she was already engaged.
Judith Mackrell
#57. I to whom there is not beauty enough in moon or tree; to whom the touch of one person with another is all, yet who cannot grasp even that, who am so imperfect, so weak, so unspeakably lonely. There I sat.
Virginia Woolf
#58. To whom are you for?
Is a good question to ask.
For one way sows to life,
The other to evil basks.
Kari L. Greenaway
#59. Someday all of us will give account of the way we have used the gifts God has given. The person to whom much has been given will find much required of him.
Billy Graham
#60. It is a noteworthy fact that not one of the women to whom I have spoken so far believes in abortion as a practice; but it is principle for which they are standing. They also believe that the complete abolition of the abortion law will shortly do away with abortions, as nothing else will.
Margaret Sanger
#61. Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.
Erma Bombeck
#62. A bosom friend - an intimate friend, you know - a really kindred spirit to whom I can confide my inmost soul.
Lucy Maud Montgomery
#63. One problem with being a leader, is that even among your friends you are alone, for it is you
and you alone
to whom the others look for final guidance.
Trenton Lee Stewart
#64. The people to whom your fathers told of the living God, and taught to call 'Father,' and whom the sons now seek to despoil and destroy, are crying aloud to Him in their time of trouble; and He will keep His promise, and will listen to the voices of His Hawaiian children lamenting for their homes.
Lili'uokalani
#65. The Mormons' passage from bugbears of the Republican Party to its stalwarts may be analogized to a similar move among middle-class white Southerners, to whom the Republican Party was anathema until the 1970s and '80s, after which it became almost the sole representative.
Noah Feldman
#66. Letters should be easy and natural, and convey to the persons to whom we send them just what we should say to the persons if we were with them.
Lord Chesterfield
#68. The more man distinguishes himself from the rest of creation, the more he becomes conscious of himself as the subject, as an "I" to whom the world is an object, the more does he tend to confuse himself with God, to confuse his spirit with the spirit of God, and to regard his reason as Divine Reason.
Emil Brunner
#69. Seen from across the street, he was like someone to whom the world had long since given notice to quit but who was compelled to stay in it, no longer belonging to it, but unable to leave it.
Thomas Bernhard
#70. Everyone to whom she drew close left her. Sooner or later they walked away.
Francine Rivers
#71. He carries well, to whom it waighes not.
[He carries well, to whomit weighs not.]
George Herbert
#72. My first generation of young readers now have not only children, but some of them have grandchildren to whom they're introducing their old passion.
Diane Duane
#73. To whom does Mataji (Mother Goddess) appear? It is to the one who becomes natural and spontaneous [sahaj swabhavi]. Mataji is said to have come if the mind, speech and the body become naturally blissful. It can be said that the natural spontaneous energies (adhya shakti) have arisen.
Dada Bhagwan
#74. There is but one man to whom I am willing to entrust their future and that man's name is George Bush.
Zell Miller
#75. If you believe in a God who controls the big things, you have to believe in a God who controls the little things. It is we, of course, to whom things look 'little' or 'big'.
Elisabeth Elliot
#76. If the benefits of Christ's work (justification, reconciliation, adoption, and so on) are abstracted from Christ himself, and the proclamation of the gospel is made in terms of what it offers rather than in terms of Christ himself, the question naturally arises: To whom can I offer these benefits?
Sinclair B. Ferguson
#77. An intelligent patient, private or otherwise, to whom you have taken the trouble to explain the nature of the investigation, makes the best laboratory animal.
Fuller Albright
#78. Why a woman turns fifty and certain people to whom she gave birth start thinking she should be wearing orthopedic shoes is completely beyond me.
Kelly Hunter
#79. Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away? 68. Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.
Anonymous
#80. My first exposure to the vocabulary of inter-beingness was through the writings of Thich Nhat Hahn, to whom I remain enormously grateful.
Deepak Chopra
#81. Accurate scholarship can
unearth the whole offence
from luther untill noe
that has driven a culture mad.
From what occured at linz
what huge imago made
a psychopathic god.
i and the public know
what all schoolchildren learn
those to whom evil is done
do evil in return.
W. H. Auden
#82. Strict honesty was the policy of most of them; although there were a few who were said to 'find anything before 'tis lost' and to whom findings were keepings.
Flora Thompson
#83. A doctor to whom I occasionally talk suggest that I have made an inadequate adjustment to aging.
Wrong, I want to say.
In fact I have made no adjustment whatsoever to aging.
In fact I had lived my entire life to date without seriously believing that I would age.
Joan Didion
#84. 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
#85. There are many to whom money has no personal appeal, but who can be tempted by the power it confers.
Agatha Christie
#86. No one out there is interested in who did what to whom in Westminster politics.
Iain Duncan Smith
#87. This I say is the present moment; this is the first day of the summer holidays. This is part of the emerging monster to whom we are attached.
Virginia Woolf
#88. It is hard for me to imagine what it means to be a complete foreigner, a person to whom no one shows any sign of recognition.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#89. There was no sense of guilt in her now, but only a desperate desire to defend her secret from irreverent eyes, and begin life again among people to whom the harsh code of the village was unknown.
Edith Wharton
#90. You shouldn't describe your underwear to a young man to whom you are not related. It isn't delicate. - Bill Eversleigh
Agatha Christie
#91. Because," said the swallow man. "A friend is not someone to whom you give the things you need when the world is at war. A friend is someone to whom you give the things that you need when the world is at peace.
Gavriel Savit
#92. There are women to whom nature has granted the gift of silent emotion. They have mobile faces, changeful eyes, soft lips, which express joy or desolation naturally, and with the charm of perfect simplicity and truth.
Sarah Doudney
#93. Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter.
Gerald Brenan
#94. The one human being she had ever fully and wholeheartedly trusted had failed her; the only man she had ever known to whom she could point and say with expert knowledge, "He is a gentleman, in his heart he is a gentleman," had betrayed her, publicly, grossly, and shamelessly.
Harper Lee
#95. There are not a few people to whom I would far rather speak about their own sins, than tell them their children had done anything wrong.
J.C. Ryle
#96. For my heart is always with Him, day and night it thinks unceasingly of its heavenly and divine Friend, to whom it wants to prove its affection. Also within it arises this desire: not to die, but to suffer long, to suffer for God, to give Him its life while praying for poor sinners.
Elizabeth Of The Trinity
#97. Every man, however good he may be, has a yet better man dwelling in him, which is properly himself, but to whom nevertheless he is often unfaithful. It is to this interior and less mutable being that we should attach ourselves, not to be changeable, every-day man.
Wilhelm Von Humboldt
#98. I always wanted to be the person to whom people looked forward to give opportunities. As opposed to always being the person who wants to work with others and who is always the backup: where it's like, 'If nothing works out then OK, let's get this person.'
Kangana Ranaut
#99. Be ever on your guard what you say of anybody and to whom.
Horace
#100. (28) And it is He who sends down rain after [men] have lost all hope, and unfolds His grace [thereby]:4047 for He alone is [their] Protector, the One to whom all praise is due.
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