Top 100 Which We Quotes
#1. My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy.
George Eliot
#2. The Eucharistic mystery stands at the heart and center of the liturgy since it is the fount of life by which we are cleansed and strengthened to live not for ourselves but for God and to be united in love among ourselves.
Pope Paul VI
#3. The concept of conservation is a far truer sign of civilization than that spoilation of a continent which we once confused with progress.
Peter Matthiessen
#5. Tis safter to be that which we destroy
Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.
William Shakespeare
#6. Conscience is acquired through the realization that life is a cycle of giving and receiving, from which we can only receive from what we produce to others.
Daniel Marques
#7. When you look back at the fight against Communism, one thing that is striking is the degree to which we [the United States] were carried on by our own values. One of the real challenges of the new era is going to be to maintain those values and not adopt those of our adversaries.
David E. Hoffman
#8. We don't get to choose what we carry, but we do get to choose the grace with which we carry it. I
Mia Sheridan
#9. It is easy for Christians to have the false impression that once we have established a relationship with Christ, which we believe sets us right with God, the problems of life will somehow scoot away or they will slowly be removed from our lives.
Charles R. Swindoll
#10. We are searching for some kind of harmony between two intangibles: a form which we have not yet designed and a context which we cannot properly describe.
Christopher Alexander
#11. What is so frightening is the extent to which we may idealize others when we have such trouble tolerating ourselves
Alain De Botton
#12. All things with which we deal preach to us. What is a farm but a mute gospel? The chaff and the wheat, weeds and plants, blight, rain, insects, sun,
it is a sacred emblem from the first furrow of spring to the last stack which the snow of winter overtakes in the fields.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#13. The principal achievement of Europe is peace, which we often forget about as it has become so taken for granted by Europeans.
Dominique De Villepin
#14. Where do we find ourselves? In a series of which we do not know the extremes, and believe that it has none. We wake and find ourselves on a stair; there are stairs below us, which we seem to have ascended; there are stairs above us, many a one, which go upward and out of sight.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#15. We are mistaken when we compare war with "normal life." Life has never been normal. Even those periods which we think most tranquil, like the nineteenth century, turn out, on closer inspection, to be full of crises, alarms, difficulties, emergencies.
C.S. Lewis
#16. We venture to assert, that if there be any day in the year, of which we may be pretty sure that it was not the day on which the Savior was born, it is the 25th of December. Regarding not the day, let us, nevertheless, give thanks to God for the gift of His dear Son.
Charles Spurgeon
#17. And each ripple builds and builds into the tidal wave of anarchy to which we are now doomed.
Brian Michael Bendis
#18. I think of the security of cages. How violence, cruelty, oppression, become a kind of home, a familiar pattern, a cage, in which we know how to operate and define ourselves ...
Eve Ensler
#19. Fashion is in the sky, the streets, fashion has to do with ideas, the way in which we live, the events surrounding us.
Coco Chanel
#20. [On being deaf:] How much less pain there is in calmly estimating the enjoyments from which we must separate ourselves, of bravely saying, for once and for ever, 'Let them go,' than in feeling them waste and dwindle, till their very shadows escape from our grasp!
Harriet Martineau
#21. One promise of which we can be certain ... when we respond to trials with faith and trust, God will use our suffering for good, and it will point people to God and bring glory to Him.
Wendy Blight
#22. There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
Dale Carnegie
#23. Germany has solemnly recognized and guaranteed France her frontiers as determined after the Saar plebiscite ... We thereby finally renounced all claims to Alsace-Lorraine, a land for which we have fought two great wars.
Adolf Hitler
#24. They're now turning those seeds into intellectual property, so they have a virtual lock on the seeds upon which we all depend for our food and survival.
Jeremy Rifkin
#25. We got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought; so after all it proved a very profitable investment.
Buffalo Bill
#26. Family life is the normal context in which we can learn that a life filled with thinking about others instead of ourselves is the sure road to the most fulfilling joys and satisfactions.
Alan Keyes
#27. What have we to offer the world beside the superabundant loot which we recklessly plunder from the earth under the maniacal delusion that this insane activity represents progress and enlightenment?
Henry Miller
#28. There is here a great melting pot in which we must compound a precious metal. That metal is the metal of nationality.
Woodrow Wilson
#29. And the rigidity of the material with which we have to compose, is a more formidable opponent than Lasker or Capablanca. Because these lifeless opponents do not have any moments of human weakness!
Henri Weenink
#30. Magic is a door to which we have lost the key. But the door is there.
F.G. Cottam
#31. In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
B. Carroll Reece
#32. You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
Maxim Gorky
#33. That pit of blackness that lies beneath us, everywhere ... the firmest substance of human happiness is but a thin crust spread over it, with just reality enough to bear up the illusive stage-scenery amid which we tread. It needs no earthquake to open the chasm.
Nathaniel Hawthorne
#34. That which we call wit consists much in quickness and tricks, and is so full of lightness that it seldom goes with judgment and solidity; but when they do meet, it is commonly in an honest man.
King James I
#35. we can form an objective judgment of the nation, race, or continent to which we belong only when we have lived for a time in a foreign country and so are able to look at our own country from without. How,
C. G. Jung
#36. The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge.
Albert Camus
#37. Sabbath is that uncluttered time and space in which we can distance ourselves from our own activities enough to see what God is doing.
Eugene H. Peterson
#38. The Reagan Administration has no rational plan for our military. Instead, it acts on misinformed assumptions about the strength of the Soviet military and a presumed 'window of vulnerability,' which we now know not to exist.
John F. Kerry
#39. The written history of the world is largely a history of warfare, because the states within which we live came into existence largely through conquest, civil strife, or struggles for independence.
John Keegan
#40. I think the idea of the lone tormented artist - which we can apply to others - I think that it needs to be revisited. Jack Kerouac needs to be seen in the context of a lot of other artistic activity.
Anne Waldman
#41. But,instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover,life gives us something that we could hardly imagine.
Marcel Proust
#42. Are we not also married to conscience which we would love to get rid of often enough since it is more bothersome than a man or a woman ever could become?
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#43. If I wished to shake this tree with my hands, I should not be able to do so.
But the wind, which we do not see, troubles and bends it as it lists. We are worst bent and troubled by invisible hands.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#44. There is a web of life into which we are born, from which we can never fall.
Jack Kornfield
#45. But someone like Claude Chabrol tries to make a connection between the society in which we live and the social reasons which make monsters out of some people.
Isabelle Huppert
#46. What she might have told him was that taxidermy, like sex, is a very personal subject; the manner in which we impose it on others should be discreet.
John Irving
#47. We know: of course, with regard to the market and similar social structures, a great many facts which we cannot measure and on which indeed we have only some very imprecise and general information.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#48. The inference to which we are brought is that the causes of faction cannot be removed and that relief is only to be sought in the means of controlling its effects.
James Madison
#49. Memetics provides a new approach to the evolution of language in which we apply Darwinian thinking to two replicators, not one. On this theory, memetic selection, as well as genetic selection, does the work of creating language.
Susan Blackmore
#50. The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don't actually know what we actually know.
Bill Bryson
#51. Our history is that we can very aggressively, if necessary, and openly and democratically discuss our differences. We have a democratic history in which we come together and vote on these things.
Stockwell Day
#52. One can rightly speak of an evolution in plastic art. It is of the greatest importance to note this fact, for it reveals the true way of art - the only path along which we can advance.
Piet Mondrian
#53. And this is a table ma'am. What in essence it consists of is a horizontal rectilinear plane surface maintained by four vertical columnar supports, which we call legs. The tables in this laboratory, ma'am, are as advanced in design as one will find anywhere in the world.
Michael Frayn
#54. It is a fact worthy of note that the shortest lived nations of which we have record have been monogamic. Rome ... was a monogamic nation and the numerous evils attending that system early laid the foundation for that ruin which eventually overtook her.
George Q. Cannon
#55. We are a psychic process which we do not control, or only partly direct. Consequently, we cannot have any final judgment about ourselves or our lives.
Carl Jung
#56. Every fancy that we would substitute for a reality is, if we saw aright, and saw the whole, not only false, but every way less beautiful and excellent than that which we sacrifice to it.
John Sterling
#57. The night is the means by which we find our heart's desire, our freedom for love. This is not to say that all darkness
Gerald G. May
#58. If We allow Slaves, we act against the very Principles by which we associated together, which was to relieve the distressed.
James Oglethorpe
#59. People are mistaken to view cinema as some sort of gimmick. It's very much ingrained in the ways in which we understand each other.
Nicolas Roeg
#60. Existence is not pain because of struggle but it is our moments, which we misinterpret it as the struggle.
Santosh Kalwar
#61. Our thoughts, words and actions produce feelings; and these feelings become the currency with which we produce our life experiences.
Cheryl Richardson
#62. It is at least worth arguing that there is a modicum of the creative novelist in all of us, and that this absorption with how men get out of difficulties, single-handedly and alone if possible, is the stuff of which we weave the warp and woof of our own better dramatic imaginings.
Humphrey Bogart
#63. Cameras help to minimize collateral damage, and very often, without a camera a missile cannot fire. Certainly, without a camera a drone can't function, which means that the very ways in which we wage war are determined in part by how cameras work and whether they work at all.
Judith Butler
#64. The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster.
Rachel Carson
#65. Morning Prayer. We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.{21}
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#66. I remember the Washington in which I grew up as a genuine small town. Maybe this is true for everyone, that we all feel that the times in which we grew up were simpler, less complex.
Katharine Graham
#67. We are assumed to be rather hopeless
swallowed up by incorrect notions, divorced from the original genius with which we are born, lost within days of living this distracting life.
Elizabeth Berg
#68. Often, the teachers would ask me what language we spoke at home. This was a not-so-subtle way of discovering if we spoke Yiddish (which we didn't) and were therefore Jewish (which we were).
Edith Hahn Beer
#70. Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do.
Gian Carlo Menotti
#72. AMEL (A'MEL) n.s.[email, Fr.]The matter with which the variegated works are overlaid, which we call enamelled. The materials of glass melted with calcined tin, compose an undiaphanous body. This white amel is the basis of all those fine concretes that goldsmiths and artificers
Samuel Johnson
#73. The best principles in our lives were those which we heard from our mothers through our ears.
Swami Vivekananda
#74. It is certain that the love of God does not consist in this sweetness and tenderness which we for the most part desire; but rather in serving Him in justice, fortitude, and humility. His Majesty seeks and loves courageous souls.
Teresa Of Avila
#75. Maps, contour maps and all maps, intrigue us for the metaphors that they are: tools to give us a sense of something whose truth is far richer but without which we would perceive nothing and never find our bearings.
Zia Haider Rahman
#76. We clamor for equality chiefly in matters in which we ourselves cannot hope to obtain excellence.
Eric Hoffer
#77. We learn simply by the exposure of living, and what we learn most natively is the tradition in which we live.
David P. Gardner
#78. Words really flattering are not those which we prepare but those which escape us unthinkingly.
Ninon De L'Enclos
#79. After the first blush of sin comes its indifference; and from immoral it becomes, as it were, unmoral, and not quite unnecessary to that life which we have made.
Henry David Thoreau
#80. If you're going to go increase taxes on small businesses, you're going to slow down the extent to which we're able to reduce unemployment. So I think it's a serious mistake; the wrong time to raise taxes.
Dick Cheney
#81. If truth is contingent upon the society in which we live ... there is nothing intuitive or universally or absolutely true about freedom from torture or freedom from slavery; our society just happens to have come up with these values over time.
Stephen McAndrew
#82. in the state of mind in which we "observe" we are a long way below the level to which we rise when we create. There was, then, embedded in my
Marcel Proust
#83. The only good thing that we owe to Plato and Aristotle is that they brought forward many arguments which we can use against the heretics. Yet they and other philosophers are now in hell.
Girolamo Savonarola
#84. As humans, after all, we become that which we seek. Dairy farming makes men steady and reliable and temperate; deer hunting makes men quiet and fast and sensitive; lobster fishing makes men suspicious and wily and ruthless.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#85. Memories are those endless treasures, which we can keep exploring till eternity and bask in their glory like a slow swinging hammock!
Balroop Singh
#86. The true meaning of love one's neighbor is not that it is a command from God which we are to fulfill, but that through it and in it we meet God.
Martin Buber
#87. Our crimes, for which we are responsible: as taxpayers, for failing to provide massive reparations, for granting refuge and immunity to the perpetrators, and for allowing the terrible facts to be sunk deep in the memory hole. All of this is of great significance, as it has been in the past.
Noam Chomsky
#88. What we're talking about is the endless, gullible elevation of necessary levels of comfort and status and everything else at the complete expense of all around us. It's going to take us a long time to learn how to climb down a little bit from the heights on which we have put ourselves.
Bill McKibben
#89. The chief arena in which we serve God is the vocation of our everyday lives. At the same time, as we see here, God also calls us to go beyond and meet needs wherever they are as we have opportunity to do so. The
Matt Perman
#90. We acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, which we, from time to time, most grievously have committed, by thought, word and deed.
Camilla, Duchess Of Cornwall
#91. In contrast to the institutions of the world, which teach us to KNOW something, the gospel of Jesus Christ challenges us to BECOME something ... The gospel of Jesus Christ is the plan by which we can become what children of god are supposed to become ... Charity is something one becomes.
Dallin H. Oaks
#92. Let us think about our attitude of compassion and understanding with which we choose to respond to what is happening around us
Kishore Bansal
#93. Through the most simple things which we do all the time, we can feel out to which degree we honor everything with our inner attention.
Charlotte Selver
#94. Rollerball is an incoherent mess, a jumble of footage in search of plot, meaning, rhythm and sense. There are bright colors and quick movement on the screen, which we can watch as a visual pattern that, in entertainment value, falls somewhere between a kaleidoscope and a lava lamp.
Roger Ebert
#95. But that's what kismet is. It makes us careen off in odd directions from which we learn not only what life is about but what it is for. This journey may be nothing less than your chance to discover these things." "You're
Homer Hickam
#96. God challenges all of us to attempt things for him which we are unable to do in ourselves, so that the Glory may be his.
Phyllis Irwin
#97. There are countries that are near ours which are in the situation which we all know. I want to say that this is not the case of Spain now and it will not be in the future.
Mariano Rajoy
#98. Reality shifts occur when we are in a dreamy state of energized awareness in which we are clear about what we prefer
Cynthia Sue Larson
#99. Between these two, the denying of sins, which we have done, and the bragging of sins, which we have not done, what a space, what a compass is there, for millions of millions of sins!
John Donne
#100. Prayer in any form is efficacious because it is an action. It will, therefore, have a result. That is the law of this universe in which we find ourselves.
Dayananda Saraswati
