Top 100 Whom Quotes
#1. The good intentions of a third party are powerless to control a woman who is annoyed to find herself pursued even into a ball-room by a man whom she does not love. Too often, the kind friend comes down again alone.
Marcel Proust
#2. Ah! believers, you are a tempted people. You are always poor and needy. And God intends it should be so, to give you constant errands to go to Jesus. Some may say, it is not good to be a believer; but ah! see to whom we can go. (Works, 59)
Robert Murray McCheyne
#3. Praise God from whom all blessings flow, Praise Him all creatures here below, Praise Him above ye Heavenly Host, Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
#4. What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
Lord Byron
#5. I want to move from what we let go of to whom we hold on to. I want to explore not just the gravity of what we forsake in this world, but also the greatness of the one we follow in this world.
David Platt
#6. The future is a world limited by ourselves; in it we discover only what concerns us and, sometimes, by chance, what interests those whom we love the most.
Maurice Maeterlinck
#7. Nothing else is required than to act toward God, in the midst of your occupations, as you do, even when busy, toward those who love you and whom you love.
Alphonsus Liguori
#8. Nature is a rag-merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations; like a good chemist, whom I found, the other day, in his laboratory, converting his old shirts into pure white sugar.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#9. The mathematical fraternity is a little like a self-perpetuating priesthood. The mathematicians of today teach the mathematicians of tomorrow and, in effect, decide whom to admit to the priesthood.
Paul Halmos
#10. A lot of street crime is horrible, but in terms of the dislocation, the undermining of the family - the corporate criminals, many of whom reside in Congress and the White House - are getting away literally with murder.
Jerry Brown
#11. It is somethingit can be everything-to have found a fellow bird with whom you can sit among the rafters while the drinking and boasting and reciting and fighting go on below.
Wallace Stegner
#12. He was the person for whom the clock was always running out, the game was always tied, and the ball was always in his hands.
Michael Lewis
#13. They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
William Cowper
#14. To whom does he owe ultimate re- sponsibility? Since Romanticism, we have expected the artist not to celebrate God, king, family, and established values but to break taboos, to explore his or her deepest, most socially forbidden self.
Camille Paglia
#15. You need a lot of luck to find people with whom you want to spend the rest of your life. Some people manage to find their soul mate. Others don't. I think love is like a lottery.
Kylie Minogue
#16. Laughter is, above all, a corrective. Being intended to humiliate, it must make a painful impression on the person against whom it is directed. By laughter, society avenges itself for the liberties taken with it. It would fail in its object if it bore the stamp of sympathy or kindness.
Henri Bergson
#17. A hero is someone who enlightened your life, whom you can emulate and adhere.
Debasish Mridha
#18. It's funny whom we end up choosing to love and who ends up choosing to love us. It's rarely the people we think it should be.
Robin Jones Gunn
#19. Men imitate the gods whom they adore, and to such miserable beings their crimes become their religion.
Cyprian
#20. Like so many women for whom money has always been provided without their understanding how, she was prepared to be a thorough and irresponsible plunger.
Booth Tarkington
#21. In all our lives, however, there are many days when we die a little, when we are wounded by loss or failure, or by fear, or by seeing the suffering of others for whom we are able to offer only pity, for whom we are powerless to offer aid, who are beyond mercy.
Dean Koontz
#22. To talk, simply to talk! It sounds so little, and how much it is! When you have existed to the brink of middle age in bitter loneliness, among people to whom your true opinion on every subject on earth is blasphemy, the need to talk is the greatest of all needs.
George Orwell
#23. How can I find the shining word, the glowing phrase that tells all that your love has meant to me, all that your friendship spells? There is no word, no phrase for you on whom I so depend. All I can say to you is this, God bless you precious friend.
Grace Noll Crowell
#24. Forgiveness is praised by the Christian and the Vaishnava, but for me, I ask, "What have I to forgive and whom?"
Sri Aurobindo
#26. Memory is a stopgap for humans, for whom time flies and what is passed is passed.
Umberto Eco
#27. I like to call the Department of Labor the Department of Opportunity, and that means opportunity for everyone - no matter whom you love.
Thomas Perez
#28. The man whom God wills to slay in the struggle of life - he first individualizes.
Henrik Ibsen
#29. Not knowing whom to fall in love with is like not knowing which film to make next. Life is pretty chaotic; it's just an illusion that one has control over one's life.
Shekhar Kapur
#30. For if it's all the rest of us who are killed by the suicide, it's himself whom the murderer kills; only he has to do is over, and over, and over.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#31. It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
#32. The poets are nothing but interpreters of the gods, each one possessed by the divinity to whom he is in bondage.
Plato
#33. ... he noticed that the free thinkers, the doctrinaires of the bourgeoisie, people who claimed every liberty that they might stifle the opinions of others, were greedy and shameless puritans whom, in education, he esteemed inferior to the corner shoemaker.
Joris-Karl Huysmans
#34. I became convinced that almost all the priests of that religion, the writers, were immoral, and for the most part men of bad, worthless character, much inferior to those whom I had met in my former dissipated and military life;
Leo Tolstoy
#35. White Americans believe we've made more progress since the end of slavery in 1865 than do black Americans for whom '12 Years a Slave' documents a collective memory, passed down in the genes and by the lore of generations.
Steve Erickson
#36. Dragons were notoriously finicky about whom they ate, and thought it the height of bad manners to be kept waiting by their selected fare.
Sully Tarnish
#37. That man may last, but never lives, Who much receives, but nothing gives; Whom none can love, whom none can thank,- Creation's blot, creation's blank.
Thomas Gibbons
#38. I'm looking for a charismatic character - somebody who you just want to look at and listen to and whom the camera likes. I'm also looking for a narrative arc: Something is going to happen, and there will be a question that will make you wonder what happens at the end.
Marshall Curry
#39. The Lord did not bless us with any children of our own, so we gathered up little waifs whom we thought would be neglected and would not be cared for unless we brought them into our family.
John Harvey Kellogg
#40. most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the power of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead.
Jonah Berger
#41. 25 h Whom have I in heaven but you? And there is nothing on earth that I desire besides you. 26 i My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is j the strength [2] of my heart and my k portion l forever.
Anonymous
#43. CERBERUS, n. The watch-dog of Hades, whose duty it was to guard the entrance - against whom or what does not clearly appear; everybody, sooner or later, had to go there, and nobody wanted to carry off the entrance.
Ambrose Bierce
#45. How sweet is life, can we but choose with whom to live it: to live for oneself is no life.
Menander
#46. Psa 73:25 Whom have I in heaven but you? And earth has nothing I desire besides you.
Jeff Swanson
#47. When the Council's icy fingers slide the photo of Sasha's wry smile and sleepy eyes across the table, I will nod my head like I always do. Then I will find her. I will honor the dying wish of her brother, whom I murdered, and protect her from myself. And then I will ask her out.
Daniel Jose Older
#48. be careful with whom you spend time. My dad says, "If you want to fly with eagles, don't run with turkeys." You will acquire the characteristics of the people you spend time with.
Christopher V. Flett
#49. To be loved because of one's merit, because one deserves it, always leaves doubt; maybe I did not please the person whom I want to love me, maybe this, or that - there is always a fear that love could disappear.
Erich Fromm
#50. This morning my soul is greater than the world since it possesses You, You whom heaven and earth do not contain
Margaret Of Cortona
#51. 1I smiled bitterly, a defeated man pitifully begging a God in whom he had never trusted.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#52. GENESIS 22. After these things k God tested Abraham and said to him, "Abraham!" And he said, "Here I am." 2. He said, "Take your son, your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to l the land of Moriah, and offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains of which I shall tell you.
Anonymous
#53. He did not wish to be the man to whom nothing was ever to happen.
Andrew Holleran
#54. Love as a passion - it is our European specialty - must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to the Provencal poet-cavaliers, those brilliant, ingenious men of the "gai saber," to whom Europe owes so much, and almost owes itself.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#55. No more shall ye behold such sights of woe, deeds I have suffered and myself have wrought; henceforward quenched in darkness shall ye see those ye should ne'er have seen; now blind to those whom, when I saw, I vainly yearned to know.
Sophocles
#56. Remember, you are held safe. You are loved. You are protected. You are in communion with God and with those whom God has sent you. What is of God will last. It belongs to the eternal life. Choose it, and it will be yours.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#57. The history of Rome presents various men of greater genius than Scipio Aemilianus, but none equalling him in moral purity, in the utter absence of political selfishness, in generous love of his country, and none, perhaps, to whom destiny has assigned a more tragic part.
Theodor Mommsen
#58. Society has no qualms about a masseuse who is paid for touching people, or about laborers, or professional athletes or dancers, all of whom make a living with their bodies. Why should we make an exception for sex?
Sydney Biddle Barrows
#59. Jealousy is that pain which a man feels from the apprehension that he is not equally beloved by the person whom he entirely loves.
Joseph Addison
#60. The first category comprised those for whom books were the only breath of fresh air in their claustrophobic daily lives. His favorite customers. They
Nina George
#61. When in reading we meet with any maxim that may be of use, we should take it for our own, and make an immediate application of it, as we would of the advice of a friend whom we have purposely consulted.
Charles Caleb Colton
#62. [W]hen someone finds himself quite unjustly attacked and hated on all sides, there is no need for such a person to feel dismayed by misfortune. See how Fortune, who has harmed many a one, is so inconstant, for God, Who opposes all wrong deeds, raises up those in whom hope dwells.
Christine De Pizan
#63. Philip that there were three things to find out: man's relation to the world he lives in, man's relation with the men among whom he lives, and finally man's relation
W. Somerset Maugham
#64. You have the rest of your life to be married. Enjoy falling in love. When girls get caught up in the timeline, it becomes more about the wedding than the marriage. You should be with someone with whom you could elope this weekend and be happy.
Lauren Conrad
#65. He whom God chooseth, out of doubt doth well:
What they that choose their God do, who can tell?
Sir Fulke Greville
#66. The State in particular is turned into a quasi-animate personality from whom everything is expected. In reality it is only a camouflage for those individuals who know how to manipulate it.
C. G. Jung
#67. When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.
Voltaire
#68. For me a true poem is on the way when I begin to be haunted, when it seems as if I were being asked an inescapable question by an angel with whom I must wrestle to get at the answer.
May Sarton
#69. For whom am I waiting? I don't know, at this point in my life there doesn't seem to be anybody that I am really waiting for, hoping for.
Cezmi Ersoz
#70. She represents the un-vowed aspiration of the male human being, his potential infidelity - and infidelity of a very special kind, which would lead him to the opposite of his wife, to the woman of wax whom he could model at will, make and unmake in any way he wished, even unto death.
Marguerite Duras
#71. I'd always loved the chance to become someone else for a few hours. Someone for whom the words had been written, every gesture and emotion plotted, and the ending figured out. Almost like life. Just without the surprises.
Morgan Matson
#72. See, I think if it just became who's sleeping with whom, then there's no reason to prefer one party over the other, 'cause the truth is we're all sinners.
Paul Begala
#73. Leonardo is the Hamlet of art history whom each of us must recreate for himself.
Kenneth Clark
#74. Better be with the dead,
Whom we to gain our peace, have sent to peace,
Than on the torture of the mind to lie
In restless ecstasy.
William Shakespeare
#75. Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.
John Lothrop Motley
#76. If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how then with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books should be forbid.
Herman Melville
#77. Why is it that the people with whom one loves to be silent are also the very ones with whom one loves to talk?
Kate Douglas Wiggin
#78. I can only say that I have good personal relations with all secretaries of state with whom I have a chance to work.
Sergei Lavrov
#79. I am a good runner. There are many faster, but not so many for whom it has been as necessary to learn to become nothing but flight.
Peter S. Beagle
#80. The Bible urges us to be respectful to all people, especially people with whom we have disagreements, to never libel people, to never label people.
Max Lucado
#81. One of the most dangerous of literary ventures is the little, shy, unimportant heroine whom none of the other characters value. The danger is that your readers may agree with the other characters.
C.S. Lewis
#82. But of those whom He has chosen, whom He has purchased to Himself, He says what He says not of others - "my people." In
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#83. You now have learned enough to see That Cats are much like you and me And other people whom we find Possessed of various types of mind. For some are sane and some are mad And some are good and some are bad And some are better, some are worse - But all may be described in verse.
Garrison Keillor
#84. There have been many people for whom limitations, failure, loss, or pain in whatever form turned out to be their greatest teacher. It taught them to let go of false self-images and superficial ego-dictated goals and desires. It gave them depth, humility and compassion. It made them more real.
Eckhart Tolle
#85. For all men serve him of their own free will. And he whom Love touches not walks in darkness.
Edith Hamilton
#86. The God whom we worship is not a weak and incompetent God. He is able to beat back gigantic waves of opposition and to bring low prodigious mountains of evil. The ringing testimony of the Christian faith is that God is able.
Martin Luther
#87. Elections do have consequences, and those we elect and far too often re-elect have forgotten how government works and for whom they work for, and that an ever growing, power hungry state and federal government are not the answer to the problem, but 80% of the time are the problem.
David Pratt
#88. Friendship for me is made from a tapestry of personalities, each of whom shares a part of all I care about.
Jacquelyn Mitchard
#89. We ought to be listening to see who the world-system wants to devalue and degrade, most often first with words, so that we can know for whom we should be speaking and standing.
Russell D. Moore
#90. Our attitude will determine what we will strive for, whom we will be, and how our life will turn out.
John Patrick Hickey
#91. I think that I am here, on this earth, To present a report on it, but to whom I don't know. As if I were sent so that whatever takes place Has meaning because it changes into memory.
Czeslaw Milosz
#92. A coal miner from Chongjin whom I met in 2004 in China told me, People are not stupid. Everybody thinks our own government is to blame for our terrible situation. We all know we think that and we all know that everybody else thinks that. We don't need to talk about it.
Barbara Demick
#93. To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.
Robert Copeland
#95. Very broadly speaking, you can put directors into two areas: One for whom you work, and the other with whom you work. And I prefer the latter, for obvious reasons.
John Hurt
#96. The paramount terror that plagues humankind is to live a meaningless life of an exile, an incomplete person whom fails to experience the rapture of living in an astonishing manner.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#97. Note, Religion teaches good manners, and obliges us to give honour to those to whom honour is due.
Matthew Henry
#98. A golfer needs a loving wife to whom he can describe the day's play through the long evening.
P.G. Wodehouse
#99. It is part of His plan to send suffering to bring out a higher good; but surely it's also part of His plan that as much of the burden of suffering as can be should be lightened by those whom it is His pleasure to make happy and content in their own circumstances.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#100. The gentleman is generous and treats all men as his equals, especially those whom he feels to be inferior in rank and wealth.
Hilaire Belloc
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