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God offers to every mind a choice between repose and truth. take which you please
you can never have both. [Essay on Intellect] — Ralph Waldo Emerson

...they had reached a plateau on which she suffered and he seemed quite content. — Rona Jaffe

Life' wrote a friend of mine, 'is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along. — E. M. Forster

How could that woman [Hillary Clinton] actually be the most cheated-on woman in America? Which she is. — Rush Limbaugh

It is important to realise that two conflicting statements can both be equally true depending on the level from which you observe the same situation. — David Icke

The effects of Twitter and Facebook and all those things on people's psychologies is a really interesting question to which nobody knows the answer. — Paul Bloom

I'm afraid I was very much the traditionalist. I went down on one knee and dictated a proposal which my secretary faxed over straight away. — Stephen Fry

Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on. — Citium Zeno

The principle on which to manage an army is to set up one standard of courage which all must reach. — Sun Tzu

Democracy? I want nothing to do with a system which operates on the premise that my rights don't exist simply because I am outnumbered. — R. Lee Wrights

Professionals have to decide on which subjects they are prepared to give nagging rights — David Maister

A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them. — Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Gaze not on swans, in whose soft breast,
A full-hatched beauty seems to nest
Nor snow, which falling from the sky
Hovers in its virginity. — Henry Noel Brailsford

I've always worked on the machines, especially the 125 and 250 which are really difficult to set up. — Joey Dunlop

I just got a fortune cookie that says "Turn off your computer and read a book" which is odd because I'm WRITING a book ... on my computer! — Meg Cabot

I realized that both the military and religious orders depend on discipline to shape people - which routine does, in a lot of ways. — Kit Reed

That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird. — Martial

You try on purpose to get players with different qualities which will rub off on one another. — James Levine

Great minds do indeed react on the society which has made them what they are; but they only pay with interest what they have received. — Thomas B. Macaulay

They knew that mere appearance and disappearance are on the surface like waves on the sea, but life which is permanent knows no decay or diminution. — Rabindranath Tagore

I know on which side my bread is buttered. — John Heywood

It sounded like a good idea at the time, which is probably going to be on my tombstone - along with a catty footnote about poor impulse control. But — Cherie Priest

Thank God, I have the opportunity to do what I love, which is my family and work on a business and try and make it the best that it can be. — Rob Kardashian

I know none of Time's cardinal pillar on which it says forever just because eternity is not Time anymore. — Sorin Cerin

You're not a loser. You're almost as smart as me, which makes you one of the smartest people on the planet. — Jules Barnard

Thinking for yourself is the thing on which everything else depends. — Nancy Kline

We are living on what we believe and the virtues upon which we stand. — Sunday Adelaja

The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation. — C.S. Lewis

Don't be a pawn in somebody's game. Find the attitude which gives you the maximum strength and the maximum dignity, no matter what else is going on — Anne Rice

I hate arrows. They try to tell me which direction to go. It's like "I ain't going that way, line with two thirds of a triangle on the end!" — Mitch Hedberg

My workplace is wherever I'm making something, which could be in a field in gold country, or in an abandoned warehouse on a military base. — Adam Savage

Other people are like a mirror which reflects back on us the kind of image we cast. — Fulton J. Sheen

It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of propaganda techniques on a societal scale. — Jacques Ellul

I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid. — Henry David Thoreau

Talent works for money and fame; the motive which moves genius to productivity is, on the other hand, less easy to determine. — Arthur Schopenhauer

Faith is the 'yes' of the heart, a conviction on which one stakes one's life. — Martin Luther

On which side is truth, - on the side of the thoughts which seem true and well-founded, or on the side of the lives of others and myself? — Leo Tolstoy

By the needle you shall draw the thread, and by that which is past, see how that which is to come will be drawne on. — George Herbert

When Newsweek owner Katharine Graham heard about our lawsuit, she asked, Which side am I supposed to be on? — Lynn Povich

Ideology has shaped the very sofa on which I sit. — Mason Cooley

So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing. — Clarice Lispector

Geography has no bearing on it, nor have the interests of the community in which I work. — Yves Tanguy

The highway of human possibility extends on forever into unknown territories, which have not yet been imagined. — Bryant McGill

communication is a two-party affair which aims at passing on or receiving a specific piece of information. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

The period of childhood is a stage on which time and space become entangled. — Yukio Mishima

I used to design for my body, which was flat-chested with big hips. That's why my clothes were tight on top with full skirts. — Betsey Johnson

To engage with criticism, is on some level, a validation of that which otherwise would go unnoticed. — Jordan Carl Curtis

Home is an invention on which no one has yet improved. — Ann Douglas

You have to listen to adversaries and keep looking for that point beyond which it's against their interests to keep on disagreeing or fighting. — Cyrus Vance

God bestows more consideration on the purity of the intention with which our actions are performed than on the actions themselves. — Saint Augustine

Happiness happens when you have a bigger purpose than having more fulfills, which is why we say happiness happens on the way to fulfillment. — Gary Keller

The laws of physics are the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece. Vittoria — Dan Brown

In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate. — Georges Duhamel

Her gaze feasted on his cock, which was a turn on in itself. "There's nothing tiny about you, is there? — Vonnie Davis

Knowledge is dangerous, which is why governments often clamp down on people who can think thoughts above a certain caliber. — Terry Pratchett

We don't focus as much in schools on educational knowledge which requires thinking and application, as we do on acquiring facts. — William Glasser

He thought of the virtues of courage and forbearance, which become flabby when there is nothing to use them on. — John Steinbeck

There is nothing on which men are commonly more intent than on making a way for their opinions. — Michel De Montaigne

I am influenced by books which don't have their eye on the endgame, but which try to be entertaining on each and every page. — Steve Toltz

All things that are on earth shall wholly pass away,
Except the love of God, which shall live and last for aye. — William C. Bryant

Men who pride themselves on their ancestry are like the potato plant, the most part of which is under ground. — William Tyler

The only worthwhile idea is the one on which you take action. — John Jantsch

Think of the press as a great keyboard
on which the government can play. — Joseph Goebbels

We must get rid of fossil fuels by developing injection systems for automobiles, which can run on bio-fuel. — A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

On this earth there is that which deserves life. — Mahmoud Darwish

Everyone has a button for sadness and a button for happiness, your condition depends on which one you push the most. — Debasish Mridha

To my mind the single essential element on which all discoveries will be dependent is human freedom. — Barry Goldwater

I'm a human who is aware of the history of humanity and the ways in which the movies touch on those things. — Wesley Morris

We love repose of mind so well, that we are arrested by anything which has even the appearance of truth; and so we fall asleep on clouds. — Joseph Joubert

His lips felt dry with a literal thirst for righteousness, which was like a glass of ice-cold water on a table in another man's room. — Graham Greene

I think the best shaped box ever on earth is a coffin which can be handmade to escort the forever numb-hands. — Munia Khan

I have amazing news for you. Man is not alone on this planet. He is part of a community, upon which he depends absolutely. — Daniel Quinn

Being able to write an idea down succinctly doesn't make that idea any better than one which rambles on a bit. It just comes to the point sooner. — Simon Travaglia

Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount. — Clare Boothe Luce

Everything, including that which happens in our brains, depends on these and only on these: A set of fixed, deterministic laws. — Marvin Minsky

And so we smile on, Feeding the truths we share With a union of our souls, Cathedral slaves of our passion Which builds beauty amongst chaos. — Scott Hastie

I practiced on the greatest model of storytelling we've got, which is "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey." I told those stories many, many times. — Philip Pullman

When two souls have finally found each other, there is established between them a union which begins on earth and continues forever in heaven. — Victor Hugo

No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

If I am on a journey where I only have time to read one-and-a-half books, I never know which one-and-a-half I'll feel like reading. So I bring eight. — Tom Stoppard

Ever since I left Northern Ireland, I've always been pretty comfortable on my own, which contradicts a lot of people's perceptions of me. — James Nesbitt

Let me keep my mind on what matters, which is my work, which is mostly standing still and learning to be astonished. — Mary Oliver

I totally think we have a future on the planet. I just think that we have to get away from Western thinking, which is very much founded on dualisms. — Daniel Pinchbeck

Even if animal experiments did result in a cure for AIDS, of which there is no chance, I'd be against it on moral grounds. — Ingrid Newkirk

There is nothing which can so assist you to walk towards heaven with good speed, as wearing the image of Jesus on your heart to rule all its motions. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Troubles when voiced are carried away on the wind; they have no place uopn which to perch. — Indu Sundaresan

The tears creat havoc which stays on the eyelid . — Kishore Bansal

Big whorls have little whorls
Which feed on their velocity
And little whorls have lesser whorls,
And so on to viscosity. — Lewis Fry Richardson

Observing that, from this height, the city which had been so dark as he walked through it seemed to be on fire. — James Baldwin

Provence is a country to which I am always returning, next week, next year, any day now, as soon as I can get on a train. — Elizabeth David

I had some surgery on my feet, which has helped my back some. — Merle Haggard

I know which side my bread is buttered on: the side which falls on the carpet. — Mignon McLaughlin

I regret any comments I have ever made which may have cast any doubt on the personal faith of our president, Mr. Obama. — Franklin Graham

Hope is the Word which God has written on the brow of every man. — Victor Hugo

One will never find in the waterfall of sights anything else than the Illusion of Life, which falls in torrents on the granite rocks of the souls. — Sorin Cerin

Vegetarianism serves as the criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of humanity is genuine and sincere. — Leo Tolstoy

Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built. — Erich Fromm

Yes! I'm also a big fan of the movie '10 Things I Hate About You,' which was also based on Shakespeare. — Amanda Bynes

They are all beer wasted. Which is different from bourbon wasted. Bourbon makes you mean and switches on your regret. — Lisa D'Amour

Honour thy father and mother; which is the first commandment with promise; 3. That it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth. — Anonymous