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The man who only loves beautiful things is dreaming, whereas the man who knows absolute beauty is wide awake. — Bertrand Russell

Wasting time is worse than death, because death separates you from this world whereas wasting time separates you from Allah — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

I go to the theater two or three times a week when I'm in London. Whereas I feel guilty going to the cinema in the middle of the afternoon. — Eddie Redmayne

Stupidity mistook itself for intelligence, whereas intelligence knew its own stupidity. — Jonathan Franzen

Faith is not Desire. Faith is Will. Desires are things that need to be satisfied, whereas Will is a force. Will changes the space around us, ... — Paulo Coelho

Tyranny is abhorrent, freedom benefits all, whereas violence benefits no one for long. — Mark Kingwell

As a black actress, all I was offered in British film was the best friend role, whereas in TV I was offered a whole spectrum of parts. — Sophie Okonedo

The art market was very different before the mid-1980s: then, art was all about passion, whereas now it's become a commodity. — Adam Clayton

Depending upon shock tactics is easy, whereas writing a good play is difficult. Pubic hair is no substitute for wit. — J.B. Priestley

Real photography is a wonderfully inclusive, democratic medium, whereas art photography is more often a private pursuit by conmen. — Philip Jones Griffiths

A pessimist sees problems in opportunities whereas an optimist sees opportunities in problems. — Winston Churchill

Reality is only a dream, based on values and well worn principles, whereas the dream goes on forever. — Ian Curtis

In private enterprises men may advance or recede, whereas they who aim at empire have no alternative between the highest success and utter downfall. — Tacitus

Whereas if you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there. — Lance Ito

Whereas I had not meant anything so illiberal as a national reflexion, of course; only that I hated Papists. — Patrick O'Brian

Belief and faith have nothing to do with each other. Beliefs are the manifestation of fear whereas faith comes from courage. — Debasish Mridha

Wealth tends to create enemies, whereas knowledge tends to warm hearts. — Ali Ibn Abi Talib

In the middle ages people were tourists because of their religion, whereas now they are tourists because tourism is their religion. — Robert Runcie

Kalevala, whereas — Arthur C. Clarke

With the beginning of life, comes the thirst for truth, whereas the ability to lie is gradually acquired in the process of trying to stay alive. — Gao Xingjian

Love produces peace and harmony whereas hate causes distress and disharmony ... So be a lover and not a hater! — Timothy Pina

One could go on revising a prose page forever whereas there is a point in a poem when one knows it is done forever. — May Sarton

But he spoke English better than I, he having mastered it, whereas I was only born to its careless use. — Talbot Mundy

The Banff Mountain [Book] Festival attracts this huge number of travel writers. Whereas when I go to literary festivals ... — John Gimlette

Kubrick's vision seemed to be that humans are doomed, whereas Clarke's is that humans are moving on to a better stage of evolution. — Marvin Minsky

The computer dictates how you do something, whereas with a pencil you're totally free. — James Dyson

Maybe there's a sort of veneer of optimism about U.S. comedy, whereas perhaps in England, we don't mind ending it on a sourer note. — Stephen Merchant

I didn't really give them anymore than one choice, soda or no soda. They didn't ... whereas we put a lot of stock in the differences between soda ... — Sheena Iyengar

Male fantasy is seen as something that can create reality, whereas female fantasy is regarded as pure escape. — Bell Hooks

It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier. — Ian McKellen

We're both aware that he knows everything about Parisian life, whereas I have he savvy of a chocolate croissant. — Stephanie Perkins

You should tell her how nice
her outfit is because her outfit is her choice whereas her face isn't. — Stephen Chbosky

whereas Allie still had to wear a retainer at night to keep her bottom teeth from collecting like dice in a Yahztee cup. — Ruthie Knox

A person at peace can immediately recognize a consciousness in crisis, whereas those in crisis cannot fully understand themselves or others. — Bryant McGill

In university, we are given a taught a lesson then given a test. Whereas in life, we are given a test that teaches us a lesson. #UniversityOfLife — Habeeb Akande

Men need men to keep their edges hot and clean, whereas women keep us warm and soft. — Richard Rohr

Whereas discipline without discipleship leads to rigid formalism, discipleship without discipline ends in sentimental romanticism. — Henri J.M. Nouwen

Fashion often starts off beautiful and becomes ugly, whereas art starts off ugly sometimes and becomes beautiful. — David Bailey

For loving draws us more to things than knowing does, since good is found by going to the thing, whereas the true is found when the thing comes to us. — Thomas Aquinas

Change is scientific; progress is ethical; change is indubitable, whereas progress is a matter of controversy. — Bertrand Russell

Women's flesh is evidence of a God-given wrongness; whereas fat men are fat gods. — Naomi Wolf

A men whose every word is nothing but the truth is not a human being but a god! Gods do not die, whereas Aristotle is lying in a grave now. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull. — Mark Twain

A boss who interrupts an employee a lot is called an extrovert, whereas an employee who interrupts a boss too often is called an ex-employee. — John Ortberg

Group of us felt that ideas were being fed to us, whereas we wished primarily to explore our own questions and doubts, and find out where they led. — Carl R. Rogers

Misers mistake gold for their good; whereas 'tis only a means of attaining it. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

The material world claims, 'I am what I think', whereas spiritualism says, 'I am, therefore I think'. — Gian Kumar

And whereas Kenny was being guided toward his Vision by a Holy Person, I had Courtney on my side, armed with a litany of big dick jokes. (Shanna) — Paul Lonardo

My mother was an artist and highly strung, whereas my father was much calmer. — Liza Minnelli

Everyone's life has a tempo. Ruth's was presto whereas Miss Marple's was content to be adagio. — Agatha Christie

A lot of youth today have become very narrow and conservative in a way, whereas we in the older generation are kind of living it. — Marc Almond

She comes from the school of getting it out of your system,
whereas he comes from the school of stewing over it. — Melina Marchetta

Whereas the consolations of religion are mainly personal, the burdens are social and political as well as personal. — A.C. Grayling

A wise man always has something to say, whereas a fool always needs to say something. — Hazrat Ali Ibn Abu-Talib A.S

How is it that in the so-called barbarian ages art was understood, whereas in our age of progress exactly the opposite is true? — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Next to me she seems like a clean blackboard, whereas I am full of crossed-out scribbles that I can no longer decipher. — Deborah Moggach

A biography is considered complete if it merely accounts for six or seven selves, whereas a person may well have as many as a thousand. — Virginia Woolf

The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race. — Gough Whitlam

Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live. — Socrates

All official and liberal science defends wage-slavery, whereas Marxism has declared relentless war on that slavery. — Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

Western dance begins with its feet firmly planted on the ground whereas Butoh begins with a dance wherein the dancer tries in vain to find his feet — Tatsumi Hijikata

Optimism isn't funny unless you are laughing at the person, whereas extreme pessimism is extremely funny. It's exaggeration. — Steve Toltz

To the ego, loving and wanting are the same, whereas true love has no wanting in it, no desire to possess or for your partner to change. — Eckhart Tolle

Whereas for me, touring tends to be a very strange and isolating experience. — Moby

I don't really have a relationship with the guitar; it's like my slutty lover, whereas I'm married to the piano — Rufus Wainwright

Tenderness is total love, whereas justice is only a part of love, though it believes itself, mistakenly, to be the whole. — Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz

Whereas the staff, of course, was devoted to the idea that weak people should be helped as much as possible, that nobody should die. — Kurt Vonnegut

Brains, like cabbages, are beautiful-but in a different way. Cabbage heads are dumb and sterile, whereas brains are personal, intelligent and vibrant. — Carl Pfeiffer

He was the kind of man who grew better looking the longer you knew him. Whereas Jesse began to tarnish the moment you took him off the shelf. — Tom Franklin

'Broad City' is how I wish we could all be, whereas 'Girls' is maybe a more accurate representation of how things are. — Caitlin Stasey

You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless. Therefore art is never a document, although it can adopt that style. — Walker Evans

With both acting and ballet, often you can't just choose when you do it, whereas a painter can go at his own pace. — Mia Wasikowska

In this world, shipmates, sin that pays its way can travel freely and without a passport; whereas Virtue, if a pauper, is stopped at all frontiers. — Herman Melville

But he who knows what insanity is, is sane; whereas insanity can no more be sensible of its own existence, than blindness can see itself. — Apuleius

His growing lack of concern for the others hardly surprised him, whereas previously he had prided himself on being considerate. — Franz Kafka

Whereas a prolonged life is not necessarily better, a prolonged death is necessarily worse. — Seneca The Younger

the wise man needs nothing and yet he can make good use of anything, whereas the fool 'needs' countless things but can make good use of none of them. — Donald J. Robertson

I feel like rock stars feel a sense of entitlement, whereas I just feel a sense of good fortune. — Neil Strauss

Better a thousand times the Arab untouched. The foreigners come out here always to teach, whereas they had much better learn. — Scott Anderson

The cynic is goodhearted beneath his facade, whereas the sentimentalist is flint-hearted beneath his. — Sydney J. Harris

The contest of world's tallest skyscraper is a childish thing.
Whereas with similar budget, they could construct flying building. — Toba Beta

The tactician knows what to do when there is something to do; whereas the strategian knows what to do when there is nothing to do — Gerald Abrahams

Visual media is the dominant art form in our present day culture, whereas poetry is, at best, a proxy. Yet poetry and film are both "dream factories." — Denise Duhamel

Whereas it is difficult for everything to work out easily, A man cannot even afford to be a human — Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib

I don't have joy in watching myself, whereas, actually, I quite like listening to my own music. — George Michael

The Twenties outfits are all about freedom and loose, flowing lines, whereas in 'Cinderella,' I had to wear corsets and big huge skirts. — Lily James

The Ramkins were more highly bred than a hilltop bakery, whereas Corporal Nobbs had been disqualified from the human race for shoving. — Terry Pratchett

God formed an alliance based on the world as it is, full of flaws, whereas prayer calls God to account for the world as it should be. — Philip Yancey

Those who study a wide variety of things realize that they don't know everything whereas specialists think they do. — V. R. Roadifer

And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure. — Bob Geldof

The Master said, "The gentleman understands what is right, whereas the petty man understands profit."
(Analects 4.16) — Confucius

A butte is taller than it is wide, whereas a mesa, like this one, is wider than it is tall. — Craig Johnson

No, Margaret Atwood writes literature, whereas I write fiction. I'm from the American Midwest, so literature is beyond my abilities. — Stella Atrium

Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them. — Horace

I think 'Shameless' is more of an everyman's show, whereas as great as I think 'Girls' is, it's got a smaller audience. — Jeremy Allen White

How can you say: "I love you forever!" ; Whereas bit of time can change everything — CG9sYXJhZGl0aWE=

Like all real heroes, Charley had a fatal flaw. He refused to believe that he had gonorrhea, whereas the truth was that he did. — Kurt Vonnegut

Other countries have access to the markets, whereas Greece does not. Therefore, we have to get liquidity through the ECB. — Antonis Samaras

All we achieve by exacting revenge is to make ourselves the equals of our enemies, whereas by forgiving we show wisdom and intelligence. — Paulo Coelho

There is a fine line between free speech and hate speech. Free speech encourages debate whereas hate speech incites violence. — Newton Lee