Whom - Quotes
The world is so empty if we think of it just as a collection of mountains, rivers and cities; but to find someone somewhere who sees eye to eye with us, someone with whom we can continue to commune in silence, makes the whole world into a populated garden.
There are some people you like immediately, some whom you think you might learn to like in the fullness of time, and some that you simply want to push away from you with a sharp stick.
People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I`ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one`s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one`s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person`s view requires to be faked. [...] The man who lies to the world, is the world`s slave from then on.
If you want to know where the power lies, then ask whom you cannot criticize.
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way".
Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.
There is one kind of robber whom the law does not strike at, and who steals what is most precious to men: time.
In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not the man to whom the idea first occurs.
While homeward bound I thought about
The way, through every mile,
In which to greet my mother, whom
I missed for quite a while.
What pleasing words to say to her?
Dear words they need to be,
When she, who rocked my cradle, will
Be reaching out to me.
It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together,but do so with all your heart.
There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent their spleen.
The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love. I require so much!