Quotes of: Whom Keyword

As we mature, there are people with whom we run out of steam, but there are also those with whom a little straight talking would prove rewarding.

Mariella Frostrup

My mother's background was Scottish. She came from an old family, some of whom lived in upper New York State and some of whom had come over from Scotland.

Alan Hovhaness

There is nobody I know by name who is concerned with collecting information for the Russian authorities. There are people whom I know by sight whom I trusted with my life.

Klaus Fuchs

I have three living children for whom this is a father who I want them to love and on whom they're going to have to rely if my disease takes a bad turn.

Elizabeth Edwards

Any one must see at a glance that if men and women marry those whom they do not love, they must love those whom they do not marry.

Harriet Martineau

The society in 'The Handmaid's Tale' is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied extensively at Harvard under Perry Miller, to whom the book is dedicated.

Margaret Atwood

A 'gossip partner' is someone you love and trust, with whom you may go through the day's events with impunity, and with whom you may air your feelings, without them falling asleep.

Rebecca Pidgeon

You hate someone whom you really wish to love, but whom you cannot love. Perhaps he himself prevents you. That is a disguised form of love.

Sri Chinmoy

That which we cannot speak of is the one thing about whom and to whom we must never stop speaking.

Peter Rollins

...He had few illusions, for here are some of the things that life had taught him: "Men hate those whom they have injured; men love those whom they have benefited; men naturally avoid their benefactors; men are universally actuated by self-interest; ...

Collected Short Stories: Volume 4

Maybe none of this is about control. Maybe it really isn't about who can own whom, who can do what to whom and get away with it, even as far as death. Maybe it isn't about who can sit and who has to kneel or stand or lie down, legs spread open. Maybe...

The Handmaid's Tale

43. To his friend a man should bear him as friend, to him and a friend of his; but let him beware that he be not the friend of one who is friend to his foe. 44. Hast thou a friend whom thou trustest well, from whom thou cravest good? Share thy mind w...

Hávamál - The sayings of the high one

He ought to be feared who sends you with a message, not the one to whom you are sent.

African

Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do so.

Biblical

You, whom I have always loved and never found, you whom I expected to see at the end of the rails beyond the horizon—

Atlas Shrugged

Next to us is not the workman whom we have hired, with whom we love so well to talk, but the workman whose work we are.

Walden

Are you a communist?" "No I am an anti-fascist" "For a long time?" "Since I have understood fascism.

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But now a man must be responsible to himself.

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Hate is often an obverse form of love. You hate someone whom you really wish to love but whom you cannot love.

Sri Chinmoy

Six hours a day I lived under school discipline in active intercourse with people none of whom were known to those at home, and the other hours of the twenty-four I spent at home, or with relatives of the people at home, none of whom were known to an...

Georg Brandes

However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

J. K. Rowling