Quotes of: Whose Keyword

Whose is it, do you think?” I say finally. “No telling,” says Finnick. “Why don’t we let Peeta claim it, since he died today?

Catching Fire

My parents...were people running from the past, who didn't look back at much if they could help it, and whose whole life always lay somewhere in the offing.

Canada

God bless our good and gracious King, Whose promise none relies on; Who never said a foolish thing, Nor ever did a wise one.

The Complete Poems

To be around someone whose self-confidence is more than what our first glance led us to expect is seductive.

Cutting for Stone

It [the Harlem Renaissance] was a time of black individualism, a time marked by a vast array of characters whose uniqueness challenged the traditional inability of white Americans to differentiate between blacks.

Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance

For this decision, too, he had submitted to the overwhelming force of Sharon’s personality, whose longings and needs seemed inalienable rights, whereas Marcus’s were merely whims.

A Familiar Beast

Freedom has become a commodity whose availability, paradoxically, keeps society in check. The threat of its loss seems to enable us to tolerate its imposition.

Fado

...for a country whose people ceased to believe in magic soon lost much of their ability to imagine and dream, and before long, they ceased to believe--or hope-- for anything.

The Fairy Godmother

She knew whose love she doubted. It wasn't her parents' and it wasn't her friends: It was her own.

Forever in Blue: The Fourth Summer of the Sisterhood

It demands great spiritual resilience not to hate the hater whose foot is on your neck, and an even greater miracle of perception and charity not to teach your child to hate.

The Fire Next Time

I am yet to meet the idiot at whose door success arrived as a direct result of his refusal to invest in the enterprise that made him rich.

Fulfill Your Threats

Real kings and queens are people whose heads are crowned with dreams as they sit on the throne of passion. They rule with visions in the regalia of inspirations!

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

Never on me let such wrath lay hold, as the wrath you cherish, you whose valor causes harm!

Homer: Iliad II, Books 13-24

A person doesn't know true hurt and suffering until they've felt the pain of falling in love with someone whose affections lie elsewhere.

Her Imperfect Groom

I had the fleeting thought then that we are each of us pathetic in one way or another, and the trick is to marry a person whose patheticness you can tolerate.

American Wife

To begin a reform, go not into the places of the great and rich; go rather to those whose cups of happiness are empty--to the poor and humble.

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

Today a woman must ignore her reflection in the eyes of her lover, since he might admire her, and seek it in the gaze of the God of Beauty, in whose perception she is never complete.

The Beauty Myth

I cannot be critical of an infant whose only possible source of nourishment can be found in the dugs of a wolf.

In the Belly of the Beast: Letters From Prison

By the grace of the Lady, whose face mirrors my own, may I ever remember I am made in her image, blessed and beautiful.

The Body Sacred

Clear, unscalable, ahead Rise the Mountains of Instead, From whose cold, cascading streams None may drink except in dreams.

Collected Shorter Poems, 1927-1957

I was never a glamour puss whose career was really based on a look or an attitude. I've been basically playing the same parts I am at 55 that I was at 35. I get cast as strong women, and that can be a mother or a judge or anything.

Jane Kaczmarek