Wheras Quotes & Sayings

Literature differs from life in that life is amorphously full of detail, and rarely directs us toward it, wheras literature teaches us to notice. Literature makes us better noticers of life; we get to practice on life itself; which in turn makes us better readers of detail in literature; which in turn makes us better readers of life. — James Wood

I changed my name at 14 because no one outside of my family could pronounce my first name correctly. — J. August Richards

Pain is only temporary, no matter how long it lasts. — Ray Lewis

How can people live their whole lives without knowing the names of their own parts of the body? — Don DeLillo

The only thing that made the music different was that we were taking lyrics to places they had never been before. The thing that makes art interesting is when an artist has incredible pain or incredible rage. The New York bands were much more into their pain, while the English bands were much more into their rage. The Sex Pistols' songs were written out of anger, wheras Johnny was writing songs because he was brokenhearted over Sable... — Legs McNeil

For great and horrible punishments be appointed for thieves, wheras much rather provision should have been made that there were some means they might get their living, so that no man should be driven to this necessity. — Thomas Moore

I am telling you that the child will not out live the buildings. Do you understand that wheras women may touch the immortal by giving birth, men
great men
must build monuments and seek fame? — Karen Essex

Your mother never considered giving you up.
— Anne Osterlund

The greatest sacrifice is the sacrifice of time. — Antiphon

Bentley is a good bee with a shaky sense of direction and an appetite for mayhem. Just don't call him a drone. He hates that. — John Hopkins