#whereas

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#doing #doing good #exert #giving #good

The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal. ↗

— Damien Hirst

#actually #fluid #goal #life #never

A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants. ↗

— Karl Kraus

#discard #grown-up #his #ideals #learns

Spelling is very easy to practice yourself whereas signing is not. So I would sit on the subway riding around New York and I would spell whatever I would see. When I watched a movie I would spell words as they came up. ↗

— Richard Masur

#came #easy #i #movie #new

When you kill somebody in the movies, it matters, whereas in literature it can be allegorical. ↗

— Barbet Schroeder

#kill #literature #matters #movies #somebody

Good can exist without evil, whereas evil cannot exist without good. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#evil #exist #good #whereas #without

Be assured, fellow citizens, that in a democracy it is the laws that guard the person of the citizen and the constitution of the state, whereas the despot and the oligarch find their protection in suspicion and in armed guards. ↗

— Aeschines

#assured #citizen #citizens #constitution #democracy

If you're acting, then there's a prescribed way to behave; whereas in life there's no prescribed way. So acting feels like a comfortable way to get through the day. ↗

— Jesse Eisenberg

#behave #comfortable #day #feels #get

But you don't decide what to do with the info. Thought runs you. Thought, however, gives false info that you are running it, that you are the one who controls thought. Whereas actually thought is the one which controls each one of us. ↗

— David Bohm

#controls #decide #each #false #gives

Men love it. They have a sense of humor, whereas a lot of women are threatened or just don't get it. ↗

— Lara Flynn Boyle

#humor #just #lot #love #men