#whereas

It's kind of nice in some ways having an Olympic Trials where I finished second. You can kind of go in more under the radar facing a 2:03 guy and facing a lot of dudes who are faster than I am, whereas, before Beijing, I had one of the top 10 times in the field, or something like that. ↗

— Ryan Hall

#before #beijing #dudes #facing #faster

When my first film 'The Seventh Continent' was presented here 12 years ago, non-Austrian spectators would come up to me and say, 'Is Austria that terrible?', whereas for me it wasn't about Austria but about highly industrialised cultures everywhere. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#ago #austria #come #continent #cultures

Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are God. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you provide them with food and water and affection, they draw the conclusion that they are God. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#cats #compelled #conclusion #dogs #draw

One problem with ideas, however valid, is that they are static and impersonal, whereas a person is active and dynamic. ↗

— William Hull

#dynamic #however #ideas #impersonal #person

Perhaps Europeans are a bit more skeptic whereas Americans are more believers. ↗

— Isabelle Huppert

#bit #europeans #more #perhaps #skeptic

Well, the idea of God as a supreme being means that he is simply like us, writ large, and just bigger and better, the end product of the series; whereas this divine personality that we meet in the Bible was, for centuries, regarded simply as a symbol of a greater transcendence that lay beyond it. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#better #beyond #bible #bigger #centuries

Every one of our passions and affections hath its natural stint and bound, which may easily be exceeded; whereas our enjoyments can possibly be but in a determinate measure and degree. ↗

— Joseph Butler

#bound #degree #easily #enjoyments #every

And whereas women had to fight to find their way into the workforce, men are now fighting to reclaim their place in the family structure. ↗

— Bob Geldof

#family structure #fight #fighting #find #had

The natural capital is not income, but we spend our natural capital as if it were revenue, as if it were going to come back next year without any problems, whereas these renewals in nature can take hundreds of years. ↗

— Susan George

#back #capital #come #going #hundreds

I think there is a great difference, in that when the poet is reading you get the whole personality of the person, especially if he's a good reader. Whereas a person just sitting gets what he puts into it. ↗

— James Laughlin

#especially #get #gets #good #great