#whither

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#cream #enjoy #ice #ice cream #inquire

The whole wood seemed running now, running hard, hunting, chasing, closing in round something or - somebody? In panic, he began to run too, aimlessly, he knew not whither. ↗

— Kenneth Grahame

#chasing #closing #hard #hunting #knew

Were I a cloud I'd gather My skirts up in the air, And fly well know whither, And rest I well know where. ↗

— Robert Bridges

#cloud #fly #gather #i #know

Whither depart the souls of the brave that die in the battle, Die in the lost, lost fight, for the cause that perishes with them? ↗

— Arthur Hugh Clough

#brave #cause #depart #die #fight

No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going. ↗

— Oliver Cromwell

#high #knows #rises #whither #who

If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#could #first #how #judge #know

Whence come I and whither go I? That is the great unfathomable question, the same for every one of us. Science has no answer to it. ↗

— Max Planck

#come #every #go #great #i

If Romney explains why where we are with Obama is unacceptable, why whither we are tending is even worse - and why his own alternative path forward is superior - then we trust the American people to make the right choice in November. ↗

— Bill Kristol

#american #american people #choice #even #even worse

Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night? ↗

— Jack Kerouac

#car #night #shiny #thou #thy

Like the winds that we come we know not whence and blow whither soever they list, the forces of society are derived from an obscure and distant origin. They arise before the date of philosophy, from the instincts, not the speculations of men. ↗

— Adam Ferguson

#before #blow #come #date #derived