An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.
William James

I didn't know my dad for a long time. My dad was on drugs and my dad was at the VA Hospital, my dad was off in his own world selling drugs or using them or there would be crack heads in the house or whatever it would be.
Shia LaBeouf

Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.
E. Stanley Jones

Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.
James Joyce

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.
Emily Bronte

We need to decide that we will not go to war, whatever reason is conjured up by the politicians or the media, because war in our time is always indiscriminate, a war against innocents, a war against children.
Howard Zinn

I align myself with almost all researchers in assuming that anything we do is a composite of whatever genetic limitations were given to us by our parents and whatever kinds of environmental opportunities are available.
Howard Gardner

Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history.
Martin Heidegger

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.
George Eliot

I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.
Denzel Washington

Everyone lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Whatever an artist's personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.
Willem de Kooning

When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.
Robert Louis Stevenson

There is no progress whatever. Everything is just the same as it was thousands, and tens of thousands, of years ago. The outward form changes. The essence does not change.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
Thomas Carlyle

The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Now, I look at where I am now and I know what I wanna to do. What I would like to be able to do is to spend whatever time I have left and to give, and maybe some hope to others.
Jim Valvano

Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens.
Daniel Webster

Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.
Daniel Webster

You know, I think whatever a comic talks about onstage is all they talk about offstage.
Sarah Silverman