#whereas

The art market was very different before the mid-1980s: then, art was all about passion, whereas now it's become a commodity. ↗

— Adam Clayton

#art #become #before #commodity #different

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

City people try to buy time as a rule, when they can, whereas country people are prepared to kill time, although both try to cherish in their mind's eye the notion of a better life ahead. ↗

— Edward Hoagland

#although #better #better life #both #buy

On the iPhone I tended to draw with my thumb. Whereas the moment I got to the iPad, I found myself using every finger. ↗

— David Hockney

#every #finger #found #got #i

It is one of the most saddening things in life that, try as we may, we can never be certain of making people happy, whereas we can almost always be certain of making them unhappy. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#always #certain #happy #life #making

I think it's easy for me to connect to some people, and I don't know if that's the same thing as falling in love whereas before, I might have said it was. ↗

— Ashley Judd

#connect #easy #falling #falling in love #i

Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#art #be original #become #been #before

A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking. ↗

— Malcolm De Chazal

#keep #knows #man #quiet #right

True education is limited to those people who would die without knowing, whereas the masses in the institutions are merely going through the motions, for education is a way of living. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#education #going #institutions #knowing #limited