Quotes about Thoroughly

He's not a killer. He just wins... Thoroughly Votes: 3

Thoroughly conscious ignorance is the prelude to every real advance in science. Votes: 3

Thoroughly to teach another is the best way to learn for yourself. Votes: 3

Thoroughly to believe in one's own self, so one's self were thorough, were to do great things. Votes: 3

Anne DeGrace is a gifted story teller and Far From Home contains some of her most intriguing characters. Thoroughly enjoyable. Votes: 3

You Cannot Live as I Have Lived and Not End Up Like This: The Thoroughly Disgraceful Life & Times of Willie Donaldson. Votes: 3

An engaging, blow-by-blow account of the infancy of the Obama presidency. . . . Manna for political junkies. . . . Thoroughly researched . . . humanizes a figure considered periodically out-of-touch even by some of his admirers. Votes: 3

Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh? Votes: 3

[Mark Twain] is still the rough, awkward, good-natured boy who swore at the deck hands when he was three years old. Thoroughly likeable as a good fellow, but impossible as a man of letters. Votes: 3

Thoroughly convinced of the impossibility of his own suit, a high resolve constrained him not to injure that of another. This is a lover's most stoical virtue, as the lack of it is a lover's most venial sin. Votes: 3

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect. Votes: 2

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly. Votes: 2

No man can produce great things who is not thoroughly sincere in dealing with himself. Votes: 2

I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly. Votes: 2

No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth. Votes: 2

Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. Votes: 2

Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. Votes: 2

There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man. Votes: 2

There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory. Votes: 2

The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives. Votes: 2

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Votes: 2

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true. Votes: 2

One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them. Votes: 2

No man has a right to expect to succeed in life unless he understands his business, and nobody can understand his business thoroughly unless he learns it by personal application and experience. Votes: 2

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them. Votes: 2

Count Dracula had directed me to go to the Golden Krone Hotel, which I found, to my great delight, to be thoroughly old-fashioned, for of course I wanted to see all I could of the ways of the country. Votes: 2

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed. Votes: 2

The kingdom of God is a theocracy. And as it is the only form of government which will redeem and save mankind, it is necessary that every soul should be rightly and thoroughly instructed in regard to its nature and general characteristics. Votes: 2

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well; whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely; in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest. Votes: 2

We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information. Votes: 2

One's appearance bespeaks dignity corresponding to the depth of his character. One's concentrated effort, serene attitude, taciturn air, courteous disposition, thoroughly polite bearing, gritted teeth with a piercing look - each of these reveals dignity. Such outward appearance, in short, comes from constant attentiveness and seriousness. Votes: 2

I thoroughly enjoy getting away from the game and going out fishing because it's so relaxing, so quiet and peaceful. I mean, there's no noise other than nature - and it's so different from what I do in a tournament situation that it just eases my mind. Votes: 2

Japan's very interesting. Some people think it copies things. I don't think that anymore. I think what they do is reinvent things. They will get something that's already been invented and study it until they thoroughly understand it. In some cases, they understand it better than the original inventor. Votes: 2

I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous. Votes: 2

It seems that it had been destined before that I should occupy myself so thoroughly with the vulture, for it comes to my mind as a very early memory, when I was still in the cradle, a vulture came down to me, he opened my mouth with his tail and struck me a few times with his tail against my lips. Votes: 2

I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can't get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That's in friendship, that's a deal, that's a commitment. Don't give me paper - I can get the same lawyer who drew it up to break it. But if you shake my hand, that's for life. Votes: 2

Water - a thoroughly underrated drink. Votes: 0

Your onions should be thoroughly boiled. Votes: 0

[I]n his presence I thoroughly lived. Votes: 0

At first, I thoroughly enjoyed being famous. Votes: 0

Wisdom, thoroughly learned, will never be forgotten. Votes: 0

My education and background thoroughly inform my writing Votes: 0

I'm thoroughly convinced that editors don't help authors. Votes: 0

Chinese people are thoroughly sick of Western imperialism. Votes: 0

Disney's Tomorrowland is deeply, thoroughly, almost furiously unimaginative. Votes: 0

My education and background thoroughly inform my writing. Votes: 0

Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted. Votes: 0

One cannot refute what one has not thoroughly understood. Votes: 0

Better be unromantic than thoroughly used and still poor. Votes: 0

A riveting, exciting and thoroughly compelling tale of adventure. Votes: 0

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable. Votes: 0

Only free men are thoroughly grateful one to another. Votes: 0

No one ever became thoroughly bad in one step. Votes: 0

No thoroughly occupied person was ever found really miserable. Votes: 0

Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure. Votes: 0

We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly. Votes: 0

No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses. Votes: 0

Study the bible thoroughly before a pseudo-holy criminal mislead you! Votes: 0

Nothing taxes an actor more thoroughly than a good audiobook. Votes: 0

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others. Votes: 0

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man. Votes: 0

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man Votes: 0

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature, understand them thoroughly. Votes: 0

Ridicule more often settles things more thoroughly and better than acrimony. Votes: 0

The Perfect Gentlemen are perfectly delightful, musically superb and thoroughly entertaining. Votes: 0

A little of everything and nothing thoroughly, after the French fashion. Votes: 0

Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Votes: 0

Whores perform the same function as priests, but far more thoroughly. Votes: 0

No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject. Votes: 0

When I'm writing, I thoroughly enjoy it. It just goes on. Votes: 0

No man can thoroughly master more than one art or science. Votes: 0

I need to keep pressing on until I am thoroughly thankful. Votes: 0

To know one thing thoroughly would be to know the universe. Votes: 0

Do not teach too many subjects and what you teach, teach thoroughly. Votes: 0

No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it. Votes: 0

... scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill ... Votes: 0

No scientific theory achieves public acceptance until it has been thoroughly discredited. Votes: 0

I need an inspiration that is grounded in reality while thoroughly transcendent. Votes: 0

Philosophy when superficially studied, excites doubt, when thoroughly explored, it dispels it. Votes: 0

It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing Votes: 0

never was there a thoroughly noble nature without some romance in it. Votes: 0

I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information. Votes: 0

Home is the place where you are most thoroughly yourself, with no pretenses. Votes: 0

Most men are so thoroughly subjective that nothing really interests them but themselves. Votes: 0

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. Votes: 0

He had a look of composed dissatisfaction, as if he understood life thoroughly. Votes: 0

Like all the best radical positions, then, mine is a thoroughly traditionalist one. Votes: 0

As thoroughly as mankind has killed God, the reader has despatched the author. Votes: 0

Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar. Votes: 0

Whenever you undertake to do something, do it thoroughly or not at all. Votes: 0

Only the Liberal Democrats have probed the government's failings consistently, thoroughly and effectively. Votes: 0

I had to examine myself very thoroughly to find the right path personally. Votes: 0

I live right in the middle of nowhere and I thoroughly enjoy it. Votes: 0

Consistently, Baidu has censored politically sensitive search results much more thoroughly than Google.cn. Votes: 0

When theology recognizes one thing properly, it mis-recognizes something else all the more thoroughly. Votes: 0

A true magician must not undertake anything regarding which he is not thoroughly informed. Votes: 0

Patience and perseverance are never more thoroughly Christian graces than when features of prayer. Votes: 0

[Satan] has been thoroughly defeated and only holds people by usurped authority and power. Votes: 0

Priests are often well-meaning people who haven't yet looked too thoroughly into comparative religion. Votes: 0

Purpose, and to be thoroughly wedded to that purpose, is three quarters of salvation. Votes: 0

I've made the transition from star to character actor and I'm thoroughly enjoying it. Votes: 0

It is difficult to connect general principles with such thoroughly concrete things as children. Votes: 0

while one can lose oneself in a book one can never be thoroughly unhappy. Votes: 0

I just left wishing that it was longer because I enjoyed it so thoroughly. Votes: 0

No mind is thoroughly well organized that is deficient in a sense of humor. Votes: 0

And after four years, I thoroughly enjoy Hawaii and the success of the show. Votes: 0

Show me a thoroughly contented person, and I will show you a useless one. Votes: 0

Something that can never be learnt too thoroughly can never be said too often. Votes: 0

By the time they're ready to be thrown away, most shoes are thoroughly comfortable Votes: 0

Never have I enjoyed youth so thoroughly as I have in my old age Votes: 0

I was thoroughly stunned by the quantity and quality of the evidence for Christ. Votes: 0

Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid. Votes: 0

I had examined myself pretty thoroughly and discovered that I was unfit for military service. Votes: 0

The more thoroughly I conduct scientific research, the more I believe that science excludes atheism. Votes: 0

She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts. Votes: 0

I don't think there are too many places left that humans haven't pretty thoroughly explored. Votes: 0

It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. Votes: 0

I love my job, and I'm a lucky girl. I thoroughly enjoy going to work. Votes: 0

Children are the best living audience in the world because they are so thoroughly honest. Votes: 0

If you worry about every little thing you're going to have one thoroughly miserable life. Votes: 0

if you have once thoroughly bored somebody it is next to impossible to unbore him. Votes: 0

She thoroughly understands what no other Church has ever understood, how to deal with enthusiasts. Votes: 0

Those only can thoroughly feel the meaning of death who know what is perfect love. Votes: 0

in order to thoroughly enjoy anything, one must feel the absence of it at times ... Votes: 0

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives. Votes: 0

Now that I have you thoroughly confused, let me pause to hear your own dismayed cry. Votes: 0

To be thoroughly modern, an aphorism should trail off vaguely rather than coming to a point. Votes: 0

Love God, Love people, and thoroughly hate sin. ☼ ♡ ✞ Votes: 0

Truth is not by nature free-nor error servile-its production is thoroughly imbued with relations of power. Votes: 0

My father...was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings. Votes: 0

None of the world's problems will have a solution until the world's individuals become thoroughly self-educated. Votes: 0

It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their deserts. Votes: 0

Me and Sandra are thoroughly satisfied customers as parents of kids who came through this Orange model. Votes: 0

Ah, but you're the insidious type--Jane Eyre with of touch of Becky Sharp. A thoroughly dangerous girl. Votes: 0

Nothing will sabotage our happiness and success more thoroughly than the fear that we are not enough. Votes: 0

Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly. Votes: 0

Die while alive and be thoroughly dead. Then do what you will, and all will be well Votes: 0

A discordant mind, black with confusion and despair, would finish me off as thoroughly as the cold. Votes: 0

Clio, the muse of history, is as thoroughly infected with lies as a street whore with syphilis. Votes: 0

I am thoroughly sick of pearls. They make one look so plain, so good and so intellectual. Votes: 0

Few things hold the perception more thoroughly captive than anxiety about what we have got to say Votes: 0

Do not imagine that these most difficult problems can be thoroughly understood by any one of us. Votes: 0

Our relationship now thoroughly ruined, with even civility destroyed between us, all I wanted anymore was the door. Votes: 0

I've seen a lot of 'Show Boats,' but I've never seen the one that thoroughly satisfies me. Votes: 0

Don't become a well rounded person. Well rounded people are smooth and ull. Become a thoroughly spiky person. Votes: 0

Taking stock of what you own, when done correctly and thoroughly, helps dampen the urge to shop frivolously. Votes: 0

Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows. Votes: 0

The current paradigm is so thoroughly established that the only way to change is to start over again. Votes: 0

Taking fun as simply fun and earnestness in earnest shows how thoroughly thou none of the two discernest. Votes: 0

I thoroughly enjoy working with kids, whether it's The First Tee or the lesson tee with my grandkids. Votes: 0

When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket. Votes: 0

London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy. Votes: 0

To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body. Votes: 0

God has hardwired me to thoroughly enjoy and be sharpened by good and friendly theological discussion about the gospel. Votes: 0

So I plan to prepare thoroughly and have several outfits waiting in the wings in case of inclement weather. Votes: 0

We need a new global culture that finds the existence of millions of thirsty people thoroughly and immediately unacceptable. Votes: 0

[T]here is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists . . . an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness. Votes: 0

It is only when one is thoroughly true that there can be purity and freedom. Falsehood always punishes itself. Votes: 0

The Rothschilds have conquered the world more thoroughly, more cunningly, and much more lastingly than all the Caesars before... Votes: 0

I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve. Votes: 0

Morality represents for everybody a thoroughly definite and ascertained idea: the idea of human conduct regulated in a certain manner. Votes: 0

To be thoroughly conversant with Man’s heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of Despair Votes: 0

She had become so thoroughly annealed into his life that she was like the air he breathed--necessary but scarcely noticed. Votes: 0

I believe that the more thoroughly science is studied, the further does it take us from anything comparable to atheism. Votes: 0

If you're going to be an entertainer, entertain thoroughly. If you're going to make a scary movie, scare people well. Votes: 0

Somebody said: About two persons I have never reflected very thoroughly: that is the testimony of my love for them. Votes: 0

If youre going to be an entertainer, entertain thoroughly. If youre going to make a scary movie, scare people well. Votes: 0

There ought to be some sign in a book about man, that the writer knows thoroughly one man at least. Votes: 0

Before I start writing, before I have an idea of where and when the story happens, I research it thoroughly. Votes: 0

We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class. Votes: 0

We must never so thoroughly disrespect someone that they are beyond the pale and, therefore, have no possibility of being changed. Votes: 0

It seems that so much writing is being done in the nineteenth-century model, where every connection has to be thoroughly explained. Votes: 0

Whatever exists at all exists in some amount. To know it thoroughly involves knowing its quantity as well as its quality. Votes: 0

The seat of perfect contentment is in the head; for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains. Votes: 0

Cry down materialism all you will, surely one of the thoroughly satisfactory sensations of this world is to feel financially independent ... Votes: 0

The union of church and state put the church under a political control... The church was thoroughly subordinated to the state. Votes: 0

Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own. Votes: 0

We can never be grieved for their miseries who are thoroughly wicked, and have thereby justly called their calamities on themselves. Votes: 0

I inherited that penchant for intellectualism, a character flaw that these days can only be thoroughly eradicated by getting Z'ed up. Votes: 0

I simply cannot understand the passion that some people have for making themselves thoroughly uncomfortable and then boasting about it afterwards. Votes: 0

We never do evil so thoroughly and heartily as when led to it by an honest but perverted, because mistaken, conscience. Votes: 0

I thoroughly enjoy the work I do in helping motivate and empower young girls to celebrate and love their natural selves. Votes: 0

If you hate something thoroughly without knowing why, you can be sure there is something of it in your own nature. Votes: 0

And only now, when he was gray-haired, had he fallen in love properly, thoroughly, for the first time in his life. Votes: 0

When a man has a problem very thoroughly and can't solve it, he really has too few problems. He needs more. Votes: 0

(Art is) a means to function thoroughly and passionately in a world that has a lot more to it than paint. Votes: 0

I missed jazz, kind of. And by the time I came to it in life, it was too intimidating to enjoy thoroughly. Votes: 0

So now I have started living my own life. Imperfect and clumsy as it may look, it is resembling me now, thoroughly. Votes: 0

To be thoroughly lazy is a tough job, but somebody has to do it. Industrious people build industry. Lazy people build civilization. Votes: 0

The state of a king shuts him from the world, yet the business of a king requires him to know it thoroughly... Votes: 0

To be thoroughly imbued, with the liberal arts refines the manners, and makes men to be mild and gentle in their conduct. Votes: 0

A man unconsciously imagines that where he is strong, where he feels most thoroughly alive, the element of his freedom must lie. Votes: 0

In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act. Votes: 0

Dreaming is a phenomenon of purely individual consciousness, and consequently impossible to thoroughly deconstruct by a community of researchers. But dreaming matters. Votes: 0

Bill and Hillary Clinton are the most investigated couple in American history - now the most thoroughly exonerated couple in American history. Votes: 0

Corruption has its own motivations, and one has to thoroughly study that phenomenon and eliminate the foundations that allow corruption to exist. Votes: 0

My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can. Votes: 0

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.... Votes: 0

Sometimes, fact mixed with fiction so thoroughly that, though no lies were told, it was hard to remember what was strictly true. Votes: 0

True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes.... Votes: 0

What a midwesterner he was, a thoroughly unhip guy with his heart in the usual place, on the sleeve, in plain sight. Votes: 0

Be passionate and be involved in what you believe in, and do it as thoroughly and honestly and fearlessly as you can. Votes: 0

A writer edits his thoughts more thoroughly the more readers he has. You can tell I only have two readers, myself included. Votes: 0

Though I'm a rogue in talking upon Painting & Love I can be serious and honest upon any subject thoroughly pleasing to me. Votes: 0

May I say that I have not thoroughly enjoyed serving with humans? I find their illogic and foolish emotions a constant irritant Votes: 0

I thoroughly believe that any man who's got anything worthwhile to say will be heard if he only says it often enough. Votes: 0

Nothing reopens the springs of love so fully as absence, and no absence so thoroughly as that which must needs be endless. Votes: 0

I enjoyed the fans thoroughly, and they were always helpful. They were the reason that I tried so hard over the years. Votes: 0

Ingratitude never so thoroughly pierces the human breast as when it proceeds from those in whose behalf we have been guilty of transgressions. Votes: 0

Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage. Votes: 0

The data, however, do indicate that Christians who see Jews through a 17th-century lens, believing that most are thoroughly religious, are thoroughly wrong. Votes: 0

A few books, well studied, and thoroughly digested, nourish the understanding more than hundreds but gargled in the mouth, as ordinary students use. Votes: 0

A man or a ruler should always take up a task after thoroughly considering its consequences. Otherwise fate also cannot protect his wealth. Votes: 0

Everyone has a story; everyone hides his past as a means of self-preservation. Some just do it better, and more thoroughly, than others. Votes: 0

So often the monsters that crowd our minds are nothing more than the strange and thoroughly alien progeny of our own fearful fantasies. Votes: 0

This is what you are here for: to glorify God and enjoy Him thoroughly and forever, telling the universe how great God is. Votes: 0

Facts can't be recounted; much less twice over, and far less still by different persons. I've already drummed that thoroughly into your head. Votes: 0

Without forgiveness, there is no future. Forgiveness is not nebulous, impractical and idealistic. It's thoroughly realistic. It's real political in the long run. Votes: 0

I'm always determined that as a novelist I'm going to go out there and research my characters very thoroughly before I start writing. Votes: 0

It's a sin to hate, and for that reason alone, we must not hate the Normans... We can, however, thoroughly dislike them, Alice. Votes: 0

It is not a new thing for a thoroughly good and well-meaning preacher´s soft heart to run away with his soft head. Votes: 0

Nothing is so effective in keeping one young and full of lust as a discriminating palate thoroughly satisfied at least once a day Votes: 0

Somehow, our sense of justice never turns in its sleep till long after the sense of injustice in others has been thoroughly aroused. Votes: 0

One man doesn't believe in god at all, while the other believes in him so thoroughly that he prays as he murders men! Votes: 0

A real gold standard is thoroughly consistent with [classical] liberal principles and I, for one, am entirely in favor of measures promoting its development. Votes: 0

Those who fall away have never been thoroughly imbued with the knowledge of Christ but only had a slight and passing taste of it. Votes: 0

Rudolph Giuliani will be the first Secretary of State whose last public office was mayor, the most thoroughly domestic public office that we have. Votes: 0

Don't be afraid to admit defeat. Learn from defeat. Do over again more thoroughly, more carefully, and more systematically what you have done badly. Votes: 0

A problem thoroughly understood is always fairly simple. Found your opinions on facts, not prejudices. We know too many things that are not true. Votes: 0

Building a successful life is much like building anything else: it should be thoroughly thought about in advance and then carried through to completion. Votes: 0

An educated man is thoroughly inoculated against humbug, thinks for himself and tries to give his thoughts, in speech or on paper, some style. Votes: 0

When you're afraid keep your mind on what you have to do. And if you have been thoroughly prepared you will not be afraid. Votes: 0

It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of war that can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on. Votes: 0

The only way you get on in this profession is to have the reputation of doing what you are told as thoroughly as possible. Votes: 0

I grew up so thoroughly imbued with women's rights that it was the most important question of my life from a very early day. Votes: 0

To be thoroughly and abidingly happy is not only to get what we all instinctively desire, but to fulfill the purpose of our nature. Votes: 0

No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.[to feel unhappy you need the time to consider how your lot could be better] Votes: 0

It is better to read a little and thoroughly than cram a crude undigested mass into my head, though it be great in quantity. Votes: 0

Some theists in evolutionary science acquiesce to these tacit rules and retain a personal faith while accepting a thoroughly naturalistic picture of physical reality. Votes: 0

I thoroughly object to getting old. If you could let me be 16 again, I'd give you everything I've got and everything I'll ever have. Votes: 0

It's not enough for me to cover theater, I have to throw myself around every other art form, and do so thoroughly and relentlessly. Votes: 0

He thinks himself rather an exceptional young man, thoroughly sophisticated, well adjusted to his environment, and somewhat more significant than any one else he knows. Votes: 0

Marvelous! Very exciting. I thoroughly enjoyed the story and I can't wait to read more." (About the book Dominique Ick Lessont and the Dragon Knight) Votes: 0

The Frenchman is first and foremost a man. He is likeable often just because of his weaknesses, which are always thoroughly human, even if despicable. Votes: 0

The vainest woman is never thoroughly conscious of her beauty till she is loved by the man who sets her own passion vibrating in return. Votes: 0

I look upon all four Gospels as thoroughly genuine, for there shines forth from them the reflected splendor of a sublimity proceeding from Jesus Christ. Votes: 0

I can choose to accelerate my disease to an alcoholic death or incurable insanity, or I can choose to live within my thoroughly human condition. Votes: 0

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end. Votes: 0

That was what she really wanted. To forget so thoroughly she'd never have another memory again, the bitter so bitter you gave up the sweet. Votes: 0

Everyman is thoroughly happy twice in his life, just after he has met his first love, and just after he has left his last one. Votes: 0

We must thoroughly clear away all ideas among our cadres of winning easy victories through good luck, without hard and bitter struggle, without sweat and blood. Votes: 0

No matter how thoroughly a person may have learned the Greek alphabet, he will never be in a condition to repeat it backwards without further training. Votes: 0

Don't expect to drop into matrimonial harmony with the end of the honeymoon; you have not thoroughly learned to know each other's foibles by that time. Votes: 0

Neither is it safe to count upon the weakness of any man's understanding, who is thoroughly possessed of the spirit of revenge to sharpen his invention. Votes: 0

Katherine Sedley was the only daughter and heiress to the libertine poet Sir Charles Sedley, and grew into a thoroughly scandalous lady in her own right. Votes: 0

One glass of water doesn't equal another. One may just appease the thirst, the other you may enjoy thoroughly. In Japan, people know about this difference. Votes: 0

I am thoroughly satisfied that smoking is detrimental to the intelligence of Australians who I notice now are beginning to look sickly, pale and intellectually destitute. Votes: 0

I think if we ever reach the point where we think we thoroughly understand who we are and where we came from, we will have failed. Votes: 0

I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ. Votes: 0

I am thoroughly tired of the fable style of narrative and shall do my best to get up something entirely different and possibly little more worthy. Votes: 0

Only when we're thoroughly convinced that the Christian life is entirely of grace are we able to serve God out of a grateful and loving heart. Votes: 0

If you're going to do a thing, you should do it thoroughly. If you're going to be a Christian, you may as well be a Catholic. Votes: 0

I'm the leader of the platoon and I run gambling and lotteries, dances and I sell beer illegally. I'm a con man and I'm thoroughly lovable. Votes: 0

We cannot change, we cannot move away from what we are, until we thoroughly accept what we are. Then change seems to come about almost unnoticed. Votes: 0

If there is anybody in this land who thoroughly believes that the meek shall inherit the earth they have not often let their presence be known. Votes: 0

One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the Universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand. Votes: 0

I think imagination is one of the greatest blessings of life, and while one can lose oneself in a book one can never be thoroughly unhappy. Votes: 0

Prayer is so mighty an instrument that no one ever thoroughly mastered all its keys. They sweep along the infinite scale of man's wants and God's goodness. Votes: 0

A modern, autonomous, and thoroughly trained Air Force in being at all times will not alone be sufficient, but without it there can be no national security. Votes: 0

Turkey is taking advantage of the war in order to thoroughly liquidate its internal foes, i.e., the indigenous Christians, without being thereby disturbed by foreign intervention. Votes: 0

No one is so thoroughly superstitious as the godless man. Life and death to him are haunted grounds, filled with goblin forms of vague and shadowy dread. Votes: 0

I prayed. God became more than faith. He became knowledge, and I appealed to him. Then I became ashamed. Why hadn't I embraced him so thoroughly before? Votes: 0

I don't agree with all-male leaderships. Men cannot be left to run things on their own. I think it's a thoroughly bad thing to have men-only leadership. Votes: 0

Anger and depression are not diseases or dysfunctions or anomalies; they are perfectly rational responses to the myriad avoidable disappointments that begin in a thoroughly irrational hope. Votes: 0

I have thoroughly compromised your niece," Alex declared. "Will you plase insist that she marry me?" Caroline didn't bat an eyelash. "This", she announced, "is most peculiar. Votes: 0

A multitude of aspects of the natural world that were considered miraculous only a few generations ago are now thoroughly understood in terms of physics and chemistry. Votes: 0

We have only to keep the end in view, and have our hearts thoroughly engaged in the pursuit of it, and means will not be very difficult. Votes: 0

But the things that we feel most deeply we ought to learn to be silent about, at least until we have talked them over thoroughly with God. Votes: 0

See, indeed, that your daughter is thoroughly grounded and experienced in household duties; but take care, through religion and poetry, to keep her heart open to heaven. Votes: 0

I love to hand sew. I sometimes make clothing for my children, which of course they grow out of in a matter of minutes. I thoroughly love it. Votes: 0

Unbroken Evolution under uniform conditions pleased every one -- except curates and bishops; it was the very best substitute for religion; a safe, conservative practical, thoroughly Common-Law deity. Votes: 0

We nearly always make ourselves masters of those whom we know well, because he who is thoroughly understood is in some sense subject to those who understand him. Votes: 0

A system of morality that is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception that has nothing sound in it and nothing true. Votes: 0

Human work must be done honourably and thoroughly, because we are now Men; whether we ever expect to be angels, or were ever slugs, being practically no matter. Votes: 0

Preaching a series allows you to go into greater depth in the text, and spending several weeks on one theme allows the teaching to be absorbed more thoroughly. Votes: 0

[Capitalism is] that commercial system in which supply immediately answers to demand, and in which everybody seems to be thoroughly dissatisfied and unable to get anything he wants. Votes: 0

You must be so thoroughly immersed in the given circumstances of the play, then you decide what it is at any given moment what that the actor wants. Votes: 0

Somehow [Barak] Obama's is much more disgusting than others, because he is smart and we all "know that he knows". He is thoroughly dishonest and it is clear. Votes: 0

Art is one of the sources through which the soul expresses itself and inspires others. But to express art thoroughly, one must have the inner emotions opened thoroughly. Votes: 0

... the laws of physics and of logic ... the number system ... the principle of algebraic substitution. These are ghosts. We just believe in them so thoroughly they seem real. Votes: 0

What makes the difference is not how many times you have been through the Bible, but how many times and how thoroughly the Bible has been through you. Votes: 0

Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly ones own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man. Votes: 0

The man who wishes to understand himself thoroughly must with his unrest, uncertainty, and even his weakness and sinfulness, with his life and death, draw near to Christ. Votes: 0

Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man. Votes: 0

I have played Dracula a thousand times on stage and I find I have become thoroughly settled in the technique of the stage and not of the screen. Votes: 0

It is more likely that more than a century will pass before we know the structure of the chemical atoms as thoroughly as we do our solar system. Votes: 0

A person of wisdom is not one who practices Buddhism apart from worldly affairs but, rather, one who thoroughly understands the principles by which the world is governed. Votes: 0

I don't agree with all-male leaderships. Men cannot be left to run things on their own. I think it's a thoroughly bad thing to have a men-only leadership. Votes: 0

Not to be cheered by praise, not to be grieved by blame, but to know thoroughly one's own virtues or powers are the characteristics of an excellent man... Votes: 0

It certainly must have been a relief for women of the country to realize that one could be a woman and a lady and yet be thoroughly political. Votes: 0

Feelings too must be renovated: old ones removed in many cases, or at least thoroughly modified, and new ones installed or at least heightened into a new prominence. Votes: 0

I'm slightly obsessed with drag queens and performers. Their quips and their one-liners, their style, their singing... I find it fascinating. And thoroughly entertaining. I'd love to play one. Votes: 0

Don't regret your mistakes. You'll always make mistakes. The better you are, the less mistakes you make. The only way to get better is to thoroughly analyze your mistakes. Votes: 0

History, if thoroughly comprehended, furnishes something of the experience which a man would acquire who should be a contemporary of all ages and a fellow citizen of all peoples. Votes: 0

Let us cleave to Christ more closely, love Him more heartily, live to Him more thoroughly, copy Him more exactly, confess Him more boldly, and follow Him more fully. Votes: 0

The Americans are clever. They thoroughly understand things that have to do with money, war, death, sickness. And there is also a real tradition of skepticism in this country. Votes: 0

The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value. Votes: 0

The man who has his ideals, no matter how thoroughly he may be persuaded to desert them, survives well only so long as he is true to those ideals. Votes: 0

It was a piece of thoroughly picturesque and proper violence. I like a violent man, really, a man who's a bit of a brute in a decent straightforward way. Votes: 0

Tonight," he said, "we shall get quietly and thoroughly drunk...in memory of all that was lost. And on the morrow, I begin the struggle to win it back. Votes: 0

Every artist is, first of all, a craftperson thoroughly knowledgeable about the materials, tools, and techniques of his or her particular medium and skilled in using many of them. Votes: 0

Have you ever found in history, one single example of a nation, thoroughly corrupted, that was afterwards restored to virtue? And without virtue there can be no political liberty. Votes: 0

Take winter as you find him, and he turns out to be a thoroughly honest fellow; with no nonsense in him, which is a great comfort in the long-run. Votes: 0

Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid...There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals, no sect, no party... Votes: 0

From a large planet of overwhelming magnitude, unlimited resources and endless mystery, the Earth has suddenly become a small planet, thoroughly explored, limited in resources, and reduced in mystery. Votes: 0

The Bible should be taught so early and so thoroughly that it sinks straight to the bottom of the mind where everything that comes along can settle on it. Votes: 0

The prize for ultimate inefficiency goes to America. We have built in so many checks and balances that our 'leaders' are the most thoroughly hogtied of any on Earth. Votes: 0

A badge is a symbol that girls have done the thing it stands for often enough, thoroughly enough, and well enough to be prepared to give service in it. Votes: 0

Anyone who wishes to learn how to play chess well must make himself or herself thoroughly conversant with the play in positions where the players have castled on opposite sides. Votes: 0

I went into the Army believing that if you want peace you must prepare for war. I now believe that if you prepare thoroughly for war you will get it. Votes: 0

May your mind be thoroughly impressed with the absolute necessity of universal virtue and goodness, as the only sure road to happiness, and may you walk therein with undeviating steps. Votes: 0

Marvelously entertaining, Gabrielle Donnellys The Little Women Letters evokes the spirit of Louisa May Alcotts Little Women with warmth and affection. I thoroughly enjoyed every word of this wonderful book. Votes: 0

We need to consider nominations as thoroughly and carefully as the American people deserve. No one is entitled to a free pass to a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court. Votes: 0

What I'm doing in writing has been thoroughly and exhaustively explored in other fields like visual art, music, and cinema, yet somehow it's never really been tested on the page. Votes: 0

In 1994 the U.S. Court of Appeals decided in the case of Oliver North to permit the release of grand jury evidence, because it had already been so thoroughly leaked. Votes: 0

A wellborn mind that is practiced in dealing with people makes itself thoroughly agreeable by itself. Art is nothing else but thelist and record of the productions of such minds. Votes: 0

War is a matter of vital importance to the state; the province of life or death; the road to survival or ruin. It is mandatory that it be thoroughly studied. Votes: 0

There is an ancient saying among men that you cannot thoroughly understand the life of mortals before the man has died, then only can you call it good or bad. Votes: 0

General de Gaulle was a thoroughly bad boy. The day he arrived, he thought he was Joan of Arc and the following day he insisted that he was Georges Clemenceau. Votes: 0

Unless we are thoroughly convinced that without Christ we are under the eternal curse of God, as the worst of His enemies, we shall never flee to Him for refuge. Votes: 0

In 1994 the U.S. Court of Appeals decided in the case of Oliver North to permit the release of grand jury evidence, because it had already been so thoroughly leaked Votes: 0

We may sing our hymns and psalms, and offer prayers, but they will be an abomination to God, unless we are willing to be thoroughly straightforward in our daily life. Votes: 0

As a minister, I would rather be criticized for thoroughly weighing the options, and sometimes even voicing my doubts, than to be reproached for recklessly sending German soldiers into combat. Votes: 0

It is a thoroughly anti-christian doctrine that the Spirit of God, and therefore the life and governing power of the Church, resides in the ministry, to the exclusion of the people. Votes: 0

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work. Votes: 0

There's nothing a well-regulated child hates so much as regularity. I believe a really healthy boy would thoroughly enjoy Greek Grammar--if only he might stand on his head to learn it! Votes: 0

Wisdom consisteth not in knowing many things, nor even in knowing them thoroughly; but in choosing and in following what conduces the most certainly to our lasting happiness and true glory. Votes: 0

Violence and irrationality were so long and thoroughly cultivated among the Irish, and so perfectly ingrained into their nature, that modern civilization has as yet been unable to extract the virus. Votes: 0

I confess to considerable doubts about the eventual stability of democracy, unless buttressed by constitutional safeguards and a general climate of opinion which thoroughly understands the case for liberty in general Votes: 0

There is a myth that homosexuals are 'born that way,' and we are pounded with this idea so thoroughly that many people think that somebody, somewhere, must have proved it. Votes: 0

I am the type of person who would do something thoroughly if someone said, "I don't think you can do it." I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit. Votes: 0

You will be wondering about that sugar bowl, I imagine, is it still in use? You are wondering, has it been cleaned? You may very well ask, was it thoroughly washed? Votes: 0

. . . the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble and true birth. Votes: 0

We take a fancy to something: and scarcely have we thoroughly taken a fancy to it when that tyrant in us calls out: "Give me thatin sacrifice"--and we give it. Votes: 0

I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him. Votes: 0

In Indian civilization I am a Baptist, because I believe in immersing the Indians in our civilization and when we get them under holding them there until they are thoroughly soaked. Votes: 0

Everybody in Vanity Fair must have remarked how well those live who are comfortably and thoroughly in debt; how they deny themselves nothing; how jolly and easy they are in their minds. Votes: 0

Considering my specialization in architecture, I'm not surprised that the first graphic novel to thoroughly engage, not to say captivate, me is Chip Kidd and Dave Taylor's 'Batman: Death by Design.' Votes: 0

Nothing before had ever made me thoroughly realise, though I had read various scientific books, that science consists in grouping facts so that general laws or conclusions may be drawn from them. Votes: 0

You don't smoke do you?" "No, why?" "They're afraid of fire." "Great, we're going to be eaten alive because neither of us smokes." I almost laughed. He sounded so thoroughly disgusted… Votes: 0

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them. Votes: 0

None of you need worry because you read something that was incompletely reported. You need not worry that I do not understand some matters of doctrine... I think I understand them thoroughly. Votes: 0

When you work so hard on making a film, it's all worthwhile when you get to experience seeing that film with an audience who thoroughly enjoy it and react to the movie. Votes: 0

You can't solve a problem? Well, get down and investigate the present facts and [the problem's] past history! When you have investigated the problem thoroughly, you will know how to solve it. Votes: 0

Everyone that I've talked to who's been to space has thoroughly enjoyed the experience, and what you often hear them say is: It was great, but we just had to come home. Votes: 0

I would have every zealous man examine his heart thoroughly, and I believe he will often find that what be calls a zeal for his religion is either pride, interest, or ill-repute. Votes: 0

Having convictions can be defined as being so thoroughly convinced that Christ and His Word are both objectively true and relationally meaningful that you act on your beliefs regardless of the consequences. Votes: 0

I am always loath to use the world 'evil,' but if 'evil' is the reverse of 'live,' Guy de Rothschild is thoroughly evil. He stands for the opposite of life. Votes: 0

We agreed that people are now afraid of the English language. He [T.S. Eliot] said it came of being bookish, but not reading books enough. One should read all styles thoroughly. Votes: 0

Any woman who does not thoroughly enjoy tramping across the country on a clear frosty morning with a good gun and a pair of dogs does not know how to enjoy life. Votes: 0

I always had a desire to know asylum life more thoroughly - a desire to be convinced that the most helpless of God's creatures, the insane, were cared for kindly and properly. Votes: 0

I am thoroughly enjoying spending the majority of my time with entrepreneurs. I find that their enthusiasm, dedication, willingness to take huge risks and desire to make a dramatic impact quite inspiring. Votes: 0

Belief demands that you dispense with illusion after illusion, while contemporary common sense requires continual, fluffy pretending - pretending that might as well be systematic, it's so thoroughly incentivised by our culture. Votes: 0

As the highest ranking American official in the United Nations organization, I came to understand thoroughly that the national constitutional processes of the member states define the status of territories under their sovereignty. Votes: 0

Written with grace and thoroughly researched, One People, One Blood is an ethnography with a lot of heart that also sheds new light on a fascinating and fraught chapter in recent Jewish history. Votes: 0

The visual does seem to me the most thoroughly grasped and recorded among my impressions; sight seems to be my principal sense organ, and "seeing" supplies the key metaphors for reporting the perception. Votes: 0

Only in the exceptional case, where the integrity and competence of the advisers have been thoroughly demonstrated, should the investor act upon the advice of others without understanding and approving the decision made. Votes: 0

Nobody has ever been able to experience what they have thoroughly understood - or understand what they have experienced until they have achieved a detachment that renders them incapable of repeating the experience. Votes: 0

The Chancellor [Angela Merkel] and the European partners would be well-advised to address the problems in eastern Ukraine more thoroughly. Maybe they have too many domestic problems of their own at the moment. Votes: 0

As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to his own superiority as a painter over painters greater than himself. Votes: 0

It is necessary to expose the false propaganda of the imperialists and thoroughly dispel the illusion that the imperialists will give up their positions in the colonies and dependent countries with good will. Votes: 0

The good and the bad mix themselves so thoroughly in our thoughts, even in our aspirations, that we must look for excellence rather in overcoming evil than in freeing ourselves from its influence. Votes: 0

We should not allow fear or anxiety to stop us from doing something. If you think through something well and prepare thoroughly, you can do a lot of things you think you can't. Votes: 0

Philomena' was even better than I had expected. I was so pleased to see the evil Irish nuns thoroughly exposed, and I thought Judi Dench gave a flawless performance, as did everybody else. Votes: 0

ATHEIST is really a thoroughly honest, unambiguous term; it admits of no paltering and of no evasion, and the need of the world, now as ever, is for clear-cut issues and unambiguous speech. Votes: 0

At first I probably seem very abrupt, but I like efficiency. There's work and there's play, and I always think: 'Let's get the work over with so we can thoroughly enjoy the play. Votes: 0

I'm from a very athletic family, and I thoroughly enjoyed sports as a kid, but acting was a way of expressing myself and having fun. It was something I found on my own. Votes: 0

And indeed, I am a warmhearted and thoroughly domestic man who gets up and makes pancakes for his children and kisses them on the head when he sends them off to their day. Votes: 0

Perhaps every writer who thoroughly creates a fictional world will inevitably create a mirror of his own time and yet also create a world that no one else but him has ever visited... Votes: 0

I'd sell my soul to the devil if he'd buy such a weakly, puny, piffling little soul, just really to live and be something besides a "thoroughly nice girl" for one short year. Votes: 0

The true magic of this broken world lay in the ability of the things it contained to vanish, to become so thoroughly lost, that they might never have existed in the first place. Votes: 0

A novel according to my taste, does not come into the moderately good class unless it contains some person whom one can thoroughly love - and if a pretty woman, all the better. Votes: 0

The unity of effect or impression is a point of the greatest importance. It is clear, moreover, that this unity cannot be thoroughly preserved in productions whose perusal cannot be completed at one sitting. Votes: 0

Comedy as a genre is the one that has given me maximum success, and I do broadly get associated with this genre. I thoroughly enjoy comedy, especially because it is inherent to my personality. Votes: 0

When I was being brought up, we weren't allowed to wallow in self-pity, which was a thoroughly good thing. We were all fine and healthy because that was what we were told to be. Votes: 0

Zachary Jernigan's short stories are in deep conversation with the history of the genre while maintaining a thoroughly modern sensibility. Here's a new writer who has found his voice. Listen to him and enjoy! Votes: 0

Burton, though an infidel, made it his business to investigate thoroughly every religion. Know a man's faith , and you knew at least half the man. Know his wife, and you knew the other half. Votes: 0

most economists, like doctors, are reluctant to make predictions, and those who make them are seldom accurate. The economy, like the human body, is a highly complex system whose workings are not thoroughly understood. Votes: 0

I suppose if I had my time again I would refuse it and stay at Fulham because I thoroughly enjoyed my time there, and secondly I would have taken it on my own terms. Votes: 0

At first I probably seem very abrupt, but I like efficiency. There's work and there's play, and I always think: 'Let's get the work over with so we can thoroughly enjoy the play.' Votes: 0

In my writing I am acting as a map maker, an explorer of psychic areas, a cosmonaut of inner space, and I see no point in exploring areas that have already been thoroughly surveyed. Votes: 0

There would be this advantage in traveling in your own country, even in your own neighborhood, that you would be so thoroughly prepared to understand what you saw you would make fewer traveler's mistakes. Votes: 0

Base Ball, to be played thoroughly, requires the possession of muscular strength, great agility, quickness of eye, readiness of hand, and many other faculties of mind and body that mark the man of nerve. Votes: 0

Set me free from evil passions, and heal my heart of all inordinate affections; that being inwardly cured and thoroughly cleansed, I may be made fit to love, courageous to suffer, steady to persevere. Votes: 0

If you perform your part, God will fulfill His. And once you put off specifically, you should just as thoroughly believe that God will renew your mind, despite the fact you know not how. Votes: 0

So many people dislike themselves so thoroughly that they never see any reproduction of themselves that suits. None of us is born with the right face. It's a tough job being a portrait photographer. Votes: 0

Fish slowly and thoroughly. Haste never pays dividends. Don't whip the stream to a froth. Make fewer cast, make them to places which count an fish each cast out instead of lifting it prematurely Votes: 0

If one person in America had starved over the last 20 years, you, reader, would know his name. The media would see to that. It would be the most thoroughly documented death since John Kennedy's. Votes: 0

Men of genius are far more abundant than is supposed. In fact, to appreciate thoroughly the work of what we call genius, is to possess all the genius by which the work was produced. Votes: 0

More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginning of all wars - yes, an end to this brutal, inhuman and thoroughly impractical method of settling the differences between governments. Votes: 0

Few trends could so thoroughly undermine the very foundations of our free society as the acceptance by corporate officials of a social responsibility other than to make as much money for their stockholders as possible. Votes: 0

Three Mormon scholars have thoroughly researched one of the most shameful events in Mormon history. They have produced a very detailed, insightful and balanced account of the events leading to the Mountain Meadow Massacre of 9/11, 1857. Votes: 0

There must be an end to white monopoly on political power, and a fundamental restructuring of our political and economic systems to ensure that the inequalities of apartheid are addressed and our society thoroughly democratized. Votes: 0

All each ism does, in its revolt against the inadequacy of the previous one, is to thoroughly upset the order of terms of this ideal entity and to bring to the fore yet another inadequacy. Votes: 0

Once a change of direction has begun, even though it's the wrong one, it still tends to clothe itself as thoroughly in the appurtenances of Tightness as if it had been a natural all along. Votes: 0

It must be thoroughly understood that the lost land will never be won back by solemn appeals to the God, nor by hopes in any League of Nations, but only by the force of arms. Votes: 0

If they analyze the situation as thoroughly as they should, Muslims will realize they are the first targets. What are the fundamentalists really after? Simply taking over Islam and then turning its back on modernity. Votes: 0

A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is alright. This is common sense really. You understand sleep when you are awake, not well you are sleeping. Votes: 0

You can never truly understand or help others, even in your own family, unless you first look thoroughly into your own life and deal with your own sins without compromise, excuses, or evasion (Matthew 7:1-5). Votes: 0

Reflect upon the defects of your character: thoroughly realize their evils and the transient pleasures they give you, and firmly will that you shall try your best not to yield to them the next time. Votes: 0

It is a grand thing to see a man thoroughly possessed with one master-passion. Such a man is sure to be strong, and if the master-principle be excellent, he is sure to be excellent, too. Votes: 0

Moreover, most people, assuming they had not altogether abandoned religious observances, or did not combine them naively with a thoroughly immoral way of living, had replace normal religious practice by more or less extravagant superstitions. Votes: 0