Quotes about Wholly

Teach us, Master, how to give All we have and are to Thee; Grant us, Saviour, while we live, Wholly, only Thine to be. Votes: 3

Wholly new forms of encyclopedias will appear, ready made with a mesh of associative trails running through them, ready to be dropped into the memex and there amplified. Votes: 3

All have I overcome, all do I know. From all am I detached. All have I renounced. Wholly absorbed am I in ``the destruction of craving. Having comprehended all by myself, whom shall I call my teacher. Votes: 3

Youth is wholly experimental. Votes: 0

I'm sweetly broken, wholly surrendered. Votes: 0

No path is wholly rough. Votes: 0

Simplicity, without variety, is wholly insipid. Votes: 0

Nothing natural can be wholly unworthy. Votes: 0

Be wholly committed to your dreams. Votes: 0

Only the half-mad are wholly alive. Votes: 0

I ascribe my change wholly to God. Votes: 0

where I wholly love I wholly trust. Votes: 0

Either be wholly slaves or wholly free. Votes: 0

No day is wholly unproductive of good. Votes: 0

No judge writes on a wholly clean slate. Votes: 0

I believe all war to be wholly wrong. Votes: 0

Cunning cheats itself wholly, and other people partially. Votes: 0

Love is either wholly folly, or fully holy. Votes: 0

Those who are wholly God's are always happy. Votes: 0

The hopes of zeal are not wholly groundless. Votes: 0

Truth could never be wholly contained in words. Votes: 0

Man partly is and wholly hopes to be. Votes: 0

The religion of the Bible is wholly supernatural. Votes: 0

Disobedience that is wholly civil should never provoke retaliation. Votes: 0

Philosophical systems are wholly true for their founders only. Votes: 0

No generalization is wholly true—not even this one. Votes: 0

Do you never get exhausted being so wholly unbearable? Votes: 0

We love only what we do not wholly possess. Votes: 0

Thought is a man in his wholeness, wholly attending. Votes: 0

Our desires are never wholly transparent, even to ourselves. Votes: 0

No battle was ever won by wholly sane men. Votes: 0

I desire only Him and to be wholly His. Votes: 0

Much reading is like much eating -wholly useless without digestion. Votes: 0

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself. Votes: 0

Stories first heard at mothers knee are never wholly forgotten. Votes: 0

An excellent indie horror book with a wholly original premise. Votes: 0

My message is not wholly understood; only poets understand it. Votes: 0

We cannot make rivers whole unless we wholly understand them. Votes: 0

No whispered rumours which the many spread can wholly perish. Votes: 0

There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman. Votes: 0

Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner. Votes: 0

Nature, which alone is good, is wholly familiar and common. Votes: 0

The way you become divine is to become wholly human Votes: 0

We never wholly shed anything that we have ever been. Votes: 0

Like all his type, Newton was wholly aloof from women. Votes: 0

Humor could not flourish in a wholly serious and rational atmosphere. Votes: 0

I can live only wholly with you or not at all. Votes: 0

A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence. Votes: 0

God takes full responsibility for the life wholly devoted to Him. Votes: 0

You either belong wholly to the world or wholly to God. Votes: 0

You trust wholly or not at all. Trust was not divisible. Votes: 0

My own military background is wholly un-distinguished. I was a sergeant. Votes: 0

To treat of human actions is to deal wholly with second causes. Votes: 0

I don't think anyone could ever be wholly satisfied with their performance. Votes: 0

Fairly examined, truly understood, No man is wholly bad, nor wholly good. Votes: 0

Apply yourself wholly to the text; apply the text wholly to yourself. Votes: 0

When we are wholly His we will be more ourselves than ever. Votes: 0

The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others. Votes: 0

The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others. Votes: 0

Art is a wholly physical language whose words are all the visible objects. Votes: 0

The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment, not the reverse. Votes: 0

My definition of what makes a journey wholly or partially horrible is boredom. Votes: 0

Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find. Votes: 0

The need of man to wholly realize himself is the only fixed star. Votes: 0

I fall into books the way I fall into lust - wholly, hungrily. Votes: 0

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good. Votes: 0

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance. Votes: 0

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them. Votes: 0

My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics. Votes: 0

Photography, for me, is something I can control fully. It's wholly my own expressions. Votes: 0

Whatever he knows of his weaknesses, Private Mulvaney is wholly ignorant of his strength. Votes: 0

The commencement speech is not, I think, a wholly satisfactory manifestation of our culture. Votes: 0

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad. Votes: 0

As wonders, miracles are always astonishing, but as signs they are never wholly inexplicable. Votes: 0

It must be observed that our revenues are raised almost wholly on imported goods. Votes: 0

Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil. Votes: 0

who pays any attention to the syntax of things will never wholly kiss you Votes: 0

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life. Votes: 0

When one has one good day in the year, one is not wholly unfortunate. Votes: 0

The secret of the master mind is found wholly in the use of imagination. Votes: 0

No human endeavour can ever be wholly good... it must always have a cost. Votes: 0

We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it. Votes: 0

I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me. Votes: 0

Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe. No path is wholly rough. Votes: 0

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave. Votes: 0

The surest way to lose truth is to pretend that one already wholly possesses it. Votes: 0

I am unwilling to be wholly good—and please don't regard me as wholly evil! Votes: 0

I claim to have been a lifelong and wholly disinterested friend of the British people. Votes: 0

I think talent, especially in acting, is being wholly yourself within the context of yourself. Votes: 0

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous Votes: 0

The idea of disembodied spirits is wholly unsupported by evidence, and I cannot accept it. Votes: 0

Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true . Votes: 0

If Britain wins wholly, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and perhaps even Bolshevik Russia will disappear. Votes: 0

A heroic figure... not wholly to blame for the religion that's been foisted on him. Votes: 0

Man is the only 150 pound nonlinear servomechanism that can be wholly reproduced by unskilled labor. Votes: 0

That which we die for lives as wholly as that which we live for dies. Votes: 0

Our possessions are wholly in our performances. He owns nothing to whom the world owes nothing. Votes: 0

The hospitable instinct is not wholly altruistic. There is pride and egoism mixed up with it. Votes: 0

Here everything is so wholly what I consider beautiful. In other words, there is peace here. Votes: 0

Nothing can be lower or more wholly instrumental than the substance and cause of all things. Votes: 0

We become Godlike to the extent we realize nonviolence, but we can never become wholly God. Votes: 0

The perfection of Christian character depends wholly upon the grace and strength found alone in God. Votes: 0

Shame is like the weaver's thread; if it breaks in the net, it is wholly imperfect. Votes: 0

Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly? Votes: 0

Every man is wholly honest to himself and to God, but not to any one else. Votes: 0

In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless. Votes: 0

Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone. Votes: 0

Very exceeding wonderful is the history concerning Abraham, for the kingdom of Christ is therein wholly represented. Votes: 0

Strong responsible unions are essential to industrial fair play. Without them the labor bargain is wholly one-sided. Votes: 0

People that trust wholly to other's charity, and without industry of their own, will always be poor. Votes: 0

Maybe in any art you have to be wholly you in the context of whatever you're doing. Votes: 0

I keep my TV writing and my book writing almost wholly separate. The audiences feel so different. Votes: 0

No revolution creates a wholly new universe. Rather, it reflects the history and culture that spawned it. Votes: 0

Spiritual stagnation ensues when man's environment becomes unpredictable or when his inner life is made wholly predictable. Votes: 0

Yet perhaps no sacrifice is wholly useless which proves there are men who prefer honour to life. Votes: 0

I was going to talk about Nicholas Parsons' ignorance, but 18 seconds would be a wholly insufficient time. Votes: 0

The church does not simply have a missions department; it should wholly exist to be a mission. Votes: 0

If you are wholly perplexed and in straits, have patience, for patience is the key to joy. Votes: 0

The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires. Votes: 0

Once the pursuit of truth begins to haunt the mind, it becomes an ideal never wholly attained. Votes: 0

My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied. Votes: 0

Declare this smite time, extracting precious gems and wholly hours you share to fruitcake a friend so dear. Votes: 0

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse. Votes: 0

The feeling of a direct responsibility of the individual to God is almost wholly a creation of Protestantism. Votes: 0

The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought. Votes: 0

Hardened round us, encasing wholly every notion we form is a wrapping of traditions, hearsay's, and mere words. Votes: 0

Leslie Stein's comics give readers privileged access to a complete and wholly original world of gently skewed wonders. Votes: 0

The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution. Votes: 0

To pray is to accept that we are, and always will be, wholly dependent on God for everything. Votes: 0

The fool's life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future. Votes: 0

It is when God appears to have abandoned us that we must abandon ourselves most wholly to God. Votes: 0

People do not want war. War springs from causes wholly outside the lives, interests, and feelings of the people. Votes: 0

The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner. Votes: 0

Truth is like the sun, its value wholly depends upon our being at a correct distance away from it. Votes: 0

The result desired by the state is a wholly different one from that desired by parents, guardians, and pupils. Votes: 0

The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other. Votes: 0

I do believe in Jesus as wholly God and wholly human, and I believe the human part was human. Votes: 0

To be one woman, truly, wholly, is to be all women. Tend one garden and you will birth worlds. Votes: 0

When large numbers of wholly innocent men are in jail, we may take it that Swaraj is at hand. Votes: 0

The beauty of the world consists wholly of sweet mutual consents, either within itself or with the supreme being. Votes: 0

The only reason you are not yet a saint is because you do not wholly want to be one... Votes: 0

My mind is wholly possessed by Love, who rules every part there of, in virtue of his all-embracing deity. Votes: 0

God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that he may love and perfect them. Votes: 0

History is various and sinuous and no essential part of the human spirit is ever wholly absent from it. Votes: 0

If the life we live in this world is wholly for Christ, it is a life of daily surrender. Votes: 0

One need hardly dwell on the catastrophic possibility of uttering a bantering remark only to discover it wholly inappropriate Votes: 0

If I am to wholly follow the Lord Jesus Christ, I must forsake everything that is contrary to Him. Votes: 0

I have never agreed with my other self wholly. The truth of the matter seems to lie between us. Votes: 0

Cookery is a wholly unselfish art: All good cooks, like all great artists, must have an audience worth cooking for. Votes: 0

A hermit is one who renounces the world of fragments that he may enjoy the world wholly and without interruption. Votes: 0

There is no book so poor that it would not be a prodigy if wholly made by a single man. Votes: 0

The presumption that any current opinion is not wholly false, gains in strength according to the number of its adherents. Votes: 0

The man born and bred a slave, even if freed, never loses wholly the feeling or manner of a slave. Votes: 0

You must concentrate upon and consecrate yourself wholly to each day, as though a fire were raging in your hair. Votes: 0

One is never wholly conscious of the greed hidden in one's heart until one hears the sweet sound of silver. Votes: 0

No man can be a Christian and a soldier at the same time, for the two ideas are wholly incompatible. Votes: 0

It seems as if the day was not wholly profane in which we have given heed to some natural object. Votes: 0

Maybe in that earlier phase I was painting the woman in me. Art isn't a wholly masculine occupation, you know. Votes: 0

Listen to them! How wholly infused with God is this one big word of love that we call the world! Votes: 0

He defined himself almost wholly in the negative: It was not who he was, it was who he was not. Votes: 0

I had gone to Paris to immerse myself in painting and I came back wholly involved in words and rhythms. Votes: 0

Miracles have no claim whatever to the character of historical facts and are wholly invalid as evidence of any revelation. Votes: 0

Our task is to take this earth so deeply and wholly into ourselves that it will resurrect within our being. Votes: 0

Here we are in this wholly fantastic universe with scarcely a clue as to whether our existence has any real significance. Votes: 0

And because his Spirit was wholly God, he is called God, and he is called man on account of his flesh. Votes: 0

To have a quiet mind is to possess one's mind wholly; to have a calm spirit is to possess one's self. Votes: 0

The object of ambition, unlike that of love, never being wholly possessed, ambition is the more durable passion of the two. Votes: 0

If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own throat. Votes: 0

There is a passion for perfection which you rarely see fully developed but . . . in successful lives it is never wholly lacking. Votes: 0

Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted to God. Votes: 0

Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought - these are the artist's highest joy. Votes: 0

The success of our popular government rests wholly upon the correct interpretation of the deliberate, intelligent, dependable popular will of America. Votes: 0

We understand that the real market value of Blockbuster may never be fully realized as a wholly owned part of Viacom. Votes: 0

Persons with comparatively moderate powers will accomplish much, if they apply themselves wholly and indefatigably to one thing at a time. Votes: 0

Homeopathy is wholly capable of satisfying the therapeutic demands of this age better than any other system or school of medicine. Votes: 0

Nobody under the sun was like Madonna. She was positive and clear and wholly dedicated to achieving everything that she's achieved. Votes: 0

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. Votes: 0

You may be always victorious if you will never enter into any contest where the issue does not wholly depend upon yourself. Votes: 0

Sex ought to be a wholly satisfying link between two affectionate people from which they emerge unanxious, rewarded, and ready for more. Votes: 0

Nor deem the irrevocable Past As wholly wasted, wholly vain, If, rising on its wrecks, at last To something nobler we attain. Votes: 0

The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love. Votes: 0

I don't really understand what the public perception of me is. I think public perception and reality are two wholly different things. Votes: 0

Unless Christianity is wholly false, the perception of ourselves which we have in moments of shame must be the only true one... Votes: 0

Racial and denominational schools impart to the membership of their communities something which the general educational institution is wholly unable to inculcate. Votes: 0

Every grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits at all. Votes: 0

Whoever would fully and feelingly understand the words of Christ, must endeavor to conform his life wholly to the life of Christ. Votes: 0

Acting is usually regarded as a wholly narcissistic pursuit but there really is a hunger in me to unravel the human condition. Votes: 0

In thought I am living wholly with Theo and Vincent, oh, the infinitely delicate, tender and lovely [quality] of that relation[ship]. Votes: 0

A good man ("un homme de bien", Fr.) never wholly perishes, the best part of his being outlives (or survives) in eternity. Votes: 0

Don't look up to heaven, for what will you see in the sky, except stars, luminous but cold, wholly insensitive to pity? Votes: 0

My experience of children on a film set, especially on a big film set like the 'Potter' one, is not wholly positive. Votes: 0

If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself Votes: 0

The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once. Votes: 0

My work in books, films and talks lies almost wholly with children, and I have very little time to give to grown-ups. Votes: 0

No one can sum up all God is able to accomplish through one solitary life, wholly yielded, adjusted, and obedient to Him. Votes: 0

All things that are on earth shall wholly pass away, Except the love of God, which shall live and last for aye. Votes: 0

God's command 'Go ye, and preach the gospel to every creature' was the categorical imperative. The question of personal safety was wholly irrelevant. Votes: 0

there is nothing so easy as to be wise for others; a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted. Votes: 0

God's entire divine nature is wholly and entirely in all creatures, more deeply, more inwardly, more present than the creature is to itself. Votes: 0

No country can allow its safety to be wholly dependent on faithful observance by other states of rules to which they are obliged. Votes: 0

Nowadays it seems that moral education is no longer considered necessary. Attention is wholly centered on intelligence, while the heart life is ignored. Votes: 0

While sin is overflowing, [grace] pours itself forth so exuberantly, that it not only overcomes the flood of sin, but wholly absorbs it. Votes: 0

It is one thing to lead by example with half a dozen soldiers at your back. It is wholly another with ten thousand. Votes: 0

Some sorrows are but footprints in the snow, which the genial sun effaces, or, if it does not wholly efface, changes into dimples. Votes: 0

The love of God invades me, the peace of God pervades me, the will of God persuades me, and I am wholly His. Votes: 0

It is this trick of capitalism, of subjecting labor to competition, while lifted wholly above it by class law itself, that is objectionable. Votes: 0

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues Can but encourage one's own efforts. Votes: 0

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun. Votes: 0

I thank Thee, O Lord, that Thou hast so set eternity within my heart that no earthly thing can ever satisfy me wholly. Votes: 0

The nation is in a death-struggle. It must either become one vast slaveocracy of petty tyrants, or wholly the land of the free. Votes: 0

In this world with starry dome,Floored with gemlike plains and seas,Shall I never feel at home,Never wholly be at ease? Votes: 0

However widespread the desire to be free, that is wholly different from a desire to live in a society where others are free. Votes: 0

But from a distance. I would have left you whole and wholly for the delectation of those who wanted more and cared less. Votes: 0

I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather I fear to lose truth by the pretension to possess it already wholly. Votes: 0

The man or woman who is wholly or joyously surrendered to Christ can't make a wrong choice/any choice will be the right one. Votes: 0

When we are self-conscious, we cannot be wholly aware; we must throw ourselves out first. This throwing ourselves away is the act of creativity. Votes: 0

Whereas the melancholic exhibits a state of general inhibition, in the manic patient even normal inhibitions of the instincts are partly or wholly abolished. Votes: 0

The intellectual life of man consists almost wholly in his substitution of conceptual order for the perceptual order in which his experience originally comes. Votes: 0

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants. Votes: 0

If you would do the best with your life, find out what God is doing in your generation and throw yourself wholly into it. Votes: 0

Look forward to future years, if not with eager anticipation, yet with a calm reliance upon the power of good, wholly remote from despair. Votes: 0

A humanist is anyone who rejects the attempt to describe or account for man wholly on the basis of physics, chemistry or animal behaviour. Votes: 0

The farmer's daughter hath soft brown hair And I met with a ballad, I can't say where, That wholly consisted of lines like these. Votes: 0

The notion that I should be fine with the status quo even if I am not wholly affected by the status quo is repulsive. Votes: 0

My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo Votes: 0

Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be. Votes: 0

To be 23 and riding the crest of a song sweeping the world country by country is to live an altered and wholly rarefied existence. Votes: 0

Our originality shows itself most strikingly not in what we wholly originate but in what we do with that which we borrow from others. Votes: 0

What human beings seek to learn from nature is how to use it to dominate wholly both it and human beings. Nothing else counts. Votes: 0

And what my constitutional values are are wholly irrelevant to the job, and so neither you nor anyone else will know what they are. Votes: 0

A man with a career can have no time to waste upon his wife and friends; he has to devote it wholly to his enemies. Votes: 0

When the heart is still disturbed by the relics of a passion it is proner to take up a new one than when wholly cured. Votes: 0

I am wholly in favour of 'dull stodges'. A surprising large proportion prove 'educable': for which a primary qualification is the willingness to do work. Votes: 0

It is our first duty to serve society, and after we have done that, we may attend wholly to the salvation of our own souls. Votes: 0

Truth is a shining goddess, always veiled, always distant, never wholly approachable, but worthy of all the devotion of which the human spirit is capable. Votes: 0

I could not without vile hypocrisy and a miserable truckling to the smile of the world ... profess to join in worship which I wholly disapprove. Votes: 0

This is faith: a renouncing of everything we are apt to call our own and relying wholly upon the blood, righteousness and intercession of Jesus. Votes: 0

One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with wholly foreign personnel. Votes: 0

The corporate state is an immensely powerful machine, ordered, legalistic, rational, yet utterly out of human control, wholly and perfectly indifferent to any human values. Votes: 0

Let it be a settled principle ...that men's salvation, if saved, is wholly of God; and that man's ruin, if lost, is wholly of himself. Votes: 0

It is essential that justice be done, and it is equally vital that justice not be confused with revenge, for the two are wholly different. Votes: 0

Physical love is total intimacy. It is the sign that the lovers have nothing to refuse each other, that they belong wholly to each other.... Votes: 0

I accomplish more when I rest wholly in the labor of Jesus than I do when I frantically try to do the work for Him. Votes: 0

It should console us for the fact that sin has not totally disappeared from the world, that the saints are not wholly deprived of employment. Votes: 0

Are not half our lives spent in reproaches for foregone actions, of the true nature and consequences of which we were wholly ignorant at the time? Votes: 0

It is wholly wrong to blame Marx for what was done in his name, as it is to blame Jesus for what was done in his Votes: 0

A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem wholly nonsense at all. Votes: 0

I have now concentrated all my prayers into one, and that one prayer is this, that I may die to self, and live wholly to Him. Votes: 0

The book of Genesis, a farrago of nonsense so wholly absurd that even Sunday-school scholars have to be threatened with Hell to make them accept it. Votes: 0

I was wholly invested in my friendships. I might have tested them sometimes, but only to reassure myself that they were permanent. A mistake, of course. Votes: 0

A man's judgment is best when he can forget himself and any reputation he may have acquired and can concentrate wholly on making the right decisions. Votes: 0

I don't think that digital technology will ever take away the humanity of storytelling, because storytelling is entirely, in and of itself, a wholly human concern. Votes: 0

But Chinese civilization has the overpowering beauty of the wholly other, and only the wholly other can inspire the deepest love and the profoundest desire to learn. Votes: 0

They gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase of wretchedness in every reflection that could afford it, and resolved against ever admitting consolation in future. Votes: 0

Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad. Votes: 0

Heroism--that is the disposition of a man who aspires to a goal compared to which he himself is wholly insignificant. Heroism is the good will to self-destruction. Votes: 0

An angry look on the face is wholly against nature. If it be assumed frequently, beauty begins to perish, and in the end is quenched beyond rekindling. Votes: 0

It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies. Votes: 0

I do not think that I am ever overconfident. I am merely wholly confident, and I maintain that there is all the difference in the world there. Votes: 0

It seems to me that we often commit ourselves wholly to something while knowing almost nothing concrete about it. Another word for that, I suppose, is 'faith.' Votes: 0

If something possesses no capacity for activity whatever, it is nothing; it may be wholly penetrated, but it cannot be touched. Therefore passivity and reaction are everywhere equal. Votes: 0

The stage is a place where I can be wholly myself. Even though you're in front of people almost to be judged, it is a place without judgement. Votes: 0

That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support. Votes: 0

Men wholly bent on wordly treasures were the dupes of their own passions, rather than deceived by the writings or pretenses of those who claimed to be Alchemists. Votes: 0

In excluding me from the shadow cabinet, Margaret Thatcher has chosen what I believe to be the only wholly honest solution and one which I accept and welcome. Votes: 0

Since I was not able wholly to subscribe to any one set of beliefs advanced by any 'guru' I had to fall back on my own, however derivative. Votes: 0

When conscious activity is wholly concentrated on some one definite purpose, the ultimate result, for most people, is lack of balance accompanied by some form of nervous disorder. Votes: 0

There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking. Votes: 0

Society or culture or whatever you might want to call it, has created us all solely and wholly for the purpose of maintaining its continuity and status quo. Votes: 0

As you know, the Inquisition is an admirable and wholly Christian invention to make the pope and the monks more powerful and turn a whole kingdom into hypocrites. Votes: 0

We maintain therefore that in matters of Religion, no man's right is abridged by the institution of Civil Society, and that Religion is wholly exempt from its cognizance. Votes: 0

There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow, but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved. Votes: 0

It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. The comic, when he is human, soon takes upon itself the face of pain. Votes: 0

PLAIN SUPERFICIALITY is the character of a speech, in which any two points being taken, the speaker is found to lie wholly with regard to those two points. Votes: 0

Much as I admired the elegance of physical theories, which at that time geology wholly lacked, I preferred a life in the woods to one in the laboratory. Votes: 0

The kind of acting that's wholly literary or cerebral is wrong. It's useless for me to have actors so much in their heads that they can't be organic. Votes: 0

Much as I admired the elegance of physical theories, which at that time geology wholly lacked, I preferred a life in the woods to one in the laboratory. Votes: 0

Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its makers attention, it fails. This is why works of great significance are demanding and why they are infinitely rewarding. Votes: 0

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you. Votes: 0

Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable. Votes: 0

Coincidental to my leaving the company, I would like to make one request: that Nintendo give birth to wholly new ideas and create hardware which reflects that ideal. Votes: 0

... truth could never be wholly contained in words. All of us know it: At the same moment the mouth is speaking one thing, the heart is saying another ... Votes: 0

Unless the work of art has wholly exhausted its maker's attention, it fails. This is why works of great significance are demanding and why they are infinitely rewarding. Votes: 0

Has it never struck you that a man who does next to nothing but hears men's real sins is not likely to be wholly unaware of human evil? Votes: 0

For each successive class of phenomena, a new calculus or a new geometry, as the case might be, which might prove not wholly inadequate to the subtlety of nature. Votes: 0

The number of those men who know how to use wholly irresponsible power humanely and generously is small. Everybody knows this, and the slave knows it best of all. Votes: 0

wholly to be a fool while Spring is in the world my blood approves, and kisses are a far better fate than wisdom lady i swear by all flowers. Votes: 0

It is certainly much easier wholly to decline a passion than to keep it within just bounds and measures; and that which few can moderate almost anybody may prevent. Votes: 0

I love him who reserveth no share of spirit for himself, but wanteth to be wholly the spirit of his virtue: thus walketh he as spirit over the bridge. Votes: 0

James's expedition to Scotland is wholly imaginary, though there appears to have been space for it during Henry's progress to the North to pay his devotions at Beverley Minster. Votes: 0

But a tax on luxuries would no other effect than to raise their price. It would fall wholly on the consumer, and could neither increase wages nor lower profits. Votes: 0

While the spoken word can travel faster, you can't take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader. Votes: 0

The fundamental principle in the analysis of propositions containing descriptions is this: Every proposition which we can understand must be composed wholly of constituents with which we are acquainted. Votes: 0

Unless all ages and races of men have been deluded by the same mass hypnotist (who?), there seems to be such a thing as beauty, a grace wholly gratuitous. Votes: 0

While the spoken word can travel faster, you cant take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader. Votes: 0

The principle of real leadership ignored, the immortal objects of society forgotten, practical conservatism degenerated into mere laudation of private enterprise, economic policy almost wholly surrendered to special interests. Votes: 0

It is within your power to see that all you have experienced, trials, errors, faults, deceptions, passions, your love and your hope, shall be merged wholly in your aim. Votes: 0

The weakest believer and the strongest saint are alike equally justified. Justification admits no degrees. A man is either wholly justified or wholly condemned in the sight of God. Votes: 0

Christian Science "¦ is the direct denial both of science and of Christianity, for Science rests wholly on the recognition of truth and Christianity on the recognition of pain. Votes: 0

The one wholly true thought one can hold about the past is that it is not here. To think about it at all is therefore to think about illusions. Votes: 0

We ought to regard books as we do sweetmeats, not wholly to aim at the pleasantest, but chiefly to respect the wholesomest; not forbidding either, but approving the latter most. Votes: 0

... it is a welcome symptom in an age which is commonly denounced as materialistic, that it makes heroes of men whose goals lie wholly in the intellectual and moral sphere. Votes: 0

physical disability looms pretty large in one's life. But it doesn't devour one wholly. I'm not, for instance, Ms. MS, a walking, talking embodiment of a chronic incurable degenerative disease. Votes: 0

A sensible climate policy would emphasize building resilience into our capacity to adapt to climate changes - whether cooling or warming; whether wholly natural, wholly man-made, or somewhere in between. Votes: 0

It's great to want to be part of something, but it's a different thing completely to believe wholly in some type of movement, and to give everything for that something. Votes: 0

Science is like literature, a continuing dialog among diverse and conflicting voices, no one ever wholly right or wholly wrong, but a steady conversation forever provisional and personal and living. Votes: 0

All empires have depended on local legitimacy and local collaboration; they are not based primarily on coercion. An imperial rule that relies wholly on coercion can't endure. It's too expensive. Votes: 0

We have allowed a situation to develop in which it is legal for a multibillion dollar industry to own, wholly and in perpetuity, the intimate and personal details of children. Votes: 0

Mark all mathematical heads which be wholly and only bent on these sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, how unapt to serve the world. Votes: 0

I went to boarding school, and then I went to Oxford, and I know how easy it is for certain groups of people to become wholly insulated from ordinary life. Votes: 0

My dear, the duty that devolved wholly on you in my absence of guiding and expanding the minds of our dear children is a laborious one and a responsible one. Votes: 0

Put a thorn in every enjoyment, a worm in every gourd, that would either prevent my being wholly thine, or in any measure retard my progress in the divine life. Votes: 0

The painter tries to catch the magic of the lights and shadows and passing graces of the human face he paints, but he never wholly succeeds in overtaking the reality. Votes: 0

I am greatly pleased with the public, authentic isolation in which we two, you and I, now find ourselves. It is wholly in accord with our attitude and our principles. Votes: 0

I cannot bear to think that our young men are merely living four years in a country club and spending their lives wholly in a spirit of calculation and snobbishness. Votes: 0

A Christian minister is a person who in a peculiar sense is not his own; he is the servant of God, and therefore ought to be wholly devoted to Him. Votes: 0

It's difficult to tell the truth about how a book begins. The truth, as far as it can be presented to other people, is either wholly banal or too intimate. Votes: 0

It is only when human beings see themselves simply as human beings, no longer as gods, that they are in a position to perceive the wholly other nature of God. Votes: 0

The world is anxiously waiting to see what Jesus Christ can do in, by, for, and through one man wholly given to him - God-led. You can be that man. Votes: 0

When we desire or solicit anything, our minds run wholly on the good side or circumstances of it; when it is obtained, our minds run wholly on the bad ones. Votes: 0

I was wholly unprepared for the extraordinary attitude of the medical world in its readiness to condemn anything that smacked of reform or that ran contrary to approved methods of practice. Votes: 0

When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off a wet leaf after a rain. Votes: 0

A gift of any kind is a considerable responsibility. It is a mystery in itself, something gratuitous and wholly undeserved, something whose real uses will probably always be hidden from us. Votes: 0

I find wholly baffling the widespread belief today that the dropping of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs was an immoral act, even possibly a war crime to rank with Nazi genocide. Votes: 0

I hate a style, as I do a garden, that is wholly flat and regular; that slides along like an eel, and never rises to what one can call an inequality. Votes: 0

Oh! it is sweet to be thus weaned from friends, and from myself, and dead to the present world, that so I may live wholly to and upon the blessed God! Votes: 0

The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation. Votes: 0

The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly upon unassisted genius and natural sagacity. Votes: 0

I believe that no discovery of fact, however trivial, can be wholly useless to the race, and that no trumpeting of falsehood, however virtuous in intent, can be anything but vicious. Votes: 0

TV journalism is a much more collaborative, horizontal business than print reporting. It has to be, because of the logistics. Anchors are wholly dependent on producers to do all the hustling. Votes: 0

Drunkenness is a flattering devil, a sweet poison, a pleasant sin, which whosoever hath, hath not himself, which whosoever doth commit, doth not commit sin, but he himself is wholly sin. Votes: 0

To become wholly compassionate requires us to open our eyes and hearts, to behold the pain and exploitation our culture obscures, to arouse deadened emotions, and to rise above our egos. Votes: 0

TV journalism is a much more collaborative, horizontal business than print reporting. It has to be, because of the logistics. Anchors are wholly dependent on producers to do all the hustling Votes: 0

What I feel for her is a wholly different emotion. It stands and walks on its own, living and breathing and throbbing and shaking me to the roots of my being. Votes: 0

To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affection; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar. Votes: 0

Loving God with all our mind means that our thinking is wholly engaged to do all it can to awaken and express the heartfelt fullness of treasuring God above all things." Votes: 0

Dance is the most intimate art, the most unbrainy art, because it is done wholly with the body, which is so limited in its ability to speak anything but the truth. Votes: 0

Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life Votes: 0

The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility Votes: 0

Loving God with all our mind means that our thinking is wholly engaged to do all it can to awaken and express the heartfelt fullness of treasuring God above all things. Votes: 0

I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me. Votes: 0

If I am peaceful, I shall seeBeauty's face continually;Feeding on her wine and breadI shall be wholly comforted,For she can make one day for meRich as my lost eternity. Votes: 0

Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life. Votes: 0

The irruption of the supernatural into our world is a much more enticing notion to explore than the same thing happening in some past time, or in a wholly imaginary world. Votes: 0

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance. Votes: 0

I used to wonder how a man of birth and spirit could endure to be wholly insignificant and obscure in a foreign country, when he might live with lustre in his own. Votes: 0

I lack the peace of simple things. I am never wholly in place. I find no peace or grace. We sell the world to buy fire, our way lighted by burning men.... Votes: 0

A person who wholly follows the Lord is one who believes that the promises of God are trustworthy, that He is with His people, and that they are well able to overcome. Votes: 0

We 've wholly forgotten how to die. But be sure you do die nevertheless. Do your work, and finish it. If you know how to begin, you will know when to end. Votes: 0

... I have noticed that no sooner do people embark on a course of action which they do not find wholly satisfactory than they muster every argument to persuade others to imitate it ... Votes: 0

Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect. Votes: 0

We will never be more ourselves, with the fullness of our personality and the uniqueness of our gifting, than when we just wholly give ourselves over to our very faithful, faithful God. Votes: 0

Not wholly in the busy world, nor quite Beyond it, blooms the garden that I love. News from the humming city comes to it It sound of funeral or of marriage bells. Votes: 0

I now proceed to demonstrate that the Mexicans are wholly incapable of self-government, and that our liberties, our fortunes and our lives are insecure so long as we are connected with them. Votes: 0

I've been making bronze sculptures for a long time. My sculptures are wholly unsuccessful and uncommercial. No one is even the remotest bit interested in them. So it's almost like my hobby. Votes: 0

The tendency of our time is wholly oriented toward the secular. The efforts of the mystics will remain episodes. Despite a deepening of our conceptions of life, we will build no cathedrals. Votes: 0

Middle-earth is our world. I have (of course) placed the action in a purely imaginary (though not wholly impossible) period of antiquity, in which the shape of the continental masses was different. Votes: 0

Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason. Votes: 0

Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity. Votes: 0

Postmodernism came nowhere close in quality to Modernism at its apogee, not least because that later style wholly lacked the social impetus that animated the designs most emblematic of the Modern Movement. Votes: 0

I always attempt to challenge and upend discourses that appear to be disinterestedly describing the world, but that are in fact wholly grounded in historically and culturally specific hegemonic modes of thought. Votes: 0

To myself, mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery; in them, and in the forms of inferior landscape that lead to them, my affections are wholly bound up. Votes: 0

As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness, and is transformed into a new man. Votes: 0

Your car, comfort though it be, this little den and dining room on wheels, is a prison that deadens your senses, and to feel wholly alive you must go for a walk. Votes: 0

It is easy to acknowledge, but almost impossible to realize for long, that we are mirrors whose brightness, if we are bright, is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us. Votes: 0

We do not die wholly at our deaths: we have mouldered away gradually long before. Faculty after faculty, interest after interest, attachment after attachment disappear: we are torn from ourselves while living. Votes: 0

...although divided in His various powers and energies, in each of His works the Holy Spirit is wholly present and active, undividedly divided, partaken of while remaining complete, like the sun's ray. Votes: 0

He who is prepared for the future and he who deals cleverly with any situation that may arise are both happy; but the fatalistic man who wholly depends on luck is ruined. Votes: 0

Who can object to a monopoly when any new company, if it is built around a scientific nucleus, can create a new monopoly of its own by creating a wholly new field? Votes: 0

There are no other Everglades in the world. They are, they have always been, one of the unique regions of the earth; remote, never wholly known. Nothing anywhere else is like them. Votes: 0

While we lament the apparent injustice of pain and suffering, how often do we forget that every good thing in a fallen world is wholly a gift of God's mercy and grace. Votes: 0

Open your heart, your gaze, to the visitations of angels, even if the gifts they bring may not be centeredness and balance but eccentricity and a wholly unfamiliar sense of pleasure called joy. Votes: 0

The mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their addiction and unless they have structured help, they have no hope. Votes: 0

Finally, since human beings are uniquely capable of producing materials not found in nature, environmental degradation may be due to the resultant intrusion into an ecosystem of a substance wholly foreign to it. Votes: 0

Modern Armenia survived only because it was the single province controlled, and protected, by the Russian Empire. The rest of the territory within its historical borders is almost wholly devoid of ethnic Armenians. Votes: 0

The power which the Hellenes and even the Italians possessed, of civilizing and assimilating to themselves the nations susceptible of culture with whom they came into contact, was wholly wanting in the Phoenicians. Votes: 0

Cultivate these, then, for they are wholly within your power: sincerity and dignity; industriousness; and sobriety. Avoid grumbling, be frugal, considerate, and frank; be temperate in manner and speech; carry yourself with authority. Votes: 0

Whatever capacities there may be for enjoyment or for suffering in this strange being of ours, and God only knows what they are, they will be drawn out wholly in accordance with character. Votes: 0

A humble person is not one who thinks little of himself, hangs his head and says, "I'm nothing." Rather, he is one who depends wholly on the Lord for everything, in every circumstance. Votes: 0

As a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing,but does only and wholly what he must do... Votes: 0

We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and beyond the weird. It verges on the wholly other. Votes: 0

I said it in Hebrew—I said it in Dutch— I said it in German and Greek; But I wholly forgot (and it vexes me much) That English is what you speak! Votes: 0

And for yourself, whatever there has been either of sin or duty, remember the one and forget the other, and betake yourself wholly to the mercy of God and the merit of Christ. Votes: 0

History is lived forwards but it is written in retrospect. We know the end before we consider the beginning and we can never wholly recapture what it was to know the beginning only. Votes: 0

Remember that the future is neither ours nor wholly not ours, so that we may neither count on it as sure to come nor abandon hope of it as certain not to be. Votes: 0

[Disestablishment was] the best thing that ever happened to the state of Connecticut. It cut the churches loose from dependence on state support. It threw them wholly on their own resources and on God. Votes: 0

But the shadow is merely somewhat inferior, primitive, unadapted, and awkward; not wholly bad. It even contains childish or primitive qualities which would in a way vitalize and embellish human existence, but convention forbids! Votes: 0

Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise. Votes: 0

In debates between anarchists and statists, the burden of proof clearly should rest on those who place their trust in the state. Anarchy's mayhem is wholly conjectural; the state's mayhem is undeniably, factually horrendous. Votes: 0

You can write nothing of value unless you give yourself wholly to the the theme -- and when you so give yourself -- you lose appetite ans sleep -- it cannot be helped -- Votes: 0

On the earth, even in the darkest night, the light never wholly abandons his rule. It is diffused and subtle, but little as may remain, the retina of the eye is sensible of it. Votes: 0

Do you know what I think white people wholly own? I think freedom of speech is a white thing. This is something that white people do. I think governments, this is a white thing. Votes: 0

Worship is at heart a person offered to God, claiming no rights, making no more selfish demands than a dead man does, but living fully, richly and wholly to God and by His power. Votes: 0

The past exudes legend: one can't make pure clay of time's mud. There is no life that can be recaptured wholly; as it was.Which is to say that all biography is ultimately fiction. Votes: 0

Human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half the time greedily seeking them, and half the time pulling away from them. Votes: 0

The doubts of love are never to be wholly overcome; they grow with its various anxieties, timidities, and tenderness, and are the very fruits of the reverence in which the admired object is beheld. Votes: 0

My counsel is, that we draw water from the true source and fountain, that is, that we diligently search the Scriptures. He who wholly possesses the text of the Bible, is a consummate divine. Votes: 0

God is wholly present in all creation, in every corner, behind you and before you. Do you think God is sleeping on a pillow in heaven? God is watching over you and protecting you. Votes: 0

Life is still life, whatever its pangs; our eyes and ears and their use remain with us, though the prospect of what pleases be wholly withdrawn, and the sound of what consoles must be silenced. Votes: 0

Hinduism is wholly free from the strange obsession of some faiths that the acceptance of a particular religious metaphysics is necessary for salvation, and non-acceptance thereof is a heinous sin meriting eternal punishment in hell. Votes: 0

The really useful education is that which follows the direction of the child's own instinctive interests, supplying knowledge for which it is seeking, not dry, detailed information wholly out of relation to its spontaneous desires. Votes: 0

While tacit knowledge can be possessed by itself, explicit knowledge must rely on being tacitly understood and applied. Hence all knowledge is either tacit or rooted in tacit knowledge. A wholly explicit knowledge is unthinkable. Votes: 0

God created the universe out of nothing in an act which also brought time into existence. Recent discoveries, such as observations supporting the Big Bang and similar astronomical phenomena, are wholly compatible with this view. Votes: 0

Caresses, expressions of one sort or another, are necessary to the life of the affections as leaves are to the life of a tree. If they are wholly restrained, love will die at the roots. Votes: 0

There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two, so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded. Votes: 0

The wholly manly man lacks the wit necessary to give objective form to his soaring and secret dreams, and the wholly womanly woman is apt to be too cynical a creature to dream at all. Votes: 0

If Moses is our lawgiver [Old Testament prophet given laws by God] at this time let us obey him, not in part only, but wholly, and put every Sabbath breaker, blasphemer, and adulterer to death. Votes: 0

When a man is made up wholly of the dove, without the least grain of the serpent in his composition, he becomes ridiculous in many circumstances of life, and very often discredits his best actions. Votes: 0

If God wishes to reveal the love that he harbors for the world, this love has to be something that the world can recognize, in spite of, or in fact in, its being wholly other. Votes: 0

...though one can be callous in Ireland one cannot be wholly opaque or material. An unearthly disturbance works in the spirit; reason can never reconcile one to life; nothing allays the wants one cannot explain. Votes: 0

There's a conflicted look in Day's eyes, a joy and a grief, that makes him so vulnerable. I realize how little defense he has against my words. He loves so wholly. It is his nature. Votes: 0

With historicals, the research is half the fun. Contemporaries are especially easy. People are right out there in front of you; you meet them every day. You can concentrate wholly on the story and characters. Votes: 0

Earth, is not this what you will: in us to rise up invisible? Is it, O Earth, not your dream once to be wholly invisible? Earth! Invisible! What, if not change, is your desperate mission? Votes: 0

At a certain point, you say to the woods, to the sea, to the mountains, the world, Now I am ready. Now I will stop and be wholly attentive. You empty yourself and wait, listening. Votes: 0

Men have no right to put the well-being of the present generation wholly out of the question. Perhaps the only moral trust with any certainty in our hands is the care of our own time. Votes: 0