The Whole Quotes

Al Qaeda, the Taliban, a whole host of networks that are bent on attacking America, who have a distorted ideology, who have perverted the faith of Islam, and so we have to go after them.

What do you think a stimulus is? It’s spending - that's the whole point! Seriously.

There's just a whole different attitude and vibe when you're not in power as when you're in power.

Rather, my perceptions about how we solve problems in health care or education span across a whole range of areas. And I want to try to capture that complexity.

I think that today, faith drives so much of our politics, that I thought, "If you don't talk about it, you are missing a whole big part of what is going on politically."

Of course I have got concerns. Donald Trump and I differ on a whole bunch of issues.

There's a whole generation coming up behind us that was engaged, inspired, worked for change during the course of my presidency, saw what was possible.

I am absolutely convinced that race relations on the whole are actually better now than they were 20 years [ago].

The American people as a whole are really pretty moderate. They're not, as a whole, conservative or liberal. The right wing is marching the Republican Party off a cliff.

there is clearly a kind of anger that is healthy. It is the concentration of one's whole being in the determination: this must change.

You want to make a representative selection, but at the same time, you want to give a sense of the whole project. I have this big conflict in my writing life that I'm trying to work out all the time.

That's how it is: some people are content to wait till you ask, while others jump right in with the whole story.

I think, though, with that whole sense of integrity and a lot of things that have been going on, the shared leadership rather than the titular head.

But times changed, and I changed, and I didn't feel that way anymore. The Beatles were happening. I think that was probably the main thing. The Beatles just changed the whole world of music.

The whole system of society tells you what to do.

My country and me, we are part of this region, we're not separated. We cannot discuss it as Syria or as me ; it should be as part, as a whole, as comprehensive. That's how we have to look at it.

On the whole it is the rights and freedoms of all citizens that are crucial in Saudi Arabia and from those the rights of women will emanate.

My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went.

Patch was in my life for a reason. I needed him. We were two halves of the same whole.

There are people who've prepared their whole lives for real heavy success and bask in it. They're so good at it and they obviously love it. I'm just happy to be making a record.

Being from New York, I wonder why am I inspired by bluegrass and Earl Scruggs? But when I look at the whole history of the banjo, I feel really good about it, including the Earl Scruggs part.

We don't really live in a culture that loves boys or loves children, and we don't encourage boys to be whole.

I think the Women's movement has had a major impact on everybody's lives in our nation and in the world as a whole.

Education - lifelong education for everyone - from toddlers to workers well advanced in their careers - is indeed an excellent investment for individuals and society as a whole.

I hate just showing up, hitting a mark, doing your work, and going home. It's very boring. But being part of the creation of the whole thing is very exciting.

My line-learning is very special. I like to learn the dialogue of the whole film before I arrive.

Maybe that's the way I'm private - I respect the privacy of "my" characters? Anyway, we're getting close to the whole "relatability" and "likability" thing.

I think that story wins out over acting and that the thing as a whole is more important than the performances therein.

Who knows, maybe this whole planet is an asylum, a penal realm. A place for hard cases.

I'd never seen [Haughton] Forrest's work before until I came across it on the front of an ANZ book. I then researched a whole lot of his work.

I thought that all of the sacrifices and blessings of the whole history of mankind have devolved upon me. Thank you, God.

Very quickly after meeting Dustin, the whole image I had of him was shattered.

That man alone loves himself rightly who procures the greatest possible good to himself through the whole of his existence and so pursues pleasure as not to give for it more than it is worth.

I've striven my whole life for humility, but if I'd ever achieved it, I'd probably be pretty damn proud of that.

People who have come from nothing and started their own business or opened up a whole new niche in a particular industry, they truly inspire me.

The whole time you're bouncing ideas off each other, you continue to try and push the songs as far as you can take them and make them the best that they can be.

I'm okay. Nobody's bothering me. Everyone's very kind, and very polite. I don't feel like my whole life changed.

It Might As Well Be Spring... I used to sing that as a young girl in my voice lessons. Then I picked it up again and it spoke to me in a whole new way.

Wonderful to see with the whole family. It's like travelling from dynasty to dynasty, from one Chinese region to another.

The whole trial seemed surreal.

[When I'll be old I see myself] as a world champion, on a big farm with an Italian-style, big family with a whole bunch of grandchildren. And the foundations for that I have already laid!

Each act of cruelty is eternally a part of the universe; nothing that happens later can make that act good rather than bad, or can confer perfection on the whole of which it is a part.

... the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be.

The great majority of men and women, in ordinary times, pass through life without ever contemplating or criticising, as a whole, either their own conditions or those of the world at large.

Philosophy seems to me on the whole a rather hopeless business.

I always wanted to be a performer, I didn't know exactly what kind of performer, all I knew was there were certain things that I liked. I liked movies a whole lot, and I loved music.

And that's where the whole trouble is. We're too much alike to understand each other because we don't even understand our own selves.

Serving the emerging whole means paying attention to what's right here within my awareness, what's completely local, and surrendering to what's being asked of me now.

The emerging whole manifests locally. It manifests in particular communities, groups, and, ultimately, in us as individuals.

I was never really obsessed with the whole guy thing to begin with.