The Whole Quotes

It is a nice thing to be working and believing in my work again. I hope I can keep the drive. I only feel whole and well when it is this way.

A dying organism is often observed to be capable of extraordinary endurance and strength. .. When any living organism is attacked, its whole function seems to aim towards reproduction.

Knowledge, or more expressively truth,--for knowledge is truth received into our intelligence,--truth is an ideal whole.

Every fancy that we would substitute for a reality is, if we saw aright, and saw the whole, not only false, but every way less beautiful and excellent than that which we sacrifice to it.

The beliefs which we have most warrant for, have no safeguard to rest on, but a standing invitation to the whole world to prove them unfounded.

New York was the last place that my movies caught on. I didn't make underground movies in New York, and in the 1960s, they were very snobby about that, because the whole scene was here.

The only way I've learned to change anyone's mind politically is to make them laugh. My whole career has been about that.

No one sits in front of a drum set and thinks they invented it all out of whole cloth. The fact that the set is there means that you've got some dues to pay to Baby Dodds.

I feel like I've been a Yankee my whole life.

We didn't have a TV because we didn't have a whole lot of money. My parents would have their friends over - their friends who thought, 'How can you live without a TV?

I hate flying, airports and the whole rigmarole - queuing up, security and lost luggage.

I have a whole fur closet. I'm not afraid of PETA.

Nirvana was like that- Nirvana was like the only band to come out of that- it was like the same thing, Seattle was like this whole scene and it was like this big scene that was thrust upon America.

Aesthetically, I love the whole history of the music.

A guy like Scott [Robinson] plays the whole history of music on every instrument you've ever heard of. He's just kind of an unparalleled genius.

I've been surrounded by dogs my whole life. I got a golden retriever a year after I was born.

Nourishing the soul is the process of drinking at the life stream, coming back to one's true self, embracing the whole of one's experience - good, bad, or ugly; painful or exalted; dull or boring.

I've probably bought ten CDs in my whole life.

That's what's terrible about wars when whole societies adopt an impulse of objectification. Everything becomes black and white.

I like vengeance as much as the next guy, if the next guy likes vengeance a whole lot.

A whole generation was raised to learn about comedy from The Simpsons. To get to be in a booth with Homer and Marge and be in Springfield - it was unimaginable the emotions that I felt.

It's hard to leave New York: this is where my friends are, my parents are. It is so vital. The whole world seems to look to New York.

Religious experiences are real and common, whether or not God exists, and these experiences often make people whole and at peace.

My whole body is a lethal weapon, you know. I know more ways to kill you than you know how to die.

The whole world turned into an all-you-can-eat buffet.

God is back and Europe as a whole still doesn't get it. It is our biggest single collective cultural and intellectual blind spot.

I shook my tambourine the whole time, because it helped me remember that even though I was going through different neighborhoods, I was still me.

If people thought about food more like how we think about the environment, a lot of people would be eating differently and the whole system would look a lot different.

Silks, velvets, calicoes, and the whole lexicon of female fopperies.

I with borrow'd silver shine, What you see is none of mine. First I show you but a quarter, Like the bow that guards the Tartar: Then the half, and then the whole, Ever dancing round the pole.

My whole day revolves around food. If you think you've won the day, only because you haven't eaten over 1,000 calories, you know that things are off-kilter. That's not a healthy way to be thinking.

Sometimes I'll get a burst when I write lyrics, it usually happens in 20 minutes and I'll write the whole song, and that's really the only way it feels comfortable.

The problem with me is I always think I should've done better. I felt that after the World Cup final and through my whole career.

My whole journey has been about self-acceptance.

One age cannot be completely understood if all the others are not understood. The song of history can only be sung as a whole.

The wisest man I ever knew in my whole life could not read or write.

Society has to change, but the political powers we have at the moment are not enough to effect this change. The whole democratic system would have to be rethought.

You don't have to get high or need drugs to experience the Juggalo freshness. But you do need to get high to experience the whole Phish freshness.

Drawing or painting allows the artist to know himself as a whole person.

The great thing about films is that you have access to this whole world of experts who teach you the skills your character's supposed to have.

Making little videos that you know are going to be on tiny windows is a whole different thing. I don't know what it's going to lead to necessarily, but it's certainly fun.

Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this sentence in a word. I am speaking of myself.

There are single thoughts that contain the essence of a whole volume, single sentences that have the beauties of a large work.

There are people who are virtuous only in a piece-meal way; virtue is a fabric from which they never make themselves a whole garment.

A great man is one who seizes the vital issue in a complex question, what we might call the jugular vein of the whole organism, and spends his energies upon that

The biggest challenge for me in every film is believing that what I have to say is important enough to have lots of people collaborate to make a whole movie. I work on this belief every day.

You can waste your whole life trying to be everything to everybody. Pick your passion. And let them pick theirs.

What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul I suppose this depends somewhat upon the size of the soul. I think there are cases where the trade would do.

There is no limit to the vanity of this world. Each spoke in the wheel thinks the whole strength of the wheel depends upon it.

I love the whole of California, I have places... my whole thing is with all the money I make, I just want to buy as many places in California as I can because I love it.