The Whole Quotes
... And God, who studies each separate soul, out of commonplace lives makes his beautiful whole.
Doesn't it seem sometimes that the whole world's uphill but at least we know the way back will be easy.
It was as familiar to me as a song I'd been hearing my whole life, covered by various people but the basic tune the same.
How weird was it that so many bits and pieces, all diverse, could make something whole. Something with potential. 'Perfect.
When you have a kid, you sign on for the whole package: good, bad, everything in between. you can't just dip in and out, picking and choosing the parts you want and quitting when it's not perfect.
So many versions of just one memory, and yet none of them were right or wrong. Instead, they were all pieces. Only when fitted together, edge to edge, could they even begin to tell the whole story.
So while it seemed like you were seeing everything, you really weren't. Just bits and pieces that looked like a whole.
I'd come here planning to leave as soon as I could. It was a pit stop, not a destination. I had my whole life mapped out." "So what happened?" "I guess that map didn't turn out to be mine after all.
There was something striking about a single key. It was like a question waiting to be answered, a whole missing a half. Useless on its own, needing something else to be truly defined.
I planned my whole future around Adam," she said now, quietly. "And now I have nothing." "No," I told her, "now you just don't have Adam. There's a big difference, Lissa. You just can't see it yet.
With every smell, I smell food. With every sight, I see food. I can almost hear food. I want to spade the whole lot through my mouth at Mach 2. Basta!
Someone once said that two halves make a whole. And when two halves move in together, it makes a whole lot of stuff.
My whole life . . . two and two has made four.”... “But now . . . it’s all gone wrong.” She shook her head. “It doesn’t make four anymore. It makes you.
I like the idea that we build up these walls or rules or laws to maintain our reality, and when they fall away, you're left with a whole bunch of illusions.
You know my beautiful speech has made you see me in a whole new and even more attractive light. You totally think I'm secretly deep now. And you are right. It is true. I have deeps.
Not doing things you can do is the whole point of laziness. Not doing something you can't do is just sensible.
The ultimate end of redemption is that we worship God with our whole being and in the whole company of the redeemed.
The whole exploitation thing is funny, too. Exploitation is the nature of the world, isn't it?
The only durable community is the one that embraces the whole planet, wild and tame . . .
Janis Joplin didn't just sing a song, she took it over. She swallowed it whole, then sent it back through her gut and her heart.
I first got into fruit when I was a teenager, when my life was changing in every way. The first time I had a mango, at like 18, I was like, 'Where has this been my whole life?
To be appreciated by a whole 'nother generation of fans, all of a sudden discovering you, it's kind of what I did with the classic bands I love - the ones that influenced me.
That was the whole point of being special: You existed to make sure everyone else behaved, but that didn't mean YOU had to.
A strong-willed child - a strong-willed child, more than anyone else, needs to learn to use emotion and discussion to resolve issues. That's the last child in the whole world you want to hit.
That's the whole goal, to win the national championship. You can't have a legacy without one.
It takes the whole of life to learn how to live, and - even more surprising - it takes the whole of life to learn how to die.
Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find.
War I abhor, and yet how sweet The sound along the marching street Of drum and fife, and I forget Wet eyes of widows, and forget Broken old mothers, and the whole Dark butchery without a soul.
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.
For what else is Nature but God and the Divine Reason that pervades the whole universe and all its parts.
Tota vita nihil aliud quam ad mortem iter est. The whole of life is nothing but a journey to death.
The World Cup must remain the number one competition, because it is our only source of money and, with that money, we can develop football in the whole world.
I've always made some legendary comebacks since 1998 when it first started. So that's kind of just been my MO for my whole career.
The machine does not teach playing flexibility, does not help in taking account of human facxtors in the battle, and on whole, strictly speaking, it restricts the possibilities for young players.
You really get tired in one area of your life, and then you start questioning your whole existence.
The Islamic world doesn't stop in the Arab world or Persia. There is the whole Turkic world, the Central Asian world, South Asian world, Southeast Asian world, and African world.
Personal healing on all levels - physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual comes when we get in touch with our disowned energies.... Through integrating all aspects of ourselves, we become whole.
If those of us who believe in God do not believe God's grace is big enough to save the whole world... well, we should at least pray that it is.
There's not a whole lot of events out there on television, especially in the years between Olympic Games.
Floor exercise, the longest you run is two or three steps. In the vault, it's not a whole lot more than that.
I'm one year older, one year sexier - one more, baby. For me, it's all about the bigger picture. We want to win the whole thing. We've got to beat whoever is in our way.
When I get old, I'm going to the old folks' home. I don't want to be one of those guys who's hanging around the house bothering the kids. But not just any old folks' home. I want the whole top floor.