The Whole Quotes

The heart is the household divinity which, discharging its function, nourishes, cherishes, quickens the whole body, and is indeed the foundation of life, the source of all action.

Aloneness is the presence of oneself. Aloneness is very positive... You are so full of presence that you can fill the whole universe with your presence and there is no need for anybody.

Moonlight floods the whole sky from horizon to horizon; How much it can fill your room depends on its windows.

toleration of exploitation, oppression, and injustice points to a condition lying like a pall over the whole of society; it is apathy, an unconcern that is incapable of suffering.

You spend your whole life trapped inside your body. Everything you know about the world comes to you through your body.

But now, I, August Comte, have discovered the truth. Therefore, there is no longer any need for freedom of thought or freedom of the press. I want to rule and to organize the whole country.

Let fire and the cross; let the crowds of wild beasts; let tearings ... let shatterings of the whole body; and let all the evil torments of the devil come upon me: only let me attain to Jesus Christ.

In the end, I think it would be lovely if we stopped this whole notion of pets altogether.

Everything in food works together to create health or disease. The more we think that a single chemical characterizes a whole food, the more we stray into idiocy.

You don't understand music: you hear it. So hear me with your whole body.

Tell me how many songs that I must sing before I can see you in your glory, hear your whole entire story, bathe inside your golden, golden sea?

My whole religion is this: do every duty, and expect no reward for it, either here or hereafter.

The whole universe is based on rhythms. Everything happens in circles, in spirals.

One needs something to believe in, something for which one can have whole-hearted enthusiasm. One needs to feel that one's life has meaning, that one is needed in this world.

Had the doctrines of Jesus been preached always as pure as they came from his lips, the whole civilized world would now have been Christians.

To be good, and do good, is the whole duty of man comprised in a few words.

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries better.

No book is a chapter, no chapter tells the whole story, no mistake defines who we are. Hope makes our lives page turners.

You have to face the fact that the whole problem is really the blacks. The key is to devise a system that recognizes this all while not appearing to.

There is always that one band that comes along when you are 14 or 15 years old that manages to hit you in just the right way and changes your whole perception of things.

The best thing you can do in the whole world is to play baseball. That's a lucky job... The passion for baseball is always going to be there.

Wisdom consists in doing the next think you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing it.

Anyone who'd sell out a whole town wouldn't hesitate to double-cross one man.

I never had that thing about being black. If the whole world was like that, maybe there would be more harmony and love.

There is nothing as whole, or as perfect, as a broken heart.

Whole days and weeks have I spent prostrate on the ground in silent or vocal prayer.

A true desire is not to have but to be. We are whole creatures in potential, and the true purpose of desire is to unfold that wholeness, to become what we can be.

I don't do the whole L.A. nightlife thing.

I would wear a turban to Whole Foods.

The whole of meditation practice can be essentialized into these 3 crucial points: Bring your mind home. Release. And relax!

We're focusing on the whole pie, not a slice. A slice is good, but it's not good enough to get you fat. We're trying to get fat.

Any man can do what he has to do. But doing it like you love it? That is what takes it to a whole different level. A champion does it like he loves it, even when he doesn't.

For the Order wishes to be secret and to work in silence; for thus it is better secured from the oppression of the ruling powers, and because this secrecy gives a greater zest to the whole.

I see in the act of throwing the dice and of risking the affirmation of some intuitively felt truth, however uncertain, my whole reason for living.

No sustainable prosperity or security can be attained at the expense or marginalization of others. Indeed, in today’s world, humanity will either triumph or fail as a whole.

When all is said and done, no literature can outdo the cynicism of real life; you won't intoxicate with one glass someone who has already drunk up a whole barrel.

'Think in simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole to its parts in simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

All I want anyone to get out of my paintings, and all I ever get out of them, is the fact that you can see the whole idea without any confusion…What you see is what you see.

The whole showmanship is NOT to answer every question.

It is our duty to keep the memory of our heroes green. Yet they belong to the whole country; they belong to America.

It is important that we discover an educational method where people learn to learn and go on learning their whole lives

I used to live in a room full of mirrors; all I could see was me. I take my spirit and I crash my mirrors, now the whole world is here for me to see.

Whoever can't see the whole in every part plays at blind man's bluff. A wise man tastes the entire Tigris in every sip.

I pay a lot of attention to how things are done and the whole activity of building something is interesting.

I had orders to report to Brigadier General Lindsey, and he said to me, "Well, York, I hear you have captured the whole damned German army." And I told him I only had 132.

Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend.

If black boxes survive air crashes - why don't they make the whole plane out of that stuff?

Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

The important thing is the family. If you can keep the family together - and that's the backbone of our whole business, catering to families - that's what we hope to do.

The whole idea is to get an edge. Sometimes it takes just a little extra something to get that edge, but you have to have it.