The Whole Quotes

Tenacity is when you follow your heart - when the whole world is screaming to get back into your head

You see in Once Upon a Time in the West the whole film moves around her [Claudia Cardinale]. If you take her out, there's no more film. She's the central motor of the entire happening.

The end goal is to get everybody chipped, to control the whole society, to have the bankers and the elite people control the world.

As you grow in spirituality, your whole life must improve.

What concerns all, should be considered by all; and individuals may injure a whole society, by not declaring their sentiments. It is therefore not only their right, but their duty, to declare them.

People aren't defined by their relationships. The whole point is being true to yourself and not losing yourself in relationships, whether romances or friendships.

There are so many things to be considered in making music. The whole question of life itself... I know that I want to produce beautiful music, music that does things to people that they need.

School days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence.

I have had an experience which might perhaps be described as being shot down. At the same time, I call shot down only when one falls down. Today I got into trouble but I escaped with a whole skin.

A bad word from a colleague can darken a whole day. We need encouragement a lot more than we admit, even to ourselves.

Everyone's like sheep on social media; like, one person starts making noise, and everyone's like, 'Hey, yeah!' and then you got a whole bunch of people making noise at you.

The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.

Man is a machine and in the whole universe there is but a single substance, matter, variously modified.

Under my leadership the Conservative Party will come back together in the interests of the whole country.

Reading is a way to take in the difficult situations and understand them. The whole point of reading a book in class is to have discussion about what these situations are like.

I used to joke I was a point-and-click actor. My whole process has been about trusting your instincts and hitting your mark.

With body, mind, and spirit functioning perfectly as a coordinated whole, what else could reasonably be expected other than an active, alert, disciplined person?

For me, beauty is a physical sensation, something we feel with our whole body. It is not the result of judgement. We do not arrive at it by way of rules. We either feel beauty or we don't.

My main concern is making the connection with my listeners and making records that the whole world can sing. That's what makes me happy.

What characterized the whole punk scene for me in 1977 was there was no racism or sexism. It was an anarchy of -isms, and a matter of abolishing it all.

On the whole, the longing for solitude is a sign that there still is spirit in a person and is a measure of what spirit there is.

If you really want to be successful and you really want to be happy, don't have a job, have a purpose. ...When you've got a purpose, the whole world is your office.

The Kingdom must be advanced not merely extensively, but also intensively. The Church must seek to conquer not merely every man for Christ, but also the whole of man

I think that if a person doesn't feel cynical then they're out of phase with the 20th century. Being cynical is the only way to deal with modern civilization - you can't just swallow it whole.

But it’s only by having some distance from the world that you can see it whole, and understand what you should be doing with it.

[On Katharine Hepburn's stage performance:] She ran the whole gamut of emotions, from A to B.

Sound is the force of creation, the true whole. Music then, becomes the voice of the great cosmic oneness and therefore the optimal way to reach this final state of healing.

Is there any one maxim which ought to be acted upon throughout one's whole life? Surely the maxim of loving kindness is such: Do not unto others what you would not they should do unto you.

It's silly to work hard the whole week and then spoil it by not preparing properly before the game.

Nothing will ever equal that moment of exhilaration which filled my whole being when I felt myself flying away from the earth. It was not mere pleasure; it was perfect bliss.

Language is an archaeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.

Small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos can shift the whole system to a higher order.

You need only visit campuses where whole departments feature soft courses preaching a sense of victimhood and resentment, and see the consequences in racial and ethnic polarization on campus.

It is a deed of greater charity to give a bit of bread to the poor in the time of high prices and famine, than a whole loaf in the time of fertility and abundance.

Each social formation, through each of its material activities, exerts its influence upon the civic whole; and each of its ideas and ideals wins also its place and power.

Look at the world with the vision of peace, love, and compassion. Then the whole world will appear loving and peaceful.

Sincerity is impossible, unless it pervade the whole being, and the pretence of it saps the very foundation of character.

Every day I have to be awake to escape.. ..The whole world is sleepy. It is a real fight to be awake, to see everything new, for the first time in your life.

The mere smell of cooking can evoke a whole civilization.

Modern man is sick because he is not whole.

I thought my book was done, then we went to Hawaii and the whole last chapter happened.

If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.

Your whole life is inside your mind. Your mind is the prism that refracts the entire universe. Everything around you and within you comes from your mind.

I've never sung a single song in my whole life on purpose to shock anyone. My 'hot numbers' are all, if you will notice, written about something that is real in the lives of millions of people.

The greatest good is the knowledge of the union which the mind has with the whole nature.

These small things - nutrition, place, climate, recreation, the whole casuistry of selfishness - are inconceivably more important than everything one has taken to be important so far.

Open your eyes and the whole world is full of God.

By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.

Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization.

I could sit right here and have a 15-minute conversation with somebody and change their whole life.