The Whole Quotes

On the question of the world as a whole, science founders. For scientific knowledge the world lies in fragments, the more so the more precise our scientific knowledge becomes.

I've been singing my whole life. I'd randomly sing in the hallways at high school, and all my friends would be like, 'You should sing on 'Canadian Idol'!" It definitely gassed me!

I think a lot of people really have religious overtones of having come from somewhere. I mean, even the whole concept of religion is kind of alien.

Meanings, moods, the whole scale of our inner experience, finds in nature the 'correspondences' through which we may know our boundless selves.

Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize that in our own being, we are enough.

In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.

How can I be substantial if I do not cast a shadow? I must have a dark side also If I am to be whole

The one excellent thing that can be learned from a lion is that whatever a man intends doing should be done by him with a whole-hearted and strenuous effort.

Look at the choices you have, not the choices that have been taken away from you. In them, there are whole worlds of strength and new ways to look at things.

If I point to anything that makes me who I am, it's that I have a whole lot of common sense. I've got a good mind and a good ability to read people and situations.

I designed my whole image. That was all me. I just bought some regular clothes, threw a medallion around my neck, and that was it. The next thing I know, that's the look.

It does no harm just once in a while to acknowledge that the whole country isn't in flames, that there are people in the country besides politicians, entertainers, and criminals.

Manhattan, though, was an entirely different ballgame in a whole different kind of world, with a man who was brilliant and at the same time terribly charismatic.

From a sequence of these individual patterns, whole buildings with the character of nature will form themselves within your thoughts, as easily as sentences.

The whole can be greater than the sum of it's parts, that we all have something to put in the pie to make it better, and that the collaborative interaction works.

Consistency is found in that work whose whole and detail are suitable to the occasion. It arises from circumstance, custom, and nature.

Some times I think this whole world Is one big prison yeard Some of us are prisoners The rest of us are guards

Don't put the whole of your identity into the smallness of a situation.

Even with all the negativeness of the whole social media thing, I still think it's leaps and bounds more positive.

Jesus was in a garden, not of delight as the first Adam, in which he destroyed himself and the whole human race, but in one of agony, in which he saved himself and the whole human race.

Anytime I make a movie, I really have absolutely no idea how it's going to go over. I've had the whole range of different kinds of reactions.

Who am I?, the artist asks. And he devotes his whole life to finding out.

You can go your whole life and not need math or physics for a minute, but the ability to tell a joke is always handy.

Hardly any generation wants to take the whole of the last generation, it just wants to take its best bits.

Let us shout of our God from the rooftops, that the whole world would stand in silence before him.

I wanted to be a veterinarian for about a week of my life when I was a kid. But I found out about the whole euthanasia thing and I said, I can't commit to that, sorry!

Consider England. Within a few score years how many unsettling changes in religion has the whole kingdom made, according to the change of its rulers, in the various religions which they embraced.

I would rather be whole than good.

Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.

A leader has to know how the system functions - not just the system of government but the whole social and economic system, including business, the unions, and the universities.

Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.

I been the same dude my whole life.

Happy people die whole, they are all dissolved in a moment, they have had what they wanted.

The last stage but one of every civilisation, is characterised by the forced political unification of its constituent parts, into a single greater whole.

Through the orifice of silence, the whole geyser of Bliss, perpetually shoots up and flows over the soul.

I've spent my whole life in Chicago being asked where am I from, so that I have a sense of displacement that also is very psychologically disorienting.

Some of the days in November carry the whole memory of summer as a fire opal carries the color of moonrise.

When you do a thing with your whole soul and everything that is noble within you, you always find your counterpart.

Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant.

I feel like a sickness and dystrophy is growing in people, like people are getting sicker, something about our society, something about our psychological structures. We’re not whole.

You can have diabetes and have a piece of cake. You cannot have diabetes and eat a whole cake.

My whole life was service to people and the Fatherland.

Celebrate Life. Care for others and share whatever you have with those less fortunate than you. Broaden your vision, for the whole world belongs to you.

The student has his Rome, his Florence, his whole glowing Italy, within the four walls of his library. He has in his books the ruins of an antique world and the glories of a modern one.

For every thought supported by feeling, there is a muscle change. Primary muscle patterns being the biological heritage of man, man's whole body records his emotional thinking.

This much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness from our soul.

Once you have found the right shot to introduce the scene-written your first declarative sentence-then the rest flows. You've found the key to the whole scene.

I have tried my whole life to represent my Mexican roots with honor and pride.

The whole Universe is a large joke. Everything in the Universe are just subdivisions of this joke. So why take anything too serious.

Everyone in a complex system has a slightly different interpretation. The more interpretations we gather, the easier it becomes to gain a sense of the whole.