The Whole Quotes

The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.

Trying to change ourselves in order to please others - so that we can feel temporarily whole for having won their approval - is like cutting a flower into pieces so that it will fit into a vase.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

My whole life was service to people and the Fatherland.

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

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.

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.

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

Making one person smile can change the world - maybe not the whole world, but their world.

Stand in that reverent attitude to the whole universe, and then will come perfect non attachment.

It is my firm belief that I have a link with the past and a responsibility to the future. I cannot give up. I cannot despair. There's a whole future, generations to come. I have to keep trying.

I grew up an Everton fan, my whole family are Everton fans and I grew up hating Liverpool. And that hasn't changed.

Love is the supreme value around which all moral values can be integrated into one ethical system valid for the whole of humanity.

Chicken, brown rice, and veggies is a great healthy dinner option. It's full of whole grains and protein, and will keep you full for a long time.

So part of it is we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents, or kids belong to their families, and recognize that kids belong to whole communities.

Darwinism removed the whole idea of God as the creator from the sphere of rational discussion.

The whole process of making movies and writing screenplays is visceral and intuitive.

If you expect perfection from people your whole life is a series of disappointments, grumblings, and complaints.

And what more should I say since it expels the whole host of the virtues from the chamber of the human heart and introduces every barbarous vice as if the bolts of the doors were pulled out.

I'm interested in that whole question of where we wear our identity and how can we see it.

Words mean more than we mean to express when we use them: so a whole book ought to mean a great deal more than the writer meant.

I think the whole glory of writing lies in the fact that it forces us out of ourselves and into the lives of others.

It's like a whole orchestra, the piano for me.

Stay focused. You gotta believe in yourself. I think that's the biggest thing I've been able to do throughout my whole career, even before I actually had a big career in this industry.

In an arch each single stone which, if severed from the rest, would be perhaps defenceless is sufficiently secured by the solidity and entireness of the whole fabric, of which it is a part.

Sometimes small setbacks are just blessings in disguise. They enhance your determination and whole-hearted dedication to achieving your goals.

My whole family is in orthotics and prosthetics, so I grew up having to check for scoliosis every week. 'Come over. Let me feel your spine.

Look at this window: it is nothing but a hole in the wall, but because of it the whole room is full of light. So when the faculties are empty, the heart is full of light.

Most people have never known solitude.... But there are a few of the other kind who can go back to their rooms anywhere and close the door on the whole world, and feel that they need never emerge.

History is a child building a sand-castle by the sea, and that child is the whole majesty of man's power in the world.

Mathematical Analysis is... the true rational basis of the whole system of our positive knowledge.

The narrow gauge mindset of the past is insufficient for today’s wicked problems. We can no longer play the music as written. Instead, we have to invent a whole new scale.

A whole mind cannot create chaos. A conflicted mind can create nothing else.

Wisdom consists in doing the next thing that you have to do, doing it with your whole heart and finding delight in it — and the delight is the sense of the sacred.

Think of the design process as involving first the generation of alternatives and then the testing of these alternatives against a whole array of requirements and restraints.

I went inside my heart to see how it was. Something there makes me hear the whole world weeping.

Repentance is a characteristic of the whole life, not the action of a single moment.

It would be so easy to let my fate just carry me away... following this same path my whole life through. But I know I can't. What I do, I do...with no regrets.

What is laid down, ordered, factual is never enough to embrace the whole truth: life always spills over the rim of every cup.

Doing things that allow you to learn something are great and I love when you have an opportunity to discover a whole new part of the world.

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good.

He who has learned to do nothing with his whole mind and body will have everything done for him.

The creative mind doesn't have to have the whole pattern-it can have just a little piece and be able to envision the whole picture in completion.

[Whole] generations may be swept away by the madness of kings in the space of a single hour.