The Whole Quotes

I share my name with an aerobatic bird that can whiz across a whole summer sky in seconds. A swift is so equipped for speed that it can scarcely cope with being stationary.

I grew up near Disneyland, and my brother's an animator, so I was always really inspired by bright, cartoony colors and that whole feeling of happiness.

Our whole practical government is grounded in mob psychology and the Boobus Americanus will follow any command that promises to make him safer.

What makes us feel drawn to music is that our whole being is music: our mind and body, the nature in which we live, the nature which has made us, all that is beneath and around us, it is all music.

Our whole life is an attempt to discover when our spontaneity is whimsical, sentimental irresponsibility and when it is a valid expression of our deepest desires and values.

Some photographs are like a Chekhov short story or a Maupassant story. They're quick things and there's a whole world in them. But one is unconscious of it while shooting.

The laws of animality govern almost the whole of history.

Where the citizen uses a mere sliver or board, the pioneer uses the whole trunk of a tree.

Science progresses not because scientists as a whole are passionately open-minded but because different scientists are passionately closed-minded about different things.

I feel I'm just meant to do stop-motion. Live-action is much more glamorous to some, but it's basically a whole army of people focused on one thing.

Round about what is, lies a whole mysterious world of might be, a psychological romance of possibilities and things that do not happen.

Every author has the whole past to contend with; all the centuries are upon him. He is compared with Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton.

The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground.

Magic doesn't happen often - not once in a blue moon ... I expect there isn't another magic ship like this one in the whole world.

There's a whole lot of evil in the world looks pretty on the outside.

Yeah, the whole family knows. It's no big deal. One night at dinner I said, 'Mom, you know the forbidden love that Spock has for Kirk? Well, me too.' It was easier for her to understand that way.

A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities.

One hour of love has a whole life in it.

I think that's the whole point of Bridget Jones. It's all about that it's okay to fail.

We live in a unipolar world at this point with America as a moral arbiter and the whole morality is based on this insane corporatocracy.

I've been fighting my whole career to show a different side and prove naysayers - not prove them wrong, because I don't think you should get your energy from negative people.

The universal and lasting establishment of peace constitutes not merely a part, but the whole final purpose and end of the science of right as viewed within the limits of reason.

God does not show us the whole way but only the next step. His promise is, "I will counsel you with my eye upon you".

You had to hate the Colonel a whole lot to keep from loving him.

Within our whole universe the story only has the authority to answer that cry of heart of its characters, that one cry of heart of each of them: "Who am I?"

Pain and love - the whole of life, in short - cannot be looked on as a disease just because they make us suffer.

I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost.

Only a deep attention to the whole of our life can bring us the capacity to love well and live freely.

Sometimes, when you're not getting a whole lot of attention, you're actually walking the right path.

Papa didn't cuss, he didn't raise a whole lot of fuss. But when we did wrong, Papa beat the hell out of us.

The whole story of human and personal progress is an unmitigated tale of denials today-denials of rest, denials or repose and comfort and ease and pleasure-that tomorrow may be richer.

I'm a professional singer. I have a theory that all actors want to be rock stars, and all rock stars want to be actors. I spent my whole school life forming boy bands.

Without the shepherd's dog, the whole of the open mountainous land in Scotland would not be worth a sixpence.

Extend the sphere and you take in a greater variety of parties and interests; you make it less probable that a majority of the whole will have common motive to invade the rights of other citizens.

When you see big people, they expect them to wobble or something. The whole feeling of bigger people in this country is so negative. This works for me.

[The passage of the Sugar Act] set people a thinking, in six months, more than they had done in their whole lives before.

I think the whole tension about romanticism is the way it builds and builds, and the moment it's consummated, the tension's over.

The whole thing about doing TV is that you never know what's going to happen. You just have to go with it and go with the flow.

cracked things often hold out as long as whole things; one takes so much better care of them!

It's as if you kneel to plant the seed of a tree and it grows so fast that it swallows your whole town before you can even rise to your feet.

We live in the moment now where this whole movie business is crazy.

The healthcare reform bill now includes a tanning booth tax of 10 percent. You know what this means? This whole thing could be funded by the cast of 'Jersey Shore.'

Allowing the U.N. into Iraq will demonstrate to the Iraqis that the international community as a whole is committed to bringing stability and safety to their country.

The confrontation between America and Europe reveals not so much a rapprochement as a distortion, an unbridgeable rift. There isn't just a gap between us, but a whole chasm of modernity.

Catastrophe, riots, factories blowing up, armies in flight, flood - the ear can detect a whole apocalypse in the starry night of the human body.

I don't think I've succeeded in making any really good films. There are moments, scenes, whole movements that sing. It has all added up to a cinema of sorts, even though I'm still learning my art.

If I relegate impossible Salvation to the prop room, what remains? A whole man, composed of all men and as good as all of them and no better than any.

A good therapist uses their whole being to engage fully with the whole being of the person coming for help.

Don't let the fear of failure or failure as a whole stop you from becoming an entrepreneur. Failure doesn't define you or your business unless you allow it to.

You don't want to do what your parents want you to do. You got your own things. And the whole idea of getting a job because of who your father is - that didn't isn't right.