Whole Quotes

Under the specious pretext of effecting 'the happiness of the whole community,' nearly all the wrongs and intrusions of government has been carried through.

I'd rather win two or three, lose one, win two or three more. I'm a great believer in things evening out. If you win a whole bunch in a row, somewhere along the line you're going to lose some, too.

But the point is to get a whole new generation of people and people in general more re-engaged in news, and this has happened a lot since September 11th of course.

There is only one purpose to which a whole society can be directed by a deliberate plan. That purpose is war, and there is no other.

The whole speculation about morality is an effort to find a way of living which men who live it will instinctively feel is good.

On the whole, it seems to me that probably the American press is doing a better job of this mediation, so to speak, between the people and the administration than the press of any other country.

I never did a single wise thing in the whole course of my existence, although I have written many which have been thought so.

If a faultless poem could be produced, I am satisfied it would tire the critics themselves; and annoy the whole reading world with the spleen.

People are dynamic. They change, and soon as there are enough of you, things change [for a whole society].

Just because you need a quart of milk doesn't mean you have to go out and buy a whole cow.

Quarterback is not a position that you come in having not played it your whole life.

I am very suspicious of cameras and dramatic interpretations and the whole Hollywood myth-making process. I don't trust it. I've seen it affect people in bad ways.

The world is whole beyond human knowing.

There are not enough rich and powerful people to consume the whole world; for that, the rich and powerful need the help of countless ordinary people.

The good of the whole of Creation, the world and all its creatures together, is never a consideration because it is never thought of; our culture now simply lacks the means for thinking of it.

Government arrogates to itself that it alone forms men. Everybody knows that government never began anything. It is the whole world that thinks and governs.

What thoughts are to the individual, art is to the community as a whole. That's where you reflect on who you are, who you hope to be, what you've gone through, and where you hope to go.

I've said what I'm prepared to say in my poems, and then journalists think that you're going to tell them a whole lot more.

After all, they'd be busy for a while, they were Candymakers now, and they had a whole lotta candy to make.

Just as I suspected, my room does look different, post-eclipse. It looks smalled, like it can't contain me anymore. After all, I've got a whole new world to see.

North Korea has a very striking mythology there. It is influencing the whole nation.

My experience with casting children is that... the whole movie is going to rest on their shoulders, so you have to set aside time and wait for the perfect people to appear.

It's the old case against symbols: if you get them, they seem obvious and artificial, and if you don't, you miss the whole point.

Because we have this whole other human being we have to think about other than ourselves. We had the luxury before of being totally self-centered.

James Caan told me at the end of filming 'Elf' that he had been waiting through the whole film for me to be funny - and I never was.

I'd like to do voiceovers my whole life. I get to kind of create a character and go in and play.

Ten men in our country could buy the whole world and ten million can't buy enough to eat.

Let Wall Street have a nightmare and the whole country has to help them back to bed again.

There is no justice, and great harm, in diminishing the whole array of future opportunity to save a few people now from a regrettable fate.

We need to forge a whole new energy and American Dream.

Intelligent Design opens the whole possibility of us being created in the image of a benevolent God.

But Love has pitched his mansion in the place of excrement. For nothing can be sole or whole that has not been rent.

Death and life were not Till man made up the whole, Made lock, stock and barrel Out of his bitter soul

Covertly the hands of a great clock go round and round! Were they to move quickly and at once the whole secret would be out and the shuffling of all ants be done forever.

One minute gives invention to destroy; What to rebuild, will a whole age employ.

There is but a very minute portion of the creation which we can turn into food and clothes, or gratification for the body; but the whole creation may be used to minister to the sense of beauty.

I like characters where there's something going on and something to make him real. If you find out what somebody cares about, all of a sudden, the whole world opens up.

I have to see the whole scene in my head before I go out and do it. Which I do. I will envision the entire scene before I shoot it.

Just learn the whole script before you start shooting. That makes shooting a joy. Even if they rewrite, it's easy.

I don't watch rushes. My whole thing is to try to stay in the moment with the other actor, and to let it all hang. I'm not sure I'm right on that, though.

Painting for a whole morning gives one as excellent an appetite for one's dinner, as old Abraham Tucker acquired for his by riding over Banstead Downs.

Ten minutes spent in the presence of Christ every day, aye, two minutes, will make the whole day different.

Whether to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest.

In the whole history of this country, we have probably won more friends from the power of our example than from the power of our military.

The best example of all, to me, that our problems are both personal and cultural and political and social is the whole condition of the middle class economically.

We have to change the whole job structure of America. We have got to basically reorient our economy toward the future.

So far war has been the only force that can discipline a whole community, and until an equivalent discipline is organized, I believe that war must have its way.

The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.

At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.

Pretend what we may, the whole man within us is at work when we form our philosophical opinions.