Completeness Quotes

86 quotes by 78 authors

Book love is something like romantic love. When we are reading a really great book, burdens feel lighter, cares seem smaller, and commonplaces are suddenly… — Steve Leveen
With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials. — Henri Matisse
The life that intends to be wholly obedient, wholly submissive, wholly listening, is astonishing in its completeness. Its joys are ravishing, its peace profound, its… — Thomas Raymond Kelly
The goal is nothing other than the coherence and completeness of the system not only in respect of all details, but also in respect of… — Max Planck
Venus de Milo. To a child she is ugly. When a mind adjusts to thinking of her as a completeness, even though, by physiologic standards,… — Charles Fort
Fresh beauty opens one's eyes wherever it is really seen, but the very abundance and completeness of the common beauty that besets our steps prevents… — John Muir
It is the consistency of the information that matters for a good story, not its completeness. Indeed, you will often find that knowing little makes… — Daniel Kahneman
Every phase of our life belongs to us. The moon does not, except in appearance, lose her first thin, luminous curve, nor her silvery crescent,… — Lucy Larcom
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads. — George Bernard Shaw
Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to… — Beverly Sills
The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity. — Virginia Woolf
Just as the unique characteristics of both males and females contribute to the completeness of a marriage relationship, so those same characteristics are vital to… — David A. Bednar
And sometimes then he sat with us for an hour or so, sharing our limbo, listening while I read. Books from any shelf, opened at… — Diane Setterfield
What do you mean, blindly? That baby is a very sentient creatureâ€¦ That baby sees the world with a completeness that you and I will… — Tom Wolfe
She wanted to be alone - to think things out - to adjust herself, if it were possible, to the new world in which she… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
To admit the existence of a need in God is to admit incompleteness in the divine Being. Need is a creature-word and cannot be spoken… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
I dreamt four nights ago of clock hands descending from the universe like rain, of the moon as a green eye, of mirrors and insects,… — Jonathan Safran Foer
It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being empty. — Jonathan Safran Foer
Art, its completeness, its formedness, its finishedness, had no power to console. Words on the other hand, were a lifeline. They left their hushed rhythm… — Diane Setterfield
The purpose of relationship is not to have another who might complete you, but to have another with whom you might share your completeness. — Neale Donald Walsch

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