Partial Quotes

214 quotes by 194 authors

I tend to really be partial to Ayn Rand, and to The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. — Clarence Thomas
No one seriously doubts Socrates' maxim: The unexamined life isn't worth living. Self-assessment and attempts at self-improvement are essential aspects of "the good life." Yes,… — Robert A. Burton
There is no such thing as failure, only partial success! — Suzanne Yoculan
No clouds gathered in the skies and the polluted streams became clear, whilst celestial music rang through the air and the angels rejoiced with gladness.… — Gautama Buddha
History can't give attention to what's been lost, hidden, or deliberately buried; it is mostly a telling of success, not the partial failures that enabled… — Scott Berkun
Freedom is partial to no race. Freedom has no religion. Freedom favors no ethnicity. Freedom discriminates not between rich and poor countries. Inevitably freedom will… — Eskinder Nega
Truth is not to be found either in traditional capitalism or in Marxism. Each represents a partial truth. Historically, capitalism failed to discern the truth… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms — Jorge Luis Borges
Pressure, no doubt, has always been a most important factor in the metamorphism of rocks; but there is, I think, at present some danger in… — Thomas George Bonney
I got to thinking about relationships and partial lobotomies. Two seemingly different ideas that might just be perfect together - like chocolate and peanut butter.... — Sarah Jessica Parker
A century of partial tolerance gave us Jews access to your world. In that period the great attempt was made, by advance guards of reconciliation,… — Maurice Samuel
Armament should be an illegality everywhere, and some sort of international force should patrol a treaty-bound world. Partial armament is one of those absurdities dear… — H.G. Wells
I've always been partial to the image of liquor as lubrication, a layer of protection from all the sharp thoughts in your head. — Gillian Flynn
Chelsea Morning is a great Joni Mitchell song and I guess I'm partial to her lyrics because they show me a slightly different perspective on… — Neil Diamond
While preaching against every kind of government, and demanding complete freedom, we must support all struggles for partial freedom, because we are convinced that one… — Errico Malatesta
Sporadic and shallow dipping in the doctrine of Christ and partial participation in His restored Church cannot produce the spiritual transformation that enables us to… — David A. Bednar
Understanding the often unconscious nature of genetic control is the first step toward understanding thatâ€”in many realms, not just sexâ€”weâ€™re all puppets, and our best… — Robert Wright
In all of history, we have found just one cure for errorâ€”a partial antidote against making and repeating grand, foolish mistakes, a remedy against self-deception.… — David Brin
One of the most pathetic aspects of human history is that every civilization expresses itself most pretentiously, compounds its partial and universal values most convincingly,… — Reinhold Niebuhr
Of course I constantly despair at my own incapacity, at the impossibility of ever accomplishing anything, of painting a valid, true picture or even knowing… — Gerhard Richter

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