Partly Quotes

401 Partly quotes by 361 unique authors

Chairman Mao once said that political power comes from the barrel of a gun. He was only partly right: power that comes from the barrel… — Dalai Lama
But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary… — Orson Scott Card
The personal life of every individual is based on secrecy, and perhaps it is partly for that reason that civilized man is so nervously anxious… — Anton Chekhov
Whereas the melancholic exhibits a state of general inhibition, in the manic patient even normal inhibitions of the instincts are partly or wholly abolished. — Karl Abraham
Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl. — Alison Bechdel
The point is that these decisions they've made are partly for your convenience and partly for theirs and partly out of stereotypes that they carry… — Ted Nelson
I wanted really to make it moment to moment, partly because I'm an actor and that's how I operate - actors are all about creating… — Anthony Rapp
Poetry is partly sympathy, don't you think? If it's any good, it gets people to think about others' points of view. — Edwin Morgan
I am what I do, and that's partly why I don't want to give up singing. But when I can't sing well, I will. — Don McLean
I think there's a certain objectivity that comes from being Canadian. You're partly British and partly American; you have a good bird's-eye view of both… — Eric McCormack
Politics is like roller skating. You go partly where you want to go, and partly where the damn things take you. — Henry F. Ashurst
I've become 40, my audience is partly the same age. — Jean-Claude Van Damme
The anceints devoted a lifetime to the study of arithmetic; it required days to extract a square root or to multiply two numbers together. Is… — John Perry
Photography has almost no reality; it is almost a hundred per cent picture. And painting always has reality: you can touch the paint; it has… — Gerhard Richter
Perhaps the Doors, Curtains, Surface Pictures, Panes of Glass, etc. are metaphors of despair, prompted by the dilemma that our sense of sight causes us… — Gerhard Richter
I have never heard enough classical music to be able to enjoy it; & the simple truth is, I detest it. Not mildly, but will… — Mark Twain
Beauty, real beauty, is something very grave. If there is a God, He must be partly that. — Jean Anouilh
A man's acts are partly determined by spontaneous impulse, partly by the conscious and unconscious effects of the various groups to which he belongs. — Bertrand Russell
Envy ... is one form of a vice, partly moral, partly intellectual, which consists in seeing things never in themselves but only in their relations. — Bertrand Russell
Wikipedia flourished partly because it was a shrine to altruism. — Nicholson Baker

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