Partly Quotes
401 Partly quotes by 361 unique authors
-
Partly I was honing my self-consciousness into a torture device, sharp and efficient enough to last me the rest of my life.
— Lucy Grealy
-
There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before…
— Booker T. Washington
-
Many respectable physicists said that they weren't going to stand for this -- partly because it was a debasement of science, but mostly because they…
— Douglas Adams
-
Art is partly communication, but only partly. The rest is discovery.
— William Golding
-
My breathing was shallow and my hands were fists. 'Oh, yes, I'm going to have to kill you Barrons.' I said coolly, Partly because, for…
— Karen Marie Moning
-
So it is that Lonely Places attract as many lonely people as they produce, and the loneliness we see in them is partly in ourselves.
— Pico Iyer
-
Life is indeed difficult, partly because of the real difficulties we must overcome in order to survive, and partly because of our own innate desire…
— Albert Ellis
-
Instead he thinks up the worst ending imaginable: Hemingway has Catherine die from hemorrhaging after their child is stillborn. It is the most torturous ending…
— Matthew Quick
-
Moments later a huge male with a cropped mohawk came out. Rehvenge was dressed in a perfectly tailored black suit and had a black cane…
— J R Ward
-
I felt as though I was partly unlearning what i had never learned and yet knew so well: I mean, how to live.
— Albert Camus
-
I'm glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again.
— Mark Twain
-
The artist is a strange being. I think it's safe to say that a real artist is conscious of having a personal singularity that is…
— Peter Schjeldahl
-
What interests us about the past is at least partly a function of what bothers us or makes us curious in the present.
— Adam Garfinkle
-
Children not only have to learn what their parents learned in school, but also have to learn how to learn. This has to be recognized…
— Margaret Mead
-
The tragedy of religion is partly due to its isolation from life, as if God could be segregated.
— Abraham Joshua Heschel
-
It should be borne in mind that there is nothing more difficult to arrange, more doubtful of success, and more dangerous to carry through than…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
-
Primates stand at a turning point in the course of evolution. Primates are to the biologist what viruses are to the biochemist. They can be…
— Alison Jolly
-
Jim and I hit it off immediately, partly because our interests were astonishingly similar and partly, I suspect, because a certain youthful arrogance, a ruthlessness,…
— Francis Crick
-
The value of the television network is partly tradition, serving as a navigation device and as a brand. Research shows that people do know and…
— Anne Sweeney
-
Lots of things are hard work, but I think writing, for me, after I started acting at 13 years old. I like writing now much…
— Gene Wilder
Who Wrote These Partly Quotes
361 authors contributed a total of 401 Partly Quotes, led by these top contributors: