Wholly Quotes
630 quotes by 477 authors
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Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly…
— Hannah Arendt
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Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
— John Adams
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Good masters teach good doctrine, but that taught by evil masters is wholly evil.
— Saint Basil
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I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.
— Ludwig van Beethoven
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Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.
— Elizabeth Bowen
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It's great to want to be part of something, but it's a different thing completely to believe wholly in some type of movement, and to…
— Brandon Boyd
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Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.
— Robert Browning
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One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with wholly foreign personnel.
— James Buchan
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Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.
— Edmund Burke
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America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to…
— George H. W. Bush
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No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
— Thomas Carlyle
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The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a…
— John le Carre
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Is art really the priesthood that demands the pure in heart who belong to it wholly?
— Paul Cezanne
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Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
— Thomas Aquinas
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Those who truly have the spirit of champions are never wholly happy with an easy win. Half the satisfaction stems from knowing that it was…
— Nicole Haislett
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If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own throat.
— C.S. Lewis
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Stories first heard at mothers knee are never wholly forgotten.
— Giovanni Ruffini
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It is essential that justice be done, and it is equally vital that justice not be confused with revenge, for the two are wholly different.
— Oscar Arias
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A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Is it wholly fantastic to admit the possibility that Nature herself strove toward what we call beauty? Face to face with any one of the…
— Joseph Wood Krutch
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