Wholly Quotes

630 Wholly quotes by 464 unique authors

I believe all war to be wholly wrong. — Mahatma Gandhi
The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly… — Eric Hoffer
The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires. — Aristotle
We do not die wholly at our deaths: we have mouldered away gradually long before. Faculty after faculty, interest after interest, attachment after attachment disappear:… — William Hazlitt
I lack the peace of simple things. I am never wholly in place. I find no peace or grace. We sell the world to buy… — Wendell Berry
The church does not simply have a missions department; it should wholly exist to be a mission. — Timothy Keller
Unless all ages and races of men have been deluded by the same mass hypnotist (who?), there seems to be such a thing as beauty,… — Annie Dillard
When we are self-conscious, we cannot be wholly aware; we must throw ourselves out first. This throwing ourselves away is the act of creativity. — Madeleine L'Engle
As iron put into the fire loseth its rust and becometh clearly red-hot, so he that wholly turneth himself unto God puts off all slothfulness,… — Thomas a Kempis
... it is a welcome symptom in an age which is commonly denounced as materialistic, that it makes heroes of men whose goals lie wholly… — Albert Einstein
Either be wholly slaves or wholly free. — John Dryden
To treat of human actions is to deal wholly with second causes. — Herman Melville
Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason --you could reckon the ration as twenty-four… — Desiderius Erasmus
The idealist's program of political or economic reform may be impracticable, absurd, demonstrably ridiculous; but it can never be successfully opposed merely by pointing out… — Charles Horton Cooley
Remember that the future is neither ours nor wholly not ours, so that we may neither count on it as sure to come nor abandon… — Epicurus
If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself — Ursula K. Le Guin
A theory of the middle class: that it is not to be determined by its financial situation but rather by its relation to government. That… — Lionel Trilling
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
The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on… — Claude Levi-Strauss
How marvelous it all is! Built not by saints and angels, but the work of men's hands; cemented with men's honest blood and with a… — Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery
Art is a wholly physical language whose words are all the visible objects. — Gustave Courbet
In my early life, and probably even today, it is not sufficiently understood that a child's education should include at least a rudimentary grasp of… — Phyllis Bottome
She never managed to find herself in these books no matter how hard she tried, exhuming traits from between the pages and donning them for… — Eleanor Brown
The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner. — Bela Lugosi
The one wholly true thought one can hold about the past is that it is not here. To think about it at all is therefore… — Esther Hicks

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