Wholly Quotes

630 Wholly quotes by 464 unique authors

O supreme and unapproachable light! O whole and blessed truth, how far art thou from me, who am so near to thee! How far removed… — Anselm of Canterbury
People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since… — Anthony Powell
I don't really understand what the public perception of me is. I think public perception and reality are two wholly different things. — Tamara Mellon
A man can make himself put down what comes, even if it seems nauseating nonsense; tomorrow some of it may not seem wholly nonsense at… — F L Lucas
The force of the guinea you have in your pocket depends wholly on the default of a guinea in your neighbour's pocket. If he did… — John Ruskin
[Disestablishment was] the best thing that ever happened to the state of Connecticut. It cut the churches loose from dependence on state support. It threw… — Lyman Beecher
Since I was not able wholly to subscribe to any one set of beliefs advanced by any 'guru' I had to fall back on my… — Anthony Storr
Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to… — Algernon Sidney
What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person. Are we not, for most of our lives, marking time? Most of our being… — John Boorman
I feel most at home in the United States, not because it is intrinsically a more interesting country, but because no one really belongs there… — Wyndham Lewis
Anger clearly has its proper place at work, which is neither wholly absent nor ever present. The manager who is an emotional blank is just… — Julian Baggini
So the experience of death is turned into that of the exchange of functionaries, and anything in the natural relationship to death that is not… — Theodor Adorno
The film has succeeded in transforming subjects so indistinguishably into social functions, that those wholly encompassed, no longer aware of any conflict, enjoy their own… — Theodor Adorno
Hence reason also demands that, since our thoughts cannot all be true because we are not wholly perfect, what truth they do possess must inevitably… — Rene Descartes
Green consumerism generally, and 'healthy' products and lifestyles in particular, contain quite precise notions about how an individual should consider his or her well-being. Not… — Peter Dickens
My work in books, films and talks lies almost wholly with children, and I have very little time to give to grown-ups. — Enid Blyton
The photographs are not illustrative. They, and the text, are coequal, mutually independent, and fully collaborative. By their fewness, and by the importance of the… — Walker Evans
What should we do? We have no wish to interrupt the destroyer's work of saving lives... But war is war and the people being picked… — Martin Niemoller
We believe in a moral code. Communism denies innate right or wrong. As W. Cleon Skousen has said in his timely book, The Naked Communist:… — Ezra Taft Benson
No man can be a Christian and a soldier at the same time, for the two ideas are wholly incompatible. — William E. Woodward
Most persons think that a state in order to be happy ought to be large; but even if they are right, they have no idea… — Aristotle
That the machine of Heaven is not a hard and impervious body full of various real spheres, as up to now has been believed by… — Tycho Brahe
The object of ambition, unlike that of love, never being wholly possessed, ambition is the more durable passion of the two. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Spiritual stagnation ensues when man's environment becomes unpredictable or when his inner life is made wholly predictable. — Eric Hoffer
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new; nor… — Eric Hoffer

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