Wholly Quotes

630 Wholly quotes by 464 unique authors

Our lives disconnect and reconnect, we move on, and later we may again touch one another, again bounce away. This is the felt shape of… — Salman Rushdie
Like any child, I slid into myself perfectly fitted, as a diver meets her reflection in a pool. Her fingertips enter the fingertips on the… — Annie Dillard
What we, or at any rate what I, refer to confidently as memory--meaning a moment, a scene, a fact that has been subjected to a… — William Maxwell
The word ‘slavery’ and ‘right’ are contradictory, they cancel each other out. Whether as between one man and another, or between one man and a… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
On the earth, even in the darkest night, the light never wholly abandons his rule. It is diffused and subtle, but little as may remain,… — Jules Verne
You can write nothing of value unless you give yourself wholly to the the theme -- and when you so give yourself -- you lose… — Charlotte Bronte
That which we die for lives as wholly as that which we live for dies. — E E Cummings
The art of living... is neither careless drifting on the one hand nor fearful clinging to the past on the other. It consists in being… — Alan Watts
As a man's real power grows and his knowledge widens, ever the way he can follow grows narrower: until at last he chooses nothing,but does… — Ursula K. Le Guin
I said it in Hebrew—I said it in Dutch— I said it in German and Greek; But I wholly forgot (and it vexes me much)… — Lewis Carroll
A deeply true, wholly aching account of the dangerous way we live now--LOVE JUNKIE is great fun to read, and finally fully redemptive. Rachel Resnick… — Elizabeth Wurtzel
which is completely out-of-line behavior. Then you are wholly within your rights to stomp on their foot." "No," Delia said, over her shoulder. "Actually, you're… — Sarah Dessen
Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought - these are the artist's highest joy. — Thomas Mann
And if someone felt that his life had been an utter failure, and that he himself was only one among millions of wholly unimportant people… — Michael Ende
I submit that Zooey's face was close to being a wholly beautiful face. As such, it was of course vulnerable to the same variety of… — J D Salinger
Can human nature ever be wholly and radically transformed? Can the man whom God made good be made wicked by man? Can the soul be… — Victor Hugo
The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous — John le Carre
Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French. It is wrong and inhuman… — Mahatma Gandhi
Could the peaceable principle of the Quakers be universally established, arms and the art of war would be wholly extirpated: But we live not in… — Thomas Paine
We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break… — John Adams
Faith and feelings are the warm marrow of evil. Unlike reason, faith and feelings provide no boundary to limit any delusion, any whim. They are… — Terry Goodkind
The pure playfulness of certain wholly whimsical portions of (Charles) Cros’s work should not obscure the fact that at the center of some of his… — Andre Breton
You cannot play with the animal in you without becoming wholly animal, play with falsehood without forfeiting your right to truth, play with cruelty without… — Dag Hammarskjold
Non- Euclidean calculus and quantum physics are enough to stretch any brain; and when one mixes them with folklore, and tries to trace a strange… — H P Lovecraft
Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself....His task was to discover his own destiny - not an arbitrary… — Hermann Hesse

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