Whole Quotes

It occurred to me that every work of art is a synecdoche, there's no way around it. Every creative work that someone does can only represent an aspect of the whole of something. I can't think of an exception to that.

No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying.

The revision of the books of Judges, Samuel, and Kings, undertaken towards the end of the Babylonian exile, a revision much more thorough than is commonly assumed, condemns as heretical the whole age of the Kings.

"Freedom from fear" could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

Going through that traumatic time of being heartbroken and then being pregnant turned my whole life upside down and inside out and just knocked the wind out of me. But I got so much out of that.

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.

I like kids but I also like the option to close the door. Becoming a parent is a whole other life, and it doesn't stop.

My grandfather was running Hillcrest Country Club, and that's where a whole group of Hollywood comedians hung out.

A reciprocal of a fraction is found by flipping it upside down. If you want the reciprocal of a mixed number or a whole number, just convert it to an improper fraction, and then flip it!

Are you kidding? I'm a terrible cook, but John is a really great one. Literally, I never cook. The whole time we were dating, I prepared two officially romantic meals. Both of them were such disasters that he begs me never to go into the kitchen again.

The whole celebrity culture thing - I'm fascinated by, and repelled by, and yet I end up knowing about it.

Waiting and hoping are the whole of life, and as soon as a dream is realized it is destroyed.

In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die.

The world leans on us. When we sag, the whole world seems to droop.

It is a vulgar error that love, a love, to woman is her whole existence; she is born for Truth and Love in their universal energy.

I joined the city government, and we start to operate as the bureaucrats on the local level, so we were the only ones in the whole Russian team who were experienced in practical bureaucratic management in the complicated condition of 1990.

Do you know how many concerts I've done in my whole life, in more than 35 years of performing? Sixty-four.

A man filled with the love of God is not content with blessing his family alone, but ranges through the whole world, anxious to bless the whole human race.

I would like to spend the whole of my life traveling, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend at home.

With me it's the whole thing, it's the conceit, the idea, what the poem is saying. And it goes on just as long as is necessary to say what needs to be said.

You know, the whole philosophy of ad hoc combinations has its strengths and its weaknesses.

I had great faith in Irish actors, that they'd be hip to the whole theatre thing, and they are. I had no illusions of coming over here as some kind of big shot. It's been a learning experience for me too.

The whole country is one vast insane asylum and they're letting the worst patients run the place.

When the new ownership came in, they made some decisions I wasn't pleased with. And when they changed the whole aspect of it, I just totally lost interest.

I've been very physical my whole life. I went out hiking and camping for days in the Australian forest, and when I trained at drama school for three years, we did a whole lot on stage-fighting techniques. And I was a dancer from 5 to 18, so I have a memory for choreography.

And if you're a golfer and you watch a golf film and Matt Damon swing, and it's not great, then you're not going to believe in the golf story, you're not going to believe in the rest of the film. That's the whole movie, so if that swing looks like crap, the movie's crap.

A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.

When I'm out there on the field, I'm in a whole different world, you know? It's like, I'm just having so much fun.

There's a whole set of values, spawned by the vocal and highly visible Republicans, that appeal to the worst in people. Our society is moving in that direction.

I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.