Whole Quotes

When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely - the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it.

In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.

However, the Bible is called the Word of God because the whole transcript is an inspired, faithful, and infallible record of what God determined essential for us to know about Himself, the cosmos in which we live, our spiritual allies and adversaries, and our fellow man.

Florida will be gone altogether, the whole damned place, in not too long.

The whole basis of the United Nations is the right of all nations - great or small - to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.

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.

I looked for the same pitch my whole career, a breaking ball. All of the time. I never worried about the fastball. They couldn't throw it past me, none of them.

There's nothing I miss about anything in the whole wide world. The idea of missing something means you're not living in the moment. Every moment is good for something.

I refuse to consign the whole male sex to the nursery. I insist on believing that some men are my equals.

To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy modesty; round these two centres the whole doctrine of largesse revolves.

The whole reason Sabrina came about was because we wanted something good for families to watch on TV.

In theater, you've got to be aware of your whole body because it involves stamina. It involves two-and-a-half hours and a sustained release of energy, maybe for six months.

A tree you pass by every day is just a tree. If you are to closely examine what a tree has and the life a tree has, even the smallest thing can withstand a curiosity, and you can examine whole worlds.

I used to shy away from publicity so as not to let it get in the way of the work. But it's part of the job. The tabloids are a whole other arena. If fame happens, it happens. I just want to maintain focus.

You have two pages, that's the whole credit card agreement. The terms are clear and flat and easy to see so anyone can read them. So you could lay four credit cards in front of you and say, 'Oh, that's the one that has the highest rate, that's the one that has the really scary provision that could hurt me.'

Everything I've ever done in my whole career, people might not know, I've never written anything down on paper.

I like mathematics because it is not human and has nothing particular to do with this planet or with the whole accidental universe - because, like Spinoza's God, it won't love us in return.