Quotes About Whole

Alas, my being the James Bond of vampires isn't the whole issue. Vanity must wait.

Lurking behind every chance to be made whole by fame is the axman of further dismemberment. —Leo Braudy, The Frenzy of Renown

the modern writer's aim is) general revelation by suggestion (and) making a very tiny part do for a whole.

You know, my whole life I've taken pride in the fact that I'm Greek. But I have to say that after you and Artemis, I'm seriously beginning to hate some of my heritage. Is it congenital or is there something else that has made you such a bitch? (Tory)

Scientists say the European space probe that landed on the comet has detected organic matter. This means there could be either life in space or a Whole Foods. We just don't know.

Here's the thing: I had never been to Boston, my whole life. Probably because I'm a Yankee fan.

Progress, then, is a property of the evolution of life as a whole by almost any conceivable intuitive standard.... let us not pretend to deny in our philosophy what we know in our hearts to be true.

Deep in my heart how the presence of you shines, in a light to last a whole life through.

The ordinary routines of life are never chronicled by the historian, but they make up almost the whole of experience.

There's no conscious plan here; my whole life in politics as a state legislator and in Congress has been about strengthening the middle class.

I've never broken a bone in my life, or in my body.

People would be surprised to know that I've gone to regular school my whole life and I don't have one friend who is an actor!

I've spent my whole life fighting for free-market principles and the Constitution. That's not going to change.

With Godzilla, I've been a huge fan my whole life.

Quarterback is not a position that you come in having not played it your whole life.

The surest test if a person be sane, is if she accepts life whole, as it is.

I've been trying to bust into the comedy business my whole life. It's hard in Hollywood to do different things. I know this. It's a struggle.

there is no underlying reality to the world. "Reality," in the everyday sense, is not a good way to think about the behavior of the fundamental particles that make up the universe; yet at the same time those particles seem to be inseparably connected into some invisible whole, each aware of what happens to the others.

It seems to me that my whole life I've been standing on some tower or a pillbox or a trampoline, waving the names of writers, as if we needed rescue. And the first person I had to rescue was myself.

Of the maxims of orthodox finance, none, surely, is more antisocial than the fetish of liquidity…. It forgets that there is no such thing as liquidity of investment for the community as a whole.

Across her face there seemed to pass many feelings and reflections: it was as if she ached to touch and gather in and make whole those scattered years of change. But how can time be gathered in and kissed? There is only flesh.

Just remember we are always talking about the organization as a whole—not about the manufacturing department, or about one plant, or about one department within the plant. We are not concerned with local optimums.

Whatever moved in Kit was vast and slow, a symphony of emotion that swelled from discord into something complex and bittersweet and whole.

I don't think fear that you share with the whole world warps you. It's personal fears that do that.