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Quotes About Whole

This world is full of conflicts and full of things that cannot be reconciled. But there are moments when we can... reconcile and embrace the whole mess, and that's what I mean by 'Hallelujah.'
~ Leonard Cohen
I'm tired of the industry, tired of playing the whole game - the dressing up, the red carpet. I hate talking about myself.
~ Drea De Matteo
The generalized disaster of the era for the United States as a whole, however, was the Great Depression. And, though class barriers hardly disappeared, a vivid sense of sociologist Charles Fritz's "survivor community" feeling does emerge from the words of those who endured it.
~ Sarah Chayes
Dan said the other day to the guide, Enough, enough, enough! Say no more! Lump the whole thing! say that the Creator made Italy from designs by Michael Angelo!
~ Mark Twain
I am in all truthfulness attempting to be cheerful about this whole topic, though most people find themselves hindered in believing me, no matter my protestations.
~ Markus Zusak
The answer being found in the development of the whole of human knowledge (and thus reality) out of Self-consciousness; Self-consciousness being both the entirety of reality and also a distinct and distinguishable part of it.
~ Martin Green
Ein Zeug »ist« strenggenommen nie. Zum Sein von Zeug gehört je immer ein Zeugganzes, darin es dieses Zeug sein kann, das es ist. Zeug ist wesenhaft »etwas, um zu..«.
~ Martin Heidegger
You might say Gion was like a pond high up on a mountaintop, fed by streams of rich springwater. More water poured in at some spots than others, but it raised the pond as a whole.
~ Arthur Golden
Thus music is as immediate an objectification and copy of the whole will as the world itself is
~ Arthur Schopenhauer
The demand being made of me was to treat the breakdown as if fear and frustration were not a part of it, to act as if my life, the whole life, has not changed.
~ Arthur W. Frank
For human beings, life is meaningful because it is a story. A story has a sense of a whole, and its arc is determined by the significant moments, the ones where something happens. Measurements of people's minute-by-minute
~ Atul Gawande
For human beings, life is meaningful because it is a story. A story has a sense of a whole, and its arc is determined by the significant moments. (...) And in stories, endings matter. (...) Endings matter, not just for the person but, perhaps even more, for the ones left behind.
~ Atul Gawande
And the news got worse. It appeared that there was this whole other person Jesus Christ whose birthday a lot of people tended to confuse with mine. I was personally outraged. It was a long time before I forgave the Lord for that.
~ Ava Gardner
The image of the Goddess inspires women to see ourselves as divine, our bodies as sacred, the changing phases of our lives as holy, our aggression as healthy, our anger as purifying, and our power to nurture and create, but also to limit and destroy when necessary, as the very force that sustains all life. Through the Goddess, we can discover our strength, enlighten our minds, own our bodies, and celebrate our emotions. We can move beyond narrow, constricting roles and become whole.
~ Starhawk
Goethe put it over two centuries ago . . . Life as a whole expresses itself as a force that is not to be contained within any one part. . . . The things we call the parts in every living being are so inseparable from the whole that they may be understood only in and with the whole.
~ Stephen Harrod Buhner
When we see the Earth from space, we see ourselves as a whole. We see the unity, and not the divisions. It is such a simple image with a compelling message; one planet, one human race.
~ Stephen Hawking
Although in principle we know the equations that govern the whole of biology, we have not been able to reduce the study of human behavior to a branch of applied mathematics.
~ Stephen Hawking
One of the great revelations of the space age has been the perspective it has given humanity on ourselves. When we see the Earth from space, we see ourselves as a whole. We see the unity, and not the divisions. It is such a simple image with a compelling message; one planet, one human race.
~ Stephen Hawking
Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed.
~ Corita Kent
I think the American legal system sucks worse than a Celine Dion cover version of Whole Lotta Love.
~ Dennis Miller
Edward Carpenter looked at civilization as a kind of disease we have to pass through.48 This Decadence can be overcome. Confronting the nature of the whole is the inescapable challenge.
~ John Zerzan
His body was just part of the whole package
~ Jojo Moyes
This is where any sensible person pulls together the remnants of their self-respect, announces that they deserve more, and walks off to find someone who can give them a whole self, not snatched lunchtimes and haunted, empty evenings.
~ Jojo Moyes
A whirlwind had entered the room and turned the whole thing upside down. Now it settled around Alice, tiny dust motes glittering as they fell.
~ Jojo Moyes