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Quotes About Whole

I love that about us how capable we are of feeling how unafraid we are of breaking and tend to our wounds with grace just being a womancalling myselfa womanmakes me utterly wholeand complete
~ Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey
It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture.
~ Don DeLillo
for that which is a disgrace to human nature, throws something of a shade over all the human character, and each individual feels his share of the wound that is given to the whole.
~ Thomas Paine
When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.
~ Thornton Wilder
That was the first time ever in history that anybody got Special Guest Star. I started that whole nonsense.
~ Jonathan Harris
What I've gathered from people who are big fans of the 'Musketeers', they adore the books to the degree where an awful lot of them, even if they have problems with an adaptation, normally still lap it up because they just love the whole idea of it.
~ Tom Burke
I always dreamed of being an entertainer. So, my whole life to some extent, or from the age that I can remember onwards, I knew I was going to have to make some sort of attempt at being noticed for being funny.
~ Lil Dicky
By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.
~ John Dewey
there was yet the assurance of such power in the preparation of the whole, that we knew her to be merely running over the chords of our appetite with preliminary savors, as a musician acquaints his touch with the keys of an unfamiliar piano before breaking into brilliant and triumphant execution. Within a week she had mastered
~ O. Henry
It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.
~ Confucius
At the foot of the steps he picked up what appeared to be a wig and saw that it was fashioned whole from a dried human scalp.
~ Cormac McCarthy
To be alive, to be man alive, to be whole man alive: that is the point. And at its best, the novel, and the novel supremely, can help you. It can help you not to be dead man in life.
~ D H Lawrence
But, mind you, it's like this; while you live your life, you are in some way an organic whole with all life. But once you start the mental life you pluck the apple. You've severed the connection between the apple and the tree: the organic connection. And if you've got nothing in your life but the mental life, then you yourself are a plucked apple...you've fallen off the tree.
~ D.H. Lawrence
My spirit has pass'd in compassion and determination around the whole earth. I have look'd for equals and lovers an found them ready for me in all lands, I think some divine rapport has equalized me with them
~ Walt Whitman
The layman thinks objectively of an apple as a solid object, but the scientist should think of the apple as one fleeting part of a whole cycle.
~ Walter Russell
The thing I got to thinking about,' he said, 'is--what are the conditions that lead to larger portions of society being generous, humble, and selfless? While we have the conditions for economic opportunity here--and that is a blessing--do we have the conditions to learn how to self-regulate our own passions for the good of the whole?
~ Warren St. John
The fabric of existence weaves itself whole.
~ Charles Ives
The best grains to eat are whole grains such as millet, quinoa, amaranth, and buckwheat, which are all gluten-free and can be soaked, sprouted, and eaten raw.
~ Cherie Soria
I feel in love with black; it contained all color. It wasn't a negation of color…Black is the most aristocratic color of all…You can be quiet, and it contains the whole thing.
~ Louise Nevelson
Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love.
~ Hamilton Wright Mabie
Gray tenía una visión exaltada del estratega como alguien que podía ver el sistema como un todo, captando las múltiples interdependencias y los numerosos factores en juego con el fin de averiguar y señalar dónde se podría aplicar la acción del modo más provechoso.
~ Lawrence Freedman
Aristotle's classic dictum: "A whole is that which has beginning, middle, and end." It is true for a whole life, is it not? That realization has been
~ Lawrence Sanders
Morality is an utterly meaningless term unless defined as the good one does to others, the fulfilling of one's function in the sociopolitical whole.
~ le guin ursula k v
Rewrite, rewrite, rewrite, don't be precious about your first draft, it's an architectural blueprint to a whole building, be your own worst critic, confront your weakness and remember it's a craft.
~ learner tobsha