Whole Quotes

There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

You must pass your days in song. Let your whole life be a song.

The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by the aid of a few wheels, its effect is spread over the whole twenty-four hours.

My whole family is very artistic - my uncles are all actors and theatre directors.

I got the whole band set up in the basement and we are jamming.

Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.

It is my belief CAFTA will be beneficial for Alabama and the United States as a whole.

The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.

I don't have an iPod. I don't get the whole iPod thing. Who has time to listen to that much music? If I had one, it would probably have Sinatra, Beatles, some '70s music, some '80s music, and that's it.

I was very shy and somewhat awkward. I studied too hard. And to have this exciting dorm life was a whole new thing.

I really think that reading a whole script is kind of prying and neurotic, don't you?

It was dripping and, you know, and there was a whole line of cameras and microphones. I felt like - you remember the honor guards, only it was a dishonor guard.

They put chains on me; they chained my waist, my legs. Put me in the back of a squad car, and I literally blacked out. I didn't even - there's whole pieces missing.

On the whole, show business is a hard business in which to be married.

A major one which no one can overlook is technological and based on inventions and discoveries which have altered the whole basis of production and deeply affected social relations.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

I mean, first of all, let me say whichever superhero first came up with the idea of wearing a cape, he wasn't really onto anything good. The number of times I'm treading on that damn thing or I throw a punch and it ends up covering my whole head. It's really not practical.

I'm beginning to get pigeonholed as the girl who plays the crazies and weirdoes - and that's not the entirety of who I am. Hopefully, the whole point of being in this profession is that you change into anyone you want to be.

If one does away with the fact of the Resurrection, one also does away with the Cross, for both stand and fall together, and one would then have to find a new center for the whole message of the gospel.

Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.

My background was producing and writing and performing in television when I started out, and I really missed that, that whole creative process that comes from sort of 'me' storytelling.

I mean it's easier to be in a demonstration if it's a trip that's one of the reasons why the whole thing fell apart in 1971, because it wasn't a trip any longer.

No I don't think it was a myth at all, anymore than what the recession that the whole country was experiencing was a myth, which obviously seems like it's going to get worse and worse.

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

My whole body is a wreck. I've injured myself so many times with jujitsu, skateboarding, football. I guess I like to live hard.

A good column is one that sells paper. It doesn't matter how beautifully it is written and how much you admire the author... if it doesn't sell any papers, it's not a good column. It's a terrible yardstick to use, but in the newspaper business, that's the whole thing.

Taken as a whole, Europe's share of world output is projected to fall by almost a third in the next two decades. This is the competitiveness challenge - and much of our weakness in meeting it is self-inflicted. Complex rules restricting our labour markets are not some naturally occurring phenomenon.

I don't want to be Prime Minister of England, I want to be Prime Minister of the whole of the United Kingdom.

In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.

I think the whole tension about romanticism is the way it builds and builds, and the moment it's consummated, the tension's over.

Although I believe that scripture is divinely inspired and infallible, I have a hard time going along with the belief that the whole creation process occurred in six twenty-four hour days.

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time.

If you compare the size of our reserves of Saudi Arabia and the whole Middle East, it's like three times as much as all of that combined and that's just the easily, readily available 1800 billion barrels and there are probably 3 billion barrels that are commercially just under that, available.

The fact of the matter is, most of our orders are not supersized. Less than five per cent are supersized - that's never mentioned. The whole issue has been supersized itself.

Scriptwriting is the toughest part of the whole racket... the least understood and the least noticed.

No one in the whole movie ever asks anyone, Did you write this letter' Part of the reason is that no one wants to hear that it isn't for them. As soon as they read it, they want it to be theirs.

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.

My whole philosophy is to broadcast the way a fan would broadcast.

I don't text, I don't have a Blackberry. Literally, I just have a cell phone that I haven't programmed and the whole Bluetooth. No. I don't even have an earpiece for my cell phone.

The whole action of the laws tended to increase the number of consumers of food and to diminish the number of producers, was due the invention of the Malthusian theory of population.

Basically, I started singing when I started talking. Music has just been my saving grace my whole life.

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me - they're cramming for their final exam.

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

I'm the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it's still about the work.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.

The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.

Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf; is better than a whole loaf.

For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

I'm modern because I make the difficult seem easy, and so I can communicate with the whole world.

Being an adult comes with a whole new set of issues.

The Whole Wide World is the first movie I've ever produced.

This whole Puff Daddy thing has taken a toll on me.

I've never really taken more than four days off, so it was a lot for me to go away for three-and-a-half months. I went all over Europe. I walked on a whole bunch of beaches and I did a lot of thinking.

I'm one of those people who when I go over a bridge, I want to jump. It's just this intense tickle in the back of my throat. It's like I'm on the verge the whole time I'm walking over that bridge, and I'm not going to get a release until I jump.

It's a little like casting out hundreds of fishing lines into the audience. You start getting little bites, then more, then you hook a few, then more. Then you can start reeling them in and that's a loveliest feeling - the whole audience laughing with you.

What can I say: I got started on the whole wife-and-kids thing at a young age.

I feel like I've been a Yankee my whole life.

I actually haven't been approached a whole lot for television, believe it or not.

My whole career I have worked with non-Western musicians and different orchestras and ensembles and choirs.

We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet.

I add, that those who are bent on restoring the whole church ought to be well instructed in the word, and to abstain from doing anything under the pretext of simplicity.

My whole life has been a lie.

A comedian's body is funny as well as his mind being funny, his whole personage is funny.

I want to do drama, light comedy, the whole range.

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.

My whole life, I always wanted to be an actor.

Woody Allen likes to do a lot of master shots. He likes to get the whole thing in one take, and so you could be going along doing a scene, and then the next to last line, all of a sudden, you stumble, and you have to go back to first base.