102 Wholly Quotes for You to Enjoy

We take people to the threshold of religion. Our aim is to induce immediate experience that is beyond the odd, beyond the strange, and beyond the weird. It verges on the wholly other. Larry Harvey

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It would be wholly wrong constitutionally for the unelected House of Lords to do anything, to kill anything of a financial nature that has been through the House of Commons not once but twice. Nigel Lawson

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It is clear to me that people often want incompatible things. They want danger and excitement on the one hand, and safety and security on the other, and often simultaneously. Contradictory desires mean that life can never be wholly satisfying or without frustration. Theodore Dalrymple

Life Me People Frustration Safety Other Danger Security Never Clear Excitement Simultaneously Without Hand Contradictory Often Want Mean Wholly Satisfying Incompatible Things Desires

Since most scientists are just a bit religious, and most religious are seldom wholly unscientific, we find humanity in a comical position. His scientific intellect believes in the possibility of miracles inside a black hole, while his religious intellect believes in them outside it. William Golding

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I am sorry to say that sometimes matters of very small importance waste a good deal of precious time, by the long and repeated speeches and chicanery of gentlemen who will not wholly throw off the lawyer even in Congress. William Whipple

Time Good Sometimes Will Long Lawyer Sorry Matters Congress Say Small Throw Importance Gentlemen Deal Am Repeated Off Chicanery Very Precious Precious Time Who Good Deal Even Wholly Waste Speeches

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance. Henry David Thoreau

Nature Relation Finer Poetic Pursuits Instance True Know Least Bees Than Which Certain Wholly Keeping Suggest

I've always felt like an outsider as a woman. I've never really felt wholly comfortable in a women's world or woman's things. I've never been conventionally pretty or thin or girly-girl. Never felt dateable. All I've seen on TV has never felt like mine. Alex Borstein

Woman Women World Seen Mine TV Pretty Never Outsider Like Comfortable Felt Always Been Really Wholly Thin Things

Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect. Algernon Sidney

Best Men Nothing Unknown Ought Divest Perfect Never Wisest Permanent Passions Affections Which Themselves Many Wholly Things

In the seventeenth century, the science of medicine had not wholly cut asunder from astrology and necromancy; and the trusting Christian still believed in some occult influences, chiefly planetary, which governed not only his crops but his health and life. Alice Morse Earle

Life Health Science Christian Medicine Astrology Asunder Some Crops Only Had Occult Still Governed His Trusting Chiefly Influences Which Century Cut Planetary Wholly Believed

People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that. Anthony Powell

People Every Think Circumstance Memoirs Exactly Case Invented Never True Since Because Reverse Happened Cannot Include Novel Wholly Biography

My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics. Arthur Keith

Truth Science Ethics Conviction Concerned Personal Wholly

There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking. Bliss Carman

You Passion Will See Rarely Fact Never Developed Perfection May Lacking Which Note Successful Fully Wholly Lives

Men invent means and methods of coming at God's love, they learn rules and set up devices to remind them of that love, and it seems like a world of trouble to bring oneself into the consciousness of God's presence. Yet it might be so simple. Is it not quicker and easier just to do our common business wholly for the love of him? Brother Lawrence

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It is the Band which unites the Interests of Individuals; it secures to them their respective Rights, and preserves them from Injuries; it is the Source of numberless Blessings, which are interrupted, or wholly vanish, the Moment it is disturbed. Charles Inglis

Rights Band Preserves Respective Vanish Disturbed Individuals Blessings Source Which Them Interests Moment Wholly Injuries Unites Interrupted

The interesting thing about depression and anxiety is that, it's not always wholly negative things that bring them on. Often times, those heavy swings of emotion can be brought on by just anything that is overly emotional. Chris Sullivan

Depression Anxiety Negative Those Brought About Emotion Emotional Always Overly Times Often Just Heavy Anything Interesting Them Interesting Thing Wholly Swings Thing Things Bring

This is ridiculous, I mean, wholly ridiculous. It never did any child any harm to have something that was a tiny bit above them anyway, and I claim that anyone who can follow Doctor Who can follow absolutely anything. Diana Wynne Jones

When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off a wet leaf after a rain. Donna Tartt

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Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone. Elizabeth Bowen

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Like the 'little emperors' of one-child China, too many Boomers were taught early that the world was made (or saved) for their comfort and enjoyment. They behaved accordingly, with a self-indulgence that was wholly rational, given their situation. Eric Liu

For an event that was wholly created in the poisonous psychological warfare kitchens of the Second World War, run by the ministries of propaganda in many countries, not just by the British or the Americans, but also the Russians and undoubtedly the world Jewish organizations. Ernst Zundel

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