Quotes about whole
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“if you think of a relationship as a living entity, I guess it's one thing if the missing two percent is, like, a fingernail. But when it's the heart, that's a whole different ball of wax.”

Jodi Picoult My Sister's Keeper

Source: My Sister's Keeper

Thinking, Heart

“He’s my whole world.”
“Don’t ever say that about anyone again. Not even me.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

World

“They’re a rotten crowd’, I shouted across the lawn. ‘You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald The Great Gatsby

Variant: They're a rotten lot," I shouted, across the lawn. "You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.
Source: The Great Gatsby

“Where loyalty bound creatures together, they became something larger, something new and whole and inexplicable.”

Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist

Loyalty

“It was the kind of kiss that made
me know that I was never so happy in my whole life.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Happy, Life, Kiss, Happiness

“The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone”

Oswald Chambers (1874–1917) British missionary

“Because that's the thing about mean people: They make you think that the world will never work, that there are divides that you will fall into if you approach. It takes a whole lot of good people to fill in the breach created by a single mean one.”

David Levithan book Wide Awake

Source: Wide Awake

People, World, Thinking

“At one point, she'd wanted to hurl the whole breakfast at the wall. And then she'd remember why it was that men had temper tantrums and women didn't: cleanup.”

Kristin Hannah (1960) American writer

Source: Angel Falls

Women, Men

“A man can spend his whole existence never learning the simple lesson that he has only one life and that if he fails to do what he wants with it, nobody else really cares.--Louis Auchincloss”

Louis Auchincloss (1917–2010) Lawyer, novelist, historian, essayist

Life, Learning

“I had spent my whole life feeling homesick. The only difference between the two of us was that I didn't know what or where home was.”

Marian Keyes Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married

Source: Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married

Life, Feeling, Home

“I thought to myself that he contained a whole universe that I had yet to know.”

Patti Smith Just Kids

Source: Just Kids

Universe

“If you don't feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing isn't very vital.”

John Irving (1942) American novelist and screenwriter

Feeling

“There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.”

Will Rogers (1879–1935) American humorist and entertainer

As quoted in Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time (1979) by Laurence J. Peter, p. 524
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“We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art--we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones.”

Anaïs Nin (1903–1977) writer of novels, short stories, and erotica

Source: In Favor of the Sensitive Man and Other Essays

Art

“The whole life lies in the verb seeing.”

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin (1881–1955) French philosopher and Jesuit priest

Life

“I saw my whole life flash before my eyes, boss. It was horrific. I haven’t done anything to regret yet and it’s been way too brief. I at least want a license before I check out, you know?”

Sherrilyn Kenyon (1965) Novelist

Source: Inferno

Life, Way

“For me, it was almost like winter didn’t count. Summer was what mattered. My whole life was measured in summers.”

Jenny Han (1980) American writer

Source: The Summer I Turned Pretty

Life, Winter, Summer

“His whole life was now summed up in two words: absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

Life

“If the black box flight recorder is never damaged during a plane crash, why isn’t the whole airplane made out of that stuff?”

George Carlin (1937–2008) American stand-up comedian

Box

“Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize that in our own being, we are enough.”

Ram Dass (1931–2019) American contemporary spiritual teacher and the author of the 1971 book Be Here Now

“Anything you dream is fiction, and anything you accomplish is science, the whole history of mankind is nothing but science fiction.”

Ray Bradbury (1920–2012) American writer

Dreams, History, Science

“I'll tell you what love is" I said, "It is blind devotion, unquestioning self humiliation, utter submission, trust and belief against yourself and against the whole world, giving up your heart and soul to the smiter.”

Jasper Fforde book Lost in a Good Book

Source: Lost in a Good Book

Love, World, Soul, Heart

“I didn't know what to think about first: me seeing Claude naked, Claude seeing me naked, or the whole fact that we were related and naked in the same room.
(Sookie Stackhouse, Dead in the Family)”

Charlaine Harris Dead in the Family

Source: Dead in the Family

Family, Thinking, Dead

“i wish the whole world was dead serious about food instead of silly rockets and machines and explosives using everybody's food money to blow their heads off anyway.”

Jack Kerouac book The Dharma Bums

Source: The Dharma Bums

Money, World, Food, Dead

“I would give up everything for you, Giulia"
I smiled at him gently. "But you must understand. I should never want a man to give up anything for me. I should want him to feel in winning me he has won the whole world…”

Deanna Raybourn (1968) American writer

Source: Silent in the Sanctuary

World, Smile, Feeling, Understanding

“When you think about it, most of the good ideas came along to make sin a whole lot easier.”

Joe Hill (1879–1915) Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World

Source: Horns

Idea, Thinking

“No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, cloath and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labour as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed, and lodged.”

Adam Smith (1723–1790) Scottish moral philosopher and political economist

Source: (1776), Book I, Chapter VIII, p. 94.

People, Parting, Clothes, Happiness

“Things that break - be they bones, hearts, or promises - can be put back together but will never really be whole.”

Jodi Picoult book Handle With Care

Source: Handle with Care

Hurtful, Heart

“I mean you ACRES of harm,' Dalrymple growled. 'Untold QUANTITIES of harm. I will visit a whole CONTINENT of harm upon you before we are through.”

Derek Landy (1974) Irish children's writer

Source: Mortal Coil

“Is this what family is like: the feeling that everyone’s connected, that with one piece missing, the whole thing’s broken?”

Trenton Lee Stewart The Mysterious Benedict Society

Source: The Mysterious Benedict Society

Family, Family, Feeling

“To tell you the truth I love Sam. It's not a movie kind of love either. I just look at her sometimes and I think she is the prettiest and nicest person in the whole world.”

Stephen Chbosky book The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Love, Truth, World, Thinking

“Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

Life

“People say the truth hurts. Hell no, it hurts even more if you do a whole bunch of foolishness to try and avoid it.”

Tyler Perry (1966) American actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, producer, author, and songwriter

People, Truth, Hell, Hurt

“Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos — the trees, the clouds, everything.”

Thich Nhat Hanh (1926) Religious leader and peace activist

Source: Touching Peace: Practicing the Art of Mindful Living

Tree, Gratitude

“Nereus spun and expanded, turning into a killer whale, but I grabbed his dorsal fin as he burst out of the water.
A whole bunch of tourists went, "Whoa!"
I managed to wave at the crowd.”

Rick Riordan book The Titan's Curse

Source: The Titan's Curse

Water

“I pull my lower lip all the way in between my teeth. If I try hard enough, maybe I can gobble my whole self this way…. I didn't try hard enough to swallow myself.”

Laurie Halse Anderson Speak

Source: Speak

Way

“When we grow up, we find ways to hide our anxieties, our loneliness, our fear and sorrow. But children hide nothing, putting everything into their tears, which they spread liberally about for the whole world to see.”

Yōko Ogawa book The Diving Pool: Three Novellas

Source: The Diving Pool: Three Novellas

Children, World, Fear, Way

“Gazzy, man, jeezum!" Fang exclaimed. "What the heck have you been eating for God's sake?"
That was a smoke bomb!" Gazzy defended himself. "Not even i could fill this whole flippin' house!”

James Patterson (1947) American author

Source: Fang

God, Housing

“We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.”

Aimee Bender (1969) Novelist, short story writer

Source: The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake

World

“Whoever invented marriage was an ingenious tormentor. It is an institution committed to the dulling of the feelings. The whole point of marriage is repetition. The best it aims for is the creation of strong, mutual dependencies.”

Susan Sontag (1933–2004) American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist

Source: Reborn: Journals and Notebooks, 1947-1963

Marriage, Feeling, Strong, Dependency

“I know a girl made of memories and phrases, lives her whole life in chapters and phases…”

Jimmy Buffett (1946) American singer–songwriter and businessman

Life, Girl, Memory

“We are all good friends. Friendship is what endures. Shared ideals, respect for the whole character of a human being.”

E.L. Doctorow Ragtime

Source: Ragtime

Friendship

“Love is taking chances when every rational part of you screams, ‘Don’t risk it.’ Because it’s only when your heart has been ripped open that you get a chance to find the one person capable of making it whole.”

Sabrina Jeffries (1960) American writer

Source: A Lady Never Surrenders

Love, Chance, Heart, Parting

“To live by grace means to acknowledge my whole life story, the light side and the dark. In admitting my shadow side I learn who I am and what God’s grace means.”

Brennan Manning book The Ragamuffin Gospel

p. 11 https://books.google.com/books?id=sUTZCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA11 <br class="br">1990s, The Ragamuffin Gospel (1990)

Life, God, Light, Learning

“No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.”

Edward R. Murrow (1908–1965) Television journalist

CBS television broadcast, on See It Now (7 March 1954)

“In the whole world, there was no better place than being wrapped in him.”

Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo

Source: Magic Rises

World

“Somebody sees me, and I see myself through them. Then it’s all gone, the whole world falls apart.”

Anne Sexton (1928–1974) poet from the United States

World

“The whole of life is but a moment of time. It is our duty, therefore to use it, not to misuse it.”

Plutarch book Moralia

Moralia, Of the Training of Children
Variant: The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it, therefore, while it lasts, and not spend it to no purpose.

Life, Time

“To a dull mind all of nature is leaden. To the illumined mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

Variant: To the illuminated mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

World, Nature, Light

“An ugliness unfurled in the moonlight and soft shadow and suffused the whole world. If I were an amoeba, he thought, with an infinitesimal body, I could defeat ugliness. A man isn’t tiny or giant enough to defeat anything.”

Yukio Mishima book The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

Source: The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

World

“What's the point of not taking chances? I don't know if I could stand living my whole life afraid.”

Ilsa J. Bick (1957) American writer

Source: Drowning Instinct

Life, Chance

“It was like being at the bottom of an ocean, she said. There was no light and a whole ocean crushing down on you. But most people had gotten so used to it they thought it normal, they forgot even that there was a world above.”

Junot Díaz book The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Source: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

People, World, Light

“To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie.”

Victor Hugo book Les Misérables

Source: Les Misérables

Lie

“Maybe I was more alone than anyone in the whole wide world. Maybe that was okay.”

Cheryl Strayed book Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

Source: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail

World

“I'm simply pointing out that what happens to us isn't the whole story. That I continue to exist even when we're not together.”

Nick Hornby book High Fidelity

Source: High Fidelity

“The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same. "And they lived happily ever after”

Lois Lowry book Number the Stars

Source: Number the Stars

World, Change

“Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.”

Cornelia Funke Inkheart trilogy

Source: Inkheart

Books, World

“It will hurt. Because deep down, I'll know there was someone.. someone I was supposed to have met. Only I'll never meet him. I'll go through my whole life waiting for him to come along, only he never will. What kind of life is that?”

Meg Cabot book Twilight

Source: Twilight

Life, Waiting, Hurt

“The example of a syllogism that he had studied in Kiesewetter's logic: Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal, had throughout his whole life seemed to him right only in relation to Caius, but not to him at all.”

Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian writer

Source: The Death of Ivan Ilych

Life, Men, Study

“You will go on and meet someone else and I'll just be a chapter in your tale, but for me, you were, you are and you always will be, the whole story.”

Marian Keyes (1963) Irish writer

Source: The Other Side of the Story

“It's being made out that the whole point of the war was to topple the Taliban regime and liberate Afghan women from their burqas, we are being asked to believe that the U. S. marines are actually on a feminist mission.”

Arundhati Roy (1961) Indian novelist, essayist

Source: Come September

Women, War

“Practice is funny that way. For days and days, you make out only the fragments of what to do. And then one day you've got the thing whole. Conscious learning becomes unconscious knowledge, and you cannot say precisely how.”

Atul Gawande book Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

Source: Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science

Way, Knowledge, Learning

“I am still the center sister. But I see it differently now. There has to be a middle. Without it, nothing can truly be whole. Because it is not just the space between, but also what holds everything together.”

Sarah Dessen book Just Listen

Source: Just Listen

Sister

“Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”

John Steinbeck Of Mice and Men

Source: Of Mice and Men

World

“Wisdom consists in doing the next thing you have to do, doing it with your whole heart, and finding delight in doing it.”

Meister Eckhart (1260–1328) German theologian

Wisdom, Heart

“Yeah, the whole family knows. It's no big deal. One night at dinner I said, 'Mom, you know the forbidden love that Spock has for Kirk? Well, me too.' It was easier for her to understand that way.”

Holly Black (1971) American children's fiction writer

Source: Tithe

Love, Family, Way, Moms

“The rain would not have bothered Fernanda, after all, her whole life had been spent as if it were raining.”

Gabriel García Márquez book One Hundred Years of Solitude

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude

Life

“But my whole life has been a matter of fighting for one simple hour to do what I want to do. There was always something getting in the way of my getting to myself.”

Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer

Source: The Captain is Out to Lunch and the Sailors Have Taken Over the Ship

Life, Way, Fight

“He is my fate. He's my soul mate. He pervades my whole existence. So, of course, I often ignore him.”

Gretchen Rubin (1966) American writer

Source: The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun

Fate, Soul

“I can try to disable it," I said, "but if I mess up, this whole apartment is going to fill with gas. We'll die."

Thalia swallowed. " I trust you. Just… don't mess it up.”

Rick Riordan book The Demigod Diaries

Source: The Demigod Diaries

“No," Frank said. "I'm only a centurion."

Jason cursed in Latin. "He means he can't control a whole legion. He's not of high enough rank."

Nico swung back his black sword at another gryphon. "Well, then, promote him!”

Rick Riordan book The House of Hades

Source: The House of Hades