Whole Quotes - Page 39

• I hate people who splash their own pain on covers, like the whole world should hear about them. Why are we all supposed to be interested in one individual's suffering?

  Andrea Corr

  Pain, Hate, People

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• I have heard of 'the dead lying in heaps', but never saw it till this battle. Whole ranks fell together.

  Emory Upton

  War, Lying, Battle

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• The machine does not teach playing flexibility, does not help in taking account of human facxtors in the battle, and on whole, strictly speaking, it restricts the possibilities for young players.

  Sergei Shipov

  Player, Battle, Doe

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• If we possessed a thorough knowledge of all the parts of the seed of any animal (e.g. man), we could from that alone, be reasons entirely mathematical and certain, deduce the whole conformation and figure of each of its members, and, conversely if we knew several peculiarities of this conformation, we would from those deduce the nature of its seed.

  Rene Descartes

  Nature, Math, Animal

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• I don't know if it's just me or everyone, but the whole vibe with skiing is not so much thriving on competition against others as it is against myself and the clock.

  Picabo Street

  Focus, Competition, Skiing

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• One thing we did well the whole tournament was keep fighting. And no matter what happened the point before, missed opportunity, missed easy shot, we just played the next point and blocked it out of our mind. That's why we're the champs.

  Daniel Nestor

  Fighting, Opportunity, Focus

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• People are concerned, here again, about life, and haven't given a whole lot of attention to how you make fathers responsible for the lives they bring into the world.

  Birch Bayh

  Father, People, Attention

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• A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Heart

  "Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.

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• As soon as you know the voice and understand what it is, the whole scene changes. The same world which was the ghastly battlefield of maya is now changed into something good and beautiful.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Beautiful

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge”, p.46, editionNEXT.com

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• Neither numbers nor powers nor wealth nor learning nor eloquence nor anything else will prevail, but purity, living the life, in one word, anubhuti, realisation. Let there be a dozen such lion-souls in each country, lions who have broken their own bonds, who have touched the Infinite, whose whole soul is gone to Brahman, who care neither for wealth nor power nor fame, and these will be enough to shake the world.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Country

  Swami Vivekananda (1996). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

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• Perfect sincerity, holiness, gigantic intellect, and all-conquering will. Let only a handful of men work with these, and the whole world will be revolutionized.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Men

  Swami Vivekananda, Ann Myren (1993). “Living at the Source: Yoga Teachings of Vivekananda”, Shambhala Publications

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• It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Beautiful

  Swami Vivekananda (1997). “Prabuddha Bharata: Or Awakened India”

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• Well, the big elephant in the whole system is the baby boomer generation that marches through like a herd of elephants. And we begin to retire in 2008.

  Lindsey Graham

  Girl, Baby, Elephants

  "Social Security Debate Starts on a Good Note". "Special Report" with Jim Angel, www.foxnews.com. March 16, 2005.

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• Swing is so much more than a dance, it's a way of life. The music gets stuck in your mind and the dance is in your heart and the whole scene is engraved on your soul. You can fly.

  Nicholas Hope

  Heart, Swings, Dancing

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• If I were to choose among all gifts and qualities that which, on the whole, makes life pleasantest, I should select the love of children. No circumstance can render this world wholly a solitude to one who has this possession

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson

  Children, Solitude, Quality

  Thomas Wentworth Higginson (2007). “Outdoor Studies, Poems”, p.245, Reprint Services Corporation

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• Love coming out of you makes you happy. The whole world can love you, but that love will not make you happy. What will make you happy is to share all the love you have inside you. That is the love that will make a difference.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Love You, Differences, Self Improvement

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• Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else.

  Wayne Dyer

  Self Improvement, Needs, Way

  "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Understanding Buddhism" by Gary Gach, (p. 285), 2002.

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• Inner child work is essential. It's the essence of growth as a whole person

  Cheryl Richardson

  Children, Essence, Adoption

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• Is it not strange, that an infant should be heir of the whole world, and see those mysteries which the books of the learned never unfold?

  Thomas Traherne

  Book, Childhood, World

  Thomas Traherne (2010). “Centuries of Meditations”, p.152, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Our whole life is but a greater and longer childhood.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Childhood, Life Is, Whole Life

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• The morning woods were utterly new. A strong yellow light pooled beneath the trees; my shadow appeared and vanished on the path, since a third of the trees I walked under were still bare, a third spread a luminous haze wherever they grew, and another third blocked the sun with new, whole leaves. The snakes were out - I saw a bright, smashed one on the path - and the butterflies were vaulting and furling about; the phlox was at its peak, and even the evergreens looked greener, newly created and washed.

  Annie Dillard

  Strong, Morning, Butterfly

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• The grove is the centre of their whole religion. It is regarded as the cradle of the race and the dwelling-place of the supreme god to whom all things are subject and obedient.

  Tacitus

  Dwelling, Race, Tree

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• Restoration ecology is experimental science, a science of love and altruism. In its attempts to reverse the processes of ecosystem degradation it runs exactly counter to the market system, to land speculation, to the whole cultural attitude of regarding the Earth as commodity rather than community. It is a soft-souled science.

  Stephanie Mills

  Running, Attitude, Land

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• To the great tree-loving fraternity we belong. We love trees with universal and unfeigned love, and all things that do grow under them or around them - the whole leaf and root tribe.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Roots, Tree, Tribes

  Henry Ward Beecher (2009). “Star Papers”, p.272, Applewood Books

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• Only caring individuals can restore the places we inhabit. The 'simple act of planting a tree' not only restores the places we live, but makes us whole and powerful again.

  Paul Hawken

  Powerful, Caring, Simple

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