Being Whole Quotes

Everyone has favorite criminals. Mine are pimps. We can all rob a bank; we can all sell drugs. Being a pimp is a whole other thing. — Chris Rock

I come from a land where the idea of the whole world being one family is rooted in our ethos 'vasudhaiva kutumbakam'. — Narendra Modi

I spent my whole career playing it safe, being a gentleman, never doing anything controversial. — Robin Thicke

Playing football was like being trapped in a rhythm, and my whole career was like that. You have very little time to switch off. — Dennis Bergkamp

Intelligent Design opens the whole possibility of us being created in the image of a benevolent God. — William A. Dembski

Your plane would fly pretty well, except it would be on fire the whole time, and then it would stop flying, and then stop being a plane. — Randall Munroe

Resisting life, he finds that the Self is more than his own being; it includes the whole universe. — Monica Furlong

Sometimes it takes falling apart to ever have a chance of being fully whole. — Amanda Rose

The basic word I-You can only be spoken with one's whole being. The basic word I-It can never be spoken with one's whole being. — Martin Buber

I love New York, but being there the whole year, it gets a little crazy with the speed and rhythm of things. — Penelope Cruz

Healing is about being awake. Being broken and whole at the same time. — Geneen Roth

When I commit, I commit with my whole heart, my whole being. I know the Bible like the back of my hand. — Barry White

I love her not with my mind or my imagination, but with my whole being. Loving her I feel myself to be an integral part of all God's joyous world. — Leo Tolstoy

Why spend your whole life trying to be somebody that you're not? It's so much more fun to be yourself **** what everybody says. — Lady Gaga

You can live a whole life time never being awake. — Dan Millman

Things admit of being used as symbols, because nature is a symbol, in the whole, and in every part. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life. — Sigmund Freud

I'd hate to think our whole planet was being judged by Texas. — Stephen King

Positivity brings about a peace of mind which in turn relaxes your whole being. — Suman Arora

As a matter of fact, part of being Jewish is the whole question of what it is to be a Jew. — Peter Riegert

We did not come to remain whole.
We came to lose our leaves like the trees,
Trees that start again. — Robert Bly

Being alone in nature is another way to feel the joy of beauty - and oneness with a greater whole. — Jude Bijou

Gymnastics is my whole life, and I dream of going to the Olympics and being a world champ. — Aly Raisman

This whole goddam house stinks of ghosts. I don't mind so much being haunted by a dead ghost, but I resent like hell being haunted by a half-dead one. — J.D. Salinger

It is so fascinating that someone can commit their whole entire lifestyle to being such a fantastic woman when I'm such a bum about it. — Kesha

Conflict, which rouses up the best and highest powers in some characters, in others not only jars the whole being, but paralyzes the faculties. — Anna Brownell Jameson

He would have found the whole thing wildly exciting if he wasn't so tired of things being so wildly exciting. — Cynthia Hand

The whole quantum setup ends up being embarrassing in the special way something pretentious is embarrassing when it's also wrong. — David Foster Wallace

I'm lucky because I don't like being in the sun a whole lot, just because the repercussions for me - I feel it, I go very red. — Laura Linney

Really, Dad. I understand now about the whole being greater than the sum of the parts. — Wendelin Van Draanen

Submission is not in the bowing of heads or knees but in the humbling of your whole being (spirit, soul and body) — Ikechukwu Izuakor

I've been in this business my whole life. I'm pretty bulletproof as far as being hurt. — Tina Yothers

I know that I will be punished just as much for being an itty-bitty feminist as for going the whole way. And so I go the whole way. — Mary Daly

I was born with no money. So when people talk about Bow Wow being rich his whole life, I don't know where they get that. — Bow Wow

I would surrender my being to see you whole once more. — Khloe Kardashian

Your whole being should be symmetrical. Yoga is symmetry. That is why yoga is a basic art. — B.K.S. Iyengar

Maybe I was naive, but I thought the whole point of being an MP was to scrutinise legislation and improve it. — Sarah Wollaston

Reformed theology is ALWAYS being reformed in each new generation. And reformed theology as it is usually reported today is NOT the whole story. — Oliver D. Crisp

I see any production of any nature being good for the development of the whole industry. — Ann Macbeth

On the whole, the best fortress you can have, is in not being hated by your subjects. If they hate you no fortress will save you ... — Niccolo Machiavelli

Being convinced one knows the whole story is the surest way to fail. — Phil Crosby

Yes, metaphor. That's how the whole fabric of mental interconnections holds together. Metaphor is right at the bottom of being alive. — Gregory Bateson

For what lies inside the human being is the whole spiritual cosmos in condensed form. In our inner organism we have an image of the entire cosmos. — Rudolf Steiner

I love that contradiction of being feminine but playing in the boys' treehouse. My whole life's been like that. — Gwen Stefani

There is no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. — Will Rogers

The whole of a human being is merely a vertebra. — Lorenz Oken

Being empty makes me whole sometimes. I wonder if every hollow hole has its own solidity of fulfillment — Munia Khan

I suck at being social. I think one thing and my mouth says something completely different, like I'm possessed. By a whole lot of stupid. — Ashley Poston

I put everything I can into a record. That's what art is for. I take a risk every time I do one with my whole being. — Dan Fogelberg

I've spent my whole life being told I have a face like a horse. You are just what you are, aren't you? — Jeremy Paxman

I think the president's quite comfortable being the underdog. I think he's happy to run this race from - as if he were behind the whole time. — Robert Gibbs

I love being part of a team, any team. Not just playing, but the camaraderie, the whole thing. It's just what I get off on. — Steve Nash

You see, that's the whole point of being in government. If you don't like something you simply make up a law that makes it illegal. — Richard Curtis

There's a whole split personality thing of being a farm girl and a rock and roll girl. — Kate Pierson

And that was the whole point of being a covert operative. Welcome to the dark side. — Toni Anderson

The Whole World:
My favorite thing
is being your lap
while we sit there
together & love
the whole world. — Brian Andreas

There were a lot of beautiful, thin people out there driving nice cars. It was a whole different experience being in L.A. — Bonnie Jo Campbell

Nothing in the whole world felt as good as being able to make something from a sudden idea. — Beverly Cleary

It's harder being a woman director because on the whole women don't have husbands or boyfriends who are willing to be wives — Jane Campion

The whole pleasure of being in a state of unknowing is that as long as you don't know, all possible outcomes feel as if they are happening. — John Green

Peace fell upon her spirit. Strong comfort and assurance bathed her whole being. Life was so solid and splendid, and so good. — Thomas Wolfe

It's easier to be just one more soldier in a giant army than being the whole army by yourself. — Sylvain Neuvel

Crazy world or maybe it's just the view we have of it, looking through a crack in the door, never being able to see the whole room, the whole picture. — Judith Guest

The whole experience of being hit by a bullet is very interesting and I think worth describing in detail. — George Orwell

The whole point of being a closet fan of anything is that people aren't supposed to then out you and say that you're closet fans of stuff. — James Roday

Somehow I get the idea that being whole is about being perfectly consistent. I'd rather we be perfectly honest. — Danielle LaPorte

The world is full of people who will go their whole lives and not actually live one day. She did not intend on being one of them. — Leigh Standley

Though there is something cruel about being in Hawaii and you have a computer in front of you the whole time. — Justin Theroux

When one is happy there is no time to be fatigued; being happy engrosses the whole attention. — E.F. Benson

We lead our lives well when we love God with our whole being and when we love neighbors as we (properly) love ourselves. — Miroslav Volf

My whole purpose of being a musician is to not follow the rules, so if I set rules for myself, I've already failed. — Lotic

For me, even just being English was a whole sort of experience in as much as I'm Australian. — Radha Mitchell

The alchemical idea that each of us contains the whole universe and that we are, therefore, responsible for its well-being. — Paulo Coelho

Wasn't the whole point of being an artist, or at least part of it, that you didn't have to wear a tie? — Meg Wolitzer

Last year was a lifetime, a whole career in one season. We went from being the dregs to winners. — Damon Hill

Not being excited is to have missed the whole point of life. — Steve Chandler

Prayer means that the total you is praying. Your whole being reaches out to God, and God reaches down to you. — E. Stanley Jones

The greatest blessing in the whole world is being a blessing. — Jack Hyles

The hardest part about being a kid is knowing you have got your whole life ahead of you. — Jane Wagner

Man is whole when he is in tune with the winds, the stars, and the hills ... Being in tune with the universe is the entire secrets. — William O. Douglas

If some dude I'd never heard of managed to broadcast a platitude like that to the whole globe, I'd probably just feel like I was being spammed. — Damian Kulash

In the eye of that Supreme Being to whom our whole internal frame is uncovered, dispositions hold the place of actions. — Hugh Blair

A human being becomes whole not in virtue of a relation to himself [only] but rather in virtue of an authentic relation to another human being(s). — Martin Buber

There is clearly a kind of anger that is healthy. It is the concentration of one's whole being in the determination: this must change. — Barbara Deming

She's chain-smoking the whole time and leering at us like lambs being lead to some biblical character with a hard-on. — Logan Ryan Smith

That is the whole trouble with being a heretic. One usually must think out everything for oneself. — Aubrey Menen

No one is to blame. It is neither their fault nor ours. It is the misfortune of being born when a whole world is dying. — Alexander Herzen

Simplicity is the whole secret of well-being. — Peter Matthiessen

When I was 15 and dreaming about being a rock star ... I thought the whole point of it was to get chicks. — Rivers Cuomo

A nervous breakdown waits around the corner for anyone who lets himself wallow in bitterness. Little by little, it takes over your whole being. — Mariama Ba

I think that's an important part about being in a band, to be able to stand for what you do throughout the whole thing. — Johan Hegg

Tom's whole being applauded this idea. It was deep, and dark, and awful; the hour, the circumstances, the surroundings, were in keeping with it. — Mark Twain

We are all good friends. Friendship is what endures. Shared ideals, respect for the whole character of a human being. — E.L. Doctorow

One's whole being vibrates like strings brushed by an invisible wind. — Peter Russell

Wit saves us from being swallowed whole by life. — Mason Cooley

It hardly seemed fair, because, unlike a horse or a Seeing Eye dog, the whole glory of being a bird is that nobody would ever put you to work. — David Sedaris

I think part of the whole agenda of being open for business is about making sure that people can get here and also get there. — Andrea Leadsom

It seemed as if the whole of the world was slowly being stripped of innocence. Or maybe I was seeing a little too clearly. — Patti Smith

Surrender your whole being to a note, and gravity disappears ... wi th one chord — Carlos Santana

And I particularly like the whole thing of being boss. Boss and employee ... It's the slave quality that I find very alluring. — Hugh Grant