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Thoroughly to believe in one's own self, so one's self were thorough, were to do great things.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Clio, the muse of history, is as thoroughly infected with lies as a street whore with syphilis.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
True love grows by sacrifice and the more thoroughly the soul rejects natural satisfaction the stronger and more detached its tenderness becomes ...
— Teresa Of Avila
I felt like I wasn't living thoroughly enough - I was distracted in ways I wouldn't be if I'd been born in 1929.
— Miranda July
I have frequently noticed how circumstances conspire to help a man, or a boy, when he has thoroughly resolved on doing a thing.
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
It is a fine thing when a man who thoroughly understands a subject is unwilling to open his mouth.
— Yoshida Kenko
Chinese people are thoroughly sick of Western imperialism.
— Andre Vltchek
No mind is thoroughly well-organized that is deficient in a sense of humor.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
You Cannot Live as I Have Lived and Not End Up Like This: The Thoroughly Disgraceful Life & Times of Willie Donaldson.
— Jay Nordlinger
Conscience is thoroughly well bred and soon leaves off talking to those who do not wish to hear it.
— Samuel Butler
A few books, well studied, and thoroughly digested, nourish the understanding more than hundreds but gargled in the mouth, as ordinary students use.
— Frances Osborne
In sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act.
— Jacques Ellul
I have loved and been loved, thoroughly and deeply by good and decent people who believed in me. Who let me dare to believe in myself.
— Carolee Dean
Series Two of 'The Paradise' is meaty and thoroughly entertaining ... and yeah, you're in for a good thrill ride!
— Ben Daniels
Varnishing is the only artistic process with which Royal Academicians are thoroughly familiar.
— Oscar Wilde
Something that can never be learnt too thoroughly can never be said too often.
— Seneca The Younger
Ah, but you're the insidious typeJane Eyre with of touch of Becky Sharp. A thoroughly dangerous girl. — Dodie Smith
A little of everything and nothing thoroughly, after the French fashion.
— Michel De Montaigne
I thoroughly object to getting old. If you could let me be 16 again, I'd give you everything I've got and everything I'll ever have.
— Felix Dennis
(Art is) a means to function thoroughly and passionately in a world that has a lot more to it than paint.
— Robert Rauschenberg
It certainly must have been a relief for women of the country to realize that one could be a woman and a lady and yet be thoroughly political.
— Pearl S. Buck
We cannot change, we cannot move away from what we are, until we thoroughly accept what we are. Then change seems to come about almost unnoticed.
— Carl R. Rogers
At first, I thoroughly enjoyed being famous.
— Phil Donahue
Wisdom, thoroughly learned, will never be forgotten.
— Pythagoras
No woman respects a man when he's doing a thing thoroughly badly.
— Agatha Christie
Some books should be tasted,Some devoured,
But only a few
Should be chewed and digested
Thoroughly — Cornelia Funke
We were characters out of a movie. We were thoroughly alive. And we were absolutely beautiful.
— Krystal Sutherland
Do not imagine that these most difficult problems can be thoroughly understood by any one of us.
— Maimonides
Metaphysics is the only thoroughly emotional thing.
— G.K. Chesterton
Anne DeGrace is a gifted story teller and Far From Home contains some of her most intriguing characters. Thoroughly enjoyable.
— Paulette Jiles
Go and see for yourself to thoroughly understand the situation (genchi genbutsu).
— Jeffrey K. Liker
I think imagination is one of the greatest blessings of life, and while one can lose oneself in a book one can never be thoroughly unhappy.
— Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt
My job as a human being as well as a writer is to feel as thoroughly as possible the experience that I am part of, and then press it a little further.
— Jane Hirshfield
What are murderers like? Some of them, have been thoroughly nice chaps.
— Agatha Christie
One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Nothing reopens the springs of love so fully as absence, and no absence so thoroughly as that which must needs be endless.
— Anthony Trollope
The fact is, it is seldom indeed that any wrong one suffers is not thoroughly foreshadowed by wrongs one has done.
— Marilynne Robinson
To become a thoroughly good man is the best prescription for keeping a sound mind and a sound body.
— Francis Bowen
God has hardwired me to thoroughly enjoy and be sharpened by good and friendly theological discussion about the gospel.
— Tullian Tchividjian
I thoroughly enjoy a good hot bath. That is my ultimate luxury.
— Michelle Yeoh
Like all the best radical positions, then, mine is a thoroughly traditionalist one.
— Terry Eagleton
The man who has his ideals, no matter how thoroughly he may be persuaded to desert them, survives well only so long as he is true to those ideals.
— L. Ron Hubbard
No man can thoroughly master more than one art or science.
— William Hazlitt
I'm thoroughly convinced that editors don't help authors.
— H.L. Mencken
Only when we're thoroughly convinced that the Christian life is entirely of grace are we able to serve God out of a grateful and loving heart.
— Jerry Bridges
Adventure is the best way to feel the reality thoroughly!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
By the time they got home, they were both thoroughly bilingual in cursing. *
— Orson Scott Card
Through the life and death of Jesus Christ, history becomes not the transient bearer of eternal values but, for the first time, thoroughly temporal.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives.
— Gertrude Jekyll
Whatever exists at all exists in some amount. To know it thoroughly involves knowing its quantity as well as its quality.
— Edward Thorndike
I went into the Army believing that if you want peace you must prepare for war. I now believe that if you prepare thoroughly for war you will get it.
— John Frederick Maurice
Every means hitherto employed with the intention of making mankind moral has been thoroughly immoral.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Taking stock of what you own, when done correctly and thoroughly, helps dampen the urge to shop frivolously.
— Nina Garcia
I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.
— Leonard Cohen
To be thoroughly and abidingly happy is not only to get what we all instinctively desire, but to fulfill the purpose of our nature.
— George Hodges
I missed jazz, kind of. And by the time I came to it in life, it was too intimidating to enjoy thoroughly.
— Warren Zevon
Morality represents for everybody a thoroughly definite and ascertained idea: the idea of human conduct regulated in a certain manner.
— Matthew Arnold
Although spoken English doesn't obey the rules of written language, a person who doesn't know the rules thoroughly is at a great disadvantage.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
If you're going to be an entertainer, entertain thoroughly. If you're going to make a scary movie, scare people well.
— Andrew Bryniarski
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
— George Bernard Shaw
Everybody knows girls like the bad boys, and I'm thoroughly bad.
— Jasinda Wilder
A true magician must not undertake anything regarding which he is not thoroughly informed.
— Franz Bardon
It sounded somewhat doom-laden, so I felt obliged to look it up more thoroughly, in case I should eat some chocolate rather quickly.
— Carol Anne Dobson
We need a new global culture that finds the existence of millions of thirsty people thoroughly and immediately unacceptable.
— Jean-Michel Cousteau
Ingratitude never so thoroughly pierces the human breast as when it proceeds from those in whose behalf we have been guilty of transgressions.
— Henry Fielding
A discordant mind, black with confusion and despair, would finish me off as thoroughly as the cold.
— Richard E. Byrd
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[T]here is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists ... an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness.
— George Washington
Only free men are thoroughly grateful one to another.
— Baruch Spinoza
He had a look of composed dissatisfaction, as if he understood life thoroughly.
— Flannery O'Connor
No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.
— Elbert Hubbard
He thoroughly intended to do some major grovelling. Olympic-style begging, if necessary.
— Christy Reece
Most things are beyond me," Block said. "I ain't found anything yet that I thoroughly understood,
— Flannery O'Connor
I'm glad that I am not young in so thoroughly finished a world.
— Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
A thoroughly honest man is a rare jewel in the shallow stream of meaningless pebbles.
— Kristian Goldmund Aumann
