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Despair is a wholly selfish response to fortune's slings and arrows. — Rick Yancey

No country can allow its safety to be wholly dependent on faithful observance by other states of rules to which they are obliged. — Arthur Balfour

This is faith: a renouncing of everything we are apt to call our own and relying wholly upon the blood, righteousness and intercession of Jesus. — John Newton

A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

Every grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits at all. — G.I. Gurdjieff

In those days, I straddled more than a handful of worlds, which is also to say I belonged wholly to none. — Suzanne Rindell

A life spent wholly and completely upon Him is a life wholly and completely satisfied. — Eric Ludy

It is very difficult to be wholly joyous or wholly sad on this earth. — Joseph Conrad

It was hard work-a hard life-but now that she was about to leave it she did not find it a wholly undesirable life. — James Joyce

The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a transformation after which it will be wholly and exclusively love. — Simone Weil

You must concentrate upon and consecrate yourself wholly to each day, as though a fire were raging in your hair. — Taisen Deshimaru

I claim to have been a lifelong and wholly disinterested friend of the British people. — Mahatma Gandhi

Our task is to take this earth so deeply and wholly into ourselves that it will resurrect within our being. — Rainer Maria Rilke

One is never wholly conscious of the greed hidden in one's heart until one hears the sweet sound of silver. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Your labor which gives form to desire takes from desire its form, and you believe you are enjoying Anastasia wholly when you are only its slave. — Italo Calvino

I thank Thee, O Lord, that Thou hast so set eternity within my heart that no earthly thing can ever satisfy me wholly. — John Baillie

He has captured my heart wholly and stolen my soul for eternity. — Nicole Reed

The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other. — Franz Kafka

To copy copies is not normally safe, but it is safe to copy Paul, for he was fully surrendered, wholly sanctified, completely satisfied, — Leonard Ravenhill

My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo — Victor Hugo

I do not think that I am ever overconfident. I am merely wholly confident, and I maintain that there is all the difference in the world there. — Edgar Rice Burroughs

Sex ought to be a wholly satisfying link between two affectionate people from which they emerge unanxious, rewarded, and ready for more. — Alex Comfort

Let not then any one deceive you, as indeed you are not deceived, inasmuch as you are wholly devoted to God. — Ignatius Of Antioch

We are half ruined by conformity, but we should be wholly ruined without it. — Charles Dudley Warner

My most recent novel is written wholly in numbers. — Dan Holloway

A good man ("un homme de bien", Fr.) never wholly perishes, the best part of his being outlives (or survives) in eternity. — African Spir

The presumption that any current opinion is not wholly false, gains in strength according to the number of its adherents. — Herbert Spencer

My definition of what makes a journey wholly or partially horrible is boredom. — Martha Gellhorn

My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied. — Horace

Geniuses are always marginalized to one degree or another. Someone wholly invested in the status quo is unlikely to disrupt it. — Eric Weiner

It is a positive and active anguish, a sort of psychical neuralgia wholly unknown to normal life. — William Styron

Maybe in any art you have to be wholly you in the context of whatever you're doing. — Mariel Hemingway

Nor deem the irrevocable Past
As wholly wasted, wholly vain,
If, rising on its wrecks, at last
To something nobler we attain. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Whatever he knows of his weaknesses, Private Mulvaney is wholly ignorant of his strength. — Rudyard Kipling

Apply yourself wholly to the text; apply the text wholly to yourself. — Johann Albrecht Bengel

Arminian notion of Liberty of the Will, consisting in the will's Self-determination, is repugnant to itself, and shuts itself wholly out of the world. — Jonathan Edwards

To be one woman, truly, wholly, is to be all women. Tend one garden and you will birth worlds. — Kate Braverman

For who ever lived totally as they wanted to; who ever, if they have time to think about it, dies wholly satisfied? And those who remain know it. — Fay Weldon

Philosophical systems are wholly true for their founders only. — Friedrich Nietzsche

God's entire divine nature is wholly and entirely in all creatures, more deeply, more inwardly, more present than the creature is to itself. — Martin Luther

The proposition that humans have mental characteristics wholly absent in non-humans is inconsistent with the theory of evolution. — Gary L. Francione

My message is not wholly understood; only poets understand it. — Miguel Serrano

He struggled, knuckled his eyes, and let the words come. I want you to be mine, wholly mine, your heart, too. I want you to feel the same way. — Marie Rutkoski

To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life. — Robert Louis Stevenson

The only reason you are not yet a saint is because you do not wholly want to be one ... — Peter Kreeft

No one can sum up all God is able to accomplish through one solitary life, wholly yielded, adjusted, and obedient to Him. — D.L. Moody

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you. — Marilyn Monroe

The result desired by the state is a wholly different one from that desired by parents, guardians, and pupils. — Lester Frank Ward

Since I was not able wholly to subscribe to any one set of beliefs advanced by any 'guru' I had to fall back on my own, however derivative. — Anthony Storr

In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless. — Aleister Crowley

I shall not wholly die and a great part of me will escape the grave — Horace

Miracles have no claim whatever to the character of historical facts and are wholly invalid as evidence of any revelation. — John Stuart Mill

While sin is overflowing, [grace] pours itself forth so exuberantly, that it not only overcomes the flood of sin, but wholly absorbs it. — John Calvin

The stage is a place where I can be wholly myself. Even though you're in front of people almost to be judged, it is a place without judgement. — Florence Welch

He tasted like love to her. Like everything sensual. Dark, dangerous and wholly wonderful. — Christine Feehan

That's the trouble with stereotypes: they are not wholly disconnected from the truth. — Andy Miller

The passion of being forever with one's fellows, and the fear of being left for a few hours alone, is to me wholly incomprehensible. — Elizabeth Von Arnim

If you are wholly perplexed and in straits, have patience, for patience is the key to joy. — Rumi

In the middle of the road of my life, I awoke in a dark wood, where the true way was wholly lost. — John Eldredge

The virtue of some people consists wholly in condemning the vices in others. — Herbert Samuel

Henry was wholly preoccupied with the farm. I would have gotten more notice from him if I'd grown a tail and started to bray. — Hillary Jordan

This class has always to sacrifice a part of itself in order not to be wholly destroyed. — Karl Marx

The object of ambition, unlike that of love, never being wholly possessed, ambition is the more durable passion of the two. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

All things that are on earth shall wholly pass away,
Except the love of God, which shall live and last for aye. — William C. Bryant

I keep my TV writing and my book writing almost wholly separate. The audiences feel so different. — Josh Lieb

Once the pursuit of truth begins to haunt the mind, it becomes an ideal never wholly attained. — Agnes Meyer Driscoll

There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good. — Mahatma Gandhi

The writer's joy is the thought that can become emotion, the emotion that can wholly become a thought. — Thomas Mann

Every man is wholly honest to himself and to God, but not to any one else. — Mark Twain

Are not half our lives spent in reproaches for foregone actions, of the true nature and consequences of which we were wholly ignorant at the time? — Herman Melville

Love is either wholly folly, or fully holy. — Michael R. Burch

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them. — Thomas Aquinas

If I am to wholly follow the Lord Jesus Christ, I must forsake everything that is contrary to Him. — Aiden Wilson Tozer

Though always frank, the novelist was never wholly sincere. — Julian Barnes

Every proposition which we can understand must be composed wholly of constituents with which we are acquainted. — Bertrand Russell

History is various and sinuous and no essential part of the human spirit is ever wholly absent from it. — Benedetto Croce

Why, therefore, do we delay to abandon our hopes of this world, and give ourselves wholly to seek after God and the blessed life? But — Augustine Of Hippo

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants. — Edmund Burke

The nation is in a death-struggle. It must either become one vast slaveocracy of petty tyrants, or wholly the land of the free. — Angelina Grimke

Lose yourself wholly; and the more you lose, the more you will find. — St. Catherine Of Siena

Photography, for me, is something I can control fully. It's wholly my own expressions. — Mia Wasikowska

Whoever would fully and feelingly understand the words of Christ, must endeavor to conform his life wholly to the life of Christ. — Thomas A Kempis

Homeopathy is wholly capable of satisfying the therapeutic demands of this age better than any other system or school of medicine. — Charles Frederick Menninger

Has it never struck you that a man who does next to nothing but hear men's real sins is not likely to be wholly unaware of human evil? — G.K. Chesterton

While the Giver archetype is celebrated in our culture, the Receiver is almost wholly unknown. The result? Busyness is a virtue. ~Amanda Owen — Amanda Owen

People do not want war. War springs from causes wholly outside the lives, interests, and feelings of the people. — Frederic C. Howe

Now wholly in the lap of whatever god has been appointed the job of protecting small boys. — Stephen King

We understand that the real market value of Blockbuster may never be fully realized as a wholly owned part of Viacom. — Sumner Redstone

You trust wholly or not at all. Trust was not divisible. — Helen Kieran Reilly

All our good is more apparently from God, because we are first naked and wholly without any good, and afterwards enrich with all good. — Jonathan Edwards

The religion of the Bible is wholly supernatural. — A.B. Simpson

To treat of human actions is to deal wholly with second causes. — Herman Melville

ACCEPTATION (ACCEPTA'TION) n.s.[from accept.]1. Reception, whether good or bad. This large sense seems now wholly out of use. — Samuel Johnson

A hermit is one who renounces the world of fragments that he may enjoy the world wholly and without interruption. — Khalil Gibran

If you would do the best with your life, find out what God is doing in your generation and throw yourself wholly into it. — Arthur Wallis

If the life we live in this world is wholly for Christ, it is a life of daily surrender. — Ellen G. White

Borrowing from cultures without understanding the fundamentals can yield some pretty weird and wholly illogical perversions. — Tim Gunn

Teach us, Master, how to give
All we have and are to Thee;
Grant us, Saviour, while we live,
Wholly, only Thine to be. — Frances Ridley Havergal

I said it in Hebrew - I said it in Dutch - I said it in German and Greek; But I wholly forgot (and it vexes me much) That English is what you speak! — Lewis Carroll

wholly satisfactory, — Elizabeth Peters