Our normal waking consciousness, rational consciousness as we call it, is but one special type of consciousness, whilst all about it, parted from it by the filmiest of screens, there lie potential forms of consciousness entirely different.
William James

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.
Immanuel Kant

Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife.
Roald Dahl

People find life entirely too time-consuming.
Stanislaw Lec

Pessimism only describes an attitude, and not facts, and hence is entirely subjective.
Francis Parker Yockey

Philosophy would render us entirely Pyrrhonian, were not nature too strong for it.
David Hume

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.
David Herbert Lawrence

Say not you know another entirely till you have divided an inheritance with him.
Johann Kaspar Lavater

She saw too that man has the power of exceeding himself, of becoming himself more entirely and profoundly than he is, truths which have only recently begun to be seen in Europe and seem even now too great for its common intelligence.
Sri Aurobindo

Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

So to answer your question, I'm not entirely sure how I ended up where I am today, in the sense that nobody in my family is an actor. It just happened by mistake.
Hugh Dancy

Solvency is entirely a matter of temperament and not of income.
Logan P. Smith

Success depends almost entirely on how effectively you learn to manage the game's two ultimate adversaries: the course and yourself.
Jack Nicklaus

Success is very ephemeral. You depend entirely on the desire of others, which makes it difficult to relax.
Eva Green

Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want.
Clive Barnes

That was always the difference between Muhammad Ali and the rest of us. He came, he saw, and if he didn't entirely conquer - he came as close as anybody we are likely to see in the lifetime of this doomed generation.
Hunter S. Thompson

The aim and the idea of the Four Year Plan were and remain entirely correct and necessary!
Hjalmar Schacht

The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
Agnes de Mille

The attack on Clinton on terrorism is entirely politically inspired by the right-wing of the Republicans, and has no basis in fact whatsoever.
Sidney Blumenthal