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Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.
Dorothy Day

Women, Men, Bodies

By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.
John Dewey

Complex, Object, Meant

My dear wife has, I would say, probably never opened a religious book, and seems to be one of those people to whom the whole idea is utterly remote and absurd.
Christopher Hitchens

Wife, Book, Idea

But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.
Jose Marti

Love, Single, Greed

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
Walter Scott

Life, Men, Mean

I almost resent the whole fashion thing. Good God- never wearing the same thing twice and all of those things. It's a pain in the ass.
Jennifer Aniston

Good, Pain, Fashion

If one does away with the fact of the Resurrection, one also does away with the Cross, for both stand and fall together, and one would then have to find a new center for the whole message of the gospel.
Hans Urs von Balthasar

Together, Find, Away

'The Panorama' is also the last place anywhere in New York where the World Trade Center still stands, whole, as it stood in the early morning of September 11. I can also see the corner where I saw the first tower fall and howled out loud. Seeing the buildings again here is uplifting, healing.
Jerry Saltz

Morning, Healing, Place

Only an artist as preternaturally acute and copacetic, as oddly visionary and just odd as Richard Artschwager, would be able to lay out the whole course of human evolution and have it make some kind of sense while also seeming like a dazzling insight.
Jerry Saltz

Human, Sense, Able

My site has the whole thing - blogs, information, video interviews.
William Shatner

Video, Interviews, Blogs

A tree you pass by every day is just a tree. If you are to closely examine what a tree has and the life a tree has, even the smallest thing can withstand a curiosity, and you can examine whole worlds.
William Shatner

Life, Tree, Curiosity

It's like driving a car at night. You never see further than your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.
E. L. Doctorow

Car, Night, Driving

It's very easy to go through your whole life and never really get anything done or have any real meaningful interactions or relationships. All of a sudden you're dead, and I'm going to say that's got to be a letdown.
Demetri Martin

Life, Real, Done

That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder.
Bill Watterson

Science, Trying, Problem

Who apart from the gods is without pain for his whole lifetime's length?
Aeschylus

Pain, Gods, Lifetime

The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is don't do it unless you're willing to give your whole life to it. Red wine and garlic also helps.
Jim Harrison

Life, Give, Advice

I see the whole concept of Generation X implies that everyone has lost hope.
Alanis Morissette

Hope, Lost, Everyone

The whole celebrity thing is not something I'm overly interested in. I don't pop up at parties. It's just not my thing.
Alanis Morissette

Interested, Parties, Celebrity

It's not just the 'Grammys' that I've pulled out of. I also pulled out of the English awards as well. The reason that I wanted to pull out was because I believe very much that the music industry as a whole is mainly concerned with material success.
Alanis Morissette

Success, Music, Reason

It's very attractive to people to be a victim. Instead of having to think out the whole situation, about history and your group and what you are doing... if you begin from the point of view of being a victim, you've got it half-made. I mean intellectually.
V. S. Naipaul

History, Mean, Group

Our culture is just a series of checks and balances. The whole idea that we're in a battle between tyranny and freedom - it's a series of pendulum swings.
Jon Stewart

Freedom, Battle, Between

I think people who suffer from depression, unless it's post-traumatic, are probably going to struggle with it for their whole life.
Christina Ricci

Life, Struggle, Depression

President Obama was asked not long ago to reflect on any mistakes he might have made. He said, well, 'I haven't communicated enough.' He said his job is to 'tell a story to the American people' - as if that's the whole problem here? He needs to talk more, and we need to be better listeners?
Paul Ryan

Mistakes, Job, Long

The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.
Friedrich Schiller

Rich, Become, Poor

I don't have pet peeves; I have whole kennels of irritation.
Whoopi Goldberg

Pet, Irritation

My dream role would probably be a psycho killer, because the whole thing I love about movies is that you get to do things you could never do in real life, and that would be my way of vicariously experiencing being a psycho killer. Also, it's incredibly romantic.
Christina Ricci

Life, Love, Movies

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.
Vivienne Westwood

Change, Great, Live

In the concentration camps, we discovered this whole universe where everyone had his place. The killer came to kill, and the victims came to die.
Elie Wiesel

Die, Place, Everyone

When one is frightened of the truth then it is never the whole truth that one has an inkling of.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

Truth, Frightened

It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.
Andrew Jackson

Power, Government, President

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