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The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
P. G. Wodehouse

End, Wrong, Gun

One of the admirable features of British novelists is that they have no scruple about setting their stories in foreign settings with wholly foreign personnel.
James Buchan

Stories, Foreign, British

Either be wholly slaves or wholly free.
John Dryden

Free, Either, Slaves

Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.
Elizabeth Bowen

Alone, Lie, Door

The monsters of our childhood do not fade away, neither are they ever wholly monstrous. But neither, in my experience, do we ever reach a plane of detachment regarding our parents, however wise and old we may become. To pretend otherwise is to cheat.
John le Carre

Experience, Wise, Parents

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

Thought, Joy, Become

We tend to think of our selves as the only wholly unique creations in nature, but it is not so. Uniqueness is so commonplace a property of living things that there is really nothing at all unique about it. A phenomenon can't be unique and universal at the same time.
Lewis Thomas

Nature, Time, Nothing

Good art however 'immoral' is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise.
Ezra Pound

Good, Art, True

And for yourself, whatever there has been either of sin or duty, remember the one and forget the other, and betake yourself wholly to the mercy of God and the merit of Christ.
Donald Cargill

God, Yourself, Forget

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

Place, Almost, Though

Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life.
William Ellery Channing

Life, Love, Character

The actor depends wholly on himself. He gives his performance in what, to him, seems the most effective manner.
Bela Lugosi

Him, Himself, Actor

Like the 'little emperors' of one-child China, too many Boomers were taught early that the world was made (or saved) for their comfort and enjoyment. They behaved accordingly, with a self-indulgence that was wholly rational, given their situation.
Eric Liu

Made, Situation, Early

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

Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another. Fluid hardens to solid, solid rushes to fluid. There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.
Margaret Fuller

Great, Woman, Two

If God wishes to reveal the love that he harbors for the world, this love has to be something that the world can recognize, in spite of, or in fact in, its being wholly other.
Hans Urs von Balthasar

Love, God, Fact

There is no teacher, living or past, who can give us the actual understanding of Truth. A teacher can only put our feet upon the path and point the way. That is all. It is wholly dependent on the individual to make his way to Truth.
Paul Twitchell

Truth, Teacher, Past

Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason.
Theodore Dreiser

Human, Reason, Stage

We wanted to meet him, for though we were neither of us naive people we had not wholly lost our belief that it is delightful to meet artists who have given us pleasure.
Robertson Davies

Lost, Him, Wanted

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

Others, Virtue, Vices

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

Half, Conformity, Ruined

My personal conviction is that science is concerned wholly with truth, not with ethics.
Arthur Keith

Truth, Science, Personal

There are no other Everglades in the world. They are, they have always been, one of the unique regions of the earth; remote, never wholly known. Nothing anywhere else is like them.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Nothing, Else, Earth

When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off a wet leaf after a rain.
Donna Tartt

Rain, Writing, After

And what my constitutional values are are wholly irrelevant to the job, and so neither you nor anyone else will know what they are.
Elena Kagan

Job, Else, Anyone

The novel that's contemporary in the sense of being wholly 'of now' is an impossibility, if only because novels may take years to write, so the 'now' with which they begin will be defunct by the time they're finished.
Graham Swift

Time, May, Sense

This is ridiculous, I mean, wholly ridiculous. It never did any child any harm to have something that was a tiny bit above them anyway, and I claim that anyone who can follow Doctor Who can follow absolutely anything.
Diana Wynne Jones

Mean, Child, Anyone

Many things are unknown to the wisest, and the best men can never wholly divest themselves of passions and affections... nothing can or ought to be permanent but that which is perfect.
Algernon Sidney

Men, Best, Nothing

Acting is usually regarded as a wholly narcissistic pursuit but there really is a hunger in me to unravel the human condition.
Jason Isaacs

Human, Acting, Hunger

Mark all mathematical heads which be wholly and only bent on these sciences, how solitary they be themselves, how unfit to live with others, how unapt to serve the world.
Roger Ascham

Live, Others, Themselves

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