Quotes with altogether

  • You can't expect to prevent negative feelings altogether. And you can't expect to experience positive feelings all the time. The Law of Emotional Choice directs us to acknowledge our feelings but also to refuse to get stuck in the negative ones.
  • My father and he had one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.
  • In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them.
  • Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, altogether incalculable.
  • People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.
  • Mischief springs from the power which the moneyed interest derives from a paper currency which they are able to control, from the multitude of corporations with exclusive privileges... which are employed altogether for their benefit.
  • I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.
  • Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.
  • I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.
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  • Cyril Connolly Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.
    Cyril Connolly
    British criticus (1903 - 1974)
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  • George Washington I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But I will venture to assert, that a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided b
    George Washington
    First president of the US (1732 - 1799)
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  • George Orwell No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Luis Bunuel Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.
    Luis Bunuel
    Spanish director (1900 - 1983)
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  • Alfred N. Whitehead I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.
    Alfred N. Whitehead
    English philosopher and mathematician (1861 - 1947)
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  • Bayard Taylor A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Charles Haddon Spurgeon A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.
    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
    English Baptist preacher (1834 - 1892)
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  • Ezra Pound As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, when the hot water gives out or goes tepid, so is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, o my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Alan Watts But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.
    Alan Watts
    English philosopher, priest and writer (1915 - 1973)
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  • Gloria Steinem Feminism starts out being very simple, and it ends up being a world view that questions hierarchy altogether.
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Cass Sunstein For business, government, and education, the lesson is clear: People ought to be relying far more on objective information and far less on interviews. They might even want to think about scaling back or cancelling interviews altogether. They'll save a lot of time - and make better decisions.
    Cass Sunstein
    American legal scholar (1954 - )
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  • Joseph Heller Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.
    Joseph Heller
    American author (1923 - 1999)
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  • Adam Smith Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • Charles Lamb He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Carl Sagan Humans are good, she knew, at discerning subtle patterns that are really there, but equally so at imagining them when they are altogether absent.
    Contact (1985) Ch. 3
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Edward VIII I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love. I now quit altogether public affairs, and I lay down my burden.
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  • Socrates I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Marcus Valerius Martial I would not miss your face, your neck, your hands, your limbs, your bosom and certain other of your charms. Indeed, not to become boring by naming them all, I could do without you, Chloe, altogether.
    Marcus Valerius Martial
    Latin poet and epigrammatist (40 - 104)
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  • C. Wright Mills If we accept the Greek's definition of the idiot as an altogether private man, then we must conclude that many American citizens are now idiots. And I should not be surprised, although I don't know, if there were some such idiots even in Germany.
    The British Journal of Sociology Structure of Power in America, Vol. 9 (March 1958)
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Sebastian Faulks If you have only one life, you cant altogether ignore the question: are you enjoying it?
    Sebastian Faulks
    British novelist, journalist and broadcaster (1953 - )
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