Quotes About Altogether

#1. It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things.

Theodore Roosevelt

#2. It seemed altogether unfair and unreasonable that the sky should be so hard.

Arthur C. Clarke

#3. Though experience be our only guide in reasoning concerning matters of fact; it must be acknowledged, that this guide is not altogether infallible, but in some cases is apt to lead us into errors.

David Hume

#4. This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

Virginia Woolf

#5. As Kai Erikson has put it, traumatised people 'may be said to have experienced not only a) a changed sense of self and b) a changed way of relating to others but c) a changed world view altogether'. In that first

Robert Kenny

#6. Resolved, never henceforward, till I die, to act as if I were any way my own, but entirely and altogether God's.

Jonathan Edwards

#7. I can't altogether tell myself, Lillian. It's not wholly a matter of the calendar. It's the feeling that I've put a great deal behind me, where I can't go back to it again - and I don't really wish to go back. The way would be too long and too fatiguing.

Willa Cather

#8. I stepped inside, closed the door, and locked it behind me. Then I made a silent vow not to go outside again until I had completed my quest. I would abandon the real world altogether until I found the egg.

Ernest Cline

#9. Why does not God, if he really hates the wicked, as he is said to do, send down brimstone and fire, and consume them altogether?" "You

Alexandre Dumas

#10. The depravity which sin has produced in human nature extends to the whole of it. There is no part of man's nature which is unaffected by it. Man's nature is all of a piece, and what affects it at all affects it altogether

James Denney

#11. A man must be able to affirm, I know for certain, that what I teach is the only Word of the high Majesty of God in heaven, his final conclusion and everlasting, unchangeable truth, and whatsoever concurs and agrees not with this doctrine, is altogether false, and spun by the devil.

Martin Luther

#12. [T]hat finally is the questions, that is the anguish
to abide in God's hiddenness is one thing, to abide in God's absence is altogether something else.

Lauren F. Winner

#13. Government needs to stay out of the religion business altogether.

Michael Newdow

#14. Preserve your peace of mind. There is not much time; all things end in death. Do not lament the past too much, or fear the future too acutely, ot waste too much energy on other peoples' woes, in case the present dissolves altogether.

Fay Weldon

#15. By far the most usual way of handling phenomena so novel that they would make for a serious rearrangement of our preconceptions is to ignore them altogether, or to abuse those who bear witness for them.

William James

#16. The funny thing was that he wasn't altogether a fool in other ways. Deep down in him there was a kind of stratum of sense. I had known him, once or twice, show an almost human intelligence. But to reach that stratum, mind you, you needed dynamite.

P.G. Wodehouse

#17. Boys will be boys, that's what everyone always says. But no one ever mentions how girls have to be something other than themselves altogether.

Hilary Thayer Hamann

#18. Was she jealous?" "She was," he said, not yelling now, "and domineering, and spoiled, and suspicious, and greedy, and mean, and unscrupulous, and deceitful, and selfish, and damned bad - altogether damned bad!

Dashiell Hammett

#19. Invention depends altogether upon execution or organization; as that is right or wrong so is the invention perfect or imperfect.

William Blake

#20. It's one thing to write the music, it's another thing to write it down, it's another thing to play it, and something else altogether again to learn how to play it. These are the elements that are fascinating, and, you know, move my world.

Gail Zappa

#21. 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 North Whitehead

#22. It's either not good enough and dies altogether, or it develops.

Ninette De Valois

#23. Love means that we remain committed to loving even at the times when the emotion is so diminished or altogether missing that we can't feel it.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#24. Create a world in which these things do or do not exist, or in which they are extended in some way. Test reality against this fiction. The reader will recognize the world that you're talking about, even though it may be another one altogether

Theodore Sturgeon

#25. I know well the delectable thrill of moving into a new house somewhere altogether else, in somebody else's county, where the climate is different, the food is different, the light is different, where the mundane preoccupations of life at home don't seem to apply and it is even fun to go shopping.

Jan Morris

#26. Have a problem with ageism, overt and especially covert. My feeling about a person's age is that it's a serving suggestion. It's up to you what you do with it: take it as offered, modify it, or ignore it altogether.

Elizabeth Berg

#27. She hoped I would send her some of my papers on neurology, of which I'll understand not one word, but will glow with loving pride at my ridiculous, brilliant and altogether delightful nephew.

Oliver Sacks

#28. It is incredibly difficult to resist our desire to form narratives, to tell stories even if they may not be altogether correct, or correct at all. We like simplicity. We like concrete reasons. We like causes. We like things that make intuitive sense (even if that sense happens to be wrong)

Anonymous

#29. Dollars damn me; and the malicious Devil is forever grinning in upon me, holding the door ajar ... What I feel most moved to write, that is banned - it will not pay. Yet, altogether, write the other way I cannot. So the product is a final hash, and all my books are botches.

Herman Melville

#30. The worst deformities, the foulest stains, disfiguring and blackening all the rest, are the very parts of Fijian nature which, while the most strongly characteristic, are such that may only be hurriedly mentioned, dimly hinted at, or passed by altogether in silence.

James Calvert

#31. This was what real grief felt like - she had never truly felt it before. All the times she had been sad, all the times she had wept in her life, all the glooms and melancholies were merely moods, mere passing whims. Grief was a different thing altogether.

Dan Chaon

#32. The real reason that nonviolence is considered to be a virtue in Negroes - I am not speaking now of its racial value, another matter altogether - is that white men do not want their lives, their self-image, or their property threatened.

James Baldwin

#33. For all of us today, the battle is in our hands. The road ahead is not altogether a smooth one. There are no broad highways to lead us easily and inevitably to quick solutions. We must keep going.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#34. Poverty has a way of taking the edge off principles. Hunger can blunt them altogether.

Paula Brackston

#35. Is not everything that we consider important our betrayer ? It shows where our motives lie, and where our motives are altogether lacking.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#36. I feel quite unable to adopt the opinion that the moment goods pass into the possession of the consumer they cease altogether to have the attributes of capital.

William Stanley Jevons

#37. Your success in life does not altogether depend on ability and training; it also depends on your determination to grasp opportunities that are presented to you.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#38. You often get a better hold upon a problem by going away from it for a time and dismissing it from your mind altogether.

Frank Hall Crane

#39. Underneath the reality in which we live and have our being, another altogether different reality lies concealed.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#40. But he who has been earnest in the love of knowledge and of true wisdom, and has exercised his intellect more than any other part of him, must have thoughts immortal and divine. If he attain truth, and in so far as human nature is capable of sharing in immortality, he must altogether be immortal.

Plato

#41. Criticism is the windows and chandeliers of art: it illuminates the enveloping darkness in which art might otherwise rest only vaguely discernible, and perhaps altogether unseen.

George Jean Nathan

#42. I have been wounded altogether twenty times; eleven of these wounds were received at Northfield.

Cole Younger

#43. She is one of those people who are known, as one may say, by subscription: everybody knows a little, till she is astonishingly well known altogether; but nobody knows her entirely. She

Thomas Hardy

#44. It is the nature of the mind that makes individuals kin, and the differences in the shape, form or manner of the material atoms out of whose intricate relationships that mind is built are altogether trivial.

Isaac Asimov

#45. That was when I forgot how to breathe altogether.

Robin Talley

#46. Every time I stumbled and fell, something in me hardened, became worse.
By the time I reached the castle gates; I think I was not Lestat. I was someone else altogether.

Anne Rice

#47. Having agreed to play Elrond, I realized how much had to be worked out about this character: the idea of portraying someone who is immortal, for one thing; plus the fact he is noble, wise, powerful, good - and beautiful! I began to think that he was altogether impossible to play!

Hugo Weaving

#48. I'm not saying that I'm going to retire from game development altogether.

Shigeru Miyamoto

#49. Bach is played altogether too fast. Music that presupposes a visual comprehension of lines of sound advancing side by side becomes chaos for the listener; high speed makes comprehension impossible. Yet

Albert Schweitzer

#50. Stressful situations cause alterations in behavior that reveal true character, Tibbs. If a person gradually begins acting like someone else altogether, you may very well find that they *are* someone else altogether" -Inspector Percival Pensive

Jessica Lawson

#51. Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Thomas Carlyle

#52. altogether, like a candle. I wonder what I should be like then?' And she tried to fancy what the flame of a candle is like after the candle is blown out,

Lewis Carroll

#53. My sweet, there are altogether too many respectable ladies in the world. The supply has far exceeded the demand. But there's an appalling shortage of attractive pirates, and you do seem to have a gift for plundering and ravishing. I think we've found your true calling.

Lisa Kleypas

#54. A fact: one picks it up and reads it, and puts it down, and there is an end to it. But an idea! That one may pick up, and reflect upon, and oppose, and expand, and so pass a delightful afternoon altogether.

Mary Oliver

#55. What did I fear, and why? - I, to whom the night had been
a more familiar face
than that of man
I, in whom that element of hereditary superstition from which none of us is altogether free had given to solitude and darkness and silence only a more alluring interest and charm!

Ambrose Bierce

#56. Fear of dying young isn't an altogether bad thing. Sometimes it makes you try what you might otherwise delay.

Jennifer Coburn

#57. Every offensive lost its force as it proceeded. It was like throwing a bucket of water over the floor. It first rushed forward, then soaked forward, and finally stopped altogether until another bucket could be brought.

Winston Churchill

#58. Or renounce life altogether! Accept fate obediently as it is, once and for all, and stifle everything in myself, renouncing any right to act, to live, to love.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#59. Anything worth putting off is worth abandoning altogether.

Epictetus

#60. Frankly, it is clear that we would be better off in the long run without federal funding, and the challenge right now is that if we lost it altogether, we would have a lot of stations go dark.

Ron Schiller

#61. I was born in love with all elephants. Not for a reason that I know. Not because of any of their individual qualities - wisdom, kindness, power, grace, patience, loyalty - but for what they are altogether. For their entire elephantness.

Pat Derby

#62. I am obliged to renounce violence, and abstain from it altogether.

Leo Tolstoy

#63. Miss Jenkyns wore a cravat, and a little bonnet like a jockey-cap, and altogether had the appearance of a strong-minded woman; although she would have despised the modern idea of women being equal to men. Equal, indeed! she knew they were superior.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#64. Dionysus had already been scared form the tragic stage, by a demonic power speaking through Euripides. Even Euripides was, in a sense, only a mask: the deity that spoke through him was neither Dionysus nor Apollo, but an altogether newborn demon, called Socrates.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#65. There are two kinds of spiritual law, two kinds of conscience, one in man and another, altogether different, in woman. They do not understand each other; but in practical life the woman is judged by man's law, as though she were not a woman but a man.

Henrik Ibsen

#66. Very rapidly now Freddie realised that what he had been wishing for was a partner to share the perils of this enterprise which he had so rashly undertaken. In fact, not so much to share them as to take them off his shoulders altogether.

P.G. Wodehouse

#67. When the centre of gravity of life is placed, not in life itself, but in "the beyond" - in nothingness - then one has taken away its centre of gravity altogether.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#68. I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.

Mahatma Gandhi

#69. Moreover, most people, assuming they had not altogether abandoned religious observances, or did not combine them naively with a thoroughly immoral way of living, had replaced normal religious practice by more or less extravagant superstitions.

Albert Camus

#70. At a finite distance in the future, a critical state of encounter will occur, an ultimate co-reflective Center. A focused conspiration will allure individual persons to identify with others in profound affinity. Because of thinking altogether, love will grow into Divinity.

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

#71. In my youth I loved climbing and scrambling up rocks and mountains: now I seldom intrude on the dweller of a second story, and my greatest enemy or friend may avoid me altogether on the third; so humbled is the aspiring spirit of my youth.

Edward John Trelawny

#72. But, bless us, things may be lovable that are not altogether handsome, I hope?

George Eliot

#73. Many people want to scale back their working hours as they near the end of their careers, but not necessarily to give up work altogether.

Charles Kennedy

#74. Every serious nuclear accident involves operator error, so you want to eliminate the operator altogether.

Nathan Myhrvold

#75. DeVere smiled. A mistress is a fine thing, Ned, but a married mistress with a compacent husband is the very best bargain. They cost far less tokeep, make fewer demands, and should any inconvenient package arrive, it may easily be presented to the cuckold, an altogether neat arrangement.

Victoria Vane

#76. I don't believe in publishers who wish to butter their bannocks on both sides while they'll hardly allow an author to smell treacle. I consider they are too grabby altogether and like Methodists they love to keep the Sabbath and everything else they can lay hands upon.

Amanda McKittrick Ros

#77. A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.

T. S. Eliot

#78. I have no language to paint the horrors of our situation. To shed tears was indeed altogether unavailing and withal unmanly yet I was not able to deny myself the relief they served to afford me.

Owen Chase

#79. The 1920s was a great time for reading altogether - very possibly the peak decade for reading in American life. Soon it would be overtaken by the passive distractions of radio, but for the moment reading remained most people's principal method for filling idle time.

Bill Bryson

#80. I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled with fear!

Jules Verne

#81. Heartbreak is an altogether different thing. Disappointment doesn't grow into heartbreak, nor does failure...It comes form the loss of love or the perceived loss of love...Heartbreak is what happens when love is lost.

Brene Brown

#82. Altogether, if I had to pick one place to hang out anywhere, from New York to Cape Town and Australia to Hong Kong, a bookstore would be it.

Gloria Steinem

#83. Indeed, the case very often such, by the seeming calls of Providence, as made it extremely difficult for him to do more than his strength would admit of. Yea, his circumstances and the business of his mission ... were such that great fatigues and hardships were altogether inevitable.

Jonathan Edwards

#84. And it strikes her, as she walks, that borders, like hatred, are exaggerated precisely because otherwise they would cease to exist altogether.

Colum McCann

#85. A people among whom custom is altogether sovereign endures the despotism of the dead.

Bertrand De Jouvenel

#86. Everyone else would climb a peak by looking for a path somewhere in the mountain. Nash would climb another mountain altogether and from that distant peak would shine a searchlight back onto the first peak.

Donald J. Newman

#87. I am not sure whether I altogether understand you. You make me curious. I don't much care about talking, but I should like to talk to you.

Andre Gide

#88. The animal world being altogether external to the scheme of redemption, was regarded as beyond the range of duty, and the belief that we have any kind of obligation to its members has never been inculcated - has never, I believe, been even admitted - by Catholic theologians.

William Edward Hartpole Lecky

#89. You either play by the rules, change the rules, or get out, altogether.

Michael Eisner

#90. Objectively, know-how and world law were getting their long-awaited chance to turn earth into an altogether pleasant and convenient place in which to sweat out Judgment Day.

Kurt Vonnegut

#91. He closed his eyes and allowed himself to remember the taste of her and the feel of her and the smell of her. She was quite lovely. She was altogether ravishing. She would set any man's blood on fire. He shouldn't have kissed her.

Marguerite Kaye

#92. What God says to His Church at any given period depends altogether upon her moral and spiritual condition and upon the spiritual need of the hour.

A.W. Tozer

#93. Think what cowards men would be if they had to bear children. Women are altogether a superior species.

George Bernard Shaw

#94. What if a kid goes to school after seeing Kill Bill and starts slicing up other kids? You know, I'll take that chance! Violent films don't turn children into violent people. They may turn them into violent filmmakers but that's another matter altogether.

Quentin Tarantino

#95. It is remarkable that there is little or nothing to be remembered written on the subject of getting a living: how to make getting a living not merely honest and honorable, but altogether inviting and glorious; for if getting a living is not so, then living is not.

Henry David Thoreau

#96. Out here on the water, it's a fine line between feeling in control and losing it altogether.

Laurie Nadel

#97. The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort, but partly on the frequency with which it is exerted.

Charles Babbage

#98. One must either stop reading the Bible altogether, or else leave off spending one's whole time in just doing easy pleasant things one likes to do.

Elizabeth Payson Prentiss

#99. To recognize negativism as a force of creation is to give up the creative standpoint altogether.

Paul Twitchell

#100. Mind and intelligence are woven into the fabric of our universe in a way that altogether surpasses our understanding.

Freeman Dyson