Need-love says of a woman, "I cannot live without her"; Gift-love longs to give her happiness, comfort, protection. . . appreciative love gazes and holds its breath and is silent, rejoices that such a wonder should exist even if not for him, will not be wholly dejected by losing her, would rather have it so than never to have seen her at all.
The idea of disembodied spirits is wholly unsupported by evidence, and I cannot accept it.
If I prove extravagant, I shall be more so from ignorance than willfulness. I am not wholly insensible to the pleasures of the world, therefore shall not be governed entirely by necessity; but I flatter myself, at least, in being able to restrain their gratification within due bonds.
No battle was ever won by wholly sane men.
Better that we should err in action than wholly refuse to perform. The storm is so much better than the calm, as it declares the presence of a living principle. Stagnation is something worse than death. It is corruption also.
A major Iowa newspaper published an op-ed against Trump calling him a 'self-absorbed, wholly unqualified feckless blowhard. ' Or as Trump put it, 'You forgot very rich. . . I'm a very rich, self-absorbed, wholly unqualified feckless blowhard. Very, very rich. '
God is wholly present in all creation, in every corner, behind you and before you. Do you think God is sleeping on a pillow in heaven? God is watching over you and protecting you.
And what my constitutional values are are wholly irrelevant to the job, and so neither you nor anyone else will know what they are.
Apply yourself wholly to the text; apply the text wholly to yourself.
Disobedience that is wholly civil should never provoke retaliation.
We will never be more ourselves, with the fullness of our personality and the uniqueness of our gifting, than when we just wholly give ourselves over to our very faithful, faithful God.
Simplicity, without variety, is wholly insipid.
Homeopathy is wholly capable of satisfying the therapeutic demands of this age better than any other system or school of medicine.
I ascribe my change wholly to God.
Man is the only 150 pound nonlinear servomechanism that can be wholly reproduced by unskilled labor.
I was going to talk about Nicholas Parsons' ignorance, but 18 seconds would be a wholly insufficient time.
Never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner.
Nothing is wholly obvious without becoming enigmatic. Reality itself is too obvious to be true.
I feel strangely free at such times. To behave properly is to be always courteous, always clever, and subtle and elegant. But now, when I am so alone, I do not have to be any of these things. For this moment, I am wholly myself, unshaped by the needs of others, by their dreams or expectations or sensibilities. But I am also lonely. With no one to shape me, who stands here, watching the moon, or the stars, or the clouds?
Much reading is like much eating -wholly useless without digestion.