#whole

There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays to the devil. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#plays #them #treat #truths #trying

I even believe if you're killing a team, you shouldn't stop. You should respect your opponents enough to play 100 percent the whole time. And by the same token, if you're getting killed by the other team, you should never quit. ↗

— Sue Wicks

#enough #even #getting #i #killed

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#being #best #bring #creature #deepest

The whole Disney thing is really interesting, in a way, how that's so permeated life and the world and the planet. ↗

— William Wiley

#how #interesting #life #permeated #planet

Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and do not play when you are praying. ↗

— Charles Williams

#playing #pray #praying #whole #you

I'm becoming a professional nomad and enjoying that whole part of my life. ↗

— Dar Williams

#enjoying #i #life #my life #nomad

There's nothing I miss about anything in the whole wide world. The idea of missing something means you're not living in the moment. Every moment is good for something. ↗

— Ricky Williams

#anything #every #good #i #idea

Nearly all monster stories depend for their success on Jack killing the Giant, Beowulf or St. George slaying the Dragon, Harry Potter triumphing over the basilisk. That is their inner grammar, and the whole shape of the story leads towards it. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#dragon #george #giant #grammar #harry

Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it? ↗

— Billy Graham

#everything #gain #lost #soul #suppose

Watching a whole cluster of friends, and my own mother, die over quite a short space of time convinced me that purely materialist 'explanations' for our mysterious human existence simply won't do - on an intellectual level. ↗

— A. N. Wilson

#convinced #die #existence #explanations #friends