#wholly

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

#bodies #completely #decisions #dominated #expression

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse. ↗

— Theodore Roosevelt

#civilized #distinction #drawn #office #people

It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet. ↗

— Franz Kafka

#ecstasy #even #feet #house #itself

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

#constitutional #else #irrelevant #job #know

I feel most at home in the United States, not because it is intrinsically a more interesting country, but because no one really belongs there any more than I do. We are all there together in its wholly excellent vacuum. ↗

— Wyndham Lewis

#because #belongs #country #excellent #feel

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

#behaved #boomers #china #comfort #early

Death doesn't just make all the world kin, it makes all religions one ↗

— Neal Shusterman

#kin #religions #unwholly #world #death

And because his Spirit was wholly God, he is called God, and he is called man on account of his flesh. ↗

— Michael Servetus

#because #called #flesh #god #his

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. ↗

— John Adams

#constitution #government #inadequate #made #moral

Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects? ↗

— Sergei Eisenstein

#arise #cinema #combination #concepts #concrete