“ There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking. ”
- Bliss Carman- Copy
“ A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults. ”
- Charles Kingsley- Copy
“ When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic. ”
- Dresden James- Copy
“ That a whole part of the middle class detests me… is utterly normal. I would be troubled if the contrary were true. ”
- Simone De Beauvoir- Copy
“ Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
“ When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly. ”
- Hilaire Belloc- Copy
“ To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless. ”
- Marcus Tullius Cicero- Copy
“ There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship. ”
- Iris Murdoch- Copy
“ No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad. ”
- Thomas Carlyle- Copy
“ Cooper wrote a novel which is absolutely indistinguishable from Austen, completely from a female point of view, completely English, no sense that he was an American. ”
- Leslie Fiedler- Copy
“ What happened.... is that the so-called scientific case for intelligent design completely and totally collapsed under inspection. ”
- Kenneth Miller- Copy
“ Judge Roberts has a clear obligation to make his views known fully and completely at the hearings and we look forward to them. ”
- Charles Schumer- Copy
“ We shall keep our horizon perfectly, absolutely, crystallinely open, ready every day for the scouring gales of impulse. ”
- John Mistletoe- Copy
“ To live as fully, as completely as possible, to be happy… is the true aim and end to life. ”
- Llewelyn Powers- Copy
“ Pain can make you give up completely, or pain can make you start over again. It's totally up to you. ”
- James Jones- Copy
“ Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible. ”
- Stanislaw Lem- Copy
“ If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference. ”
- R. Buckminster Fuller- Copy
“ A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer… He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring. ”
- E. B. White- Copy
“ A novelist must know what his last chapter is going to say and one way or another work toward that last chapter… To me it is utterly basic, yet it seems like it's a great secret. ”
- Leon Uris- Copy
“ History repeats itself, but the special call of an art which has passed away is never reproduced. It is as utterly gone out of the world as the song of a destroyed wild bird. ”
- Joseph Conrad- Copy
“ Because of our social circumstances, male and female are really two cultures, and their life experiences are utterly different. ”
- Kate Millet- Copy
“ Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. ”
- Al Capone- Copy
“ The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us. ”
- Gilbert K. Chesterton- Copy
“ Strict punctuality is perhaps the cheapest virtue which can give force to an otherwise utterly insignificant character. ”
- John F. Boyes- Copy
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