Quotes: altogether
Quotes 1 till 15 of 48.
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No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
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Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.
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Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.
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I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But I will venture to assert, that a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided b
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A Pike, in the California dialect, is a native of Missouri, Arkansas, Northern Texas, or Southern Illinois. The first emigrants that came over the plains were from Pike County, Missouri; but as the phrase, 'a Pike County man,' was altogether too long for this short life of ours, it was soon abbreviated into 'a Pike.'
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A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.
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But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.
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Feminism starts out being very simple, and it ends up being a world view that questions hierarchy altogether.
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For business, government, and education, the lesson is clear: People ought to be relying far more on objective information and far less on interviews. They might even want to think about scaling back or cancelling interviews altogether. They'll save a lot of time - and make better decisions.
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Frankly, I'd like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.
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Great ambition, the desire of real superiority, of leading and directing, seems to be altogether peculiar to man, and speech is the great instrument of ambition.
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He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.
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Humans are good, she knew, at discerning subtle patterns that are really there, but equally so at imagining them when they are altogether absent.
Source: Contact (1985) Ch. 3 -
I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties as King as I would wish to do without the help and support of the woman I love. I now quit altogether public affairs, and I lay down my burden.
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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.
