Parts Quotes

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts. (Aristotle)
The soul of man is divided into three parts, intelligence, reason, and passion. Intelligence and passion are possessed by other animals, but reason by man alone. View quote
Pythagoras
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages. View quote
William Shakespeare
Drama is life with the dull parts cut out of it. View quote
Alfred Hitchcock
If God has made the world a perfect mechanism, He has at least conceded so much to our imperfect intellect that in order to predict little parts of it, we need not solve innumerable differential equations, but can use dice with fair success. View quote
Max Born
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. View quote
Bertrand Russell
The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
The right diet directs sexual energy into the parts that matter. View quote
Barbara Cartland
I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter. View quote
D. H. Lawrence
Mathematical science is in my opinion an indivisible whole, an organism whose vitality is conditioned upon the connection of its parts. View quote
David Hilbert
Beauty is produced by the pleasing appearance and good taste of the whole, and by the dimensions of all the parts being duly proportioned to each other. (Vitruvius)
The human features and countenance, although composed of but some ten parts or little more, are so fashioned that among so many thousands of men there are no two in existence who cannot be distinguished from one another. View quote
Pliny the Elder
Proportion is that agreeable harmony between the several parts of a building, which is the result of a just and regular agreement of them with each other; the height to the width, this to the length, and each of these to the whole. View quote
Vitruvius
As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect that beyond this lies nothing but sandy deserts full of wild beasts, and unapproachable bogs. View quote
Plutarch
The basic parts, the start-up molecules, can be supplied in abundance and don't have to be made by some elaborate process. That immediately makes things simpler. View quote
K. Eric Drexler
The rage for railroads is so great that many will be laid in parts where they will not pay. View quote
George Stephenson
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts. View quote
Edmund Burke
There are always good parts. They may not pay what you want, and they may not have as many days' work as you want, they may not have the billing that you want, they may not have a lot of things, but - the content of the role itself - I find there are many roles. View quote
Anne Bancroft
I am lucky to have three daughters who are completely different. I look at my daughters and I have different relationships with all three and there are parts of each personality that are very special. View quote
Vanessa L. Williams
What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities. View quote
Joseph Addison
Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth. (George Washington Carver)
To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Everyone needs a warm personal enemy or two to keep him free from rust in the movable parts of his mind. View quote
Gene Fowler
Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately. View quote
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
I leave out the parts that people skip. View quote
Elmore Leonard
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