Entirety Quotes

“People are not born with any entirety. With the time we take to achieve it. For it requires concentration and willpower.”

“. . . In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of a Province. In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satisfied, and the Cartographers Guilds struck a Map of the Empire whose size was that of the Empire, and which coincided point for point with it. The following Generations, who were not so fond of the Study of Cartography as their Forebears had been, saw that that vast map was Useless, and not without some Pitilessness was it, that they delivered it up to the Inclemencies of Sun and Winters. In the Deserts of the West, still today, there are Tattered Ruins of that Map, inhabited by Animals and Beggars; in all the Land there is no other Relic of the Disciplines of Geography.Suárez Miranda, Viajes de varones prudentes, Libro IV, Cap. XLV, Lérida, 1658”

“Each time dawn appears, the mystery is there in its entirety.”

“The fact is no one has understood me in entirety till now!”

“We have need of history in its entirety, not to fall back into it, but to see if we can escape from it.”

“She knows exactly what I like and what it does to me. She worships my body in its entirety and I allow it—I crave it.”

“I thought about how all that mattered, in all entirety, and all I wanted, and all I could see anything being worth anything for, was being a writer.”

“I want my kids to enjoy romance as part of the entirety of marriage, when it has been earned with commitment and hard work.”

“I guess if I had to pick a spiritual figurehead to possess the deed to the entirety of Earth, I'd go with Buddha, but only because he wouldn't want it.”