#partly

If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know. ↗

— Thomas Wolfe

#failed #few #few men #half #know

The uneducated person perceives only the individual phenomenon, the partly educated person the rule, and the educated person the exception. ↗

— Franz Grillparzer

#exception #individual #only #partly #perceives

I think we're miserable partly because we have only one god, and that's economics. ↗

— James Hillman

#economics #god #i #i think #miserable

In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog. ↗

— Edward Hoagland

#dog #enjoy #him #merely #oneself

Our driver policy was partly dictated by who was available because of other contracts. ↗

— John Surtees

#because #contracts #dictated #driver #other

Marry for Love, an Heroick Action, which makes a mighty noise in the World, partly because of its rarity, and partly in regard of its extravagancy. ↗

— Mary Astell

#because #love #makes #marry #mighty

And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to me. ↗

— Alison Bechdel

#could #family #me #need #partly

People win 'Oscars', and then it seems like they fall off the planet. And that's partly because a huge expectation walks in the room and sits right down on top of your head. ↗

— Halle Berry

#down #expectation #fall #head #huge

I think the Sixties in some ways is a barrier to young people today. They think of it, you know, what we're doing is not that. But it's partly the myth of the Sixties. It always felt embattled and small. It always, almost always, was a small group of people relative to the opposition around. ↗

— Bernadine Dohrn

#always #around #barrier #doing #felt

It was fantastic to work in Cornwall partly because my family live there so I was able to do lots of visiting and eat lots of cake. They live all over Cornwall and all over Devon. ↗

— Dawn French

#because #cake #cornwall #devon #eat