Top 374 Partial Quotes & Sayings

Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms

Is it possible to be totally partial?

The New York Times and the rest of the mainstream media will only refer to partial birth abortion as 'what its opponents refer to as partial birth abortions.' What do its supporters call it? Casual Fridays? Bean-with-bacon potato chip dip? Uh . . . Steve?

Hatred is partial, but love is still more so.

There's no way to oversell how spectacular and incredible seeing a total eclipse is. A lot of people think they've seen an eclipse. They think they've seen a partial solar eclipse - even if they've seen a 99 percent partial, it pales in comparison to seeing a complete, 100 percent total eclipse of the sun.

Historians partial to Kennedy see matters differently from those partial to L.B.J. Vietnam has become a point of contention in defending and criticizing J.F.K.

Love transcends all animosity and is never partial.

You will always have partial points of view, and you'll always have the story behind the story that hasn't come out yet. And any form of journalism you're involved with is going to be up against a biased viewpoint and partial knowledge.

I’m partial to the truth, Lo. Good, bad or indifferent. (Vane)

I'm hoping for a return to at least partial sanity someday, but I'm not optimistic.

It wasn't a deception: all lovers live on partial knowledge.

They're talking about partial nuclear disarmament, which is also like talking about partial circumcision - you either go all the way or forget it.

Mind is the partial side of men; the heart is everything.

In my mind, partial failure is always better than delusory success.

The universe is but a partial manifestation of your limitless capacity to become.

Thus we can get the correct answer for the probability of partial reflection by imagining (falsely) that all reflection comes from only the front and back surfaces. In this intuitively easy analysis, the 'front surface' and 'back surface' arrows are mathematical constructions that give us the right answer, whereas .... a more accurate representation of what is really going on: partial reflection is the scattering of light by electrons inside the glass.

We have the only cookbook in the world that has partial differential equations in it.

I'm partial to American pancakes - they're thick and as big as a dinner plate.

Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.

When we multi-task, we are motivated by a desire to be more productive and more efficient. We're often doing things that are automatic, that require very little cognitive processing... Continuous partial attention describes how many of us use our attention today... to pay partial attention - continuously. It is different from multi-tasking.

Of all the religions, I am most partial to Buddhism.

I must say that I am rather partial to funny dog videos.

Biography always has fulfiled this role. Robinson Crusoe is a biography, as is Tom Jones. You can go through the whole range of the novel, and you will find it is biography. The only difference between one example and the other is that sometimes it's a partial biography and sometimes it's a total biography. Clarissa, for example, is a partial biography of Clarissa and a partial biography of Lovelace. In other words, it doesn't follow Lovelace from when he is in the cradle, though it takes him to the grave.

Partial examination will result in partial views of truth, which are necessarily imperfect; only careful comparisons will show the complete mind of God.

To me, activism requires you to try very hard to open your eyes to the world as it is. See as much as you can, knowing that whatever you see is going to be partial. That you possess a partial consciousness in an infinite and expanding universe.

Altruism became the sole legitimate motivation for giving a kidney. And it is a partial - I say a partial failure.

No punishment for women who have partial birth abortions.

My feeling is that Darwinism is only at best a partial solution, and an extremely dangerous partial solution. I would say, based on the little I know, Darwinism explains microevolution within species quite well. As to its broader consequence and implications, I don't think it explains individual species evolution at all well.

The Superior Man is all-embracing and not partial. The inferior man is partial and not all-embracing.

I'm partial to stilettos. Stilettoes and long, flowing dresses are my new favourites.

I love language. It doesn't bother me that its effects are partial. To me that is very sanity-producing. It would be weird if the effects of language were more than partial, if your whole life existed within your texts. That would be much scarier to me than language being an inadequate tool to represent.

I'd say I am partial to women.

As a Protestant minister's son I am partial to apocalypses.

I am partial to Halle Berry's 'Catwoman.'

The more aspiration is partial realization.

There is no partial sensitivity; either it is the state of one's whole being, total consciousness or it is not there at all

There is no such thing as failure, only partial success!

There is nothing magic. We own 100-percent interests of venues around the world and partial interests of ventures around the world. We own 100-percent sports teams and we own partial sports teams. There's no magic here.

Act averse to nasty language and partial to fruity tea.

Communication across the revolutionary divide is inevitably partial.

Everything he did was at least partial and often total bullshit” (402).

On my tombstone, I really hope that someday they will write: He was true but partial.

Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too?

All knowledge is partial, infinitesimally partial. Reason is a net thrown out into an ocean. What truth it brings in is a fragment, a glimpse, a scintillation of the whole truth.

Personally, emotionally, I'd rather divorce myself from the world than face the heartbreak of partial success. Because partial success implies overwhelming failure.

I'd seen a great many partial eclipses, but a partial eclipse has the same relation to a total eclipse as flirting with a man does to marrying him. It's completely different.

I'm very partial to an early night in my jammies.

If you ruled out partial successes, there would be no progress at all.

Translations are a partial and precious documentation of the changes the text suffers.

Partial repetitions is another technique that I used -- sparingly. I was always a fan of doing full repetitions on every set. However, at the very end of a set where you cannot do any more, and especially if you don't have a training partner, the partial repetitions are good for eking out a little bit more out of the exercise.

I live in a female-dominated household, so I'm like a partial woman myself.

Of all the roles I've done on the stage, I'm partial to Cyrano de Bergerac.

Well I'm partial to a bit of Tom Hardy.

I don't want to be either partial or impartial.

Ban partial-birth abortion except to save mother's life.

Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial.

I'm not particular about makeup, but when I do wear it, I am partial to Fenty. That is what I own. I own it because it is partial to the various colors and shades of black women. It is one of the best cosmetic companies around as far as trying to remove toxins from makeup, and Rihanna is empathetic to the experiences of trans women.

Yesterday's partial obedience creates staggering consequences in today's experiences.

We may be partial, but Fate is not.

I am only strong enough for a life of partial virtue.