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Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
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Partial truths or half-truths are often more insidious than total falsehoods. -- Samuel P. Huntington
If yuh don't know God yuh goin' suffer and dead! No God Noh Partial, regardless weh yuh deh pon earth. -- Bob Marley
Partial examination will result in partial views of truth, which are necessarily imperfect; only careful comparisons will show the complete mind of God. -- Arthur Tappan Pierson
Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and convincing. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Partial legalization, as some are suggesting, is a dangerous path, and we need only look at France and Germany to see how unwise it is to create a permanent underclass. -- Zoe Lofgren
Human beings do not perceive things whole; we are not gods but wounded creatures, cracked lenses, capably only of fractured perceptions. Partial beings, in all the senses of that phrase. -- Salman Rushdie
Partial-birth abortion, I think that's going to be upheld. I think that ban is going to be upheld. I think it should be. And I think, as long as there's provision for the life of the mother, then that's something that should be done. -- Rudy Giuliani
I'd say I am partial to women. -- Bob Hoskins
I'm partial to stilettos. Stilettoes and long, flowing dresses are my new favourites. -- Sania Mirza
We have the only cookbook in the world that has partial differential equations in it. -- Nathan Myhrvold
I tend to really be partial to Ayn Rand, and to The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. -- Clarence Thomas
As Latinas, we tend to be overly partial considering stereotypes. I'm interested in being naughty and edgy. -- Judy Reyes
And last, it may be worthwhile trying to hang something beyond the partial wall because some of the pictures do very well in a confined space. -- Mark Rothko
Chelsea Morning is a great Joni Mitchell song and I guess I'm partial to her lyrics because they show me a slightly different perspective on life. -- Neil Diamond
I would say in just about every investigation we have, there will be differences of opinion, where you have partial facts, as to what those facts mean. -- Robert Mueller
Every day, people settle for less than they deserve. They are only partially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being has the potential for greatness. -- Bo Bennett
Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life. -- Benjamin Disraeli
To put it bluntly, there isn't one economic theory that can single-handedly explain Singapore's success; its economy combines extreme features of capitalism and socialism. All theories are partial; reality is complex. -- Ha-Joon Chang
People have entire relationships via text message now, but I am not partial to texting. I need context, nuance and the warmth and tone that can only come from a human voice. -- Danielle Steel
Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one. -- Ludwig Wittgenstein
Many slaves on this continent are oppressed, and their cries have reached the ears of the Most High. Such are the purity and certainty of his judgments, that he cannot be partial in our favor. -- John Woolman
No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition. -- William Osler
Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities. -- George Boole
My list of basic tools is a partial answer to the question about what has changed: Over the past few years, large numbers of programmers have come to depend on elaborate tools to interface code with systems facilities. -- Bjarne Stroustrup
Faith is a dynamic and ever-changing process, not some fixed body of truth that exists outside our world and our understanding. God's truth may be fixed and unchanging, but our comprehension of that truth will always be partial and flawed at best. -- Gene Robinson
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. -- Margaret Atwood
Fear of foreign domination in India led the Janata Party, in the 1970s, to push for partial Indian ownership of all multinational firms within the country. The result was a spectacular pullback, by companies such as IBM and Coca-Cola, and a stagnant economy. -- Peter Blair Henry
Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty, how many ghastly, mortifying missteps, how many days of granitic blockheadedness and dismaying ineptitude there is on the way to accomplishment, how partial all accomplishment is, how incomplete? -- Tony Kushner
Powerful new drug-free treatments have been developed for depression and for every conceivable type of anxiety, such as chronic worrying, shyness, public speaking anxiety, test anxiety, phobias, and panic attacks. The goal of the treatment is not just partial improvement but full recovery. -- David D. Burns
This is a tricky domain because, unlike simple arithmetic, to solve a calculus problem - and in particular to perform integration - you have to be smart about which integration technique should be used: integration by partial fractions, integration by parts, and so on. -- Marvin Minsky
I'll do anything. I'll shave my head for the right job. I'm partial to my facial hair, I guess, but I also enjoy doing something where I look totally different, which is kind of the reason why I've always worn long hair. I can really change my look radically by getting rid of it. -- Sam Elliott
I do cook a lot for myself. I tend to cook from scratch, a lot of stews and things, lots of beans, because beans have got lots of protein in them but not fat. I am partial to a bit of cheese - I try to limit myself in my cheese intake, but I do enjoy a good smelly cheese. Stinking Bishop is a good one. -- Honeysuckle Weeks
The more aspiration is partial realization. -- Anna Cora Mowatt
Is it possible to be totally partial? -- Steven Wright
Reality is partial to symmetry and slight anachronisms -- Jorge Luis Borges
We may be partial, but Fate is not. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ban partial-birth abortion except to save mother's life. -- Jerry Weller
Communication across the revolutionary divide is inevitably partial. -- Thomas Kuhn
Love transcends all animosity and is never partial. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Hatred is partial, but love is still more so. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Yesterday's partial obedience creates staggering consequences in today's experiences. -- Priscilla Shirer
No punishment for women who have partial birth abortions. -- Mitt Romney
I don't want to be either partial or impartial. -- Frank McLintock
Well, I am more partial to a semicolon myself. -- C.S. Woolley
...as a Protestant minister's son I am partial to apocalypses... -- Matt Ruff
It wasn't a deception: all lovers live on partial knowledge. -- Teju Cole
There is no such thing as failure, only partial success! -- Suzanne Yoculan
Ideology is a partial truth masquerading as the whole truth. -- Rod Dreher
Act averse to nasty language and partial to fruity tea. -- Al Swearengen
Of all the religions, I am most partial to Buddhism. -- Guy Laliberte
Mind is the partial side of men; the heart is everything. -- Antoine Rivarol
I'd been very partial to Malcolm X, particularly his self-help teachings. -- Clarence Thomas
I am only strong enough for a life of partial virtue. -- Brian Andreas
In my mind, partial failure is always better than delusory success. -- William A. Henry III
It is much easier to evaluate perfect rather than partial results. -- Fred Lowe Soper
I'm partial to the truth, Lo. Good, bad or indifferent. (Vane) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep. -- Benjamin Rush
Everything he did was at least partial and often total bullshit" (402). -- Jonathan Franzen
If you ruled out partial successes, there would be no progress at all. -- Robert Breault
Life is rapid, art is slow, occasion coy, practice fallacious, and judgment partial. -- Henry Fuseli
Consciousness of exclusion through naming is acute. Identities seem contradictory, partial, and strategic. -- Donna J. Haraway
The universe is but a partial manifestation of your limitless capacity to become. -- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
Translations are a partial and precious documentation of the changes the text suffers. -- Jorge Luis Borges
Life never gives more than partial liberation. Achievement can never be more than fragmentary. -- Janusz Korczak
To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake. -- Alexander Pope
Man is always partial and is quite right to be. Even impartiality is partial. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
I'm definitely partial to the "Twin Twist." I've always found that to be really fun. -- Allison Grodner
I'm hoping for a return to at least partial sanity someday, but I'm not optimistic. -- David Rosenfelt
Of all the roles I've done on the stage, I'm partial to Cyrano de Bergerac. -- Bela Lugosi
Prayer is an acknowledgment that our need of God's help is not partial but total. -- Alistair Begg
I've always been partial to werewolves, perhaps because there's a desperation to their plight that resonates. -- Tad Williams
Authors are partial to their wit, 'tis true, But are not critics to their judgment, too? -- Alexander Pope
I've always been partial to comedy. I love the idea of working on a comedic scene. -- Matthew Lewis
The superior man is all-embracing and not partial. The inferior man is partial and not all-embracing. -- Confucius
On my tombstone, I really hope that someday they will write: He was true but partial... -- Ken Wilber
It is childish to rest in the discovery of mere coincidences, or of partial and extraneous laws. -- Henry David Thoreau
That was the nature of history, of course: notional, partial, unknowable, a record made by the victors. -- Kate Morton
Without the smile from partial beauty won, O what were man? - a world without a sun. -- Thomas Campbell
Surrender to alcohol intoxication provides a partial and subjective shortcut to a more correct state of mind. -- Gregory Bateson
Hydrodynamics procreated complex analysis, partial differential equations, Lie groups and algebra theory, cohomology theory and scientific computing. -- Vladimir Arnold
Life is a partial, continuous, progressive, multiform and conditionally interactive self-realization of the potentialities of atomic electron states. -- John Desmond Bernal
Nature is less partial than she appears, and all situations in life have their compensations along with them. -- James Anthony Froude
Knowing what is big and what is small is more important than being able to solve partial differential equations. -- Stanislaw Ulam
I don't believe we're seeing the beginning of a divergence. We have seen a partial divergence on this case. -- Mario Monti
In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems. -- E. O. Wilson
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They waste life in what are called good resolutions-partial efforts at reformation, feebly commenced, heartlessly conducted, and hopelessly concluded. -- Charles Robert Maturin
Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers. -- Garry Disher
... freedom is a conquest, always partial, always precarious, always challenged. ... the freest person is the one with the most hope. -- Gabriel Marcel
General ideas are essences. They are our gods: they round and ennoble the most partial and sordid way of living. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Humanity unceasingly strives forward from a lower, more partial and obscure understanding of life to one more general and more lucid. -- Leo Tolstoy
One of the small consolations of old age, if you are lucky, can be at least a partial recovery of innocence. -- Lawrence Fagg
Altruism became the sole legitimate motivation for giving a kidney. And it is a partial - I say a partial failure. -- Sally Satel
Falling in love is not an extension of one's limits or boundaries; it is a partial and temporary collapse of them. -- M. Scott Peck
I'm partial to a nice cup of vodka. I normally just drink it really simple with a little bit of lemon. -- Cate Blanchett
Every reading is partial, but that does not absolve us from the quest for meaning, which defines us as a species. -- Camille Paglia
If a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out." -Elizabeth -- Jane Austen
Those partial to drink were hiding faults and dishonesty. They were sloppy souls, even the ones with pleasant manners and fine noses. -- Sarah Hall
All things are in the act of change; thou thyself in ceaseless transformation and partial decay, and the whole universe with thee. -- Marcus Aurelius
I feel the need to chastise myself. A movie that's a partial musical, full-on melodrama, should require a tremendous amount of planning. -- Guy Maddin
Personally, emotionally, I'd rather divorce myself from the world than face the heartbreak of partial success. Because partial success implies overwhelming failure. -- George Carlin
... it is a matter of civilizing everyone or not being civilized at all: the decay has always come from a partial civilization. -- Freya Stark
Science, for me, gives a partial explanation for life. In so far as it goes, it is based on fact, experience and experiment. -- Rosalind Franklin
With a little bit of spirit in her system to help her weave the lies and facts together, Emily told the partial truth. -- S.A. Tawks
I think most of my songs are based on an emotion and in every song I write, there's at least a partial truth. -- James Maslow
I think Senator Rubio is a very talented young man. But you can well imagine that I am kind of partial to governors. -- Tom Ridge
Truth is a totality, the sum of many overlapping partial images. History, on the other hand, sacrifices totality in the interest of continuity. -- Edmund Leach
I've always been partial to the image of liquor as lubrication, a layer of protection from all the sharp thoughts in your head. -- Gillian Flynn
There is no partial sensitivity; either it is the state of one's whole being, total consciousness or it is not there at all -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
I'm partial to coffee shops, brain work, and poems on the page. I write after midnight. Sometimes, twisty syntax happens, and I surrender. -- Marvin Bell
[No] matter what a waste one has made of one's life, it is ever possible to find some path to redemption, however partial. -- Charles Frazier
A really intelligent man makes an indifferent painter. For painting requires a certain blindness, a partial refusal to be aware of all the options... -- Peter Greenaway
They're talking about partial nuclear disarmament, which is also like talking about partial circumcision - you either go all the way or forget it. -- Robin Williams
I'm partial to slouchier, more free clothing. My icon is Patti Smith, so the more rips, the more punk, the more comfortable I feel. -- Troian Bellisario
At the risk bragging, one of the things I'm best at is riding coattails. Behind every successful man is me, smiling and taking partial credit. -- Aziz Ansari
I got to thinking about relationships and partial lobotomies. Two seemingly different ideas that might just be perfect together - like chocolate and peanut butter.... -- Sarah Jessica Parker
We're doing a partial green nursery and trying as hard as we can to do as much organic stuff for our nursery as we can. -- Lisa Ling
Not partial membership of the European Union or anything that leaves us half in, half out. No, the United Kingdom is leaving the European Union. -- Theresa May

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