There are very few men and women in whom a Universalist feeling is altogether lacking; its prevalence suggests that it must be part of our inborn nature and have a place in Nature’s scheme of evolution.
I was born in Owerri and grew up in the east of Nigeria, in Imo state. You could say I was a ‘street boy’: we grew up on the street, played on the street, did everything out on the street. It was a difficult life altogether, but that’s how we grew up.
The great city can teach something that no university by itself can altogether impart: a vivid sense of the largeness of human brotherhood, a vivid sense of man’s increasing obligation to man; a vivid sense of our absolute dependence on one another.
I’ve been delivering these little homilies since 1980 – that’s 37 years – and altogether, NPR statisticians tell me, my bloviation total is 1,656 commentaries – and I trust you’ve hung onto every word.
A vigorous temper is not altogether an evil. Men who are easy as an old shoe are generally of little worth.
I would end the EB-5 program altogether, if we cannot establish that it can be used only to bring development to impoverished places where it otherwise truly would not occur under normal American market forces.
In real life I avoid all parties altogether, but on paper I can mingle with the best of them.
The school-boy doesn’t force himself to learn his vocabularies and rules altogether at night, but knows that be must impress them again in the morning.
The minute the director said action, you could see a different version of Sridevi altogether.
Frankly, I’d like to see the government get out of war altogether and leave the whole field to private industry.
The choreography in films is completely different. I find it easier when I am asked to dance to classical music, but it’s a different ball game altogether.
The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort, but partly on the frequency with which it is exerted.
Worrying about the poor is one thing. To contend that equality is necessary for growth is an altogether different and more radical idea.
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
If Britain was to close down altogether overnight, then China would take up the slack of carbon emissions in two years. If America closed down, just the growth in China’s emissions would replace America’s emissions in 12 years.
The only truly individualistic health-care choice – where you receive care that is unpolluted by anyone else’s funds – is to forgo insurance altogether, paying out-of-pocket for health services as you need them.
I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.
If I’m not comfortable doing something, I’ll refuse the role altogether.
I love when you get to work with people who care about the project as much as you do because then, you’re altogether in. I feel like I’ve been lucky so far to have the chance to work with people who work that way.
I don’t like slapdash careless prose, and if I saw myself doing it, I would give up writing altogether.
Before pregnancy, I would box, do SoulCycle, and do some pretty intense circuit training in the gym. When I got pregnant, I realized I’d need to tone some of that stuff down and remove some altogether, but was determined to maintain the mental and physical health benefits of exercise.
I feel – and this goes back to social media and freedom of speech – when you’re on a public platform, and you put something out there in front of people who don’t know you, they might just perceive it in a very different way altogether.
It’s either not good enough and dies altogether, or it develops.
The English prison system is altogether mediaeval and outworn. In some of its details, the system has improved since they began to send the Suffragettes to Holloway. I may say that we, by our public denunciation of the system, have forced these slight improvements.
‘Geet’ was a completely different show from me. From playing Ram previously to essaying Maan Singh, it was a different experience altogether.
In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.
No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy.
It’s true that I have never met any man whom I thought altogether resembled me – but only because my faults are so enormous.
I didn’t want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling – more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.
I’ve heard the argument that unemployment benefits somehow act as a disincentive to the long-term unemployed when it comes to looking for work, but the opposite is true. Unemployment Insurance serves as a powerful incentive for people to keep searching for jobs, rather than drop out of the labor force altogether.
If only we could get Muslims to boycott all airlines, we could dispense with airport security altogether.
Over the years, I had something in principle against autobiographical writing altogether because memory plays tricks on us, and we also tend to reinvent ourselves. But there comes an age when one begins to observe life, and there are things that need time to mature, also in terms of literary form.
The fellows that I played with encouraged me to bunt and beat the ball out. I was anxious to make good and did as I was told. When I came to Brooklyn, I adopted an altogether different style of hitting. I stood flat-footed at the plate and slugged. That was my natural style.
Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.
The cultural conversation around privilege has grown vibrant enough that the ultimate privilege is to just ignore it altogether. Some decry this conversation as pernicious. I don’t agree.
When we look on the roses and gaiety of youth, the mournful idea of mortality is altogether alien to our thoughts. We have heard of it as a speculation and a tale, but nothing but experience can bring it home to us.
I can’t imagine leaving the theatre altogether. My dressing room has become a home from home.
Civilization is maintained by a very few people in a small number of places and we need only some bombs and a few prisons to blot it out altogether.
When learning was monopolized by the monks in the Middle Ages, people specialized only in warfare and statecraft. And even these were not altogether free from the scholastic influence.
I think Rush have always had this reputation, particularly to non-fans, of being an ultra-serious and cerebral group when, in fact, the reverse is true. We don’t take ourselves seriously at all. Sure, we take our music seriously, but that’s altogether different.
I started writing novels by not thinking about actually writing a whole novel – that felt altogether too daunting. I thought out a rough idea, then wrote chapter by chapter, and then by the time I’d hit 40,000 words, it was a challenge just to see if I could get to the end.
The Veterans Health Administration is a perfect case study of how government should stay out of patient care altogether.
Naga Shaurya is a silent person and doesn’t talk to anyone on the sets. But when he faces the camera, he is a different person altogether. As an actor, he is very mature.
So it’s been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether.
Modern money is almost altogether credit money.
Many people want to scale back their working hours as they near the end of their careers, but not necessarily to give up work altogether.
Politicians are very experienced – maybe too experienced – at using body language to signal power and competence. But what these politicians are much more likely to struggle with, or just neglect to do altogether, is communicate warmth and trustworthiness.
When you play a cop, it’s a different feeling altogether.
Everybody is so right when they keep raving about their work experiences with Mr. Bachchan. It was a treat really. He has honed his craft to another level altogether.
When someone has to go to the hospital because they don’t have insurance – and by the way, I think the insurance companies should be out of the mix altogether – but when someone needs health care, and they don’t have the ability to pay for it, in our communities, we end up paying for it one way or the other.
The Constitution is no simple contract, not because it uses a certain amount of open-ended language, but because its language grants and guarantees many good things, and good things that compete with each other and can never all be realized, altogether, all at once.
I am not altogether confident of my ability to put my thoughts into words: My texts are usually better after an editor has hacked away at them, and I am used to both editing and being edited. Which is to say that I am not oversensitive in such matters.
Audiences respond in entirely different ways. One thing is unanimous – music binds us altogether.
