Absorb Quotes

407 quotes by 367 authors

America is a mosaic not of groups but of individuals, each of whom carries a host of cultural influences, some chosen, some inherited, some absorbed… — Virginia Postrel
England opened up the world of literature for me. Not really having a world of my own, I made up for my disinheritance by absorbing… — Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
The history of Chechnya is one of imperialism gone terribly wrong. In the 13th and 14th centuries, Chechens were among the few peoples to fend… — Stephen Kinzer
Nature is good at connectivity. The impact of diverse human activities is observed and absorbed throughout nature. Everything is linked. Nature has no problem with… — Jonas Gahr Store
As cities have grown rapidly across the nation, many have neglected infrastructure projects and paved over green spaces that once absorbed rainwater. — Charles Duhigg
Preaching a series allows you to go into greater depth in the text, and spending several weeks on one theme allows the teaching to be… — John Ortberg
You absorb 2,000 years of history just by being near the Thames. — Martin Freeman
I had learned that science is a rewarding, active process of discovery, not the passive absorption of what others had discovered. — Harold E. Varmus
I suppose even when I was growing up, I noticed I was most happy when I was absorbed in something, lost in the moment and… — Pico Iyer
With prurient absorption and only minimal risk, we can pretend to be the subject of the lead article on the front page of the Style… — Joanna Scott
I just love music, and I absorbed what I love. — Valerie June
Good stories flow like honey. Bad stories stick in the craw. A bad story? One that cannot be absorbed on the first time of reading. — Arthur Christiansen
His claim to his home is deep, but there are too many ghosts. He must absorb without being absorbed. — Willie Morris
Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven… — Pearl S. Buck
If love means that one person absorbs the other, then no real relationship exists any more. Love evaporates; there is nothing left to love. The… — Ann Oakley
How, then, can the rights of three men exceed the rights of two men? In what possible way can the rights of three men absorb… — Auberon Herbert
Managers tend to treat organizations as if they are infinitely plastic. They hire and fire, merge, downsize, terminate programs, add capacities. But there are limits… — Kevin Kelly
If there had been three public editors before me, the body might have absorbed it a little bit better. — Daniel Okrent
The doctors realized in retrospect that even though most of these dead had also suffered from burns and blast effects, they had absorbed enough radiation… — John Hersey
In our gliding experiments we had had a number of experiences in which we had landed upon one wing, but the crushing of the wing… — Orville Wright

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