Absorb Quotes

407 quotes by 367 authors

Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations. — A. Bartlett Giamatti
So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product. — George Wald
Television has never known what to do with grief, which resists narrative: the dramas of grief are largely internal - for the bereaved, it is… — Meghan O'Rourke
One of the most persistent cultural tics of the early 21st century is Americans' reluctance to absorb, let alone prepare for, bad news. — Frank Rich
I'm a big fan of simplicity, especially with songs and I try not to make them complicated. I just make them simple and let people… — Graham Russell
After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living… — Barbara Steele
Most people, without consciously realizing it, absorb a great deal of psychic energy from the people they casually associate with, and even a greater amount… — Frederick Lenz
Fear is something I try not to absorb. — Mark E. Smith
A human being can only absorb a small amount of the mystical kundalini, you can be exposed again and again to it, but it won't… — Frederick Lenz
The higher octave light that comes from samadhi, the kundalini of samadhi, this you can absorb continuously. You can never overload. It can never hurt… — Frederick Lenz
A child from the age of 2 or 3 absorbs what is in the environment and what generates hatred for anyone perceived to be different. — Rita Levi-Montalcini
We have learned so well how to absorb novelty that receptivity itself has turned into a kind of tradition- "the tradition of the new." Yesterdays… — Richard Hofstadter
The very concept of history implies the scholar and the reader. Without a generation of civilized people to study history, to preserve its records, to… — George F. Kennan
The world can absorb only doses of truth... too much would kill it. — William M. Evarts
In high school I was very much involved in poetry. You cannot read a poem quickly. There's too much going on there. There are rhythms… — Eugene H. Peterson
I like my surroundings to be pretty spare and severe. It helps me to concentrate on my work. All I ever do here is go… — Ross Bleckner
Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real… — Max Beckmann
This sweet, blessed, God-inspired place called America is a champion that has absorbed some blows. But while we bend, we don't break. This is no… — Artur Davis
My view... would be that we are entering upon a new and interim society which is neither capitalist nor socialist, but in which we can… — John Grierson
After Hurricane Katrina, over New Orleans, my helicopter crashed and the pilot and I were only saved because we fell on the roof of a… — Yann Arthus-Bertrand

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