Absorbed Quotes

374 quotes by 325 authors

If souls survive death for all eternity, how can the heavens hold them all? Or for that matter, how can the earth hold all the… — Marcus Aurelius
Honest rejection of Christ, however mistaken, will be forgiven and healed ... but to evade the Son of Man, to look the other way, to… — C.S. Lewis
I didnt like being reminded about how self-absorbed i was. I wanted to be over this, done with this. I didnt want to live in… — Donald Miller
The people reign over the American political world as God rules over the universe. It is the cause and the end of all things; everything… — Alexis de Tocqueville
The new tinge to modern minds is a vehement and passionate interest in the relation of general principles to irreducible and stubborn facts. All the… — Alfred North Whitehead
I like to think how easily Nature will absorb London as she absorbed the mastodon, setting her spiders to spin the winding-sheet and her worms… — Edward Thomas
While I was writing poems, I would often divert myself by reading detective novels, I liked them. And there was a period when I read… — Paul Auster
An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look at it from… — Pope Francis
It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine. — Charles Darwin
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor. — Victor Hugo
One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do.… — Victor Hugo
The brain sits snugly inside the skull, but it's not a completely flush fit - there is still a layer of fluid between bone and… — Jeffrey Kluger
I realized through my personal travels how little I know about certain conflicts, because I was too vain or self-absorbed to ask the questions. That's… — Diane Kruger
What is the meaning of 'gossip?' Doesn't it originate with sympathy, an interest in one's neighbor, degenerating into idle curiosity and love of tattling? Which… — Lucy Larcom
I don't have an ego that makes me believe the world revolves around me. I am not self-absorbed. — Rush Limbaugh
Music has always been transnational; people pick up whatever interests them, and certainly a lot of classical music has absorbed influences from all over the… — Yo-Yo Ma
There's so much importance in honoring your everyday hero. It doesn't take money. It doesn't take connections. What matters is that people get involved. Whether… — Debi Mazar
Calculating how much carbon is absorbed by which forests and farms is a tricky task, especially when politicians do it. — Donella Meadows
I always looked upon the acts of racist exclusion, or insult, as pitiable, from the other person. I never absorbed that. I always thought that… — Toni Morrison
I worry sometimes that I'm a bit moralistic; always writing about men who are learning to grow up, not be so self-absorbed, selfish or badly… — David Nicholls

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