Absorbed Quotes

374 quotes by 325 authors

Big Brother isn't watching. He's singing and dancing. He's pulling rabbits out of a hat. Big Brother's busy holding your attention every moment you're awake.… — Chuck Palahniuk
He shook his head, absorbed in one of his feats of memory, those brief periods of scholastic rapture where he lost touch with the world… — Diana Gabaldon
I was too absorbed to be responsive — F. Scott Fitzgerald
We thank Him less by words than by the serene happiness of silent acceptance. It is our emptiness in the presence of His reality, our… — Thomas Merton
There is nothing more irreligious than self-absorbed religion. — J I Packer
You want me to come clean, I will. I'll tell you everything. Who I am and what I've done. Every last detail. I'll dig it… — Becca Fitzpatrick
â€¦ it wasnâ€™t pretend, I wasnâ€™t in a fairytale or a fable. I shut my eyes and absorbed the silent whoomp that always accompanies this… — Miranda July
He became absorbed beyond mere happiness as he felt himself exercising control over living things. He talked to them, urging them, ordering them. Driven back… — William Golding
People will not die. Isn't this the creed of the new culture? People will be absorbed in streams of information. I know nothing about this.… — Don DeLillo
When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can… — Blaise Pascal
Of course his dust would be absorbed in other living things and to that degree at least he would exist again, though it was plain… — Gore Vidal
Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed in a book. — Frances Hodgson Burnett
Whiteness is the color of death, you know, not black. Wetness is life, the breeder and shaper of life. In the beginning the sun was… — Jim Carroll
Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love. This is something… — Daniel Keyes
She did nothing to try to control the shakes that rattled her body,and didn't attempt to stop herself from crying. Tears left both of her… — J R Ward
The prefect evening...lying down on the couch beside the bookcase and reading himself sleepy...Jim lying opposite him at the other end of the couch, also… — Christopher Isherwood
I'd like to submit to Bad Science my teacher who gave us a handout which says that 'Water is best absorbed by the body when… — Ben Goldacre
No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing is to reach the… — Alan Watts
I want in fact more of you. In my mind I am dressing you with light; I am wrapping you up in blankets of complete… — Franz Kafka
God made you to love him supremely, but he lost you. He returned to get you back, but it took the cross to do it.… — Timothy Keller

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