Absorbed Quotes

374 quotes by 325 authors

However, all gifts seem now to be absorbed in one and a man must be either a Preacher or nothing. — Adam Clarke
The actions of bad men produce only temporary evil, the actions of good men only temporary good ; and eventually the good and the evil… — Henry Thomas Buckle
Histories used often to be stories: the fashion now is to leave out the story. Our histories are stall-fed: the facts are absorbed by the… — Augustus William Hare
She tapped on the window with her embossed hairbrush. They were too far off to hear. The drone of the trees was in their ears;… — Virginia Woolf
I myself am quite absorbed by the delicate yellow, delicate soft green, delicate violet of a ploughed and weeded piece of soil. — Vincent Van Gogh
There are two extremes to avoid: being completely absorbed in your pain and being distracted by so many things that you stay far away from… — Henri
[From uranium] there are present at least two distinct types of radiation one that is very readily absorbed, which will be termed for convenience the… — Ernest Rutherford
[I]t seemed as if the streets were absorbed by the sky, and the night were all in the air. — Charles Dickens
They gutted the book, making an action movie for 15-25 year olds. Tolkien became...devoured by his popularity and absorbed by the absurdity of the time.… — Christopher Tolkien
Radicalism itself ceases to be radical when absorbed mainly in preserving its control over a society or an economy. — Eric Hoffer
Never, never, never on cross-examination ask a witness a question you don't already know the answer to, was a tenet I absorbed with my baby… — Harper Lee
Although a life-long fashion dropout, I have absorbed enough by reading Harper's Bazaar while waiting at the dentist's to have grasped that the purpose of… — Molly Ivins
I knew that suffering did not enoble; it degraded. It made men selfish, petty and suspicious. It absorbed them in small things...it made them less… — W. Somerset Maugham
The majority of mankind is lazyminded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith. — Thomas Stearns Eliot
It is so often on the name of a misdeed that a life goes to pieces, not the nameless and personal action itself, which was… — Rainer Maria Rilke
Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations. — A. Bartlett Giamatti
Like Michelangelo and Cellini, Florentines of every station are absorbed in acquiring real estate: a little apartment that can be rented to foreigners; a farm… — Mary McCarthy
It is almost impossible to be a doctor and an honest man, but it is obscenely impossible to be a psychiatrist without at the same… — Antonin Artaud
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
Every decade of my life I attempted to write a novel. But I had nothing to say. I was far too self-absorbed, and now I… — Louise Penny

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