Absorbing Quotes

143 quotes by 129 authors

Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation. — Winston Churchill
The fact remains that the overwhelming majority of people who have become wealthy have become so thanks to work they found profoundly absorbing. The long… — Srully Blotnick
A population weakened and exhausted by battling against so many obstacles - whose needs are never satisfied and desires never fulfilled - is vulnerable to… — Ryszard Kapuscinski
Other duties become pressing and absorbing and crowd our prayer. "Choked to death" would be the coroner's verdict in many cases of dead praying if… — Edward McKendree Bounds
Out of the Indian approach to life there came a great freedom, an intense and absorbing respect for life, enriching faith in a Supreme Power,… — Black Elk
When you've always worked hard in the theater, you find that when you stop playing at the end of a run, the evenings seem very… — Rex Harrison
In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book,… — Robert Louis Stevenson
At birth, the child leaves a person - his mother's womb - and this makes him independent of her bodily functions. The baby is next… — Maria Montessori
I remember the days of my youth when everything was new and bright; when the mind was always questing, searching, absorbing; when the pain of… — Jennifer Worth
Life without absorbing occupation is hell; joy consists in forgetting life. — Elbert Hubbard
The historic role of the consumer has been nothing more than a giant maw at the end of the mass media's long conveyer belt, the… — Clay Shirky
I have learned that in a long life we all eventually play the part of the betrayed, and we all eventually play the part of… — Robert Wagner
In discussing the state of the atmosphere following a nuclear exchange, we point especially to the effects of the many fires that would be ignited… — Paul J. Crutzen
An innocent man is a sin before God. Inhuman and therefore untrustworthy. No man should live without absorbing the sins of his kind, the foul… — Toni Morrison
Charles Sumner's mind had reached the calm of WATER which receives and reflects images without absorbing them; it contains nothing but itself. — Henry Adams
The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural selection in the face. It… — H.G. Wells
The ability to work hard for days on end without losing focus is a talent. The ability to keep absorbing new information after many hours… — Garry Kasparov
In The Last of Her Kind, Sigrid Nunez once again creates characters of such depth and situations of such vivid moral complexity that reading these… — Margot Livesey
Every actor and actress is possessed of the absorbing passion to create something distinctive and unique. — Hattie McDaniel
Generally, my writing is influenced by living, by absorbing everything that happens to me and my actions. — Graham Nash

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