Absorbs Quotes

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From lower to the higher next, Not to the top, is Nature's text; And embryo Good, to reach full stature, Absorbs the Evil in its… — James Russell Lowell
Chess is not for the faint-hearted; it absorbs a person entirely. To get to the bottom of this game, he has to give himself up… — Wilhelm Steinitz
While sin is overflowing, [grace] pours itself forth so exuberantly, that it not only overcomes the flood of sin, but wholly absorbs it. — John Calvin
Persistence is the direct result of habit. The mind absorbs and becomes a part of the daily experiences upon which it feeds. Fear, the worst… — Napoleon Hill
I've not as yet found one hobby that would absorb me completely when I'm not working, but I have just bought a new apartment and… — Hugh Dancy
When each thought absorbs your attention completely, it means you identify with the voice in your head. Thought then becomes invested with a sense of… — Eckhart Tolle
India absorbs things; India's not a divisive place. — Rahul Gandhi
What is an idol? It is anything more important to you than God, anything that absorbs your heart and imagination more than God, anything you… — Timothy Keller
A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. ... A writer has the duty to be… — Elwyn Brooks White
As a result of all his education, from everything he hears and sees around him, the child absorbs such a lot of lies and foolish… — Romain Rolland
Justice is the very last thing of all wherewith the universe concerns itself. It is equilibrium that absorbs its attention. — Maurice Maeterlinck
So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product. — George Wald
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
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
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 (functional - E.W.) language controls by reducing the linguistic forms and symbols of reflection, abstraction, development, contradiction; by substituting images for concepts. It denies… — Herbert Marcuse
The heart of human excellence often begins to beat when you discover a pursuit that absorbs you, frees you, challenges you, or gives you a… — Terry Orlick
I believe in my work and in the joy of it. You have to be with the work and the work has to be with… — Louise Berliawsky Nevelson
Do not feed children on a maudlin sentimentalism or dogmatic religion; give them nature. Let their souls drink in all that is pure and sweet.… — Luther Burbank
The deadly arms race, and the huge resources it absorbs, have too long overshadowed all else we must do. We must prevent that arms race… — John F. Kennedy

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