Content Quotes

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It is faith, and not reason, which impels men to action... Intelligence is content to point out the road, but never drives us along it. — Alexis Carrel
I could be well content To entertain the lag-end of my life With quiet hours. — William Shakespeare
A miser is sometimes a grand personification of fear. He has a fine horror of poverty; and he is not content to keep want from… — Charles Lamb
I wish I were the lily's leaf To fade upon that bosom warm, Content to wither, pale and brief, The trophy of thy paler form. — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a revenue; but to be content with our own is the greatest… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
I have been so great a lover: filled my days So proudly with the splendour of Love's praise, The pain, the calm, and the astonishment,… — Rupert Brooke
The soul is content to stay imprisoned in the human body... for through the eyes all the various things of nature are represented to the… — Leonardo da Vinci
Everyday epiphanies encourage us to cherish everything. Today a new sun has risen. Everything lives. Everything can speak to your soul passionately if you will… — Sarah Ban Breathnach
Twere better to be born a stone Of ruder shape, and feeling none, Than with a tenderness like mine And sensibilities so fine! Ah, hapless… — William Cowper
I do not think it is any benefit for artists or fans to have all the new, wide distribution channels in the online world controlled… — Orrin Hatch
Tis not the food, but the content, That makes the table's merriment. — Robert Herrick
I die content, I die for the liberty of my country. — Thomas Paine
There are hermit souls that live withdrawn In the place of their self-content; There are souls like stars that dwell apart, In a fellowless firmament;… — Sam Walter Foss
What you think is an illusion created by your glands, your emotions and, in the last analysis, by the content of your stomach. That gray… — Ayn Rand
The extreme proposition on which Giacometti based all his mature work was that no reality... could ever be shared. This is why he believed it… — John Berger
I'm quite content: although what I'm doing is far from being as I should like, I am complemented often enough all the same... — Claude Monet
It really is appallingly difficult to do something which is complete in every respect, and I think most people are content with mere approximations. Well,… — Claude Monet
When art seems to be empty of meaning, as no doubt some of the abstract painting of our own day actually does seem, what the… — Lewis Mumford
Fly away, pretty moth, to the shade Of the leaf where you slumbered all day; Be content with the moon and the stars, pretty moth,… — Thomas Haynes Bayly
The idea of content in art is today merely a hindrance, a nuisance, a subtle or not so subtle philistinism. — Susan Sontag
To emphasize style is to slight content, or to introduce an attitude which is neutral with respect to content. — Susan Sontag
The difficulty with color is to go beyond the fact that it's color ? to have it be not just a colorful picture but really… — Mary Ellen Mark
By far the most common task for which the machines are used is writing - or word processing, as it's known to the same people… — Robert Motherwell
My aim is not to exhibit craft, but rather to submerge it, and make it rightfully the handmaiden of beauty, power and emotional content. — Andrew Wyeth
Form is the shape of content... — Ben Shahn

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