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Does that mean you're prepared to deal with whatever turns up? People aren't sometimes. When they learn the real truth, they're all of a sudden… — Susan Wittig Albert
If only they would all just leave me alone with my books and my letters, I would be content to let life, and the world… — Alison Weir
Hope is not blind optimism. It's not ignoring the enormity of the task ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path. It's not sitting… — Barack Obama
Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them, or shall we endeavor to amend them, and obey them until we have succeeded, or… — Henry David Thoreau
Hours and days and months and years go by; the past returns no more, and what is to be we cannot know; but whatever the… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nothing stands for content-free corporate bullshit quite like PowerPoint. And that's just scratching the surface... — Charles Stross
She was experiencing the same odd happiness and odd sadness as then. The sadness meant: We are at the last station. The happiness meant: We… — Milan Kundera
If we feel our way into the human secrets of the sick person, the madness also reveals its system, and we recognize in the mental… — Carl Jung
To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Recounting the strange is like telling one's dreams: one can communicate the events of a dream, but not the emotional content, the way that a… — Neil Gaiman
Pigmentation was a quick and convenient way of judging a person. One of us, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., once proposed we instead judge people… — Jon Stewart
Human beings, in their natural state, are unpredictable, erratic, and unhappy. It is only once their animal instincts are controlled that they can be responsible,… — Lauren Oliver
In the hours that followed, I learned that Ademic hand gestures did not actually represent facial expressions. It was nothing so simple as that. For… — Patrick Rothfuss
You're hard to please: so many friends and so few cares, and can't make yourself content. — Emily Bronte
May be we are not such fools as we look. But though we be, we are well content, so long as we may be two… — R.D. Blackmore
Let the soul be assured that somewhere in the universe it should rejoin its friend, and it would be content and cheerful alone for a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
To love God is to love His will. It is to wait quietly for life to be measured by One who knows us through and… — Elisabeth Elliot
Fear sits and smiles and is predatory, immobile and silent and serene; an observer who conserves his energy and is content to wait. — John Scalzi
Lord make me satisfied with small things. Make me content to live on the outside of life. God make me love the rind! — Josephine Winslow Johnson
We hypostatize information into objects. Rearrangement of objects is change in the content of the information; the message has changed. This is a language which… — Philip K. Dick
Jesus was not content to derive his ethics from the scriptures of his upbringing. He explicitly departed from them. [...] Since a principal thesis of… — Richard Dawkins
Everything is banal in experience, fleeting in duration, sordid in content; in all respects the same today as generations now dead and buried have found… — Marcus Aurelius
Why, I can smile and murder whiles I smile, And cry 'content' to that which grieves my heart, And wet my cheeks with artificial tears,… — William Shakespeare
HAPPY EVER AFTER is a concept I'll never believe in. I would be content to sample some little taste of happiness today, tonight, right now.… — Ellen Hopkins
What I am in search of is not so much the gratification of a curiosity or a passion for worldly life, but something far less… — Hermann Hesse

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