Contentedly Quotes
28 quotes by 26 authors
-
A kiss is but a kiss now! and no wave of a great flood that whirls me to the sea. But, as you will! we'll…
— George Meredith
-
What if I pulled through and the pious faction contentedly claimed that their prayers had been answered? That would somehow be irritating,
— Christopher Hitchens
-
Whenever I hear some bigmouth in Washington or the Christian heartland banging on about the evils of sodomy or whatever, I mentally enter his name…
— Christopher Hitchens
-
Vanity is so frequently the apparent motive of advice that we, for the most part, summon our powers to oppose it without very accurate inquiry…
— Samuel Johnson
-
Love, it seems to me, is the condition in which one is most contentedly oneself.
— Tony Judt
-
Professionalism merges the individual into patterns of total environment. Amateurism seeks the development of the total awareness of the individual and the critical awareness of…
— Marshall McLuhan
-
Once my jars were labeled, I felt contentedly thrilled with myself, as if I had pulled off a wonderful trick. People feel this way when…
— Laurie Colwin
-
Though we may be genetically wired for temporary happiness, we've also been gifted with the ability to recognize within ourselves a more profound and lasting…
— Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
-
But if anything in thy own dispositiongives thee pain, who hinders thee from correcting thy opinion? And even if thou art pained because thou art…
— Marcus Aurelius
-
I often think that we are like the carp swimming contentedly in that pond. We live out our lives in our own "pond," confident that…
— Michio Kaku
-
Most lives are a flight from selfhood. Most prefer the truths of the stable. You stick your head into the stanchions and munch contentedly until…
— Frank Herbert
-
We can rest contentedly in our sins and in our stupidities, and anyone who has watched gluttons shoveling down the most exquisite foods as if…
— C.S. Lewis
-
The painter wanders and loiters contentedly from place to place, always on the lookout for some brilliant butterfly of a picture which can be caught…
— Winston Churchill
-
In all life one should comfort the afflicted, but verily, also, one should afflict the comfortable, and especially when they are comfortably, contentedly, even happily…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
-
He thought of the number of girls and women she had seen marry, how many homes with children in them she had seen grow up…
— Charles Dickens
-
The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise. Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even…
— Henry David Thoreau
-
I love you,†she said softly. Jason's arms tightened around her. He grinned sleepily. “I know.†Taylor drifted off contentedly. Until through the darkness, she…
— Julie James
-
If men only felt about death as they do about sleep, all terrors would cease. . . Men sleep contentedly, assured that they will wake…
— Richard Matheson
-
Anyone can live contentedly in circumstances of ease and comfort, health and well-being gratification and felicity; but to remain happy and contented in the face…
— Abdu'l-Bahá
-
Foaly twitched his tail contentedly. Genius. No point in being humble about it.
— Eoin Colfer
Who Wrote These Contentedly Quotes
26 authors contributed a total of 28 Contentedly Quotes, led by these top contributors: