Contracted Quotes

67 quotes by 65 authors

Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved. — Joseph Addison
In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which… — Henri Bergson
In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind more severe than those contracted by… — Marcus Tullius Cicero
As any action or posture, long continued, will distort and disfigure the limbs, so the mind likewise is crippled and contracted by perpetual application to… — Samuel Johnson
In opening we can see how many times we have mistaken small identities and fearful beliefs for our true nature and how limiting this is.… — Jack Kornfield
A newborn child has to cry, for only in this way will his lungs expand. A doctor once told me of a child who could… — Sadhu Sundar Singh
Someday, in the moment of death, your whole life will pass before you. In a few fractions of a second-because time no longer applies-you will… — Dan Millman
The more comfort becomes your priority, the more contracted you become with fear. — T. Harv Eker
Romantic poetry and fiction of the last 2000 years has blinded us to the fact that emotions are a low form of jungle consciousness. Emotional… — Timothy Leary
Loving yourself is a willingness to be in the same space with your own creations. How contracted would you become if you try to withdraw… — Thaddeus Golas
Among the current discussions, the impact of new and sophisticated methods in the study of the past occupies an important place. The new 'scientific' or… — Robert Fogel
In most cases, preferred supplier contracts contain volume commitments that, if not met, could jeopardize the entire contract and cost the company millions in lost… — Jeff Pulver
Nursing is a kind of mania; a fever in the blood; an incurable disease which, once contracted, cannot be got out of the system. If… — Monica Dickens
If, in the case of the worst sinners and those who formerly sinned much against God, when afterwards they believe, the remission of their sins… — Cyprian
I should never conclude were I to speak to you of all the misfortunes which have their origin in the faulty carriage of the body.… — Jean-Georges Noverre
The defects born of habit are innumerable. I see every child occupied in some way in disarranging and disfiguring his physique; some displace the ankles… — Jean-Georges Noverre
Most of the doctors in the Tunisian administration, especially those in country districts, contracted typhus and approximately one third of them died of it — Jules Henry
In the spiritual world there are no time divisions such as the past, present and future; for they have contracted themselves into a single moment… — Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki
There was a blithe certainty that came from first comprehending the full Einstein field equations, arabesques of Greek letters clinging tenuously to the page, a… — Gregory Benford
We do not have an outbreak of Ebola in the United States. Nowhere. We do have two healthcare workers who contracted the disease from a… — Shepard Smith

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