Contraction Quotes

46 quotes by 42 authors

In film, there are two ways of including human beings. One is depicting human beings. Another is to create a film form which, in itself,… — Nathaniel Dorsky
At the very center of our being is rhythmic movement, a cyclic expansion and contraction that is both in our body and outside it, that… — Andrew Weil
Great art grabs you, against your will, and then suspends your will. You are ushered into a quiet clearing, free of desire, free of grasping,… — Ken Wilber
TVâ€”a clever contraction, derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. We call it a medium, because nothing's well done. — Goodman Ace
It has been demonstrated that freemason - in an operative context - is a contraction of 'freestone mason'....The earliest printed use so far traced comes… — John Hamill
Every one and every single time is different, and I didn't have C-sections, which I don't know if that's lucky or unlucky, but I was… — Monica Potter
The EPA's greenhouse gas regulations, along with a host of other onerous regulations, are unnecessarily driving out conventional fuels as part of America's energy mix.… — Gina McCarthy
Suffer no anxiety, for he who is a sufferer of anxiety becomes regardless of enjoyment of the world and the spirit, and contraction happens to… — Zoroaster
The borders of my bodyhood coincide with those of my openness to the world. They are in fact at any given time identical, though they… — Medard Boss
[1.] And first I suppose that there is diffused through all places an aethereal substance capable of contraction & dilatation, strongly elastick, & in a… — Isaac Newton
The organism is thus being preconditioned for the spontaneous acceptance of what is offered. Inasmuch as the greater liberty involves a contraction rather than extension… — Herbert Marcuse
I don't think I've been too optimistic. The government believes the contraction will be around 1.5 per cent, as the central bank said. However, we're… — Luis de Guindos
It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness. A spirited mind never stops within itself; it is… — Michel de Montaigne
The oil market is especially sensitive even to a hint of expansion or contraction in supply. — James Surowiecki
WHORES. Necessary in the nineteenth century for the contraction of syphilis, without which no one could claim genius. — Julian Barnes
All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is… — Swami Vivekananda
Strength is Life, Weakness is Death. Expansion is Life, Contraction is Death. Love is Life, Hatred is Death. — Swami Vivekananda
I want you to know it was no big deal...those movies showing women screaming in labor are plain bullshit....there's nothing to it...you just push and… — Judy Blume
The notion is that human beings are born, (as my Guru has explained many times,) with equivalent potential for both contraction and expansion. The ingredients… — Elizabeth Gilbert
THE CORRECTION, when it finally came, was not an overnight bursting of a bubble but a much more gentle letdown, a year-long leakage of value… — Jonathan Franzen

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