Self Contained Quotes

51 quotes by 46 authors

I love doing stand-up. It's so self-contained - you go there, you do it, you go home - but with telly, there are too many… — Jo Brand
I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them long and long. — Walt Whitman
Each energy calls for its complementary energy to achieve self-contained stability based on the play of energies. — Paul Klee
The family should be a closely knit group. The home should be a self-contained shelter of security; a kind of school where life's basic lessons… — Billy Graham
Science itself is badly in need of integration and unification. The tendency is more and more the other way ... Only the graduate student, poor… — Isidor Isaac Rabi
When I make a photograph I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order (unlike the world… — Aaron Siskind
Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change… — Catherine Drinker Bowen
It is the transcendent (or 'abstract' or 'self-contained') nature of music that the new so called concretism--Pop Art, eighteen-hour slices-of-reality films, musique concrete--opposes. But instead… — Igor Stravinsky
Naturalism is the view that the physical world is a self-contained system that works by blind, unbroken natural laws. Naturalism doesn't come right out and… — William A. Dembski
The day is refracted, and the next and the one after that, all of them broken up into a hundred juggled segments, each brilliant and… — Penelope Lively
Our Creator has put in us hungers that this earth can- not satisfy. We cannot be completely self-contained on earth. Physical sense cannot give us… — Ralph Washington Sockman
Our weavings in the cosmic web are not self-contained. Rather, they are part of the design of our collective humanity. — Lisa Hunt
Viewed from the distance of the moon, the astonishing thing about the earth, catching the breath, is that it is alive. ... It has the… — Lewis Thomas
My love for traveling to islands amounts to a pathological condition known as nesomania, an obsession with islands. This craze seems reasonable to me, because… — Paul Theroux
Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained. — Mahatma Gandhi
No man (sic) has learned to live until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Human beings, in a sense, may be thought of as multidimensional creatures composed of such poetic considerations as the individual need for self-realization, subdued passions… — Aberjhani
Do not desire, for what you desire you get, and with it comes terrible bondage. It is nothing but bringing "noses on us," as in… — Swami Vivekananda
I liked the idea of a self-contained, endless pursuit of perfection. But I have a problem with perfection. I don't think perfection is very artful.… — Elliott Smith
Life is not an orderly progression, self-contained like a musical scale or a quadratic equation... If one is to record one's life truthfully, one must… — Leonard Woolf

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