Self Contained Quotes

51 quotes by 46 authors

I don't have many friends. It's not because I'm a misanthrope. It's because I'm reserved. I'm self-contained. I get all my adventures in my head… — Ian Rankin
Write about small, self-contained incidents that are still vivid in your memory. If you remember them, it's because they contain a larger truth that your… — William Zinsser
Hollywood gives a young girl the aura of one giant, self-contained orgy farm, its inhabitants dedicated to crawling into every pair of pants they can… — Veronica Lake
The thing about living in a village at the foot of a mountain is that the world for you becomes, without thinking about it, self-contained.… — Henry Louis Gates
No man is an island- he is a holon. A Janus-faced entity who, looking inward, sees himself as a self-contained unique whole, looking outward as… — Arthur Koestler
You can make one (self-contained self-rescuer) that would last all day, but you'd have to carry it behind in a wagon. — Kenneth Williams
Negro producers, Negro distributors, Negro consumers! The world of Negroes can be self contained. We desire earnestly to deal with the rest of the world,… — Marcus Garvey
Crime is one of the leads of the show. If there's ever anything that deals with a character's personal life, you don't have to worry… — Christopher Meloni
God is all-full. He is self-contained. He is eternal satisfaction. — Sivananda
We should be telling girls what they already know but rarely see affirmed: that the lives they lead inside their own self-contained bodies; the skills… — Naomi Wolf
I think I could turn and live with the animals, they are so placid and self contained; I stand and look at them long and… — Walt Whitman
Freud made the discovery- quite genuinely, simply through working on his own material- that the more deeply one explores the phenomena of human individuation, the… — Theodor Adorno
One could say: "The boundary condition of the universe is that it has no boundary." The universe would be completely self-contained and not affected by… — Stephen Hawking
So long as the universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the universe is really completely self-contained, having no… — Stephen Hawking
It is man's social nature which distinguishes him from the brute creation. If it is his privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty… — Mahatma Gandhi
Most people's intuitions are drowned out by folk sayings. We have a moment of real feeling or insight, and then we come up with a… — Anne Lamott
World is supposed to mean something that's self-contained. but nothing is self-contained. — Don DeLillo
She is nine, beloved, as open-faced as the sky and as self-contained. I have watched her grow. As recently as three or four years ago,… — Annie Dillard
Human beings are drawn to cats because they are all we are not â€” self-contained, elegant in everything they do, relaxed, assured, glad of company,… — Pam Brown
A certain kind of shittiness, a certain kind of stagnation, a certain kind of darkness, goes on propagating itself by its own power in its… — Haruki Murakami

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