Quotes 21 till 40 of 206.
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Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.
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Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.
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Being ''contented'' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.
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Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well; and requires no less practice.
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Broadcasters have a responsibility to serve the public interest and protect Americans from objectionable content, particularly during the hours when children are likely to be watching.
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But I fear, my lot being cast in Scotland, that beauty would not be content.
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By Modernism I mean the positive rejection of the past and the blind belief in the process of change, in novelty for its own sake, in the idea that progress through time equates with cultural progress; in the cult of individuality, originality and self-expression.
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Content arises out of certain considerations about form, material, context-and that when that subject matter is sufficiently far away.
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Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.
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Content is king. When you are asking people to read you several times a day, you better have some fine content.
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Content not thyself that thou art virtuous in the general; for one link being wanting, the chain is defective.
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Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty -the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.
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Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content.
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Every act of courage is a manifestation of the ground of being, however questionable the content of the act may be.
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Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.
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For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print... substitute drunken dog, ragged head, seld-shaven, odd-eyed, stuttering, or any other epithet which truly and properly belongs to the gentleman in question.
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For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!
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For mankind, speech with a capital S is especially meaningful and committing, more than the content communicated. The outcry of the newborn and the sound of the bells are fraught with mystery more than the baby's woeful face or the venerable tower.
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For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints.
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