Absorbing Quotes
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Wherever we can multiply our forces and our civilizational efforts, absorbing other elements, no law can prohibit us from doing so, as such actions are our duty.
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More Absorbing Quotes
In anything fit to be called by the name of reading, the process itself should be absorbing and voluptuous; we should gloat over a book, be rapt clean out of ourselves, and rise from the perusal, our mind filled with the busiest, kaleidoscopic dance of images, incapable of sleep or of continuous thought. The words, if the book be eloquent, should run thenceforward in our ears like the noise of breakers, and the story, if it be a story, repeat itself in a thousand coloured pictures to the eye.
Robert Louis Stevenson— A Gossip on Romance, printed in Longman's Magazine (November 1882).
People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce.
Margaret Mead— Male and female (1949, p. 335)
Nothing could moderate, in the bosom of the great English middle class, their passionate, absorbing, almost blood-thirsty clinging to life.
Matthew Arnold— 1865 Essays in Criticism First Series, preface.
In the hands of Science and indomitable energy, results the most gigantic and absorbing may be wrought out by skilful combinations of acknowledged data and the simplest means.
— Sir George Biddell Airy (1855). Lecture on the pendulum-experiments at Harton Pit: delivered in the Central Hall, South Shields, October 24, 1854. Longman and Co. p. iv.
Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages.
brennan, william j., jr.— Writing for the court, Roth v. United States, 354 U.S. 476 (1957)
Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering — because you can't take it all in at once.
audrey hepburn— As quoted in Audrey Hepburn : A Bio-bibliography (1994) by David Hofstede
Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experiences.
paul newman— Quoted in Leslie Halliwell, Halliwell’s Filmgoers’ Companion (1984)
Love can't flourish in a "society" based on money and meaningless work, but rather requires complete economic, as well as personal, freedom, leisure time and the opportunity to engage in intensely absorbing, emotionally satisfying activities which, when shared with those you respect, lead to deep friendship, but which our "society" provides practically no opportunity to engage in.
valerie solanas— p. 11 (SCUM MANIFESTO (1967))
In man, social intercourse has centred mainly on the process of absorbing fluid into the organism, but in the domestic dog and to a lesser extent among all wild canine species, the act charged with most social significance is the excretion of fluid.
Olaf Stapledon— Chapter VIII Sirius at Cambridge (a passage supposedly written by Sirius)
He confronts a basic tool of the measurers the statistical technique called factor analysis, developed by the influential English psychologist Charles Spearman and demonstrates persuasively how factor analysis led to the cardinal error in reasoning of confusing correlation with cause, or, to put it another way, of attributing false concreteness to the abstract. It is this sort of performance that makes the book's eventual refutation of Arthur Jensen seem incidental, for it is far more absorbing to have our powers of reason challenged than it is to have our social consciences shaken.
stephen jay gould— Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, "Books Of The Times" The New York Times, 1997-11-09, p. C29
True happiness, we are told, consists in getting out of one's self; but the point is not only to get out you must stay out; and to stay out you must have some absorbing errand.
Henry James— Roderick Hudson (1875), ch. I: Rowland
Experience has taught me that those who give their time to the absorbing claims of what is called society, not having leisure to keep up a large acquaintance with the organs of opinion, remain much more ignorant of the general state either of the public mind, or of the active and instructed part of it, than a recluse who reads the newspapers need be.
john stuart mill— Ch. 7: General View of the Remainder of My Life (p. 184)
But man is above all a social and political animal; his relations with his fellow human beings form his most absorbing and important interest.
— Logan Pearsall Smith.'Introduction', p. 49, A Treasury of English Aphorisms (1943).
The religious ethos of India was given flexibility, tolerance and strength by the absence of a single religious doctrine, based on a 'Bible' or sacred dogma; by the multiplicity of forms and faiths that collectively formed India’s religious beliefs and the Vedic and beak-away traditions of our sages and seers. It was an inclusive attitude, drawing the alien heretical belief within a total ambience, extending and absorbing while respecting the beliefs of other religions. Heresy was unknown and religious persecution was minimal.
indira gandhi— Selected Thoughts of Indira Gandhi: A Book of Quotes (1985, pg. 275).
Sex, a great and mysterious motive force in human life, has indisputably been a subject of absorbing interest to mankind through the ages.
— Writing for the court, Roth v. United States, 354 U.S. 476 (1957)
