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Monday, June 17th, 2024
the Week of Proper 6 / Ordinary 11
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Sermon Quotations Archive

Quotations regarding 'Content'

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It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. hares have no time to read.
Anita Brookner, English Historian (1938-  )
With each of those projects I wasn't thinking about how the layout would really affect the story I was working on - it wasn't the content that was affecting the layout, it was, how I wanted to draw at that point in time.
Chester Brown, Canadian Cartoonist (1960-  )
The Church cannot be content to live in its stained-glass house and throw stones through the picture window of modern culture.
Robert McAfee Brown, American Theologian (1920-2001)
Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever.
Peabo Bryson, American Musician (1951-  )
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
Buddha, Leader
A youthful mind is seldom totally free from ambition; to curb that, is the first step to contentment, since to diminish expectation is to increase enjoyment.
Frances Burney, -
I record all of my music with authentic instruments in a studio before we start editing, doing many, many versions. The music shapes the film as we edit so it has an organic relationship to the content.
Ken Burns, American Director (1953-  )
I strongly support the Bush Administration's clean diesel rules, which will reduce air pollution from diesel engines by more than 90 percent, and reduce the sulfur content of diesel fuel by more than 95 percent.
Steve Buyer, American Politician (1958-  )
What is that song that Willie Nelson sang? 'Oh, the days dwindle down to a precious few.' I think of that. No big deal. I've reached a stage in my life where I am content.
Gabriel Byrne, Irish Actor (1950-  )
I'm content with making records, but I don't want to be doing the same thing all the time.
John Cale, Welsh Musician (1942-  )
I would have been content to just do studio work, making it on my own never really entered my mind.
Glen Campbell, American Musician (1936-  )
In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent.
George Canning, English Statesman (1770-1827)
It's hard to be ambitious if you're content, isn't it?
Tucker Carlson, American Journalist (1969-  )
Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
Dale Carnegie, American Writer (1888-1955)
People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
Andrew Carnegie, American Businessman (1835-1919)
Movie distribution may very well have migrated fully to digital form by then, making a huge dent in the need to print film and physically distribute content.
Vinton Cerf, American Inventor (1943-  )
We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
Paul Cezanne, French Artist (1839-1906)
There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment; there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.
Chanakya, Indian Politician
The mobile market is exploding and it makes perfect sense for a media company like ours to create a real content destination for the billions of cell-phone users around the world.
Peter Chernin, -
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.
Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer (1874-1936)
 
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