#content

If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart. ↗

— Socrates

#contented #depart #equal #everyone #heap

I guess I didn't feel confident enough to be searching in a big public way. I was very content at the time to toil in obscurity on things that I thought might point me in certain directions or teach me certain things - not knowing what that would be. ↗

— Steven Soderbergh

#certain #certain things #confident #content #directions

There's probably a way to use that great content and to live under the radar now and then in order to reach a new audience. That's the thinking I'm talking about. ↗

— John Tesh

#audience #content #great #i #live

The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing, its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images, designed to hide its contents. Within is the finest collection of words generated by human intelligence: the complete works of William Shakespeare. ↗

— Daniel Hannan

#bible #british #british museum #collection #complete

But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions. ↗

— Homer

#best #contentions #curb #gentle #high

Nature not content with denying him the ability to think, has endowed him with the ability to write. ↗

— Alfred Edward Housman

#content #denying #endowed #him #nature

I was always interested in doing it, but I was so content with my life that I didn't really go after it. ↗

— Shannyn Sossamon

#always #content #doing #go #i

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification. ↗

— Herman Hesse

#changes #consisted #contentment #else #existence

If you think about it, for any kind of content on the web, the natural price per unit of these things should be under a dollar. ↗

— Scott McCloud

#any #content #dollar #kind #natural

Each memorable verse of a true poet has two or three times the written content. ↗

— Alfred de Musset

#content #each #memorable #poet #three