I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

My parents divorced when I was young but I was brought up in two really loving households. I didn't have a contentious relationship with my mom or dad.

If we bring not the good courage of minds covetous of truth and truth only prepared to hear all things and decide upon all things according to evidence we should do more wisely to sit down contented in ignorance than to bestir ourselves only to reap disappointment.

I'm pretty content with what I have but the one thing that I don't have is something like the iPod - but PC-based. I think that would be cool.

The thing that I've always been slightly frustrated with was that the idea of a CD is kind of confined to a material possession that you can put on a shelf. And the idea of music for me is always about both the communication and the sharing of content. And so the interactive part is missing.

Societies have always been shaped more by the nature of the media by which men communicate than by the content of the communication.

Whoever is content with the world and who profits from its lack of justice does not want to change it.

If any man claims the Negro should be content... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.

Be content with what you are and wish not change nor dread your last day nor long for it.

Now I'm having to live with sales of around 50 000 per album - but I'm pretty content with my place in the general scheme of things even if it's meant I don't drive a fancy car and can't afford grand vacations.

The days when a car aficionado could repair his or her own car are long past due primarily to the high software content.

To me the print business model is so simple where readers pay a dollar for all the content within and that supports the enterprise.

If an Internet company steals content they shut it down. And let me tell you Apple France Yahoo France or Google France none of them have gone out of business.

People who have tried it tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented but a full stomach does the business quite as well and is cheaper and more easily obtained.

The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs.

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

No human being is constituted to know the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth and even the best of men must be content with fragments with partial glimpses never the full fruition.

Being forced to work and forced to do your best will breed in you temperance and self-control diligence and strength of will cheerfulness and content and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.

Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.

Health is the greatest gift contentment the greatest wealth faithfulness the best relationship.

But I fear my lot being cast in Scotland that beauty would not be content.

If philosophy is practice a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts.

Film is a very young art that is still evolving. Soon we shall reach a balance between content and technology.

You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers welcome too to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest quite content.