We were totally self-contained with our own food and everything. We didn't want to take even one bottle of water away from these people. When we told them we were doing this for free, they looked at us like we were crazy or something.
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We always lived on John's salary, and whatever I earned was put aside for remodeling or for traveling. That's how we can afford to do this. We've been very conservative, lived very frugally. We were almost self-contained, raising our own fruits and vegetables and rabbits. About the only thing we bought was milk.
Secret and self-contained and solitary as an oyster.
I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them long and long.
What bothers me about the journalistic tendency to reduce unmanageable reality to self-contained, movie like little dramas is not just that we falsify when we do this. It is also that we really miss the good story.
Our Creator has put in us hungers that this earth can- not satisfy. We cannot be completely self-contained on earth. Physical sense cannot give us a full life, nor can knowledge alone. No life is full unless it is linked to some- thing that goes on after we are dead.... If we have nothing more to live for than just to get ahead in a competitive system, then democracy will go down before other philosophies.
If in fact the universe were fully explainable in a self-contained way, maybe it would be rational to simply to an atheist, ... If in fact the universe doesn't seem self-explainable, that gives a rational basis for belief that there is a God.
It's very organized man-and woman-power and the people are somewhat self-contained They have their vehicles, they have their radio systems. They come with a basic component of food to be able to last a few days and can work in a very stressful situation and be able to keep control.
It is man's social nature which distinguishes him from the brute creation. If it is his privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter-dependent. Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.
Last year, most of the episodes tended to be more on the self-contained side of the fence. This year, we'll probably look for a balance where it will be more serialized. And we can thank series like 'Desperate Housewives' and 'Lost' and others that have introduced the audience back to the serialization of television programs. I believe, personally, storytelling can be much richer when you can count on your constituency being more habitual about watching week in and week out.
You can make one (self-contained self-rescuer) that would last all day, but you'd have to carry it behind in a wagon.
Crime is one of the leads of the show. If there's ever anything that deals with a character's personal life, you don't have to worry about it getting too crazy. People don't have to worry about character arcs. Each episode is a self-contained unit.
As catastrophic as a nuclear attack would be, it would be self-contained. But if you look at a worst-case scenario for a biological attack, it would be difficult to determine whether or not it was a terrorist attack, and it would be far more difficult to contain.
Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them.
It really is an insular, self-contained, almost self-perpetuating culture,
God is all-full. He is self-contained. He is eternal satisfaction.