The other natural habitat for a child who loves words and adventure is the page, and I was content when my parents read me "Moby-Dick," "Pippi Longstocking," or "The Hobbit".
How could I be content when there is still so much left to do?
I was content when I came across the recent announcement made on December 23rd, 2011 by Raul Castro that the Cuban Government pardoned roughly two thousand nine hundred prisoners.
For most of my life, I have only ever been content when I achieved the object of some desire, whatever it was.
Put me by the sea or on the sea and I am content and when I'm content, I can write.
Here's why: I believe that part of the reason I've obtained positive results from my hard work in high school has been because, over the past three and a half years, I've been motivated to push myself to my limits, to be content when I perform better than those who were considered more intelligent.
But I now see I've felt unhappy whenever I've been surrounded by silence – as I was as an undergraduate in London – and been content when sound is at hand: such as in my uncle's two-storey house in Kolkata, and in the second-storey flat in Bandra in suburban Mumbai to which my parents moved after my father retired.
When it works they are content, when it fails they are furious.
Howe has had few team meetings and is content when the team battles; that sentiment is one of his favorite postgame responses.
Fear of change had them pretending to others, and to their selves, that they were content, when deep within, they longed to laugh properly and have silliness in their life again".
