It's the one thing we never quite get over: that we…

Those first few weeks are an unearthly season. From the outside you remain so ordinary, no one can tell from looking that you have…

— Barbara Kingsolver

Your attitudes contain your future.

— Anonymous

I tried to contain myself... but I escaped!

— Gary Paulsen

Emotions aren't just mindless urges; they contain thoughts about matters of importance.

— Martha Nussbaum

If we can contain and monitor animal viruses at an earlier stage - when they're first entering human populations, preferably before they've had a…

— Nathan Wolfe

You see teams buy a lot of batsmen for a lot of money because they are good batsmen. But you also need good bowlers…

— Bhuvneshwar Kumar

I am large, I contain multitudes

— Walt Whitman

A family is too frail a vessel to contain the risks of all the warring impulses expressed when such a group meets on common…

— Pat Conroy

I suppose I've always done my share of crying, especially when there's no other way to contain my feelings. I know that men ain't…

— Ray Charles

There is no pop category, let alone any infinitely gene-sliced genre name, to contain the lead in Rihanna's voice in 'Needed Me.'

— Greil Marcus

There's nothing more powerful than a woman who knows how to contain her power and not let it leak, standing firmly within it in…

— Marianne Williamson

Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should…

— William Strunk, Jr

Most Americans know nothing about the African forest, and it seems to them a very scary, spooky dangerous place. I've spent a lot of…

— David Quammen

But it is impossible to divide a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into fourth powers, or generally any power beyond the…

— Pierre de Fermat

Electricity transmission operates on a frequency between 49.7 Hertz and 50.2 Hertz. What I have done is petitioned the Central Electricity Regulatory Commission and…

— Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia