Contain Quotes

569 Contain quotes by 483 unique authors

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes. — Walt Whitman
Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why… — Walt Whitman
Size is not a reality, but a construct of the mind; and space a construct to contain constructs. — Robert Anton Wilson
It was impossible not to admire him, not to want to do something to contain that kind of beauty- drink him, ingest him, sneak into… — Jane Hamilton
At every moment you choose yourself. But do you choose *your* self? Body and soul contain a thousand possibilities out of which you can build… — Dag Hammarskjold
If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning… — David Hume
The changes we dread most may contain our salvation. — Barbara Kingsolver
The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe. — Joanna Macy
Once upon a time there lived in Berlin, Germany, a man called Albinus. He was rich, respectable, happy; one day he abandoned his wife for… — Vladimir Nabokov
We have come from God, and inevitably the myths woven by us, though they contain error, will also reflect a splintered fragment of the true… — J.R.R. Tolkien
When someone doesn't show up, the people who wait sometimes tell stories about what might have happened and come to half believe the desertion, the… — Rebecca Solnit
All men contain several men inside them, and most of us bounce from one self to another without ever knowing who we are. — Paul Auster
But one thing this doctrine, so clean, so venerable, does not contain: it does nto contain the secret of what the Sublime One himself experienced,… — Hermann Hesse
Of all the inanimate objects, of all men's creations, books are the nearest to us for they contain our very thoughts, our ambitions, our indignations,… — Joseph Conrad
People only get married when they've no other option, out of panic or desperation or so as not to lose someone they couldn't bear to… — Javier MarÃas
What is it that you contain? The dead. Time. Light patterns of millennia opening in your gut. Every minute, in each of you, a few… — Jeanette Winterson
It's the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future. — Barbara Kingsolver
The Highest Thought is always that thought which contains joy. The Clearest Words are those words which contain truth. The Grandest Feeling is that feeling… — Neale Donald Walsch
Everyone has some they can't contain. — Buddy Wakefield
It is not possible to be 'incidentally a Christian.' The fact of Christianity must be overwhelmingly first or nothing. This suggests a reason for the… — Sheldon Vanauken
despite all our desperate, eternal attempts to separate, contain and mend, categories always leak. — Trinh T. Minh-ha
From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain… — William Shakespeare
Cities at night, I feel, contain men who cry in their sleep and then say Nothing. It's nothing. Just sad dreams. Or something like that...Swing… — Martin Amis
A live body and a dead body contain the same number of particles. Structurally, there's no discernible difference. Life and death are unquantifiable abstracts. Why… — Alan Moore
Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few… — E. M. Forster

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