Contain Quotes
569 quotes by 483 authors
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Anything that really frightens you may contain a clue to enlightenment. It may indicate to you how deeply you are attached to structure, whether mental,…
— Thaddeus Golas
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All great musical composers have been connected, consciously or unconsciously, with this source of music-a fact that enabled them to become masters of their art.…
— Corinne Heline
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According to the conventions of the genre, Augustus Waters kept his sense of humor till the end, did not for a moment waiver in his…
— John Green
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The age of leaders has come and gone. You must be your own leader now. You must contain the spirit of our time in your…
— Laurens van der Post
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Fierce national competition over water resources has prompted fears that water issues contain the seeds of violent conflict.
— Kofi Annan
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Heat may be considered, either in respect of its quantity, or of its intensity. Thus two lbs. of water, equally heated, must contain double the…
— Joseph Black
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The Bible does not contain the Word of God; It is the Word of God.
— Lee Roberson
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Words are the most powerful thing in the universe... Words are containers. They contain faith, or fear, and they produce after their kind.
— Charles Capps
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A careless way of sauntering across the earth and breaking open its treasures, a terrible dependency on sucking out the world's best juices for ourselves-these…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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The most important sentence in a good book is the first one; it will contain the organic seed from which all that follows will grow.
— Paul Horgan
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Ninety percent of the book variations have no great value, because either they contain mistakes or they are based on fallacious assumptions; just forget about…
— Jose Raul Capablanca
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Yes, books are dangerous. They should be dangerous - they contain ideas.
— Pete Hautman
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Your attitudes contain your future.
— Bryant H. McGill
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It is obvious that the most despotic forms of social organization would be suitable for inert men who are satisfied with the situation fate has…
— Madame de Stael
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Alas! Man's vices, horrible as they are supposed to be, contain the positive proof of his taste for the infinite.
— Charles Baudelaire
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Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.
— Boris Pasternak
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This is a steady, ceaseless process, impossible to contain as long as the economy driven by the endless accumulation of capital. The system may prolong…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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The way in which these two practices contain each other is that it has always been possible to use the one against the other: to…
— Immanuel Wallerstein
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All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory - of the absolute and…
— Charles Baudelaire
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The Magi are filled with awe by what they see; heaven on earth and earth in heaven; man in God and God in man; they…
— Peter Chrysologus
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