Contain Quotes
569 quotes by 483 authors
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Unfortunately, it's not that it's not impossible for us to develop Final Fantasy 7 for mobile. It's that currently, space will be an issue. Phones…
— Takashi Tokita
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Chose? If you believe that I chose any part of the pitiful shadow of a life you see before you, you are very much mistaken.…
— Joe Abercrombie
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Tao is beyond words and beyond understanding. Words may be used to speak of it, but they cannot contain it. Tao existed before words and…
— Laozi
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Do not worry about the incarnation of ideas. If you are a poet, your works will contain them without your knowledge - they will be…
— Vissarion Belinsky
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I have never really got used to being on this earth. Sometimes I think our presence here is due to a cosmic blunder, that we…
— John Banville
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There are certain common privileges of a writer, the benefit whereof, I hope, there will be no reason to doubt; particularly, that where I am…
— Jonathan Swift
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If the world is to contain a public space, it cannot be erected for one generation and planned for the living only; it must transcend…
— Hannah Arendt
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We must first realize that dancing is an absolutely independent art, not merely a secondary accompanying one. I believe that it is one of the…
— George Balanchine
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The momentum of Asia's economic development is already generating massive pressures for the exploration and exploitation of new sources of energy and the Central Asian…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Dull, inert cities, it is true, do contain the seeds of their own destruction and little else. But lively, diverse, intense cities contain the seeds…
— Jane Jacobs
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True values entail suffering. That’s the way we think. All in all, we tend to view melancholia as more true. We prefer music and art…
— Lars von Trier
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I never accepted why there should be some invisible, wavy cutoff line separating Great Fiction from phosphorescent beauties and dollhouse miniatures, novels that contain a…
— James Wolcott
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The world that has made us can no longer contain us
— Regina Spektor
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The public must learn how to cherish the nobler and rarer plants, and to plant the aloe, able to wait a hundred years for it's…
— Margaret Fuller
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The proliferation of support groups suggests to me that too many Americans are growing up in homes that do not contain a grandmoth ...
— Florence King
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Because we build the worlds we wouldn't mind living in. They contain scary things, problems, but also a sense of rightness that makes them alive…
— Anne McCaffrey
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Historical chronology, human or geological, depends... upon comparable impersonal principles. If one scribes with a stylus on a plate of wet clay two marks, the…
— M. King Hubbert
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Truth is, most of us contain a splashing, giggling, squealing child who knows without thinking that bare skin and water go together as wings go…
— Janet Lembke
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A written discourse on any subject is bound to contain much that is fanciful.
— Plato
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Works of art are not so much finished as abandoned. Perhaps poems can be perfect. A short-short story might even be perfectible, as effective and…
— Unknown Author
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