Contain Quotes

569 Contain quotes by 483 unique authors

Everyone is going to binge on a diet, for instance, so plan for it, schedule it, and contain the damage. — Tim Ferriss
When the elements are arranged in vertical columns according to increasing atomic weight, so that the horizontal lines contain analogous elements again according to increasing… — Dmitri Mendeleev
Green consumerism generally, and 'healthy' products and lifestyles in particular, contain quite precise notions about how an individual should consider his or her well-being. Not… — Peter Dickens
I revise constantly, as I go along and then again after I've finished a first draft. Few of my novels contain a single sentence that… — Michael Cunningham
Shapes that contain no inner components of positive/negative relationships will function better with other shapes of the same nature. — Keith Haring
My suitcase must absolutely contain my iPod. — Alexander Ludwig
All of the disparate books on my list contain characters, scenes or voices that linger long past the last page of their stories. — Maureen Corrigan
Black is like a broken vessel, which is deprived of the capacity to contain anything. — Leonardo da Vinci
No poem should be an urn to contain a meaning, but a net to catch what meanings float through the day. — J. D. McClatchy
Letters to the editors of English and American newspapers often contain expressions of horror about the new terms that creep into the language, and these… — Peter Farb
Books of quotation are not only of importance to the reader for what they contain of matured thought, but also for what they suggest. Our… — Maturin Murray Ballou
Extemporaneous and oral harangues will always have this advantage over those that are read from a in manuscript: every burst of eloquence or spark of… — Charles Caleb Colton
This morning my soul is greater than the world since it possesses You, You whom heaven and earth do not contain — Margaret of Cortona
GRAVITATION, n. The tendency of all bodies to approach one another with a strength proportioned to the quantity of matter they contain-the quantity of matter… — Ambrose Bierce
A movie script more than anything else is a plan of action for the crew. Everybody in the crew looks at the script to see… — Harry Shearer
You contain a trillion copies of a large, textual document written in a highly accurate, digital code, each copy as voluminous as a substantial book.… — Richard Dawkins
A column about errors will contain errors. — Bill Gold
Nothing can permanently please, which doesn't contain in itself the reason why it is so, and not otherwise. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
One might say that science itself, and civilization and art, are all about different orderings of the world - to contain it, and to make… — Oliver Sacks
I have play'd the fool, the gross fool, to believe The bosom of a friend will hold a secret Mine own could not contain. — Philip Massinger

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