Contain Quotes

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It's art that pushes against psychological and social expectations, that tries to transform decay into something generative, that is replicative in a baroque way, that… — Jerry Saltz
Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves… — Sydney Smith
The Scriptures contain many stories of people who waited years or even decades before the Lord's promises came to pass. What modern believers can learn… — Charles Stanley
A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and… — William Strunk, Jr.
If I ever wrote a book on preaching, it would contain three words: Preach the Word. Get rid of all the other stuff that gets… — Charles R. Swindoll
Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law. — Rabindranath Tagore
There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V… — Alexis de Tocqueville
The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen… — Queen Victoria
I'll tell you what I love doing more than anything: trying to pack myself in a small suitcase. I can hardly contain myself. — Tim Vine
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

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