Contain Quotes

569 Contain quotes by 483 unique authors

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
Everything is biographical, Lucian Freud says. What we make, why it is made, how we draw a dog, who it is we are drawn to,… — Michael Ondaatje
In the matter of physics, the first lessons should contain nothing but what is experimental and interesting to see. A pretty experiment is in itself… — Albert Einstein
I tried to contain myself... but I escaped! — Gary Paulsen
Your head's like mine, like all our heads; big enough to contain every god and devil there ever was. Big enough to hold the weight… — Grant Morrison
All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity, that the dry,… — Anne Bronte

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