Contain Quotes
569 Contain quotes by 483 unique authors
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When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the…
— Jodi Picoult
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Yes," replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, "but that was when I first knew her; for it is many months since I have…
— Jane Austen
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I’m always intrigued by my nonsensical concern with picking out a bunch of things that look exactly alike the ones that somehow I feel are…
— Vincent Price
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Whether we eat, sleep, work, play, whatever we do life contains dissatisfaction, pain. If we enjoy pleasure, we are afraid to lose it; we strive…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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Then she had been a fiancee, a young wife, and a mother, and she had discovered that these words were far too small ever to…
— Kim Edwards
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I am large, I contain multitudes
— Walt Whitman
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Does the cosmos contain keys for opening my diving bell? A subway line with no terminus? A currency strong enough to buy my freedom back?…
— Jean-Dominique Bauby
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I tensed for the spring, my eyes squinting as I cringed away, and the sound of Edward's furious roar echoed distantly in the back of…
— Stephenie Meyer
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It might be lonelier Without the Loneliness - I’m so accustomed to my Fate - Perhaps the Other - Peace - Would interrupt the Dark…
— Emily Dickinson
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Your wit is always such a delight, Mr. Zeklos. I can barely contain myself around it.
— Richelle Mead
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I reminded myself: when a book lies unopened it might contain anything in the world, anything imaginable. It therefore, in that pregnant moment before opening,…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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The Brain - is wider than the Sky - For - put them side by side - The one the other will contain With ease…
— Emily Dickinson
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Who has more pockets than a magician? A boy. Whose pockets contain *more* than a magicians? A boy's.
— Ray Bradbury
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Unlike a fountain that circulates the same water in an enclosed, perpetually recycling system, a human being circulates thoughts in an unlimited reservoir of self.…
— Vera Nazarian
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One dictionary defines denouement as "a final part in which everything is made clear and no questions or surprises remain." By that definition, it is…
— Pseudonymous Bosch
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They kissed for the first time then in the cold spring rain, though neither one of them now knew that it was raining. Tristran's heart…
— Neil Gaiman
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Sometimes it seems to me that all of life is a struggle to contain the natural impulses of the body and spirit, and that what…
— Anita Shreve
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The flames sawed in the wind and the embers paled and deepened and paled and deepened like the bloodbeat of some living thing eviscerate upon…
— Cormac McCarthy
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Many Spirit-filled authors have exhausted the thesaurus in order to describe God with the glory He deserves. His perfect holiness, by definition, assures us that…
— Francis Chan
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What then is the source of my errors? They are owing simply to the fact that, since the will extends further than the intellect, I…
— Rene Descartes
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