Contain Quotes

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...All endeavours which are directed to a purely worldly end...contain within themselves the germs of their own corruption. — T.H. White
Pictures could not be accessories to the story -- evidence -- they had to contain the story within the frame; the best picture contained a… — Tatjana Soli
Jesus is bigger than any one religion. He didn't come to start a new religion, and he continually disrupted whatever conventions or systems or establishments… — Rob Bell
grief is a house where the chairs have forgotten how to hold us the mirrors how to reflect us the walls how to contain us… — Jandy Nelson
My life would never contain a convenient, pain-saving plan when it could stretch a problem out into an endless agony of uncertainty and torture. — James Patterson
Everything he'd done with regard to her in the last three years had been calculated to foreclose the intensely personal sort of talks they'd had… — Jonathan Franzen
She licked again, taking her time,even though she didn't need to; her first stroke numbed the bite site. No, this second taste was for her,… — Larissa Ione
A bit of theory as we settle down for lunch: the waiter's treatment of Kitty is actually a kind of sandwich, with the bottom bread… — Jennifer Egan
If one has to choose between reading the new books and reading the old, one must choose the old: not because they are necessarily better… — C.S. Lewis
In every possible instance Saint Paul begged Christians to restrain themselves to contain their carnal yearnings to live solitary and sexless lives on earth as… — Elizabeth Gilbert
In this instant, shaken to her very depths, this ecstatic human being has a first inkling that the soul is made of stuff so mysteriously… — Stefan Zweig
Stars, everywhere. So many stars that I could not for the life me understand how the sky could contain them all yet be so black. — Peter Watts
There is the hidden presence of others in us, even those we have known briefly. We contain them for the rest of our lives, at… — Michael Ondaatje
You may not feel outstandingly robust, but if you are an average-sized adult you will contain within your modest frame no less than 7 X… — Bill Bryson
Your outer journey may contain a million steps; your inner journey only has one: the step you are taking right now. — Eckhart Tolle
Diet Coke does not contain nasty chemicals. It contains lovely and delicious carbonation, caffeine, and aspartame. What's unnatural about that? — Meg Cabot
Comrades!' he cried. 'You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us… — George Orwell
What is it that you contain? The Dead. Time. Light patterns of millennia. The expanding universe opening in your gut. Are your twenty-three feet of… — Jeanette Winterson
It is true that I miss intelligent companionship, but there are so few with whom I can share the things that mean so much to… — Jon Krakauer
Unseen University was much bigger on the inside. Thousands of years as the leading establishment of practical magic in a world where dimensions were largely… — Terry Pratchett

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