Contain Quotes
569 Contain quotes by 483 unique authors
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Quiet, moving, masterfully crafted. Such are the nine stories in Venus in the Afternoon. Tehila Lieberman writes with precision, restraint, with a compassionate heart. She…
— Unknown Author
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Proper turkey preparation is critical. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, more Americans die every year from eating improperly cooked turkey than were killed…
— Dave Barry
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The tears of my eyes watered your heart but failed to evoke a response from the barren grounds of what beats in you. They will…
— Faraaz Kazi
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In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a…
— Katherine Dunn
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I'm going to end a life that I thought could contain every kind of greatness but that in fact consisted only of my incapacity to…
— Fernando Pessoa
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We all have the same God, we just serve him differently. Rivers, lakes, ponds, streams, oceans all have different names, but they all contain water.…
— Muhammad Ali
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If people ever look down upon you for crying for fictional characters, you should give them a gentle, pitying look and feel bad for them.…
— Cassandra Clare
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The scriptures are one of our greatest treasures. They contain God’s instructions to His people from the beginning of time.
— L. Tom Perry
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I often don't say things out loud, even when I should. I contain and compartmentalize to a disturbing degree: In my belly-basement are hundreds of…
— Gillian Flynn
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You own your own words, unless they contain information. In which case they belong to no one.
— Stewart Brand
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As in a Russian doll, however, the outer layers always contain an inner core. Instead of evolution having replaced simpler forms of empathy with more…
— Frans de Waal
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Certainly these are not easy times. But history does not contain very many easy times. Years from now, we will look back at this moment--when…
— Laura Ingraham
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Depending on the season, between 20 and 30 percent of my collections contain some sort of eco or sustainable element, whether it's a beautiful organic…
— Stella McCartney
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It would be quite amusing to preach a bit to all those people who for many years now have been looking at our paintings and…
— Edvard Munch
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To refuse any bond of union between man and civil society, on the one hand, and God the Creator and consequently the supreme Law-giver, on…
— Pope Leo XIII
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In the law, rights are islands of empowerment. . . . Rights contain images of power, and manipulating those images, either visually or linguistically, is…
— Patricia J. Williams
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Awareness Is Not The Same As ThoughtMore Like A Vessel Which Can Hold And Contain Our Thinking
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
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I have discovered a truly marvelous proof of this, which however the margin is not large enough to contain.
— Pierre de Fermat
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It is easy to make a simple machine which will run toward the light or run away from it, and if such machines also contain…
— Norbert Wiener
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As I walked through the wilderness of this world, I lighted on a certain place, where was a den; and I laid me down in…
— John Bunyan
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People don't eat nutrients, they eat foods, and foods can behave very differently than the nutrients they contain.
— Michael Pollan
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According to energy medicine, we are all living history books. Our bodies contain our histories- every chapter, line and verse of every event and relationship…
— Caroline Myss
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Whenever you see, in an official lectionary, the command to omit two or three verses, you can normally be sure that they contain words of…
— N. T. Wright
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It wasn't until I had performed by first autopsy that I realized that even the drabest human exteriors could contain the most beautiful viscera. After…
— John B. S. Haldane
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When you write down your life, every page should contain something no one has ever heard about
— Elias Canetti
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