Contained Quotes

463 quotes by 378 authors

Only those are called liberal or free which are concerned with knowledge; those which are concerned with utilitarian ends... are called servile...The question is... can… — Josef Pieper
From the moment we are born, the world tends to have a box already built for us to fit inside. Our umbilical cord never seems… — Paige Bradley
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. — Mason Cooley
Behind the contained and orderly lives we lead as members of the respectable middle class there's a terrible human capacity that may one day overwhelm… — Diana Trilling
Sex cannot be contained within a definition of physical pleasure, it cannot be understood as merely itself for it has stood for too long as… — Elizabeth Janeway
If there is excitement in their lives, it is contained in the figures on the profit and loss sheet. What an indictment. — Anita Roddick
The Jews are not a part of a vast Whole which they re-integrate in dying, but they are a Whole in themselves, defying space, time,… — Kadmi Cohen
I don't have many friends. It's not because I'm a misanthrope. It's because I'm reserved. I'm self-contained. I get all my adventures in my head… — Ian Rankin
The day Apollo 11 landed, I knew men would walk on Mars in my lifetime. I'm no longer nearly so sure. The last budget put… — Spider Robinson
Clark, what in your honest opinion is the right standard for determining conduct? Is the only right standard for everyone, the probable action of Jesus… — Charles Sheldon
Within silence all things are contained. What appears to our eyes to be life is but a thin curtain, a gauze penumbra, which stultifies our… — Frederick Lenz
Write about small, self-contained incidents that are still vivid in your memory. If you remember them, it's because they contain a larger truth that your… — William Zinsser
Would-be novelists need to bring equal parts arrogance and ignorance to the task before them. The arrogance is almost self-explanatory. Walk into any bookstore or… — Laura Lippman
In one sense, the Internet is like the discovery of the printing press, only it's very different. The printing press gave us access to recorded… — Don Tapscott
The journey and excursions in Mexico which have originated the narrative and remarks contained in this volume were made in the months of March, April,… — Edward Burnett Tylor
All the records of your past lives are contained within your own mind, just as the records of your ancestors are contained within your DNA. — Frederick Lenz
When I think of my past, I try to dwell on the good times, the happy moments, and not to be haunted by the bad.… — Rose Kennedy
Compare ... the various quantities of the same element contained in the molecule of the free substance and in those of all its different compounds… — Stanislao Cannizzaro
Hollywood gives a young girl the aura of one giant, self-contained orgy farm, its inhabitants dedicated to crawling into every pair of pants they can… — Veronica Lake
Beauty is that little something that fills the whole world, and is contained neither in a single straight nose, a long eyelash, nor a blue… — William Morris Hunt

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