Contained Quotes

463 quotes by 378 authors

All great books contain boring portions, and all great lives have contained uninteresting stretches. — Bertrand Russell
The thing about living in a village at the foot of a mountain is that the world for you becomes, without thinking about it, self-contained.… — Henry Louis Gates
AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could have been contained from the… — Larry Kramer
The system becomes more coherent as it is further extended. The elements which we require for explaining a new class of facts are already contained… — William Whewell
Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained. — Max Beckmann
God works in mysterious ways. Things may look good outwardly, but there may be evil contained inside. Let no one be deluded by pride that… — Unknown Author
He who has realized oneness with God possesses all knowledge contained in Him. Knowing the Lord as Beginning and End of all beings and worlds,… — Paramahansa Yogananda
I found one remaining box of comics which I had saved. When I opened it up and that smell came pouring out, that old paper… — Michael Chabon
I decided that if my work contained what I could identify as a likeness to other work, I would remove it. — Jasper Johns
Hope is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective. A lot of hope is dangerous. A spark is just fine as… — Robert Ludlum
All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers, is contained in the dog. If one could but realize this knowledge, if one could… — Franz Kafka
Maybe, generations ago, young people rebelled out of some clear motive, but now, we know we're rebelling. Between teen movies and sex-ed textbooks we're so… — Daniel Handler
I like the weight, look, and feel of a book. I enjoy turning the pages, and frequently scan the spines of my many books on… — Al Seckel
The tiny flame that lights up the human heart is like a blazing torch that comes down from heaven to light up the paths of… — Khalil Gibran
Wisdom is not book learning but, rather, a quality or state of knowing what is true or right coupled with the judgment to discern constructive… — Sue Thoele
The earth is at the same time mother, She is mother of all that is natural, mother of all that is human. She is mother… — Hildegard of Bingen
What I see is teeming cohesion, contained dispersal... For him, to sculpt is to take the fat off space. — Jean-Paul Sartre
No man is an island- he is a holon. A Janus-faced entity who, looking inward, sees himself as a self-contained unique whole, looking outward as… — Arthur Koestler
I am so happy, I cannot be contained in the world; / But like a spirit, I am hidden from the eyes of the world. — Unknown Author
You can make one (self-contained self-rescuer) that would last all day, but you'd have to carry it behind in a wagon. — Kenneth Williams

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