Contained Quotes

463 quotes by 378 authors

I think I could turn and live with the animals, they are so placid and self contained; I stand and look at them long and… — Walt Whitman
Joy is to fun what the deep sea is to a puddle. Itâ€™s a feeling inside that can hardly be contained. — Terry Pratchett
The passion for revenge should never blind you to the pragmatics of the situation. There are some people who are so blighted by their past,… — Harlan Ellison
All knowledge, the totality of all questions and answers, is contained in the dog. — Franz Kafka
It was SHE. Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meaning contained in the three letters of this word â€˜she. — Victor Hugo
There are things than cannot ever occur with any precision. They are too big and too magnificent to be contained in mere facts. They are… — Bruno Schulz
It was as if Hannah had sprung a leak and her character, usually so meticulous and contained, was spilling all over the place. — Marisha Pessl
Most people don't realize how important librarians are. I ran across a book recently which suggested that the peace and prosperity of a culture was… — Neil Gaiman
One's life is more formed, I sometimes think, by books than by human beings: it is out of books one learns about love and pain… — Graham Greene
Freud made the discovery- quite genuinely, simply through working on his own material- that the more deeply one explores the phenomena of human individuation, the… — Theodor Adorno
The true magic of this broken world lay in the ability of the things it contained to vanish, to become so thoroughly lost, that they… — Michael Chabon
A certain critic -- for such men, I regret to say, do exist -- made the nasty remark about my last novel that it contained… — P.G. Wodehouse
...now he saw the familiar wide river beside the path differently. He saw all of the light and color and history it contained and carried… — Lois Lowry
Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
I pass death with the dying and birth with the new-wash'd babe, and am not contained between my hat and my boots, — Walt Whitman
The magician seemed to promise that something torn to bits might be mended without a seam, that what had vanished might reappear, that a scattered… — Michael Chabon
All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk. — Daniel Handler
The painting showed a hairless, oppressed creature with a head like an inverted pear, its hands clapped in horror to its ears, its mouth open… — Philip K. Dick
Once she read a book but found it distasteful because it contained adjectives. — Lois Lowry
She walked quickly through the darkness with the frank stride of someone who was at least certain that the forest, on this damp and windy… — Terry Pratchett

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