Contained Quotes

463 quotes by 378 authors

A simple separate person is not contained between his hat and his boots. — Walt Whitman
He would talk to them of stories and books, and explain to them how stories wanted to be told and books wanted to be read,… — John Connolly
I was thinking how amazing it was that the world contained so many lives. Out in these streets people were embroiled in a thousand different… — Jeffrey Eugenides
Honesty was a tough customer... Once you started allowing yourself some honesty, it couldn't easily be contained or limited to one part of your life.… — Ann Brashares
Tonight I saw myself in the dark window as the image of my father, whose life was spent like this, thinking of death, to the… — Louise GluÌˆck
Yet I was a fool to fancy for a moment that she valued Edgar Linton's attachment more than mine -- If he love with all… — Emily Bronte
What can oppose the decline of the west is not a resurrected culture but the utopia that is silently contained in the image of its… — Theodor Adorno
God is represented as infinite, eternal, incomprehensible; he is contained under every predicate in non that the logic of ignorance could fabricate. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
We learn that many great thinkers were convinced that the Bible contained the Ancient Mysteries, but not in the literal wordsâ€”that the words on the… — Maureen Johnson
Itâ€™s important that someone celebrate our existence," she objected amiably. "People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all… — Lois McMaster Bujold
The temptation is to stay inside; to subside into the kind of recluse whom neighborhood children regard with derision and little awe; to let the… — Margaret Atwood
In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny… — John Stuart Mill
I gripped the stapler even harder and felt like a fool planning to battle a crazy man with a stapler that even, I suddenly remembered,… — Charlaine Harris
If much in the world were mystery the limits of that world were not, for it was without measure or bound and there were contained… — Cormac McCarthy
Evil contained is not evil destroyed. — Terry Brooks
Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of 'the flock. — Christopher Hitchens
I recently forced myself to read a book on quantum physics, just to try and learn something new. I was confused by the middle of… — Stephan Pastis
The genius of a composer is found in the notes of his music; but analyzing the notes will not reveal his genius. The poet's greatness… — Anthony de Mello
His face contained for me all possibilities of fierceness and sweetness, pride and submissiveness, violence, self-containment. I never saw more in it than I had… — Alice Munro
Hers was a memory made up of snapshorts: being dragged through the snow by a pack of wolves, first kiss tasting of oranges, saying goodbye… — Maggie Stiefvater

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