Contained Quotes

463 quotes by 378 authors

Like a Chinese box, the world of the novel contained smaller worlds, and inside those were yet smaller worlds. Together, these worlds made up a… — Haruki Murakami
For the world is an ever-elusive and ever-disappointing mirage only from the standpoint of someone standing aside from itâ€”as if it were quite other than… — Alan Watts
... and the very folds of the curtains contained secrets and sighs. — Anais Nin
The author squares man's depravity with still being made in the image of God with this word picture. A vase that has held beautiful roses… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
A woman isn't all that different from a bonfire. A fire's a beautiful thing, right? Something you can't take your eyes off, when it's burning.… — Jodi Picoult
The amount that she loved us was beyond her reach. It could not be quantified or contained. It was the ten thousand named things in… — Cheryl Strayed
I thought to myself that he contained a whole universe that I had yet to know. — Patti Smith
Electronic books are ideal for people who value the information contained in them, or who have vision problems, or who like to read on the… — Joe Queenan
I kissed him hard. The few people in the bar must have been thinking that all they were seeing was just a kiss. They didn't… — Paulo Coelho
Behind her, Jace moved out into the water with a contained grace that barely rippled the surface. Simon behind him, was splashing and cursing. — Cassandra Clare
When the Duke [W.J.C. Scott-Bentinck] died, his heirs found all of the aboveground rooms devoid of furnishings except for one chamber in the middle of… — Bill Bryson
Marianne's mouth was open in surprise, but Poppy looked murderous. She clutched her reticule as though it contained a weapon. Realizing that it probably held… — Jessica Day George
She thinks how much more space a being occupies in life than it does in death; how much illusion of size is contained in gestures… — Michael Cunningham
When she was like this, the wildness of her barely contained, it was hard to believe she'd come into his pack Silent, her emotions blockaded… — Nalini Singh
I think, consciously or not, what we readers do each time we open a book is to set off a search for authenticity. We want… — Maureen Corrigan
Fiction is like that, once it is released into the world: contagious, persistent. Like the contents of Pandora's box, a story that's freely given can't… — Jodi Picoult
Whoever you are, bear in mind that appearance is not reality. Some people act like extroverts, but the effort costs them energy, authenticity, and even… — Susan Cain
Because sometimes there's more worth in silence than noise. Sometimes everything you need to know is contained in that small quiet space. Sometimes we get… — Alyson Noel
The end of the Cold War removed the immediate causes of whole destruction but not the threat contained in our knowledge. We must tame this… — Mahnaz Afkhami
All high poetry is infinite; it is as the first acorn, which contained all oaks potentially. — Percy Bysshe Shelley

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