Contained Quotes

463 quotes by 378 authors

You know, entropy is associated thermodynamically, in systems involving heat, with disorder. And in an analogous way, information is associated with disorder, which seems paradoxical.… — James Gleick
Horror can be contained within a book, given form and meaning. But in life, horror has no more form than it does meaning. Horror just… — Richard Flanagan
Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to… — John Stuart Mill
All the papers contained nothing but fantastic stories about the war. However, for several months we had been accustomed to war talk. We had so… — Manfred von Richthofen
It helped me in the air to keep my small mind contained in earthly human limits, not lost in vertiginous space and elements unknown. — Diana Cooper
By continually pushing the message that we have the right to gratification now, consumerism at its most expansive encouraged a demand for fulfillment that could… — Ellen Willis
Hence a ship is said to be tight, when her planks are so compact and solid as to prevent the entrance of the water in… — William Falconer
I called their attention also to the absence of all means of ventilating the hall, remarking that, as we had already breathed the air which… — George Combe
The words contained in it were inspired by the Holy Spirit into the minds of faithful men, called Prophets and Seers in the Old Testament;… — Adam Clarke
And at ten, or whatever time, in the morning we had the press conference, what we knew is there had been an incident at Three… — William Scranton
But whether, for example, a coat can be exchanged for twenty yards of linen cloth or for forty yards is not a matter of chance,… — Rudolf Hiferding
We have every interest in seeing that the military use of nuclear power will be contained. — Joschka Fischer
Billy Wilder is really is a heavy influence on Bound. We felt that film noir was a genre where you could create a really contained… — Lana Wachowski
The provisions contained in this plan will ensure that the United States has the infrastructure necessary to meet energy needs through future decades, easing dependence… — Ron Lewis
The IRS is currently considering a rule that would make it easier for tax preparers to disclose the private information contained in tax returns -… — Melissa Bean
Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it. I… — V.S. Naipaul
When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers. But I became… — Ian Mcewan
Acting is contained - you act for three months, then leave it - but writing is the act of creation. Writing is dangerous. — Sophie Marceau
As is often the case when things are complicated, extreme views have superficial appeal. On the one extreme, some see China as an inevitable enemy… — Dennis C. Blair
If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.… — Emily Bronte

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