Contained Quotes

463 quotes by 382 authors

When I make a photograph I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order (unlike the world… — Aaron Siskind
The future is neither ahead nor behind, on one side or another. Nor is it dark or light. It is contained within ourselves; its evil… — Loren Eiseley
Those wretches tainted with the error of Indifferentism and Modernism hold that dogmatic truth is not absolute, but relative: that is, that it must adapt… — Pope Pius XI
Darwin's greatest achievement was to show that the appearance of purpose, planning, teleology (design), and intentionality in the origin and development of human and animal… — John Searle
I have never regretted Paradise Lost since I discovered that it contained no eggs-and-bacon. — Dorothy L. Sayers
Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change… — Catherine Drinker Bowen
Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system. — Mary Augusta Ward
The law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code; it contained many statutes . . .… — John Quincy Adams
What bitter anguish would not the people of Athens have often escaped if their government had contained so provident a safeguard against tyranny of their… — Alexander Hamilton
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language. — Ezra Pound
We are at the mercy of time, and for all the ways we are remembered, a sea of things will be lost. But how much… — Alice McDermott
My soul is not contained within the limits of my body; my body is contained within the limitlessness of my soul. — Jim Carrey
I am a relationship girl. That's kind of just how I'm made... When you're in my life, it's actually very contained. — Charlize Theron
When shopping was still connected to the street it was also an intensification and articulation of the street. Now it has become utterly independent -… — Rem Koolhaas
With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from. — Bruce Greenwood
I've been getting a lot of science fiction scripts which contained variations on my 'Star Trek' character and I've been turning them down. I strongly… — Marina Sirtis
I remember when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum's Circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit… — Winston Churchill
It used to be widely held that evil was incompatible with the existence of God: that no possible world contained both God and evil. So… — Peter van Inwagen
This is among the few things that can be said about love with any confidence. It is small enough to be contained within the heart… — Nadeem Aslam
There is no useful information contained in historical price movements of securities. — Louis Bachelier

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