Contained Quotes

463 quotes by 382 authors

If one stretches out the DNA contained in the nucleus of a human cell, one obtains a two-yard-long thread that is only ten atoms wide.… — Jeremy Narby
Every day is not just another assignment; it is a small, but contained voyage of discovery. — David Doubilet
The poetical impression of any object is that uneasy, exquisite sense of beauty or power that cannot be contained within itself; that is impatient of… — William Hazlitt
I'm trying to take culture and put it onstage, demonstrate it is capable of sustaining you. There is no idea that can't be contained by… — August Wilson
Iâ€™ve never really been contained to just one style. My listening choice has always been so mixed up. — Myles Kennedy
The human frame being what it is, heart, body and brain all mixed together, and not contained in separate compartments as they will be no… — Virginia Woolf
For myself, I always write about Dublin, because if I can get to the heart of Dublin I can get to the heart of all… — James Joyce
. . . this rage - I have never forgotten it - contained every anger, every revolt I had ever felt in my life -… — Ellen Glasgow
'Early stages' is when the cancer is completely contained within the prostate. If it is detected when the cancer is entirely in the gland, the… — Len Dawson
Within this moment, the only moment that exists, the past, present and future are contained. — Gautama Buddha
You do not have to explain every single drop of water contained in a rain barrel. You have to explain one drop-H2O. The reader will… — George Singleton
Heterosexuality is a die-hard custom through which male-supremacist institutions insure their own perpetuity and control over us. Women are kept, maintained and contained through terror,… — Cheryl Clarke
A token of love comes in a box because love itself cannot be contained. — Binnie Kirshenbaum
Certainly something had happened to me during the night. Or after months of tension I had arrived at the edge of some precipice and now… — Elena Ferrante
The North American system only wants to consider the positive aspects of reality. Men and women are subjected from childhood to an inexorable process of… — Octavio Paz
To be free one needs constant and unrelenting vigilance over one's weaknesses. A vigilance which requires a moral energy most of us are incapable of… — Robyn Davidson
Hatred is not contained in political thinking. Any hatred worked up against the public enemy is non-political, and always shows some weakness in the internal… — Francis Parker Yockey
The moment of that kiss contained every happy moment I had ever lived. — Paulo Coelho
Some people demand a five-line capsule summary. Something you'd read in a magazine. They want you to say, 'This is the story of the duality… — Stanley Kubrick
The seed of a tree has the nature of a branch or twig or bud. It is a part of the tree, but if separated… — Isaac Newton

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