Contained Quotes

463 quotes by 382 authors

Every object and being in the universe is a jar overflowing with wisdom and beauty,a drop of the Tigris that cannot be contained by any… — Unknown Author
My love for traveling to islands amounts to a pathological condition known as nesomania, an obsession with islands. This craze seems reasonable to me, because… — Paul Theroux
But it will be said that the husband provides for the wife, or in other words, he feeds, clothes and shelters her! I wish I… — Ernestine Rose
The whole universe is contained within a single human being - you. — Unknown Author
When I was a boy, I thought scent was contained in dewdrops on flowers and if I got up very early in the morning, I… — Oscar de la Renta
. . . it is difficult for Europeans to appreciate the sentiment. Other nations kill animals by wholesale and kill one another; they exist in… — Swami Vivekananda
Peace is Letting Go--Returning to the Silence that cannot enter the realm of words because it is too pure to be contained in words. This… — Malidoma Patrice Some
Money is like fire. It is only good when there's just the right amount of it, when it's properly contained and under your control. — Vera Nazarian
We need Goddess consciousness to reveal earth's holiness. Divine feminine imagery opens up the notion that the earth is the body of the Divine, and… — Sue Monk Kidd
Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained. — Mahatma Gandhi
Perhaps she was both child and woman, darkness and light, past and present, life and death - all the opposites contained and reconciled in her. — Paule Marshall
No man (sic) has learned to live until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
It is only all too easy to understand the requirements contained in God's Word ('Give all your goods to the poor.' 'If anyone strikes you… — Soren Kierkegaard
Our starting-point must be the fact that God cannot be named... no mind has yet contained or language embraced God's substance in its fullness. No,… — Gregory of Nazianzus
[God] is perfect not only insofar as He is absolute perfection, defining perfection in Himself and from His singular existence and total perfection, but also… — Pope Dionysius
Being bodiless, God is nowhere, but as God He is everywhere. If there were a mountain, a place or any part of Creation where God… — Gregory Palamas
QUOTIENT, n. A number showing how many times a sum of money belonging to one person is contained in the pocket of another - usually… — Ambrose Bierce
The whole gospel is contained in Christ. — John Calvin
All things desirable to men are contained in the Bible. — Abraham Lincoln
It struck me that our history is contained in the home we live in, that we are shaped by the ability of these simple structures… — Achmat Dangor

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