Containing Quotes

140 quotes by 127 authors

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some other variety of infirmity is a death, a putting… — Coleman Dowell
It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas — Edward Bond
A kata is not fixed or immoveable. Like water, it's ever changing and fits itself to the shape of the vessel containing it. However, kata… — Kenwa Mabuni
Never preach a sermon without a text from the Bible, a text containing the theme which you can elaborate. The text is the best proof… — Isaac Mayer Wise
Just as the introduction of the irrational numbers ... is a convenient myth [which] simplifies the laws of arithmetic ... so physical objects are postulated… — Willard Van Orman Quine
The most important part of the daily ministration was the service performed in behalf of individuals. ... By his own hand the animal was then… — Ellen G. White
We have a dangerous trend beginning to take place in our education. We're starting to put more and more textbooks into our schools. We've become… — Fisher Ames
The Bible is God's declaratory revelation to man containing the great truths about God, about man, about history, about salvation, and about prophecy that God… — John F Walvoord
Military intervention to maintain the global status quo will become a constant feature of international relations, whether this is justified in terms of fighting drugs,… — Walden Bello
Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. A wise man will look into it for two purposes,… — Charles Caleb Colton
Hotel tea is when you have to mix together a plastic envelope containing too much sugar, a small plastic pot of something which is not… — Frank Muir
The U.S. along with China, Japan, South Korea and Russia has an important role to play in containing North Korea's nuclear ambitions and exerting all… — Zach Wamp
In early life I had felt a strong desire to devote myself to the experimental study of nature; and, happening to see a glass containing… — John William Draper
During the mission, Walter Jones, a team member was given a package containing bone fragments by a Lao. The source said they were from a… — Bo Gritz
This world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence ... a single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which… — Plato
But the participants [in war] never forgot the details of their experience, and like the Wandering Jew, they were condemned to remain their own history… — James Lee Burke
To restore man, who had been laid low by sin, to the heights of divine glory, the Word of the eternal Father, though containing all… — Thomas Aquinas
SCRAP-BOOK, n. A book that is commonly edited by a fool. Many persons of some small distinction compile scrap-books containing whatever they happen to read… — Ambrose Bierce
Lately, however, on abandoning the brindled and grey mosquitos and commencing similar work on a new, brown species, of which I have as yet obtained… — Ronald Ross
Only idiots get bored when we've all got handheld devices containing infinite knowledge at our fingertips. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

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