Containing Quotes

140 quotes by 122 authors

History, it is easily perceived, is a picture-gallery containing a host of copies and very few originals. — Alexis de Tocqueville
The day becomes more solemn and serene When noon is past; there is a harmony In autumn, and a lustre in its sky, Which through… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
I just think I've always been sensitive and had difficulty containing my feelings, and I've always searched for outlets for that, because otherwise those feelings… — Andrew Garfield
There is a part of me that will forever want to be walking under autumn leaves, carrying a briefcase containing the works of Shakespeare and… — Roger Ebert
Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent.… — Barbara Ehrenreich
I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman… — Thomas Jefferson
If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president… — Richard M. Nixon
Three children have become adults since a phone call with Jo Rowling, containing one small clue, persuaded me that there was more to Snape than… — Alan Rickman
Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written. — Peter Singer
All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and… — Iain Duncan Smith
I took a wrong turn on the way to the bathroom and found myself in a beautifully proportioned room I had never seen before, containing… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
We die containing a richness of lovers and tribes, tastes we have swallowed, bodies we have plunged into and swum up as if rivers of… — Michael Ondaatje
At no other time (than autumn) does the earth let itself be inhaled in one smell, the ripe earth; in a smell that is in… — Rainer Maria Rilke
As many have discovered, it is entirely possible (although not particularly desirable) to love two people with all your heart. It is entirely possible to… — Gabrielle Zevin
My God! The English language is a form of communication! Conversation isn't just crossfire where you shoot and get shot at! Where you've got to… — Philip Roth
Unoka went into an inner room and soon returned with a small wooden disc containing a kola nut, some alligator pepper and a lump of… — Chinua Achebe
The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society would be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values.… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself. Prayer begets faith, faith begets love, and love begets… — Mother Teresa
The color of his pallor, however, was a curiously basic white - unmixed, that is, with the greens and yellows of guilt or abject contrition.… — J D Salinger
... characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor containing in a nutshell a basic… — Milan Kundera

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