Containing Quotes

140 quotes by 122 authors

In this way, Edwin Hubble worked out the distances to nine different galaxies. We now know that our galaxy is only one of some hundred… — Stephen Hawking
He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glances. He had an odd autobiographical habit which led him… — James Joyce
A man in a desert can hold absence in his cupped hands knowing it is something more than water. There is a plant whose heart,… — Michael Ondaatje
Success is determined not by whether or not you face obstacles, but by your reaction to them. And if you look at these obstacles as… — Benjamin Carson
And she did not want him to think her quite mad, only a little unique, only containing within her just that measure of the unexpected… — Rose Tremain
The thought came over me that never would one full and absolute moment, containing all the others, justify my life, that all of my instants… — Jorge Luis Borges
Well, either you have a compartment under this floor, containing a living person, or the property is infested by giant moles — Kelley Armstrong
Unseen University was much bigger on the inside. Thousands of years as the leading establishment of practical magic in a world where dimensions were largely… — Terry Pratchett
You Christians look after a document containing enough dynamite to blow all civilisation to pieces, turn the world upside down and bring peace to a… — Mahatma Gandhi
The first question we usually ask new parents is : â€œIs it a boy or a girl ?â€. There is a great answer to that… — Kate Bornstein
The window gave onto a view of dove-gray roofs and balconies, each one containing the same cracked flowerpot and sleeping feline. It was as if… — Jeffrey Eugenides
If the fall of man consists in the separation of god and the devil the serpent must have appeared out of the middle of the… — Diane Arbus
She devoured stories with rapacious greed, ranks of black marks on white, sorting themselves into mountains and trees, stars, moons and suns, dragons, dwarfs, and… — A. S. Byatt
Once again, we shall have to operate not only outside the box, but outside the room containing the box. — Douglas Preston
Ecstasy is a complex emotion containing elements of joy, fear, terror, triumph, surrender, and empathy. What has replaced our prehistoric understanding of this complex of… — Terence McKenna
One only wishes Wayne LaPierre and his NRA board of directors could be drafted to some of these scenes, where they would be required to… — Stephen King
In ordinary life, a mentor can guide a young man through various disciplines, helping to bring him out of boyhood into manhood; and that in… — Robert Bly
He leaned up a little and watched her face. Her face would now be, forever, more mysterious and impenetrable than the face of any stranger.… — James A. Baldwin
It is plain that there is no separate essence called courage, no cup or cell in the brain, no vessel in the heart containing drops… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We need to learn and to show others that there are tried and tested, powerful ways of containing and resolving conflict which do not require… — Scilla Elworthy

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