Contains Quotes
657 Contains quotes by 540 unique authors
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Hatred and bitterness and anger only consume the vessel that contains them. It doesn't hurt another soul.
— Rubin Carter
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Chinese architecture has a complete organic structure; it contains both sensibility and purpose.
— Wu Guanzhong
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If a painting contains no abstraction nor impressionistic elements, it is a kite that will never fly. But if the painting completely breaks the connection…
— Wu Guanzhong
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The Great Story of our immense journey contains crucial lessons for guiding humanity safely through the dangers and confusions evident today. This grand epic will…
— Michael Dowd
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Just as water will conform to the shape of the vessel that contains it, so will a man follow the good and evil of his…
— Imagawa Sadayo
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The whole contains nothing which is not or its advantage; and all natures indeed have this common principle, but the nature of the universe has…
— Marcus Aurelius
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One of the things that sets the Bible apart from all other ancient religious writings is its scientific accuracy. Without exception, every other ancient religious…
— Charlie Campbell
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The nature of Christ is, I grant it, from one end to another, a web of mysteries; but this mysteriousness does not correspond to the…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The Old Testament contains fabulous elements. The New Testament consists mostly of teaching, not of narrative at all: but where it is narrative, it is,…
— C.S. Lewis
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The role of the writer is not to say what we can all say, but what we are unable to say. Most of the writing…
— Anais Nin
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A society composed of none but the wicked could not exist; it contains within itself the seeds of its own destruction, and without a flood,…
— Charles Caleb Colton
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Every declaration of love contains an unstated list of exceptions and demands.
— Mason Cooley
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The word begone is a Russian doll. A small, single word, which contains so many others; and when all the smaller words inside line up,…
— Craig Stone
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You will want a book which contains not man's thoughts, but God's - not a book that may amuse you, but a book that can…
— John Selden
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A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
— Benjamin Franklin
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There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise…
— Erich Fromm
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Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written.…
— G I Gurdjieff
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Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Second, the resolution contains the blatantly false assertion that negotiating a timeline for bringing U.S. troops home with the Iraqi government undermines U.S. national security.…
— Peter DeFazio
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The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their…
— Umberto Eco
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Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that…
— Arthur Erickson
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I have a trophy case that contains all the action figures ever made of me. It also has items I've stolen from my movies, like…
— Nathan Fillion
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There's something rather wonderful about the fact that Oxford is a very small city that contains most of the cultural and metropolitan facilities you could…
— Mark Haddon
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I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.
— Gary Hamel
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