Top 980 Contain Quotes & Sayings

My suitcase must absolutely contain my iPod.

If we were magically shrunk and put into someone's brain while she was thinking, we would see all the pumps, pistons, gears and levers working away and we would be able to describe the workings completely, in mechanical terms, thereby completely describing the thought processes of the brain. But that description would not contain any mention of thought! It would contain nothing but descriptions of pumps, pistons, levers!

I like all forms of movies. I'm a movie geek, so I watch all kinds of films, but - and I read all kinds of things, too. But the poetry that speaks to me the most directly will contain mundane things, will contain details.

This shed does not contain me.

We all have the same God, we just serve him differently. Rivers, lakes, ponds, streams, oceans all have different names, but they all contain water. So do religions have different names, and they all contain truth, expressed in different ways forms and times. It doesn't matter whether you're a Muslim, a Christian, or a Jew. When you believe in God, you should believe that all people are part of one family. If you love God, you can't love only some of his children.

What does not contain love must contain an illusion.

We all contain mysteries, especially when seen from the inside.

All sentient beings - all holons in fact - contain Buddha-nature - contain depth, consciousness, intrinsic value, Spirit - and thus we are all members of the council of all beings... And the ultimate objective truth is that all beings are perfect manifestations of Spirit or Emptiness

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe.

The trick is to learn to contain one's ego, not conceal it.

As far as I can tell, writing the essays didn't change the way I wrote poetry. Although the essays contain scattered passages that might be called lyrical, they often contain closed statements of what is only suggested in the poetry.

A wise man's questions contain half the answer.

I never look to contain. I always try and take wickets.

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

GRAVITATION, n. The tendency of all bodies to approach one another with a strength proportioned to the quantity of matter they contain-the quantity of matter they contain being ascertained by the strength of their tendency to approach one another. This is a lovely and edifying illustration of how science, having made A the proof of B, makes B the proof of A.

Here, in my solitude, I have the feeling that I contain too much humanity.

The ten commandments and the sermon on the mount contain my religion.

It is when our hearts are stirred that we become most aware of what they contain.

In every possible instance Saint Paul begged Christians to restrain themselves to contain their carnal yearnings to live solitary and sexless lives on earth as it is in heaven. "But if they cannot contain " Paul finally conceded then "let them marry for it is better to marry than to burn." Which is perhaps the most begrudging endorsement of matrimony in human history.

All pleasures contain an element of sadness.

Good business should contain something for both parties.

See, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life.

E-cigarettes contain many harmful chemicals that tobacco cigarettes do not contain such as formaldehyde, benzene, propylene glycol, and metals like cadmium, nickel, and tin.

..books look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look as if they contain information.

Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.

I am not contain'd between my hat and boots.

Whether we eat, sleep, work, play, whatever we do life contains dissatisfaction, pain. If we enjoy pleasure, we are afraid to lose it; we strive for more and more pleasure or try to contain it. If we suffer pain we want to escape it. We experience dissatisfaction all the time. All activities contain dissatisfaction or pain, continuously.

But one thing this doctrine, so clean, so venerable, does not contain: it does nto contain the secret of what the Sublime One himself experienced, he alone among the hundreds of thousands. This is why I am continuing my wanderings not to seek another, better doctrine, because I know there is none, but to leave behind all the teachings and all teachers, and either attain my goal alone or die.

You can't stop the White Mamba! You can only hope to contain him!

The [Great] Actor is able to approach in himself a cosmic dread as large as life. He is able to go from his dread to a joy so sweet that it is without limit. Only then will the actor have direct access to the life that moves in him, which is as free as his breathing. And like his breathing, he doesn't cause it to happen. He doesn't contain it, and it doesn't contain him.

If people ever look down upon you for crying for fictional characters, you should give them a gentle, pitying look and feel bad for them. If they've never cried for a fictional character, then they've never loved one (and what a joy that is). If they've never cried at a book, a movie, a piece of music, then they've missed one of the great pleasures life has to offer. Just because fiction does not contain things that are real doesn't mean it doesn't contain truth, and we find it through the alchemy of our tears.

Memories contain hidden editorials on current events.

I am large, I contain multitudes

People would be a lot more skeptical if they understood that there is an incredible amount of chance in the results that you observe for active managers. So the distribution of outcomes is enormously wide - but that's exactly what you'd expect by chance with lots of active managers who hold imperfectly diversified portfolios. The really good portfolios contain a lot of really lucky picks, and the really bad portfolios contain a lot of really unlucky picks as well as some really bad ones.

We need a metaphor that can contain the daemon of the future that we have conjured into being.

I don't believe you can contain ideas by military force.

Lionel Messi is very difficult to contain.

Scripts can be slick and structured, but do they always contain the truth?

Books remember all the things you cannot contain.

Life needs a membrane to contain itself so it can replicate and mutate.

All of civility depends on being able to contain the rage of individuals.

I have a very busy head. I have inside voices that I have learned to contain.

If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does it contain any abstract reasoning concerning quantity or number? No. Does it contain any experimental reasoning concerning matter of fact and existence? No. Commit it then to the flames: for it can contain nothing but sophistry and illusion.

There's a lot of guys in this league you're not going to stop. You can contain them, so the best bet, especially in the playoffs is try to contain most teams' All-Stars or their superstars and limit their role players.

I couldn't imagine a list of 10 records that didn't contain a punk record - that didn't contain a Clash record.

All games contain the idea of death.

Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.

Sad memories often contain an element of nostalgia.

If, nevertheless, textbooks of pharmacology legitimately contain a chapter on drug abuse and drug addiction, then, by the same token, textbooks of gynecology and urology should contain a chapter on prostitution; textbooks of physiology, a chapter on perversion; textbooks of genetics, a chapter on the racial inferiority of Jews and Negroes.

Every pint bottle should contain a quart.

To be content means that you realize you contain what you seek.

I tried to contain myself... but I escaped!

Don't uncork what you can't contain

The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.

Embrace life and all that God gives you-but never let it contain you. This world is too small to contain you.

Dull, inert cities, it is true, do contain the seeds of their own destruction and little else. But lively, diverse, intense cities contain the seeds of their own regeneration, with energy enough to carry over for problems and needs outside themselves.

People try to contain things by putting them into categories. I don't.

[It is appropriate that the Body and Blood of Christ be truly present in this Sacrament] because of the perfection of the New Covenant. The sacrifices of the Old Covenant contained the true sacrifice of Christ's Passion only in symbol....Therefore it was necessary that the sacrifice of the New Covenant, instituted by Christ, have something more, namely, that it contain Christ Himself who has suffered and contain Him not only in symbol but in reality.

The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.