Top 132 Container Quotes & Sayings

Life does not acommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.

When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.

Barnacles on the container ship of consciousness.

The world as we know it is falling apart at the seams, because it's an inadequate container for the truth of who we are.

Everything in a modern container port is enormous, overwhelming, crushing.

Sending a container from Shanghai to Le Havre emits fewer greenhouse gases than the truck that takes the container on to Lyon.

I think the serving size of ice cream is when you hear the spoon hit the bottom of the container.

The Internet is a container, not a substance.

I didn't feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened to be borrowing.

Whatever else a photograph may be about, it is inevitably about photography, the container and vehicle of all its meanings.

By phonemic trans-formation into visual terms, the alphabet became a universal, abstract, static container of meaningless sounds.

If you put fleas in a shallow container they jump out. But if you put a lid on the container for just a short time, they hit the lid trying to escape and learn quickly not to jump so high. They give up their quest for freedom. After the lid is removed, the fleas remain imprisond by their own self policing. So it is with life. Most of us let our own fears or the impositions of others imprison us in a world of low expectations.

I ponder if we are more defined by the container we are in than what we are inside. Would we recognize ourselves if we could expand beyond our bodies?

People wanted to me to describe more about what I call "the container," and then describe what the second half of life feels like.

Moving container from Kigali to Mombasa used to take 22 days, now it takes 6 days.

I have no limits! I cannot be contained because I'm the container.

The only reason I got married in 2003 was for my children. I had a therapist who said marriage is really a container for a family, and that made sense to me.

What's the deal with Ovaltine? It comes in a round container, you put it in a round glass, why don't they call it Roundtine?

I often steal sandwiches, eat them, and put the container's back., with a signed autograph of my self in its place. It's my way of giving back to society.

Software is a gas; it expands to fill its container.

I was in a town of about 10,000 people, and a shipping container with a rusty microscope was their medical clinic.

I will continue to push for doubling the strength of the U.S. Border Patrol, and to make sure that every cargo container that enters this nation is screened for radiation and potential weapons of mass destruction.

From the moment we are born, the world tends to have a container already built for us to fit inside: A social security number, a gender, a race, a profession or an I.Q. I ponder if we are more defined by the container we are in, rather than what we are inside. Would we recognize ourselves if we could expand beyond our bodies? Would we still be able to exist if we were authentically un-contained?

If you took every tear cried by everyone on earth on one single day and put them in a container, how big would that container need to be? Could you fill a water tower? Three water towers? It's one of those unknowable things. There has to be an answer, but we'll never know what it is.

The food containers come in different varieties: for example, drinks, breakfast type food, meats, vegetables. There are about 5-10 days of that type of food in each container. We try not to open a new container until we finish the one we are on - even if that means going without coffee for a couple of days.

I always tell people, anger is like liquid. It's fluid, it's like water. You put it in a container and it takes the shape of that container. So many people you see in prison, unleashing war on their people, they are angry, and they take their anger and put it into a violent container.

When the masses begin to vibrate with an energy of love, the world will no longer be a container for war, violence, and lies.

Information can't be put in any container that isn't leaky.

I cannot be contained because I am the container.

Very few people know this, but I love organizational products and tools. One of my favorite places to shop are container stores where you can get bins, boxes and crates to organize your life.

Student is not a container you have to fill but a torch you have to light up.

Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.

A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.

A brand is essentially a container for a customer’s complete experience with the product or company.

I live in Container City at Trinity Buoy Wharf when I'm in London.

I love Milano. Historically, the city is the biggest intellectual design thinking container. It is the cradle of design as well as the hometown of the mothers of its important heroes.

To me there's no creativity without boundaries. If you're gonna write a sonnet, it's 14 lines, so it's solving the problem within the container.

Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.

In my experience, psychotherapy at its best is like dual meditation - it's like a container in which you can be compassionate and mindful toward yourself.

What do you think is the world's most recognisable container of information? It's the human face. We are constantly reading each other and responding.

Having the equivalent of 150,000 Hiroshima-sized bombs at the ready does nothing to protect us from terrorists planning to sneak in a bomb through a cargo container.

You can keep a bunch of crabs in a shallow container, and none of them will escape. Because as soon as one of 'em tries to climb out, the others pull him back in." -Hardy

The trick to scrambled eggs is to remove half the milk from the container and shake what's left as hard as you can, like a cocktail shaker, before you whisk it into the eggs.

Life is too small a container for certain individuals. Some of them, such as Alobar, huff and puff and try to expand the container. Others, such as Kudra, seek to pry the lid off and hop out.

What do you think my brain is made for? Is it just a container for the mind? This great grey matter, Sensei replied what is your woman, Is she just a container for the child? That soft pink matter

Just as a mirror, which reflects all things, is set in its own container, so too the rational soul is placed in the fragile container of the body. In this way, the body is governed in its earthly life by the soul, and the soul contemplates heavenly things through faith.

A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into.

A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.

I love cunning containers as much as anyone, but I've found that if I get rid of everything I don't need, I often don't need a container at all.

Software is a gas ! It expands to fit the container it is in !

Ninety percent of what we wear, we eat, we consume is carried by ships... Container ships carry a vast amount of stuff.

A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels.

Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.

Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container.

The less money and time you have, the more you haveto plan ahead and be careful about your coverage. It's like a gas:it expands or contracts depending on the size of the container.

Think of yourself as a container for wealth. If your container is small and your money is big, what's going to happen? You will lose it. Your container will overflow and the excess money will spill out all over the place. You simply cannot have more money than the container. Therefore you must grow to be a big container so you cannot only hold more wealth but also attract more wealth. The universe abhors a vacuum and if you have a very large money container, it will rush in to fill the space.

No one keeps the container, they always keep the product.

The biggest container ship can carry fifteen thousand boxes. It can hold 746 million bananas, one for every European, on one ship.

I look at art as a container. You can't get inside it, so you have to ask all of these questions.

I really wanted the MTV Award the most, It was a golden popcorn container and it looks really neat.