There is no better way of elevating the novel than by making it into a construct which contains ideas.
This sausage roll only contains 2% of your daily intake of calories... if you lick it.
Go to the Scriptures... the joyful promises it contains will be a balsam to all your troubles.
The emblem of a philosophy is not that it contains a set of specific thoughts , but that it generates a way of thinking.
Chinese architecture has a complete organic structure; it contains both sensibility and purpose.
This must be your point of view: that the world and all it contains is perfect, though not completed.
Music contains a whole gamut of experience, from sensuous elements to ultimate intellectual harmonies.
The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.
Theoretical and experimental physicists are now studying nothing at all-the vacuum. But that nothingness contains all of being.
Everything that is printed and bound in a book contains some echo at least of the best that is in literature.
How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains.
Russia contains one fourth of the inhabitants of all Europe, and one half of the entire number of Israelites.
I'm into fashion because it contains the mood of the day, of the moment - like music, literature, and art.
In the eyes of a seer, every leaf of a tree is a page of the Holy Book and contains divine revelation.
Painting contains a divine force which... makes the dead seem almost alive.
This one word 'grace' contains within itself the whole of New Testament theology.
As the water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it, so a wise man adapts himself to circumstances.
It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
Every drop of human blood contains a history book written in the language of our genes.
Every negative event contains within it the seed of an equal or greater benefit.
I am one of those old-fashioned ministers who believe the whole Bible and everything that it contains.
That gloomy outside, like a rusty chest, contains the shoring treasure of a soul resolved and brave.
When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.
The Universe contains three things that cannot be destroyed; Being, Awareness and LOVE
[Erotica] contains the idea of love, positive choice, and the yearning for a particular person.
The nourishing fruit of the historically understood contains time as a precious but tasteless seed.
Man and woman are two locked caskets, of which each contains the key to the other.
The clitoris contains 8,000 nerve endings. It makes it easy to have sex. With yourself.
The world now contains more photographs than bricks, and they are, astonishingly, all different.
The incarnation is in itself an unfathomable mystery, but it makes sense of everything else that the New Testament contains.
Nature's book always contains the truth; we must only learn to read it.
A child is mysterious and powerful; And contains within himself the secret of human nature.
If a man prepares dinner for you and the salad contains three or more types of lettuce, he is serious.
Every failure contains valuable data that will point you in the right direction.
When you shoot in a room, that's a symmetrical thing that contains you. When there's no contention, the sensation is overwhelming you. That's a challenge, to do that.
A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
I believe that any single dream contains the essential message about our existence.
I'm very proud of it. 'Hunchback' contains some of my favorite music I've ever written in my life.
An effective apology contains within it the answer to the question, "How am I to be held accountable?"
I write and read with the assumption that literature contains knowledge of human experience that is not available otherwise.
God is the author of the Bible, and only the truth it contains will lead people to true happiness.
A wise man's question contains half the answer. Unfortunately the other 50% is harder to come by!
It can be held certain that information that is withheld or suppressed contains truths that are detrimental to the persons involved in the suppression.
Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic.
The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand
My mind contains many good ideas, but it's not always easy to squeeze one out.
It is certain that memory contains not only philosophy, but all the arts and all that appertain to the use of life.
The simple statement, 'God is for us', is in truth one of the richest and weightiest utterances that the Bible contains.
I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.
A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady.
The idea of nature contains, though often unnoticed, an extraordinary amount of human history.
The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions.
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.
Christianity contains within itself a germ hostile to the Church (Dietrich Bonhoeffer)
Blue cheese contains natural amphetamines. Why are students not informed about this?
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
It's fair to say that the Bible contains equal amounts of fact, history, and pizza.
The fossil record contains no trace of these preliminary stages in the development of many-celled organisms.
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