Top 275 Contents Quotes & Sayings

What a surprise to find you could shift the contents of your head like rearranging furniture in a room.

It's rough to go through life with your contents looking as if they settled during shipping.

The life must not be easy if it is only rich in contents

No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

How beautiful is forgetting! What relief it would be for the world to lose some of its contents.

Sometimes, the Censor Board is observed taking a lenient view with regard to certain explicit contents, which should be restricted, on screen. The board should be strict in curbing such contents.

The unfortunate thing is, for the contents of the building I could not get any insurance anywhere in Canada.

Wise is the man who contents himself with the spectacle of the world.

I am stretching out this volume, since those German dogs estimate the value of books by their cubic contents.

I think titles are extremely important for novels: They can set the tone, tip you off, serve as shorthand for what the essential contents are.

Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.

A sealed book, at whose contents we tremble.

I think the essence of family is that you have to agree to it, and then supply, out of your imagination and capacity for loyalty, the contents of it.

After you've read a novel, you only retain a vague memory of its contents. You remember the atmosphere, the odd image or phrase or vivid cameo.

A person can make himself happy, or miserable, regardless of what is actually happening 'outside,' just by changing the contents of consciousness.

The contents of an ideology are not sacrosanct simply because they are couched in the cloak of a religion.

The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness.

One cannot be aware both of the history of Christian war and of the contents of the gospels without feeling that something is amiss.

Macmillan's rejection had left him very downcast... Patrick Swift was invited to peruse the contents and decided that the poems should be published.

The contents of a house can trigger all sorts of revisions to family history.

Positivity doesn't just change the contents of your mind...It widens the span of possibilities that you see.

I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when albums came on the scene, and I was one of the first singers to point the way to how varied an album's contents could be.

I have examined the stomach contents of seven aardvarks.

Dress is an index of your contents.

You adapt yourself to the contents of the paintbox.

Although I have no objection to accepting the existence of relatively constant psychic contents that survive personal ego, it must always be born in mind that we have no way of knowing what these contents are actually like "as such." All we can observe is their effect on other living people, whose spiritual level and whose personal unconscious crucially influence the way these contents actually manifest themselves.

The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.

Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence.

Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

Justin Martyr says that he was impressed in his study of the Old Testament, at the seriousness and contents of these writings, and became convinced that Jesus fulfilled these texts.

The capitalist class rules but does not govern: it contents itself with ruling the government.

The wise man contents himself with what he has, until such time as he invents something better.

A reader ought to be able to hold it and become familiar with its organized contents and make it a mind's manageable companion.

The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

If a book has no index or good table of contents, it is very useful to make one as you are reading it.

Animation is capable to go beyond superego defense strategies and touch deep human being contents as no other art expression.

This drama between Dean and Ehrlichman took place while I was trying to give the contents to the FBI.

When the great history of trouble is written, my family will stand extremely high in the table of contents.

[The Many-worlds interpretation is the] only completely coherent approach to explaining both the contents of quantum mechanics and the appearance of the world.

The role of the educator is one of tranquil possession of certitude in regard to the teaching of not only contents but also of 'correct thinking.'

Personal & Confidential. Letters so marked should be. When the contents are only printed matter, though, the minifrauder succeeds in sowing illwill & ire.

Students present themselves...like a succession of CDs whose shimmering surface gives no clue to their contents without the equipment to play them.

The contents of the massive banks behind these successive revetments makes it quite clear that the material was derived from the incorporation of earlier occupation levels.

If one reads a newspaper only for information, one does not learn the truth, not even the truth about the paper. The truth is that the newspaper is not a statement of contents but the contents themselves; and more than that, it is an instigator.

When you sailors see the haven before you, though you were mightily troubled before you could see any land, yet when you come near the shore and can see a certain land-mark, that contents you greatly. A godly man, in the midst of the waves and storms that he meets with, can see the glory of heaven before him and so contents himself. One drop of the sweetness of heaven is enough to take away all the sourness and bitterness of all the afflictions in the world.

You cannot judge a book by its contents.

The world is moving, and a company that contents itself with present accomplishments soon falls behind.

A building is a human being's space and the background for his dignity and its exterior should reflect its contents and function

It is the difficult, but unavoidable, task of the modern individual to assimilate consciously all of the contents - from darkest degradation to profoundest purpose - contained in the psyche.

Many U.S. Sunday papers are monopolies, and their contents can be an extension of the daily.

The public, unlike our governing elite, are not obsessed by race and sex. They are rightly interested only in the contents of the person's character.

The proselytisers for man-made global warming have long exercised a tight stranglehold over the contents of Wikipedia.

What is a family, after all, except memories? Haphazard and precious as the contents of a catch-all drawer in the kitchen.

The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.

Intellectualism' is the belief that our mind comes upon a world complete in itself, and has the duty of ascertaining its contents; but has no power of re-determining its character, for that is already given.

Education today is a process of filling the mind with the contents of books, emptying the contents in the examination hall and returning empty-headed.

SATIETY, n. The feeling that one has for the plate after he has eaten its contents, madam.

The permanence of all books is fixed by no effort friendly or hostile, but by their own specific gravity, or the intrinsic importance of their contents to the constant mind of man.

Bengali film has again moved from the insipid, lackluster contents to rich, varied ones.

Josh speculated about the hypothetical contents of an imaginary porn magazine for intelligent trees that would be entitled Enthouse.