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Quotes About Contain

Cuius rei demostrationem mirabilem sane detexi hanc marginis exiquitas non caperet. Tengo una prueba verdaderamente maravillosa para esta afirmación, pero el margen es demasiado estrecho para contenerla.
~ Pierre de Fermat
The human heart is a vast enough to contain all the world. It is valiant enough to bear the burden, but where is the courage that would cast it off?
~ Joseph Conrad
At least, Mother said, that's the story Aunt Esther tells. What do you mean? I asked. Isn't it true? Stories are never 'true', Mother said. But they may, almost by accident, contain 'truth'. Sometimes.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
The world's last great pandemic was the Spanish flu outbreak in 1918 that killed a hundred million people—about 5 percent of the world's population. If a pandemic like that were to happen again, it would spread faster and might be impossible to contain.
~ Douglas Preston
And catch a fox And put him in a box And never let him go.
~ Agatha Christie
Every pint bottle should contain a quart.
~ Boyle Roche
All concepts of politics, of whatever kind, are about conflict??how to contain it, or abolish it.
~ Ralph Miliband
My love of books is a love of what they contain; they hold knowledge as a pitcher holds water, as a dress contains the mystery of a woman's exquisite body. Their physicality matters—do not speak to me of storing books as bytes!
~ Julia Glass
I have no luddite prejudice against new technology; it's just that books look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look as if they contain information.
~ Julian Barnes
The outer prisons are made by the community to contain those who have dared break its laws. The inner prisons each man makes for himself because of what he feels are his transgressions.
~ Lucy Freeman
Mozart's music is constantly escaping from its frame, because it cannot be contained in it.
~ Leonard Bernstein
But her course was too purely reasonable not to contain the germs of rebellion.
~ Edith Wharton
Although this crisis in some ways started in the United States, it is a global crisis. We bear a substantial share of the responsibility for what has happened, but factors that made the crisis so acute and so difficult to contain lie in a broader set of global forces that built up in the years before the start of our current troubles.
~ Timothy Geithner
Radical jihadists hate Americans for who we are. They cannot be managed. They cannot be trusted. Engaging them is a tragic fool's errand. We need to realize that they are at war with us and that we cannot control their motivations. We instead need to confront them, contain them, and ultimately defeat them before they defeat us.
~ Pete Hoekstra
Our enemy in Syria is Daesh: it's not about containing but destroying this organisation.
~ Francois Hollande
True baptism allows us to reframe, and contain, the reality of evil, without needing to blame anyone else, without any need for shame or vengeance. We are all in this together, and our common wound shows itself in different ways.
~ Richard Rohr
La muerte toma siempre la forma de la alcoba que nos contiene.
~ Xavier Villaurrutia
I love you because you're tender and sweet, you the hardest and sternest of men. And your sweetness and tenderness are such that they make you as light as a shred of tulle, subtle as a flake of mist, airy as a caprice. Your thick muscles, your arms, your thighs, your hands, are more unreal than the melting of day into night. You envelop me and I contain you.
~ Jean Genet
of the heart saying strange strange it's not as if such fastenings could ever contain the regular yearning wing-beat of my evenings
~ Alice Oswald
Everybody thinks performance capture is about thrashing around and doing a lots of movement, but it's actually about being able to contain and think and be believed in a close-up, as much as anything else.
~ Andy Serkis
The off spinner's job is to contain; for me, leg spinners need to have a bigger heart than anyone else because it is easy to blame them.
~ Imran Tahir
Your wit is always such a delight, Mr. Zeklos. I can barely contain myself around it.
~ Richelle Mead
Now, there is no harm in a teapot, even if it contains tea, if it is let alone.
~ young brigham iii
Western governments have generally tried to contain genocide by appeasing its architects. But the sad record of the last century shows that the walls the United States tries to build around genocidal societies almost inevitably shatter.
~ Samantha Power