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Quotes About Contain

Some researchers had even concluded that the effort to understand the brain was necessarily doomed—that consciousness cannot comprehend consciousness any more than a box may contain itself. "This
~ Robert Charles Wilson
The soul is made of stuff so mysteriously elastic that a single event can make it big enough to contain the infinite.
~ zweig stefan iv
The only way to contain catastrophe is to cordon it off with dates, but the numbers mean nothing. If I think instead of how much dust would have settled on Rich's bureau, then I can feel it. There is nothing like dust.
~ Abigail Thomas
Method is not (as we often think) subservient to goal but rather contains the goal within itself.
~ Robert Grudin
Embrace life and all that God gives you-but never let it contain you. This world is too small to contain you.
~ Yasmin Mogahed
We're professionals, everybody scores. It's just a matter of limiting them as much as you can and trying to contain them.
~ Jabari Parker
I know terrorism is real. And I know fear of it distorts public judgment. Terrorism is like a chronic illness. We have to learn to contain it and live with it.
~ Yochai Benkler
There's no way a human heart can contain the Master's love. It always spills out.
~ Robert Whitlow
Some just don't know the fundamentals of the game. And a smart player can contain guys like that.
~ George Mikan
Sometimes it seems to me that all of life is a struggle to contain the natural impulses of the body and spirit, and that what we call character represents only the degree to which we are successful in this endeavor.
~ Anita Shreve
The utopia of love is completion to the point of stillness. The ideal act of love is to contain all.
~ John Berger
It's a natural consequence of the capacity of a bookstore or library to contain entire worlds, whole universes, and all contained between the covers of books. In that sense, every library or bookstore is practically infinite.
~ John Connolly
Life needs a membrane to contain itself so it can replicate and mutate.
~ Frans Lanting
But life is richer when we embrace the multitudes we all contain, even if we aren't consistent and what we do doesn't always make sense, even to us.
~ Arnold Schwarzenegger
These are fountains of salvation that they who thirst may be satisfied with the living words they contain. In these alone is proclaimed the doctrine of godliness. Let no man add to these, neither let him take out from these.
~ Athanasius
she was afraid of losing her shape, spreading out, not being able to contain herself any longer, beginning (that would be worst of all) to talk a lot, to tell everybody, to cry.
~ Margaret Atwood
I have dark forebodings, I said. Always. Know them for what they are, he said. What are they, Richard? The shadowy side of your father, who never sees good in anything. The side you must learn to contain.
~ Ann Rinaldi
Symphony of malice, symphony of madness coming through the walls, philosophy straining to contain the ghastly images, the torture, to surround it with language Ã¢â'¬Â¦
~ Anne Rice
But O, the last track Was the vessel that contained The most devotion and pain And made promises that you couldn't take back.
~ Sherman Alexie
It doesn't matter which era you play in. Wickets are the only way you can contain. Restricting the batsmen to six runs in the first over may look okay but in the next over they will hammer the other bowler. Giving ten runs and taking a wicket - I'll take that any day.
~ Wasim Akram
Within our lifetime, we can remember a time when Islamism wasn't the dominant form of discourse or the aim should be to minimise the absolutists within any religious community and contain them.
~ Maajid Nawaz
I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.
~ Simon Singh
She swallowed back
~ Barbara Freethy
A horror so deep only ritual can contain it.
~ Sarah Kane