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Quotes About Contain

I feel in love with black; it contained all color. It wasn't a negation of color…Black is the most aristocratic color of all…You can be quiet, and it contains the whole thing.
~ Louise Nevelson
Our purpose is not to contain China, to hold it back, to keep it down. It is to uphold this rules-based order that China is posing a challenge to. Anyone who poses a challenge to that order, we're going to stand up and - and defend it.
~ Antony Blinken
The object of science is the universal that contains many particulars; the object of art is the particular that contains a universal.
~ Will Durant
whereas an ancient text may seem inscrutable, the idea that it may contain a mystery, an ancient cooking pot can speak for itself.
~ William G. Dever
What is it that you contain? The dead, time, light patterns of millenia opening in your gut. What is salted up in the memory of you? Memory past and memory future.
~ Jeanette Winterson
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.
~ Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
My art is an act of creation and destruction, with all the sorrow and joy these engender as well as all the shadow and light these contain.
~ Kathryn V. White
And then also, again, still, what are those boundaries, if they're not baselines, that contain and direct its infinite expansion inward, that make tennis like chess on the run, beautiful and infinitely dense?
~ David Foster Wallace
tight around her while she stood at
~ Peter Robinson
The opposite of love is evil. You stupid human beings, the whole thing is right in front of you, but on you go, debating whether evil is internal or external, inherent in everyone or created by circumstance...The world is not divided into two. You have evil within you, you contain evil, that's the basic idea. When you open the door, what do you get, the lady or the tiger? Whoops, sorry, you get both, because the lady is the tiger. Doity Toid to the Eel
~ Unknown
I try to tamp them down, but they're not that easy to contain. Once you experience enormity, it lingers everywhere you look, and wants to be every word you say.
~ David Levithan
imaginación, y mi tarea en cuanto artista no consistía en desarrollar a mi imaginación, sino en contenerla, lo cual ya entonces me pareció imposible, porque todo era tan increíble que
~ Philip Roth
Language is surely too small a vessel to contain these emotions of mind and body that have somehow awakened a response in the spirit.
~ Radclyffe Hall
wasn't crying. Grief and shock simply overflowed; I could not contain them.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?
~ Walt Whitman
You can fill a bucket with water but not water with a bucket.
~ Jack L. Chalker
Kotecha says, "I always think in my head, if Max Martin was an American, he would have fizzled out a long time ago. He would have believed his own hype. But because he's Swedish, he's able to contain himself. He just focuses on being the best writer and producer and mentor he can be.
~ John Seabrook
Each moment is nightfall not spacious enough to contain all hope that there will be morning.
~ Unknown
Yes, books are dangerous. They should be dangerous - they contain ideas.
~ Pete Hautman
It's the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
His inner furnace burns stronger than most. Sometimes it flares up and he can't contain his anger. It's why we call him Ireheart.
~ Unknown
Because words are a magic too, and they can contain everything.
~ Matt Haig
Everybody has a shadow self to contend with but most manage to contain it effectively as they settle into their regimented routines of daily living. Rock stars, by contrast, are often actively encouraged to cultivate their darker qualities and that's where the trouble usually starts.
~ Unknown