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Contain all human faces in your own without any judgment of them -- Rumi
Earth could not hold us both, nor can one heaven Contain my deadliest enemy and me. -- Robert Southey
Awareness Is Not The Same As ThoughtMore Like A Vessel Which Can Hold And Contain Our Thinking -- Jon Kabat-Zinn
My single pair of eyes Contain the universe they see; Their mirrored multiplicity Is packed into a hollow body Where I reflect the many, in my one. -- Stephen Spender
Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. -- Thomas Jefferson
Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law. -- Rabindranath Tagore
All of civility depends on being able to contain the rage of individuals. -- Joshua Lederberg
The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw. -- Humphry Davy
Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it. -- Boris Pasternak
I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery. -- Luis Barragan
I have a very busy head. I have inside voices that I have learned to contain. -- Tom Hardy
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes. -- Walt Whitman
Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body. -- Margaret Fuller
I'll tell you what I love doing more than anything: trying to pack myself in a small suitcase. I can hardly contain myself. -- Tim Vine
Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths. -- Muhammad Ali
Typically, an historic site is considered by the National Park Service to contain a single historical feature, while generally a National Historic Park extends beyond single properties or buildings. -- Rick Renzi
I think the 'Lethal Weapon' movies contain my favorite performances. It sounds really crummy, I know, but although the work doesn't look hard, it's difficult to create 'effortless' on screen. -- Mel Gibson
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
All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value. -- Carl Sagan
The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights'. It is a subject which makes the Queen so furious that she cannot contain herself. -- Queen Victoria
Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. -- William Strunk, Jr.
There's nothing more powerful than a woman who knows how to contain her power and not let it leak, standing firmly within it in mystery and silence. A woman who talks too much sheds her allure. -- Marianne Williamson
A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what they have in common - the desire to write - could almost be considered meaningless. -- Rachel Cusk
The way the Beloved can fit in my heart, two thousand lives could fit in this body of mine. One kernel could contain a thousand bushels, and a hundred worlds pass through the eye of the needle. -- Rumi
It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers. I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain. -- Pierre de Fermat
But it is impossible to divide a cube into two cubes, or a fourth power into fourth powers, or generally any power beyond the square into like powers; of this I have found a remarkable demonstration. This margin is too narrow to contain it. -- Pierre de Fermat
The reality is: By the time swine flu got on the radar screen of global public health, it had already spread. It was already in the States, it was in Mexico, it was in New Zealand. By the time it reaches that point, you've lost the ability to contain it. -- Nathan Wolfe
I seldom read anything that is not of a factual nature because I want to invest my time wisely in the things that will improve my life. Don't misunderstand; there is nothing wrong with reading purely for the joy of it. Novels have their place, but biographies of famous men and women contain information that can change lives. -- Zig Ziglar
I suppose I've always done my share of crying, especially when there's no other way to contain my feelings. I know that men ain't supposed to cry, but I think that's wrong. Crying's always been a way for me to get things out which are buried deep, deep down. When I sing, I often cry. Crying is feeling, and feeling is being human. Oh yes, I cry. -- Ray Charles
Your attitudes contain your future. -- Bryant H. McGill
Your attitudes contain your future. -- Bryant H. McGill
This shed does not contain me. -- Bill Bailey
I am large, I contain multitudes -- Walt Whitman
Don't uncork what you can't contain -- Suzanne Vega
Memories contain hidden editorials on current events. -- Mason Cooley
All pleasures contain an element of sadness. -- Jonathan Eybeschutz
My suitcase must absolutely contain my iPod. -- Alexander Ludwig
A column about errors will contain errors. -- Bill Gold
Every pint bottle should contain a quart. -- Boyle Roche
Problems contain the seeds of our glory -- Aniekee Tochukwu
All games contain the idea of death. -- Jim Morrison
I tried to contain myself... but I escaped! -- Gary Paulsen
A wise man's questions contain half the answer. -- Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Our teaching may contain nothing impious, nothing diluted. -- Gregory of Nazianzus
Books remember all the things you cannot contain. -- Elizabeth McCracken
Virus particles contain single molecules of nucleic acid. -- Alfred Hershey
Good business should contain something for both parties. -- John Harvey-Jones
Sad memories often contain an element of nostalgia. -- Robert R. Blake
Creative thought must always contain a random component. -- Gregory Bateson
Even a meaningless life may contain many good breakfasts. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. -- Anatole France
The changes we dread most may contain our salvation. -- Barbara Kingsolver
What does not contain love must contain an illusion. -- Deepak Chopra
Every sermon must contain a certain shot of heresy. -- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I am not contain'd between my hat and boots. -- Walt Whitman
The red was something none of them could contain. -- E.J. Koh
Power contains secrets...Secrets contain knowledge...Knowledge contains power. -- Susan Waterwyk
I don't believe you can contain ideas by military force. -- Pierre Trudeau
Always remember that problems contain values that have improvement potential. -- Norman Vincent Peale
Almost all movie scripts contain material that cannot be filmed. -- David Mamet
Nothing can contain the limitless spirit of a boundless heart. -- Ken Poirot
We all contain mysteries, especially when seen from the inside. -- David Levithan
The heart that breaks open can contain the whole universe. -- Joanna Macy
The world that has made us can no longer contain us -- Regina Spektor
A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything. -- Gustav Mahler
All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise which is impossible. -- Paul Dickson
His golf bag does not contain a full set of irons. -- Robin Williams
The sentence must also contain its own apology for being spoken. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world. -- Joseph Conrad
Warning: I may contain more than a trace amount of nut. -- Stephen Colbert
Two heads are better than one only if they contain different opinions. -- Kenneth Kaye
Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal. -- Victor Hugo
Yes, books are dangerous. They should be dangerous - they contain ideas. -- Pete Hautman
True success has more components than one sentence or idea can contain. -- Zig Ziglar
People try to contain things by putting them into categories. I don't. -- Steve McQueen
There are three dimensions of time, two of which contain happier days. -- Robert Breault
Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper. -- Thomas Jefferson
To be content means that you realize you contain what you seek. -- Alan Cohen
There is no book so bad it does not contain something good. -- Pliny
The ten commandments and the sermon on the mount contain my religion. -- John Adams
The great ages did not contain the best talent, they wasted less. -- T. S. Eliot
You can't stop the White Mamba! You can only hope to contain him! -- Stacey King
Baby wee is good because it's pure, doesn't contain toxins and doesn't smell, -- Vitali Klitschko
We will have to learn to lead people rather then to contain them. -- Peter Drucker
Twenty percent of all input forms filled out by people contain bad data. -- Dennis Ritchie
If souls continue to exist, how does the air contain them from eternity? -- Marcus Aurelius
Be so positive and optimistic that people give up trying to contain you. -- Matthew Barnett
Life needs a membrane to contain itself so it can replicate and mutate. -- Frans Lanting
All great books contain boring portions, and all great lives have contained uninteresting stretches. -- Bertrand Russell
The problem with our existence is that our experiences contain more hate than love. -- Beau Brummell
It appears that the human genome does indeed contain deserts, or large, gene-poor regions. -- Craig Venter
Allow yourself to release the emotions you have struggled all your life to contain. -- Ellen Bass
Cigarette sales would drop to zero overnight if the warning said "CIGARETTES CONTAIN FAT. -- Dave Barry
Sometimes the song isn't strong enough to contain the fiction, because memories are fictions. -- Nick Cave
Jan'nah and Jahannum will both contain sinners, but Jan'nah will have sinners who repented -- Boonaa Mohammed
despite all our desperate, eternal attempts to separate, contain and mend, categories always leak. -- Trinh T. Minh-ha
All forms of human happiness contain within themselves the seeds of their own decomposition. -- Theodore Dalrymple
For what could be more beautiful than the heavens which contain all beautiful things. -- Nicolaus Copernicus
A written discourse on any subject is bound to contain much that is fanciful. -- Plato
Only an open mind is big enough to contain the secrets of the universe. -- Vera Stanley Alder
We are waiting for the next moment to contain what this moment does not. -- Tara Brach
The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain. -- Khalil Gibran
It is surprising how many great men and women a small house will contain. -- Henry David Thoreau
The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea. -- Mortimer Adler
All of us contain Music & Truth, but most of us can't get it out. -- Mark Twain
Here, in my solitude, I have the feeling that I contain too much humanity. -- Ingmar Bergman
..books look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look as if they contain information. -- Julian Barnes
Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain. -- E. M. Forster
The Bible does not contain the Word of God; It is the Word of God. -- Lee Roberson
Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain. -- Vittorio Alfieri
Black is like a broken vessel, which is deprived of the capacity to contain anything. -- Leonardo da Vinci
It's the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future. -- Barbara Kingsolver
All churches and all religions contain aspects of the truth, but only God is truth. -- Pat Buckley
It seems to me that very sad things always contain an element of the comical -- Haruki Murakami
Religions have different names, and they all contain truth, expressed in different ways forms and times -- Muhammad Ali
If the bubbles contain a misconception, as they always do, then it can't be maintained forever. -- George Soros
Language should almost break up or explode in its fruitless effort to contain so many meanings. -- Eugene Ionesco
Would you reach the infinite? Then enter into finite things, working out all that they contain. -- George Herbert Palmer
Those fields which most depend upon authoritative opinion for their data least contain known natural law. -- L. Ron Hubbard

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