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Folk Music Has Always Contained a Concern for the Human Condition. -- Mary Travers
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words. -- Ansel Adams
Whenever we witness art in a building, we are aware of an energy contained by it. -- Arthur Erickson
Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood? -- Carl Jung
When you look at a film like 'The Ides of March' or 'Good Night, and Good Luck' even, those are really contained pictures. -- Grant Heslov
The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present. -- Eckhart Tolle
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. -- Pearl S. Buck
It helped me in the air to keep my small mind contained in earthly human limits, not lost in vertiginous space and elements unknown. -- Diana Cooper
The original lists were probably carved in stone and represented longer periods of time. They contained things like 'Get More Clay. Make Better Oven.' -- David Viscott
Man seeks to change the foods available in nature to suit his tastes, thereby putting an end to the very essence of life contained in them. -- Sai Baba
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote. -- Emo Philips
All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming more strongly the truths come from on high, and contained in the sacred writings. -- William Herschel
The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. It is present in the infinity of forms and phenomena that exist in all of creation. -- Michael Jackson
All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible. -- Noah Webster
The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell; The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone. -- Michelangelo
There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself. -- Hermann Hesse
The journey and excursions in Mexico which have originated the narrative and remarks contained in this volume were made in the months of March, April, May, and June of 1856, for the most part on horseback. -- Edward Burnett Tylor
Your real self - the 'I am I' - is master of this land, the ruler of this empire. You rightfully have power and dominion over it, all its inhabitants, and all contained in its realm. -- Robert Collier
The system becomes more coherent as it is further extended. The elements which we require for explaining a new class of facts are already contained in our system. In false theories, the contrary is the case. -- William Whewell
I have been presented with roles with demand not just a physical ability but mental disciplines as well. 'Memoirs of a Geisha' was not so much about physical exertion... it was much more graceful and contained than that. -- Michelle Yeoh
I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men. -- Eric Clapton
Right around the end of the fifties, college students and young people in general, began to realize that this music was almost like a history of our country - this music contained the real history of the people of this country. -- Jackson Browne
The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In the trinitarian dogma God is one, good, true, and beautiful because he is essentially Love, and Love supposes the one, the other, and their unity. -- Hans Urs von Balthasar
I try to steal from the best. Suck it all in. 'Taxi Driver' is really a bible for film actors, a master class. A lot of emotional power, a lot of emotional depth but it's contained and you just see the tip of the iceberg. -- Sam Rockwell
In one sense, the Internet is like the discovery of the printing press, only it's very different. The printing press gave us access to recorded knowledge. The Internet gives us access, not just to knowledge, but to the intelligence contained in people's crania, access to the intelligence of people on a global basis. -- Don Tapscott
Hence a ship is said to be tight, when her planks are so compact and solid as to prevent the entrance of the water in which she is immersed: and a cask is called tight, when the staves are so close that none of the liquid contained therein can issue through or between them. -- William Falconer
When I wrote 'The Giver,' it contained no so-called 'bad words.' It was set, after all, in a mythical, futuristic, and Utopian society. Not only was there no poverty, divorce, racism, sexism, pollution, or violence in the world of 'The Giver'; there was also careful attention paid to language: to its fluency, precision, and power. -- Lois Lowry
The early firings contained many stones. -- Andy Goldsworthy
Evil contained is not evil destroyed. -- Terry Brooks
Whatever is contained must be released. -- Helene Aylon
In the particular is contained the universal. -- James Joyce
The end was contained in the beginning. -- George Orwell
The whole gospel is contained in Christ. -- John Calvin
Truth could never be wholly contained in words. -- Catherine Marshall
The sublime is contained in a grain of dust. -- Walter Savage Landor
A story can only be contained in a book. -- Andrzej Sapkowski
One included all, and all were contained in one. -- Nhat Hanh
My true Self is free. I cannot be contained. -- Marcus Aurelius
Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand. -- V. S. Naipaul
God is all-full. He is self-contained. He is eternal satisfaction. -- Sivananda
Like desire, language disrupts, refuses to be contained within boundaries. -- bell hooks
I have never been contained except I made the prison. -- Mari Evans
There is no reality except the one contained within us. -- Hermann Hesse
All things desirable to men are contained in the Bible. -- Abraham Lincoln
Two things that can never be contained? Velociraptors and zombies. -- Kresley Cole
I cannot be contained...bec ause I am the container -- Jim Carrey
All our loves are contained in all our other loves. -- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
God is all-full. He is self-contained. He is eternal satisfaction. -- Sivananda
... and the very folds of the curtains contained secrets and sighs. -- Anais Nin
Capitalism is a forest fire that is never extinguished, only contained. -- Bryan Appleyard
All photos speak a thousand words. This one contained a library. -- Rivera Sun
You cannot be free if you are contained withing a fiction.. -- Julian Beck
That 1983 general election contained the telltale seeds of eventual Scottish Tory self-destruction. -- Charles Kennedy
World is supposed to mean something that's self-contained. but nothing is self-contained. -- Don DeLillo
Comprehension, inventiveness, direction, and criticism: intelligence is contained in these four words. -- Alfred Binet
Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of 'the flock. -- Christopher Hitchens
Beneath the Sacred Host, Christ is contained, the Redeemer of the world -- Pope John Paul II
There is no useful information contained in historical price movements of securities. -- Louis Bachelier
The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language. -- Ezra Pound
If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water. -- Loren Eiseley
The whole universe is contained within a single human being - you. -- Rumi
The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life. -- Michael Jackson
I have no limits! I cannot be contained because I'm the container. -- Jim Carrey
Nostalgia keeps dissolving the ironic narratives in which I have contained my past. -- Mason Cooley
When a government official says a problem has been "contained," pay no attention. -- Seth Klarman
Figured Bass (Harmony) and Religion are self-contained things, one should not argue these. -- Ludwig van Beethoven
Once she read a book but found it distasteful because it contained adjectives. -- Lois Lowry
Science already contained all that was necessary, if you just brought it out. -- Arthur Young
The moment of that kiss contained every happy moment I had ever lived. -- Paulo Coelho
A simple separate person is not contained between his hat and his boots. -- Walt Whitman
Naked and restrained, this darkness cannot be contained, you, my esclave, have been claimed.." -- Pepper Winters
All great books contain boring portions, and all great lives have contained uninteresting stretches. -- Bertrand Russell
I have never regretted Paradise Lost since I discovered that it contained no eggs-and-bacon. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
But planned obsolescence is possible only if the rate of technological change is contained. -- David Harvey
As a human being Plato mingles regal, exclusive, and self-contained features with melancholy compassion. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
David Bowie and Boy George created a safely contained theatrical expression of gay style. -- Lance Loud
A token of love comes in a box because love itself cannot be contained. -- Binnie Kirshenbaum
We are brilliant shades of light, we can not be contained-Boys of the Fatherless- -- David C. Riggins
Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system. -- Mary Augusta Ward
The greatest love story of all time is contained in a tiny white Host. -- Fulton J. Sheen
In f-major, c* is a sonority contained within the overtones of the tonic f*. -- Jean-Philippe Rameau
All knowledge, the totality of all questions and answers, is contained in the dog. -- Franz Kafka
Anger was buried far too early in a young heart, which perhaps contained much good. -- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk. -- Daniel Handler
Within this moment, the only moment that exists, the past, present and future are contained. -- Gautama Buddha
The universe is contained within us, and what we experience externally is only a reflection. -- Anita Moorjani
Mozart's music is constantly escaping from its frame, because it cannot be contained in it. -- Leonard Bernstein
Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Maybe crazy is just the word we use for feelings that will not be contained. -- Anna Quindlen
When World War II started on September 1, 1939, the German army contained 3.74 million soldiers and 103 divisions. -- John Mearsheimer
We have every interest in seeing that the military use of nuclear power will be contained. -- Joschka Fischer
Enlightenment is not a state of mind, yet all states of mind are contained within it. -- Frederick Lenz
With this kind of camera-phone madness we have got, moments are diluted into self-contained edited experiences. -- Doc Brown
Every day is not just another assignment; it is a small, but contained voyage of discovery. -- David Doubilet
All high poetry is infinite; it is as the first acorn, which contained all oaks potentially. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
The little bit of truth contained in many a lie is what makes them so terrible. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Enlightenment is not a state of mind, yet all states of mind are contained within it. -- Frederick Lenz
No moment is wasted if you pay attention and learn the lessons contained in every experience. -- Robert Greene
I thought to myself that he contained a whole universe that I had yet to know. -- Patti Smith
Truth is self-evident, nonviolence is its maturest fruit. It is contained in truth, but is not self-evident. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Each energy calls for its complementary energy to achieve self-contained stability based on the play of energies. -- Paul Klee
Commitment and creativity cannot be captured and handcuffed. Inspiration cannot be jailed. The heart cannot be contained. -- Gary Zukav
The powers contained in a constitution...ought to be construed liberally in advancement of the public good. -- Alexander Hamilton
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I have amazing collaborators as well, but I want to learn more and be a self-contained unit. -- FKA twigs
A major part of the meaning of life is contained in the very process of discovering it. -- Ira Progoff
I do not believe that grief is ever so great that it can not be contained within. -- Judith McNaught
Let your passion and courage swell in you until you can no longer be contained by fear. -- Bryant McGill
I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men. -- Albrecht Durer
An infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space. -- Gustave Flaubert
All is contained within the silence of death, the quietest and the loudest sound in the universe. -- Forrest Curran
With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from. -- Bruce Greenwood
Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained. -- Max Beckmann
I think a big part of our attraction to sport movies are the stories contained within the sports. -- Rachel Griffiths
Germany is to be contained from outside and heterogenized from the inside by influx, 'diluted' so to speak. -- Joschka Fischer
He gave an impression of coiled power, a contained violence that if released, would explode with terrifying intensity. -- Ilona Andrews
I've never really been contained to just one style. My listening choice has always been so mixed up. -- Myles Kennedy
[The Psalms are] a Little Bible, wherein everything contained in the entire Bible is beautifully and briefly comprehended. -- Martin Luther
The dark has to be contained in the light or the light will be contained in the dark. -- Nancy Hale

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