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Ninety percent of what we wear, we eat, we consume is carried by ships... Container ships carry a vast amount of stuff. -- Rose George
I'm here at The Container Store looking for something large enough to hold all my love for her. It's a flood, so I hope they sell Shipping Container Ships. -- Jarod Kintz
Everything in a modern container port is enormous, overwhelming, crushing. -- Rose George
Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled. -- Dorothea Brande
A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into. -- Helen Dunmore
A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters. -- Angela Carter
Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea. -- Yoshio Taniguchi
The biggest container ship can carry fifteen thousand boxes. It can hold 746 million bananas, one for every European, on one ship. -- Rose George
I look at art as a container. You can't get inside it, so you have to ask all of these questions. -- Mark Bradford
Sending a container from Shanghai to Le Havre emits fewer greenhouse gases than the truck that takes the container on to Lyon. -- Rose George
The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create. -- Jeff Bezos
To me there's no creativity without boundaries. If you're gonna write a sonnet, it's 14 lines, so it's solving the problem within the container. -- Lorne Michaels
What do you think is the world's most recognisable container of information? It's the human face. We are constantly reading each other and responding. -- Jan Chipchase
In my experience, psychotherapy at its best is like dual meditation - it's like a container in which you can be compassionate and mindful toward yourself. -- Jack Kornfield
A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels. -- Andy Goldsworthy
I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted - stay up all night or eat ice-cream straight out of the container. -- Bill Bryson
Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition. -- Florida Scott-Maxwell
Our port facilities should have the freedom to levy a market-based container fee which will provide new revenue and make our system more equitable to the American taxpayer and American manufacturers. -- Dana Rohrabacher
To my knowledge, the Department of Homeland Security has focused on detection devices that are large, expensive, use a large amount of energy, and cannot easily be placed in or on a shipping container. -- Jim Ryun
Very few people know this, but I love organizational products and tools. One of my favorite places to shop are container stores where you can get bins, boxes and crates to organize your life. -- Kimora Lee Simmons
The trick to scrambled eggs is to remove half the milk from the container and shake what's left as hard as you can, like a cocktail shaker, before you whisk it into the eggs. -- Sloane Crosley
Until now, I've been a kind of binge-writer - I'll carve out five or six hours on a weekend day and make a large container of espresso and just bang out a lot of words. -- Lev Grossman
Pour a liquid out of its container, and it changes shape, fills the space you give it. If you give children a lot of space, it may surprise you where they'll go and the shape they'll take. -- Nancy Gibbs
I will continue to push for doubling the strength of the U.S. Border Patrol, and to make sure that every cargo container that enters this nation is screened for radiation and potential weapons of mass destruction. -- Nick Lampson
In South Texas, we understand how vital port security is and we fear the day a weapon of mass destruction could be brought into a U.S. port in a container and cause hundreds of thousands of casualties. -- Solomon Ortiz
Meditation is to dive all the way within, beyond thought, to the source of thought and pure consciousness. It enlarges the container, every time you transcend. When you come out, you come out refreshed, filled with energy and enthusiasm for life. -- David Lynch
I always tell people, anger is like liquid. It's fluid, it's like water. You put it in a container and it takes the shape of that container. So many people you see in prison, unleashing war on their people, they are angry, and they take their anger and put it into a violent container. -- Leymah Gbowee
Barnacles on the container ship of consciousness. -- John Green
No one keeps the container, they always keep the product. -- T. D. Jakes
Information can't be put in any container that isn't leaky. -- Spider Robinson
I cannot be contained...bec ause I am the container -- Jim Carrey
Software is a gas; it expands to fill its container. -- Nathan Myhrvold
Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container. -- Wallace Stevens
I have no limits! I cannot be contained because I'm the container. -- Jim Carrey
Software is a gas ! It expands to fit the container it is in ! -- Nathan Myhrvold
Moving container from Kigali to Mombasa used to take 22 days, now it takes 6 days. -- Paul Kagame
When you realise the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge. -- Idries Shah
When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge. -- Idries Shah
When you realise the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge -- Idries Shah
A brand is essentially a container for a customer's complete experience with the product or company. -- Sergio Zyman
By phonemic trans-formation into visual terms, the alphabet became a universal, abstract, static container of meaningless sounds -- Marshall McLuhan
Student is not a container you have to fill but a torch you have to light up. -- Albert Einstein
Om is the things, Om is the ingredient, Om is the container and the content of this universe. -- Banani Ray
I really wanted the MTV Award the most, It was a golden popcorn container and it looks really neat. -- Kirsten Dunst
A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters. -- Angela Carter
I think the serving size of ice cream is when you hear the spoon hit the bottom of the container. -- Brian Regan
I was in a town of about 10,000 people, and a shipping container with a rusty microscope was their medical clinic. -- Paul Allen
Whatever else a photograph may be about, it is inevitably about photography, the container and vehicle of all its meanings. -- John Szarkowski
I'm going to design the container and interior spaces. You bring your own stuff to it and make it your own. -- Frank Gehry
I didn't feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened to be borrowing. -- Haruki Murakami
The world as we know it is falling apart at the seams, because it's an inadequate container for the truth of who we are. -- Marianne Williamson
What's the deal with Ovaltine? It comes in a round container, you put it in a round glass, why don't they call it Roundtine? -- Jerry Seinfeld
When the masses begin to vibrate with an energy of love, the world will no longer be a container for war, violence, and lies. -- Gabrielle Bernstein
People wanted to me to describe more about what I call "the container," and then describe what the second half of life feels like. -- Richard Rohr
You only tasted the water. I tasted the gift. The water was simply the container for an act of loving-kindness and nothing could be sweeter. -- Michael Josephson
Having the equivalent of 150,000 Hiroshima-sized bombs at the ready does nothing to protect us from terrorists planning to sneak in a bomb through a cargo container. -- Ben Cohen
If you find it complicated to answer someone's question, do not answer it, for his container is already full and does not have room for the answer -- Ibn Arabi
I ponder if we are more defined by the container we are in than what we are inside. Would we recognize ourselves if we could expand beyond our bodies? -- Paige Bradley
I often steal sandwiches, eat them, and put the container's back., with a signed autograph of my self in its place. It's my way of giving back to society. -- Thom Yorke
I love cunning containers as much as anyone, but I've found that if I get rid of everything I don't need, I often don't need a container at all. -- Gretchen Rubin
Never loan your heart to hatred; it pays you back with self-destruction. Majority of people living are not aware that anger is an acid that destroys its own container. -- Israelmore Ayivor
Life does not acommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition. -- Florida Scott-Maxwell
What the fertilizer does to the germinating plant is what happiness does for a depressed soul... What anger does to a person is what an acid does to its container! -- Israelmore Ayivor
In therapy , the therapist acts as a container for what we daren't let out, because it is so scary, or what lets itself out every so often, and lays waste to our lives. -- Jeanette Winterson
Your body is a divine container that will change over your lifetime. Revel in this! Notice it! This is the way of things: the softening of the shell so the soul may emerge. -- Sara Wiseman
Ice will ruin the tea. Waters it down. You can always get ice, or carry your ice in an ice container. You don't want to put it in your tea, it'll water it down. -- Si Robertson
All these years there had been a Tupperware container of bad language in her head, and now she opened it and all those crisp, crunchy words were fresh and lovely, ready to be used. -- Liane Moriarty
The less money and time you have, the more you haveto plan ahead and be careful about your coverage. It's like a gas:it expands or contracts depending on the size of the container. -- John Sayles
I see climate change as one of the driving forces in the 21st century. With modern technology and globalization, we are much more connected than ever before. The world's warehouses are now container ships. -- David Titley
You can keep a bunch of crabs in a shallow container, and none of them will escape. Because as soon as one of 'em tries to climb out, the others pull him back in." -Hardy -- Lisa Kleypas
When we speak of God or achieving union with God, we are often merely trying to put that great thing into a small container. One cannot drive a camel through the eye of a needle. -- Chogyam Trungpa

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