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Comedies are fit for common wits: But to present a kingly troop withal, Give me a stately-written tragedy; Tragadia cothurnata, fitting kings, Containing matter, and not common things. -- Thomas Kyd
The world is a holographic universe, with every piece containing the whole. -- Marianne Williamson
The dark outside world of Paris under German occupation exerted a strong containing pressure. -- Gerard Debreu
Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written. -- Peter Singer
I believe the life of every person is worthy of scrutiny, containing its own secrets and dramas. -- Krzysztof Kieslowski
A man never feels more important than when he receives a telegram containing more than ten words. -- George Ade
It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas. -- Edward Bond
A room containing Philip Roth, I have noticed, begins hilariously to whirl and pulse with a mix of rebelliousness and constriction that I take to be Oedipal. -- John Updike
I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us. -- Thomas Jefferson
Rag paper, containing hemp fiber, is the highest quality and longest lasting paper ever made. It can be torn when wet, but returns to its full strength when dry. -- Jack Herer
If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect. -- Richard M. Nixon
The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment. -- James A. Baldwin
I've been doing a lot of studying singing, and I'm thinking of recording an album containing all my old war horses and putting out a songbook at the same time. -- David Friedman
I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions. -- Saint Teresa of Avila
The U.S. along with China, Japan, South Korea and Russia has an important role to play in containing North Korea's nuclear ambitions and exerting all the influence we can possibly exert. -- Zach Wamp
The institution of a public library, containing books on education, would be well adapted for the information of teachers, many of whom are not able to purchase expensive publications on those subjects. -- Joseph Lancaster
In organic chemistry, we have learnt to derive from compounds containing only carbon and hydrogen, i.e. from the hydrocarbons, all other types of combinations, such as alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, acids, etc. -- Otto Wallach
I just think I've always been sensitive and had difficulty containing my feelings, and I've always searched for outlets for that, because otherwise those feelings come out in chaotic ways that aren't always great. -- Andrew Garfield
All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour. -- Iain Duncan Smith
From the Old Testament, containing the Atlantean Mystery teaching, we learn that mankind was created male-female, bi-sexual, and that each one was capable of propagating his species without the co-operation of another, as is the case with some plants today. -- Max Heindel
Never preach a sermon without a text from the Bible, a text containing the theme which you can elaborate. The text is the best proof in support of your argument. A sermon without a text is an argument without a proof. -- Isaac Mayer Wise
It has long been a fact familiar to geologists, that, both on the east and west coasts of the central part of Scotland, there are lines of raised beaches, containing marine shells of the same species as those now inhabiting the neighbouring sea. -- Charles Lyell
Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene. -- Barbara Ehrenreich
Most cocktails containing liquor are made today with gin and ingenuity. In brief, take an ample supply of the former and use your imagination. For the benefit of a minority, it is courteous to serve chilled fruit juice in addition to cocktails made with liquor. -- Irma S. Rombauer
What is driving the tendency to discount Joseph Smith's revelations is not that they seem less reasonable than those of Moses; it is that the book containing them is so new. When it comes to prophecy, antiquity breeds authenticity. Events in the distant past, we tend to think, occurred in sacred, mythic time. -- Noah Feldman
Three children have become adults since a phone call with Jo Rowling, containing one small clue, persuaded me that there was more to Snape than an unchanging costume, and that even though only three of the books were out at that time, she held the entire massive but delicate narrative in the surest of hands. -- Alan Rickman
There is a part of me that will forever want to be walking under autumn leaves, carrying a briefcase containing the works of Shakespeare and Yeats and a portable chess set. I will pass an old tree under which once on a summer night I lay on the grass with a fragrant young woman and we quoted e.e. cummings back and forth. -- Roger Ebert
I have a trunk containing continents. -- Beryl Markham
Demagogue--a vessel containing beer and other liquids. -- Mark Twain
Life is two locked boxes, each containing the other's key. -- Piet Pieterszoon Hein
I don't answer questions containing two or more unsupported assumptions. -- Rex Stout
Avoid food products containing ingredients that a third-grader cannot pronounce. -- Michael Pollan
You can't teach biology with a bottle containing dead animals and organisms. -- Roman Vishniac
Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of Himself. -- Mother Teresa
Getting married is like putting one's hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel. -- Thomas More
I have in mind repeated statements by Japanese military men containing threats against other states. -- Joseph Stalin
Only idiots get bored when we've all got handheld devices containing infinite knowledge at our fingertips. -- Ziad K. Abdelnour
Global consciousness is that thing responsible for deciding that pots containing decaffeinated coffee should be orange. -- Danny Hillis
I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it. -- Frederick Douglass
History, it is easily perceived, is a picture-gallery containing a host of copies and very few originals. -- Alexis de Tocqueville
How idle is this prating about natural rights as though still containing all that had been forfeited. -- Jefferson Davis
The spiritual quality of earth: eternally pregnant and containing in its fertility the unwritten cipher of cosmic lore. -- Lady Frieda Harris
Once again, we shall have to operate not only outside the box, but outside the room containing the box. -- Douglas Preston
It's better to work with a nice category containing some nasty objects, than a nasty category containing only nice objects. -- John C. Baez
... there is no such thing as a rational world and a separate irrational world, but only one world containing both. -- Robert Musil
Well, either you have a compartment under this floor, containing a living person, or the property is infested by giant moles -- Kelley Armstrong
As a race car driver, driving is the easy part. The hard part is containing the emotions on the race track. -- Kevin Harvick
Chess is a game sufficiently rich in meaning that it is easily capable of containing elements of both tragedy and comedy. -- Luke McShane
For $425 you can buy pills containing real gold that make your poop sparkle. How have I lived this long without sparkly poop? -- Michael Makai
There shall be a National Anthem containing incomprehensible words and a high note that normal humans cannot hit without risk of hernia. -- Dave Barry
It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas -- Edward Bond
You can now buy a pack of beer containing 99 cans. A 99-can pack of beer. Who says America has lost its competitive edge? -- David Letterman
In right-angled triangles the square on the side subtending the right angle is equal to the squares on the sides containing the right angle. -- Euclid
Avoid food products containing ingredients that are A) unfamiliar B) unpronounceable C) more than five in number or that include D) high-fructose corn syrup -- Michael Pollan
It is not you as the ego who moves through life, but that life flows before you, and you are the immutable awareness containing it all. -- Enza Vita
A farm is an irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didn't know enough to stay in the city. -- S. J. Perelman
Soon it will be possible to assert almost continuous surveillance over every citizen and maintain up-to-date complete files containing even the most personal information about the citizen... -- Zbigniew Brzezinski
Carbohydrates, whether derived from gluten-containing foods or other sources, including fruit, sweetened beverages, and starchy vegetables, are dangerous as they relate to brain health in and of themselves. -- David Perlmutter
Rather than seeing dreams as containing hidden messages, see dreams as experiences of empathy. Then use empathy with the dream to reconnect with the experience of dreaming itself. -- Henry Reed
Society is not merely a select body of spiritual or intellectual persons, but a great organism composed of all kinds of members, a net containing bad and good. -- Robert Hugh Benson
I love the idea of a record containing an entire universe; where the sounds span decades of recording from all over the world and all sorts of different sources. -- Jeff Mangum
You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me a slate and half an hour's time, and I can produce a wrong answer. -- George Bernard Shaw
The difficulty is old, but none the less real. An omnipotent being who created a world containing evil not due to sin must Himself be at least partially evil. -- Bertrand Russell
We need to learn and to show others that there are tried and tested, powerful ways of containing and resolving conflict which do not require the use of force. -- Scilla Elworthy
Wine is a living liquid containing no preservatives. Its life cycle comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death. When not treated with reasonable respect it will sicken and die. -- Julia Child
The fundamental principle in the analysis of propositions containing descriptions is this: Every proposition which we can understand must be composed wholly of constituents with which we are acquainted. -- Bertrand Russell
And she did not want him to think her quite mad, only a little unique, only containing within her just that measure of the unexpected sufficient to make her irreplaceable. -- Rose Tremain
There once was a man called Rousseau who wrote a book containing nothing but ideas. The second edition was bound in the skins of those who laughed at the first. -- Benjamin Wiker
This world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence ... a single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which by their nature are all related. -- Plato
The results suggest a helical structure which must be very closely packed containing probably 2, 3 or 4 coaxial nucleic acid chains per helical unit and having the phosphate groups near the outside. -- Rosalind Franklin
Prayer makes your heart bigger, until it is capable of containing the gift of God himself. Prayer begets faith, faith begets love, and love begets service on behalf of the poor. -- Mother Teresa
Vacuum stands and remains a mathematical space. A cube placed in a vacuum would not displace anything, as it would displace air or water in a space already containing those fluids. -- Roger Bacon
I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions. -- Saint Teresa of Avila
SCRAP-BOOK, n. A book that is commonly edited by a fool. Many persons of some small distinction compile scrap-books containing whatever they happen to read about themselves or employ others to collect. -- Ambrose Bierce
She devoured stories with rapacious greed, ranks of black marks on white, sorting themselves into mountains and trees, stars, moons and suns, dragons, dwarfs, and forests containing wolves, foxes and the dark. -- A. S. Byatt
She devoured stories with rapacious greed, ranks of black marks on white, sorting themselves into mountains and trees, stars, moons and suns, dragons, dwarfs, and forests containing wolves, foxes and the dark." -- A. S. Byatt
Its quite there sonically; a strong representation of what the songs on our records are like. It's very loud and our set is based around containing as much energy and dynamics as possible. -- Matthew Healy
I prefer kissing over dinner. Not that I prefer kissing to dinner, but I prefer kissing over the plate containing my dinner, especially if my dinner consists of something romantic like monkey brains. -- Jarod Kintz
Ampoules containing cortisone, testosterone gel residues, syringes and needles, a centrifuge for measuring my blood values.But, contrary to the erroneous reports in the press, they didn't find any EPO or growth hormone. -- Patrik Sinkewitz
We all agree that parents have the primary responsibility of filtering the material that reaches children. However, children are often lured onto websites containing obscene material through the devious manipulation of search engines. -- Robert A. Brady
The power of elegy, even in the face of an unbounded grief, to provide a containing form is vividly embodied by Anne Carson's 'Nox,' a nocturne with carefully controlled visual and tactile properties. -- Susan Stewart
MONAD, n. The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter (see Molecule). The monad has body without bulk, and mind without manifestation - containing all the powers and possibilities needful to his evolution into a German philosopher . . -- Ambrose Bierce

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