Contain Quotes

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.

We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff.

All of civility depends on being able to contain the rage of individuals.

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy, but the ones that contain the deepest explanations.

Depending on the season, between 20 and 30 percent of my collections contain some sort of eco or sustainable element, whether it's a beautiful organic fabric or a natural dye. And obviously I don't use animal skins or fur of any kind.

It doesn't matter how adventurous you want to be, you've still got to contain your identity.

John Paul II, above all, managed to contain the huge mass of frustration, of hate that had accumulated in that region, in favour of a peaceful transition. This was, without doubt, something that changed European history.

We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element.

The art galleries of Paris contain the finest collection of frames I ever saw.

I have a very busy head. I have inside voices that I have learned to contain.

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.

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.

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?

As I have studied the Bible and the Book of Mormon, I have come to know through the power of the Spirit of God, that these books contain the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

There is hardly a pioneer's hut which does not contain a few odd volumes of Shakespeare. I remember reading the feudal drama of Henry V for the first time in a log cabin.

The buildings that I build very often have a dreamlike reality. I don't mean by that they have a fantasy quality at all, in fact quite the reverse. They contain in some degree the ingredients that give dreams their power... stuff that's very close to us.

The surest way to return to the people's business is to listen to the people themselves: We need to drop this whole scheme of federally controlled health care, start over, and work together on real reforms at the state level that will contain costs and won't leave America trillions of dollars deeper in debt.

A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.

Courtrooms contain every symbol of authority that a set designer could imagine. Everyone stands up when you come in. You wear a costume identifying you as, if not quite divine, someone special.

Soups are a great way to introduce a lot of vegetables to kids. Stir-fries, too, because they contain so many different shapes and colors.

Poetry is a sword of lightning, ever unsheathed, which consumes the scabbard that would contain it.

All churches and all religions contain aspects of the truth, but only God is truth.

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but seems to contain the whole passionate rage that lurks somewhere in every native of the island.

The law reports in newspapers contain perhaps the only real history of England that has any relation to truth.

It is a commonplace by now to say that the urban school systems of America contain a higher percentage of Negro children each year.

The greatest artist has no conception which a single block of white marble does not potentially contain within its mass, but only a hand obedient to the mind can penetrate to this image.

I think that the ideal space must contain elements of magic, serenity, sorcery and mystery.

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.