Contain Quotes

In my experience, there is only one motivation, and that is desire. No reasons or principle contain it or stand against it.

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

To me, there is spirit in a reed. It's a living thing, a weed, really, and it does contain spirit of a sort. It's really an ancient vibration.

If we don't stop somewhere, if we don't accept an unhappy compromise, unhappy for both sides, if we don't learn how to unhappily coexist and contain our burned sense of injustice - if we don't learn how to do that, we end up in a doomed state.

Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.

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.

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

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.

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.

Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.

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

The Scriptures contain many stories of people who waited years or even decades before the Lord's promises came to pass. What modern believers can learn from the patience of biblical saints like Abraham, Joseph, David, and Paul is that waiting upon the Lord has eternal rewards.

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.

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.