Contains Quotes

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

It is a pity that my collection of trophies contains not a single Russian.

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.

In 1997, the National Bankruptcy Review Commission recommended that chapter 12 of the Federal Bankruptcy Code, the chapter that contains bankruptcy protection for family farmers, be made permanent.

Blue cheese contains natural amphetamines. Why are students not informed about this?

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.

Mr. Speaker, the fact of the matter is that the Ten Commandments are a historical document that contains moral, ethical, and legal truisms that any person of any religion or even an atheist can recognize and appreciate.

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.

For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of certain human beings.

Android is very different from the GNU/Linux operating system because it contains very little of GNU. Indeed, just about the only component in common between Android and GNU/Linux is Linux, the kernel.

I like L.A. It's like a mini break. For a writer, it's hilarious. Like the food. Where I come from, we eat chip sandwiches: white bread, butter, tomato catsup and big fat french fries. It's delicious. Here, you order a creme caramel and the waiter says, 'You know, that contains dairy.'

There is no better way of elevating the novel than by making it into a construct which contains ideas.

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.

American history contains much matter for pride and congratulation, and much matter for regret and humiliation.

The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.

I could compare my music to white light which contains all colours. Only a prism can divide the colours and make them appear; this prism could be the spirit of the listener.

The Moment is an album that contains the best music I have ever produced.

All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.

Why do people do things that they fear? It may be that the fear contains information. Something can be interesting if you get to the other side of that fear.

In opposition to this detachment, he finds an image of man which contains within itself man's dreams, man's illness, man's redemption from the misery of poverty - poverty which can no longer be for him a sign of the acceptance of life.

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.

It's very clear that the Bush Administration is out of control. It contains some truly dangerous people.

I thought we were to discuss a referral which we believe contains substantial and credible information of potential impeachable offenses by the President of the United States.

Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books.

The world is now unipolar and contains o-nly o-ne superpower. Canada shares a continent with that superpower.

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.

The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.

An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.