Contain Yourself Quotes

#1. Enjoy the music in your earbuds in your own head. Dancing and singing because you enjoy the tune so much you can't contain yourself doesn't amuse others in Starbucks.

Paula Heller Garland

#2. Drag queens always love a portmanteau of combining words and making something new, because this whole world is shilarious. And so you have to contain yourself with words. Shilarious is just something that is a really hooty kiki funny item.

RuPaul

#3. The holy scriptures contain no proclamation more relevant, no responsibility more binding, no instruction more direct than the injunction given by the resurrected Lord as He appeared in Galilee to the eleven disciples.

Thomas S. Monson

#4. At certain times and in certain schools it is orthodox to be a rebel; and in general it is a very poor class that does not contain at least three pupils who can be counted on to oppose the teachers authority and loudly and persistently to question everything he says.

Gilbert Highet

#5. What does happen constantly with all kinds of people I meet is they say "I had this encounter with Jesus, can you help me understand it ... " The labels, more than ever, simply aren't big enough to contain what the cosmic Christ is up to in the world.

Rob Bell

#6. It's a natural consequence of the capacity of a bookstore or library to contain entire worlds, whole universes, and all contained between the covers of books. In that sense, every library or bookstore is practically infinite.

John Connolly

#7. Your 40 trillion cells contain at least a quadrillion mitochondria, with a combined convoluted surface area of about 14,000 square metres; about four football fields.

Nick Lane

#8. Horror jolts me when I look at one of you and see a pair of beautiful eyes that make me think your mind might contain a world that could hold me as the bolts shake loose and fly from my frame.

Henry Rollins

#9. Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)

Sarah Bakewell

#10. The folder thick enough to contain a hundred headaches.

Alessandra Torre

#11. Of course it is possible that UFO's really do contain aliens as many people believe, and the government is hushing it up

Stephen Hawking

#12. Your words contain great power. So declare that you will prosper despite every difficulty that you may encounter in your life. You are not here just to survive ... So overcome and thrive!

Timothy Pina

#13. I mean it felt my heart might just burst. Bursting is different than breaking. Like there is no way to contain how beautiful.

Peter Heller

#14. People don't eat nutrients, they eat foods, and foods can behave very differently than the nutrients they contain.

Michael Pollan

#15. I don't read blogs but occasionally people tell me about what they contain, and I do take questions that come from blogs.

Stephen Covey

#16. In learning about the myths and legends of old, we learn something of ourselves. Stories, Maisie, are never just stories. They contain fundamental truths about the human condition.

Jacqueline Winspear

#17. I love it when novels contain a broad cast of characters, including queer ones.

Emma Donoghue

#18. The best lies contain within them nuggets of truth, enough to give a listener pause.

George R R Martin

#19. There is a story, always ahead of you. Barely existing. Only gradually do you attach yourself to it and feed it. You discover the carapace that will contain and test your character. You will find in this way the path of your life.

Michael Ondaatje

#20. If you're an educator, caregiver, or parent, and you find yourself unable to contain your anger with kids, please consider getting professional help. Excessive harshness, whether it's emotional or physical in nature, can cause lasting harm to children.

Laura L. Smith

#21. The purpose of suffering is to contain the light of your desire until you see yourself in everything.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

#22. Walt Whitman was right about at least one thing. You will contradict yourself. You are large. You contain multitudes.

Matt Haig

#23. In one sense, every character you create will be yourself. You've never murdered, but your murderer's rage will be drawn from memories of your own extreme anger. Your love scenes will contain hints of your own past kisses and sweet moments.

Nancy Kress

#24. You contain within yourself a unique combination of talents and abilities which, properly identified and applied, will enable you to achieve virtually any goal you can set for yourself.

Brian Tracy

#25. Allow yourself to release the emotions you have struggled all your life to contain.

Ellen Bass

#26. Life doesn't have compartments."
"Don't kid yourself. Niches and cubbyholes contain us," I reply.

Rodney Ross

#27. If you are not actively seeking and creating opportunities, which always contain an element of risk, you are actually exposing yourself to more serious risks in the long term.

Tony Buzan

#28. Unlike a fountain that circulates the same water in an enclosed, perpetually recycling system, a human being circulates thoughts in an unlimited reservoir of self.
Don't limit yourself to being a mere fountain when you contain an ocean.

Vera Nazarian

#29. If you don't feel any connection to the ocean, then ask yourself why your tears, blood and saliva contain about the same percentage of salt.

Jim Lynch

#30. 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.

Carl Sagan

#31. The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.

Mortimer Adler

#32. Just as I suspected, my room does look different, post-eclipse. It looks smalled, like it can't contain me anymore.
After all, I've got a whole new world to see.

Wendy Mass

#33. The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities.

Sydney Smith

#34. Madness. That's what it was. And I could no longer contain it.

Melanie Harlow

#35. Bookstores contain the residue of thousands of people who went in there to find an experience, a narrative that guided them to a new place or reinforced what they were doing.

Lauren Leto

#36. The history of man for the nine months preceding his birth would, probably, be far more interesting and contain events of greater moment than all the three score and ten years that follow it.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#37. They contain no matter," I continue, "and have no energy and therefore, according to the laws of science, do not exist except in people's minds.

Robert M. Pirsig

#38. So, when there is a strife of tongues, at some meeting, the chairman, to obtain unity, suggests that every one shall speak in French. Perhaps it is bad French; French may not contain the words that express the speaker's thoughts; nevertheless speaking French imposes some order, some uniformity.

Virginia Woolf

#39. Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth, or the only truth.

Charles A. Dana

#40. If man wants to obtain knowledge of the greatness and happiness of these worlds, then is nothing else possible than that he also will be introduced to the dangerous, with the fearfulness that they contain. One is not possible without the other.

Rudolf Steiner

#41. But as a wise and great teacher once explained so patiently, all good stories - stories that touch your soul, stories that change your nature, stories that cause you to become a better person from their telling-these stories always contain truth.

Camron Wright

#42. You seek a false comfort when you demand that I define myself for you with words. Words do not contain or define any person. A heart can, if it is willing.

Robin Hobb

#43. We act as a conduit for the observers' unexpressed desires, the silent appreciation they may contain for anything; a lover, a river, a building even

Guy Mankowski

#44. God would behold in you a simplicity which will contain so much the more of His wisdom as it contains less of your own.

Francois Fenelon

#45. I'm going to end a life that I thought could contain every kind of greatness but that in fact consisted only of my incapacity to really want to be great. Whenever I arrived at a certainty, I remembered that those with the greatest certainties are lunatics.

Fernando Pessoa

#46. Contain all human faces in your own without any judgment of them

Rumi

#47. There is no book so bad it does not contain something good.

Pliny

#48. The sighing of the devotee clears a path for him into the world unseen, and his tears wash away the sins of ages. All revelation follows the ecstasy; all knowledge that a book can never contain, that a language can never express, nor a teacher teach, comes to him of itself.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

#49. To effectively contain a civilization's development and disarm it across such a long span of time, there is only one way: kill its science.

Liu Cixin

#50. Soap, gloves, isolating patients, not reusing needles and quarantining the contacts of the ill - in theory it should be very easy to contain Ebola

Peter Piot

#51. Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.

Boris Pasternak

#52. Conclude not from all this that I have renounced the Christian religion ... Far from it. I see in every page something to recommend Christianity in its purity, and something to discredit its corruptions ... The ten commandments and the sermon on the mount contain my religion.

John Adams

#53. There is no doubt that the loftiest written wisdom is either rhymed or in some way musically measured,
is, in form as well as substance, poetry; and a volume which should contain the condensed wisdom of mankind need not have one rhythmless line.

Henry David Thoreau

#54. Virus particles contain single molecules of nucleic acid.

Alfred Hershey

#55. For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.

John Milton

#56. We can contain such secret misery, perversion.

Ben Marcus