Top 100 Container Quotes
#1. Now I know for sure the soul is an evanescent thing and the body is its temporary container, because I saw it. I saw the body with the soul in it, I saw the body with the soul leaving, and I saw the body with the soul gone.
Elizabeth Alexander
#2. In 1961, before the container was in international use, ocean freight costs alone accounted for 12 percent of the value of U.S. exports and 10 percent of the value of U.S. imports.
Marc Levinson
#3. I think the serving size of ice cream is when you hear the spoon hit the bottom of the container.
Brian Regan
#4. Flesh, blood, bone
the body is only a container for who we truly are inside.
Megan Shepherd
#5. Bitterness is the acid that eats its own container.
Bryan Chapell
#6. Your body is a divine container that will change over your lifetime. Revel in this! Notice it! This is the way of things: the softening of the shell so the soul may emerge.
Sara Wiseman
#7. One of the great jokes of life is that by the time you're old enough to recognize how little you know, all you can do is mop up the aftermath, dump it in a giant personal hazmat container and move on.
Virginia DeBerry
#8. The only reason I got married in 2003 was for my children. I had a therapist who said marriage is really a container for a family, and that made sense to me.
Julianne Moore
#9. I really wanted the MTV Award the most, It was a golden popcorn container and it looks really neat.
Kirsten Dunst
#10. By phonemic trans-formation into visual terms, the alphabet became a universal, abstract, static container of meaningless sounds
Marshall McLuhan
#11. You have neat, tight expectation of what life out to give you, but you won't get it. That isn't what life does. Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. EVERY SEED DESTROYS ITS CONTAINER OR ELSE THERE WOULD BE NO FRUITION.
Florida Scott-Maxwell
#12. From I Knew a Woman
I knew a woman, lovely in her bones,
When small birds sighed, she would sigh back at them;
Ah, when she moved, she moved more ways than one:
The shapes a bright container can contain!
Theodore Roethke
#13. When you realise the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.
Idries Shah
#14. I also learned that about ten thousand containers fall off ships each year. Sometimes after a period of years the container doors pop open and the contents float to the surface.
Bill Bryson
#15. Ninety percent of what we wear, we eat, we consume is carried by ships ... Container ships carry a vast amount of stuff.
Rose George
#16. I love cunning containers as much as anyone, but I've found that if I get rid of everything I don't need, I often don't need a container at all.
Gretchen Rubin
#17. You can't tell what's aboard a container ship. We carried every kind of cargo, all of it on view: a police car, penicillin, Johnnie Walker Red, toilets, handguns, lumber, Ping-Pong balls, and IBM data cards.
Christopher Buckley
#18. The owner's wife gave me a container of chicken soup and a quart of rice pudding to take home. She was a broad, solid woman with thick arms and legs. She swiped vigorously at the stain on my coat with a wad of dampened paper towel, and I remembered Pegeen then: There's always someone nice.
Alice McDermott
#20. Not your fault, Hazel Grace. We're all just side effects, right?" "'Barnacles on the container ship of consciousness,'" I said, quoting AIA.
John Green
#21. I grab
a small container
of glitter.
Because this day,
this wonderful,
beautiful,
glorious day
just wouldn't be complete
without a little,
or a lot, of
g i t r
l t e
Lisa Schroeder
#22. You aren't going to die for me," I said fiercely, shaking him a little, using up half a container of magic to heal everything in him faster.
His smile was red. "Don't worry so, darling. I'm far too pretty to die.
Anne Zoelle
#23. Western philosophy, then, is not an extended debate about knowledge, ethics, and reality, but a succession of conceptual metaphors. Descartes's philosophy is based on KNOWING IS SEEING, Locke's on the MIND IS A CONTAINER, Kant's on MORALITY IS A STRICT FATHER, and so on.
Steven Pinker
#24. Children younger than 5 are twice as likely to die from ingesting household poisons than by gunfire - So the question for the Legislature should be: Is a parent criminally responsible for leaving an unlocked container of bleach below the sink?
Don Kates
#25. If you took every tear cried by everyone on earth on one single day and put them in a container, how big would that container need to be? Could you fill a water tower? Three water towers? It's one of those unknowable things. There has to be an answer, but we'll never know what it is.
Rebecca Stead
#26. My mother didn't really cook. But she did make key lime pie, until the day the top of the evaporated milk container accidentally ended up in the pie and she decided cooking took too much concentration.
William Of Norwich
#27. Moving container from Kigali to Mombasa used to take 22 days, now it takes 6 days.
Paul Kagame
#28. [B]aseball is diffracted by the town and ballpark where it is played ... Does baseball, like a liquid, take the shape of its container?
Thomas Boswell
#29. What do you think my brain is made for?
Is it just a container for the mind?
This great grey matter,
Sensei replied what is your woman,
Is she just a container for the child?
That soft pink matter
Frank Ocean
#30. A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels.
Andy Goldsworthy
#31. Everything in a modern container port is enormous, overwhelming, crushing.
Rose George
#32. Talent is like a container. You can work as hard as you want, but the size will never change. It'll only hold so much water and no more.
Haruki Murakami
#33. Hi honey, I'm home! Take your pants off! Wesley announced. He kissed my cheek as he passed me and put his lunch container in the sink.
J.M. Colail
#34. Meditation is to dive all the way within, beyond thought, to the source of thought and pure consciousness. It enlarges the container, every time you transcend. When you come out, you come out refreshed, filled with energy and enthusiasm for life.
David Lynch
#35. You can't make yourself be compassionate, you can only keep stepping back and becoming a larger container in which compassion wants to live. The practice should open us up, and crack open our hearts again and again.
Judith Hanson Lasater
#36. All thanks to an impish, golden-haired, blue-eyed angel and a Tupperware container of cupcakes.
Maya Banks
#37. Self-identity is about content not the container that carry
the identity,contextual value and not a solo island. It is about conception and not just a birth process.
Ikechukwu Joseph
#38. A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into.
Helen Dunmore
#39. Sending a container from Shanghai to Le Havre emits fewer greenhouse gases than the truck that takes the container on to Lyon.
Rose George
#40. Very few people know this, but I love organizational products and tools. One of my favorite places to shop are container stores where you can get bins, boxes and crates to organize your life.
Kimora Lee Simmons
#41. You can keep a bunch of crabs in a shallow container, and none of them will escape. Because as soon as one of 'em tries to climb out, the others pull him back in. -Hardy
Lisa Kleypas
#42. On my grandmother's chicken farm, they had cows, and they had this big metal container that the cows drank out of, and we used to swim in it. And we used to get into the chicken feed bins and dive through them.
Jerry Hall
#43. A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.
Angela Carter
#44. Cream is put in a cardboard container, and the container is put in a carton on a bed of dry ice, and chunks of dry ice are packed on both sides of it and on top.
Rex Stout
#45. My body is just the container full of bacon that I carry my brain around in. And maybe it is. Maybe it is just the container I carry my brain around in. But so is a car. And if the car is broken down and busted, my brain isn't going anywhere. Same goes for my container.
Shonda Rhimes
#46. [The ones made for music are the most beloved of all. Their bodies a container for the spirit within; the best of them is music, the rest only instrument of flesh and bone.]
Lauren Groff
#47. Ice will ruin the tea. Waters it down. You can always get ice, or carry your ice in an ice container. You don't want to put it in your tea, it'll water it down.
Si Robertson
#48. Information can't be put in any container that isn't leaky.
Spider Robinson
#49. Barnacles on the container ship of consciousness.
John Green
#51. By the time we met up again, she'd be able to hand her reaction to me as a tidy package: a single square of lasagna in a sealed Tupperware container as opposed to a squalid kitchen with tomato sauce splattered on the counters. And I wouldn't have to be there while she got it in order.
Curtis Sittenfeld
#52. The image pleases me enough : to slip from the body's tight container and into some luminous womb, gliding there without effort till the distant shapes glow brighter and more familiar, till all your beloveds hover before you, their lit arms held out in welcome.
Mary Karr
#53. Pour a liquid out of its container, and it changes shape, fills the space you give it. If you give children a lot of space, it may surprise you where they'll go and the shape they'll take.
Nancy Gibbs
#54. Nothing is worse than to finish a good shit, then reach over and find the toilet paper container empty. Even the most horrible human being on earth deserves to wipe his ass.
Charles Bukowski
#55. using Spring inside a plain old web container as an alternative stack is a perfectly viable alternative to Java EE 6.
Adam Bien
#56. We require only a grenade launcher, six pounds of industrial-strength licorice, two spells of Class VIII complexity, a shipping container, a side of bacon, an automobile, several homing snails, a ladder, and two people to act as bait.
Jasper Fforde
#58. The smell slaps me sideways. Like when Mom grabs a container she forgot about from the back of the fridge and she says, "Here Mickey, smell this and see if it's still good," and I open it and take a whiff before noticing the fuzz. Like that.
Mick Bogerman
#59. I see climate change as one of the driving forces in the 21st century. With modern technology and globalization, we are much more connected than ever before. The world's warehouses are now container ships.
David Titley
#60. The darknesses inside and out began to blend, and I began to move outside of my self, the container that held me.
Haruki Murakami
#61. To my knowledge, the Department of Homeland Security has focused on detection devices that are large, expensive, use a large amount of energy, and cannot easily be placed in or on a shipping container.
Jim Ryun
#62. Student is not a container you have to fill but a torch you have to light up.
Albert Einstein
#63. If you find it complicated to answer someone's question, do not answer it, for his container is already full and does not have room for the answer
Ibn Arabi
#64. The web will not be the container of our cosmopolitan past, like a book, because it is not a book and will never be a book, in spite of the endless gadgets and guises invented to force it into that role.
Alberto Manguel
#65. What would tomorrow bring? I wondered. Both hands on the wheel, I closed my eyes. I didn't feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened to be borrowing. What would become of me tomorrow I did not know.
Haruki Murakami
#66. We are in the position of the man who has only two ambitions in life. One is to invent the universal solvent which will dissolve any solid substance, and the second is to invent the universal container which will hold any liquid. Whatever this inventor does, he will be frustrated.
Norbert Wiener
#67. The Mars rover Curiosity, for example, is powered by the heat from a chunk of plutonium it carries in a container on the end of a stick.
Randall Munroe
#68. Life is too small a container for certain individuals. Some of them, such as Alobar, huff and puff and try to expand the container. Others, such as Kudra, seek to pry the lid off and hop out.
Tom Robbins
#69. Writing is like a noble gas, it expands to fit the container it is placed in. If you give me until Thursday, I'll procrastinate until it's due.
Guy Anthony De Marco
#70. I'm struck by how pitiful and pointless this little container called me is, what a lame, shabby being I am. I feel like everything I've ever done in life has been a total waste.
Haruki Murakami
#71. Oh, a Container Store," I gush upon seeing the organizational store.
"Does that get you all hot and bothered, Chloe? Did you want to stop?"
"Shut up," I say as we cross the street. "Maybe later.
Jana Aston
#72. The biggest container ship can carry fifteen thousand boxes. It can hold 746 million bananas, one for every European, on one ship.
Rose George
#73. You only tasted the water. I tasted the gift. The water was simply the container for an act of loving-kindness and nothing could be sweeter.
Michael Josephson
#74. A brand is essentially a container for a customer's complete experience with the product or company.
Sergio Zyman
#75. My ride's here."
"Temporary ride."
Blue exploded, hurling her yogurt container into the recycling bin. "What is it, Orla? Jealousy? Or what? You just don't want me to like them as well as I do because ... you're trying to save me from being hurt? You know what else is temporary? Life.
Maggie Stiefvater
#76. I didn't feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened to be borrowing.
Haruki Murakami
#77. Always remember that every word you say contains power and you must ask yourself a few questions about your words; Are these words true and kind? Are these words relevant and necessary? Are these words effective for intentions? Reflect on what your words carry, they are a life-changing container!
Archibald Marwizi
#78. I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted - stay up all night or eat ice-cream straight out of the container.
Bill Bryson
#79. Mythology, like water, has the unique ability to take the form of its container.
Utkarsh Patel
#80. When we speak of God or achieving union with God, we are often merely trying to put that great thing into a small container. One cannot drive a camel through the eye of a needle.
Chogyam Trungpa
#81. The Internet is a container, not a substance.
Alison Owen
#82. Having the equivalent of 150,000 Hiroshima-sized bombs at the ready does nothing to protect us from terrorists planning to sneak in a bomb through a cargo container.
Ben Cohen
#83. I need a pill." "What about the pump?" "No, a pill." I took the container, a new one, nearly full, from its place on the window, shook one pill
Orna Ross
#84. There is something about a home aquarium which sets my teeth on edge the moment I see it. Why anyone would want to live with a small container of stagnant water populated by a half-dead guppy is beyond me.
S.J Perelman
#85. I started with a large rigid sample container (or "plastic box" to people who don't work at NASA).
Andy Weir
#86. In my experience, psychotherapy at its best is like dual meditation - it's like a container in which you can be compassionate and mindful toward yourself.
Jack Kornfield
#87. The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create.
Jeff Bezos
#88. Women are more accommodating. If a woman drinks the last glass of apple juice in the refrigerator, she'll make more apple juice. If a man drinks the last glass of apple juice, he'll just put back the empty container.
Rita Rudner
#89. Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container.
Wallace Stevens
#90. I used a geological sample container (also known as "a box").
Andy Weir
#91. I have no limits! I cannot be contained because I'm the container.
Jim Carrey
#92. Our port facilities should have the freedom to levy a market-based container fee which will provide new revenue and make our system more equitable to the American taxpayer and American manufacturers.
Dana Rohrabacher
#94. There is no safe container to store your values while you're at work; not living your deepest values will leak on you
Stan Slap
#95. I always tell people, anger is like liquid. It's fluid, it's like water. You put it in a container and it takes the shape of that container. So many people you see in prison, unleashing war on their people, they are angry, and they take their anger and put it into a violent container.
Leymah Gbowee
#96. Was sorrow, in the end, a private thing? A closed container? Something that, like a bucket of water, could be borne only on a single pair of shoulders?
Alan Bradley
#97. What do you think is the world's most recognisable container of information? It's the human face. We are constantly reading each other and responding.
Jan Chipchase
#98. Don't get sucked in, Dave was always saying to me. Kind of like Helder's container idea: Notice everything, but don't buy into it. Hold it.
Heather Sellers
#99. The last time I checked, I wasn't the one who tripped over a glass container of sugar that I had myself dropped ... after, of course, having received several bruises from an attempt to retrieve a flip-flop that had somehow ended up in the sink.
Gina Marinello-Sweeney
#100. To me there's no creativity without boundaries. If you're gonna write a sonnet, it's 14 lines, so it's solving the problem within the container.
Lorne Michaels
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