Top 62 Quotes About Containers
#1. Your words are containers for power, and by the words you speak you frame your world!
Paula White
#2. Leaders come in two flavors, expanders and containers. The best leadership teams have a mix of both.
Barbara Corcoran
#3. Some cities, like wrapped boxes under Christmas trees, conceal unexpected gifts, secret delights. Some cities will always remain wrapped boxes, containers of riddles never to be solved, nor even to be seen by vacationing visitors, or, for that matter, the most inquisitive, persistent travelers.
Truman Capote
#4. ladies were in the kitchen, industriously packing away into Tupperware containers what looked like it had until recently been a large spread of food.
Neil Gaiman
#5. We are like clay containers filled with a beautiful treasure. So often it has been the love of Jesus expressed through the life of someone I know that has made a difference in my life.
Roy Lessin
#6. Before containers, transport costs ate up 25 percent of the value of whatever was being shipped.
Rose George
#7. Today, barely 5 percent of all containers coming into the United States through our ports are scanned.
Alcee Hastings
#8. Sign on a High School bulletin board in Dallas: Free every Monday through Friday-knowledge. Bring your own containers.
Charles E. McKenzie
#9. Although Customs and Border Protection analyzes cargo and other information to target specific shipments for closer inspection, it still physically inspects only a small fraction of the containers under its purview.
Mike Fitzpatrick
#10. Most of the matchbooks and little boxes were made of paper, and even if the matches dried out, the containers were split, torn, and shriveled. The damp cardboard dripped with water, discolored and broken.
Penelope Douglas
#11. I've asked to go back into theaters and smaller venues because to me, in smaller venues I can really demonstrate my commitment to quality. Theaters are great containers for music.
Jason Mraz
#12. You are water
I'm water
we're all water in different containers
that's why it's so easy to meet
someday we'll evaporate together.
Yoko Ono
#14. The sensors have many potential practical uses - in Government buildings, train carriages, cargo containers, on a soldier's lapel - and are a thousand times cheaper than current sensors that are used for the same purpose.
Anne Campbell
#15. Tupperware? I don't know. That's what my mom did."
"Well, my mom had to bring bigger containers for food when the family ate outdoors. But she used
this when she and Dad ...
Maisey Yates
#16. Today we are going to talk about words. You know, words are containers for power. They carry creative or destructive power. They carry positive or negative power. We can choose our words and we should do it carefully.
Joyce Meyer
#17. Souls are unique divine signatures of pure love that existed before physical form, and will continue to exist after our physical containers are shed.
Leta B.
#18. I'm mad keen on recycling because I'm worried about the next generation and where all this waste we're producing is going. It has to stop. I wash out my plastic containers and recycle envelopes, everything I possibly can.
Cherie Lunghi
#19. It is easy to study the rules of overloading and of templates without noticing that together they are one of the keys to elegant and efficient type-safe containers.
Bjarne Stroustrup
#20. It was black-black, so thick it drank two containers of relaxer at the salon, so full it took hours under the hooded dryer, and, when finally released from pink plastic rollers, sprang free and full, flowing down her back like a celebration. Her father called it a crown of glory.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
#21. The woman is constantly aware for nine months that her body is not wholly her own: the state has conscripted her body for its own ends. Thus, abortion restrictions 'reduce pregnant women to no more than fetal containers.'
Dawn Johnsen
#22. The bombers opened their bomb bay doors, exerted a miraculous magnetism which shrunk the fires, gathered them into cylindrical steel containers, and lifted the containers into the bellies of the planes. The containers were stored neatly in racks.
Kurt Vonnegut
#23. Environments are not just containers, but are processes that change the content totally.
Marshall McLuhan
#24. The thing I can't figure out is why I have an undeniable compulsion to clean public spaces, airplane bathrooms, restaurant flatware, hotel gyms and Chapstick containers ... yet I have no desire to make my own bed. Ever. Seriously, who made me, and where am I from?
Rachel Nichols
#25. I remember eating in school in the years after the Second World War. Most of my friends had miserable portions of Spam with an inedible, glutinous pudding served in containers we called 'coffins.' As a vegetarian, I had a lump of loathsome cheese and some bread.
Robert Winston
#26. Words are the most powerful thing in the universe ... Words are containers. They contain faith, or fear, and they produce after their kind.
Charles Capps
#27. I informed him that when you eat one of those cuppy containers of flan, you are in heaven and smile for the rest of the day.
Kresley Cole
#28. To gain control over a large number of people you do not have to place them in containers with suction caps attached to their bodies like in the film "The Matrix". It is enough to create an all-encompassing information network because then people will automatically take their places in its cells.
Vadim Zeland
#29. We need to stop fighting the old systems and start creating new containers for people who are going through these spiritual openings,' Tavis reflected. 'Together, we need to build something that's never existed before - a global network of light.
Jonathan Talat Phillips
#30. For me, books were not the containers of words so much as the words themselves, and the value of a given book was determined by its spiritual quality rather than its physical condition.
Paul Auster
#31. And this man, who during three long decades had not once remembered that the world contains lilac bushes - and pansies, sandy garden paths, little carts with containers of fizzy water - this man gave a deep sigh, convinced now that life had gone on in his absence, that life had continued. (pg8)
Vasily Grossman
#32. The flood of love will fill all the containers to the fullest, but some containers will be larger than others.
Peter Kreeft
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. Although more than 500 million maritime containers move around the world each year, accounting for 90 per cent of international trade, only 2 per cent are inspected. Strengthening customs and immigration systems is essential.
Ban Ki-moon
#36. But at the time I didn't know that it would take more to escape black-and-white thinking than just no longer attending your parents' church. The church had provided me a sorting system, which was now ingrained. It had containers into which every person and idea and event was to be placed.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
#37. Baptizing all containers with an orifice that appeals to their cock is the trivial pursuit of little boys" (23)
(rbt: every "boy" i know has done this at least 15 times
why?)
Tony Duvert
#38. The weapons that helped turn what had been initially peaceful demonstrations in Syria into ruthless civil war were delivered to Turkey with the USA's kind permission, either by ship in gigantic cargo containers or by air. From
Jurgen Todenhofer
#39. We are containers, it's only the insides of our bodies that are important.
Margaret Atwood
#40. Seven million ship cargo containers come into the United States every year. Five to seven percent only are inspected - five to seven percent.
Irwin Redlener
#42. You can see these boxes which are covered with metal foils for thermal reasons, and they are also, most of the time, thermally controlled inside to keep reasonable temperature inside each of these containers.
Claude Nicollier
#43. Constance Spry was one of the first people to put flowers in urns and ceramic swans and other unusual containers, but her arrangements tended to be a little less full.
Catherine Martin
#44. Words are so awesome. Words are containers for power. They carry either creative power or destructive power.
Joyce Meyer
#45. Words are only containers like a canvas holds a painting.
What's in the essence of the words you convey through the sound of your voice?
Andrew Neff
#46. If we proclaim a gospel that doesn't emphasize transformation, we end up with a deficit of clean containers, which consequently creates a shortage of God's manifest presence on the earth.
John Bevere
#47. Are women human yet? If women were human, would we be a cash crop shipped from Thailand in containers into New York's brothels...? Would our genitals be sliced out to "cleanse" us...? When will women be human? When? ~ Half The Sky
Catherine Mackinnon
#48. The bhel-puri stall was a sculptured landscape with its golden pyramid of sev, the little snow mountains of mumra, hillocks of puris, and, in among their valleys, in aluminium containers, pools of green and brown and red chutneys.
Rohinton Mistry
#49. Number of empty Ben & Jerry's containers: 3
two mint chocolate cookie, one plain vanilla. (Who buys plain vanilla ice cream from Ben & Jerry's, anyway? Is there a greater waste?)
Ally Carter
#50. For me, writing is a way of thinking. I write in a journal a lot. I'm a very impatient person, so writing and meditation allow me to slow down and watch my mind; they are containers that keep me in place, hold me still.
Ruth Ozeki
#51. The Fairy Godmother surveyed the Princess's bedroom. It was littered with the remains of chocolate bars, potato chips, and ice cream containers. She swept cheesy crumbs off the bed and sat softly beside the grieving girl. The Princess's face was puffy and streaked with mascara.
Kym Petrie
#52. For fear of dropping the troops in the sea, the pilots tended to drop them too far inland - some of them actually in the British lines. The weapon containers often fell wide of the troops, which was another handicap that contributed to our excessive casualties.
Kurt Student
#53. Huge containers of red and pink geraniums were placed on each step and window boxes full of pink and lavender flowers lined the porch railings.
J.A. Whiting
#54. Gardening is like landscape painting to me. The garden is the canvas. Plants, containers and other garden features are the colors. I paint on the garden of canvas hoping to create a master piece with my colors.
Ama H. Vanniarachchy
#55. I can change myself, but it's an effort. And it doesn't last. It's easier to do as water does: allow myself to be contained, and take on the shape of my containers.
Octavia E. Butler
#56. Last year, customs officials screened only five percent of the 11 million cargo containers entering the United States. That rate is both unacceptable and dangerous to our national and economic interests.
Allyson Schwartz
#57. There are three reasons for breast-feeding: the milk is always at the right temperature; it comes in attractive containers; and the cat can't get it.
Irena Chalmers
#58. Information can't be put in any container that isn't leaky.
Spider Robinson
#59. I have no limits! I cannot be contained because I'm the container.
Jim Carrey
#60. I cannot be contained ... bec ause I am the container
Jim Carrey
#61. I ponder if we are more defined by the container we are in than what we are inside. Would we recognize ourselves if we could expand beyond our bodies?
Paige Bradley
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