Words That Contain Quotes

#1. You ought to choose fewer words that contain S for the time being. You are spitting all over me.

Julie Anne Long

#2. You are a word doctor. Repair the breaches of the soul. Rebuild the broken walls of the personality. Comfort those who have lost their hearts. Speak words that contain life, power, and health. Use your tongue as a weapon to destroy the mental strongholds in people's lives.

Ivan Tait

#3. I hold you in my mouth, in the words that contain you, in the unsaid and the haunts, in all the forms your name.

Gwen Calvo

#4. Words contain the "souls" or minds of people in the past; as such, they tell the story of consciousness.

Philip Zaleski

#5. I'd always admired writers. I'd always loved words on a page. Somehow, words seemed to bypass image and get straight to the heart of things. Somehow, words seemed big enough to contain pain, and sentences could pull broken bits together.

Rosie O'Donnell

#6. Paradoxes haunt the lives of born wayfinders, driving them to seek resolutions to the apparent contradictions in their lives, enticing them into the world that is beyond words and can therefore contain paradox without contradiction.

Martha N. Beck

#7. Perhaps it's right that words contain nothing, or almost nothing. That their content is, at the very least, variable.

Valeria Luiselli

#8. Life, then will, always contain an inevitable surplus, a margin of the gratuitous, a realm in which there is always more than we need: more things, more impressions, more memories, more habits, more words, more happiness, more unhappiness.

James Wood

#9. The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest.

Aristotle.

#10. If I ever wrote a book on preaching, it would contain three words: Preach the Word. Get rid of all the other stuff that gets you sidetracked; preach the Word.

Charles R. Swindoll

#11. We never know through what Divine mysteries of compensation the great Father of the universe may be carrying out His sublime plan; but those three words, "God is love " ought to contain, to every doubting soul, the solution of all things.

Dinah Maria Murlock Craik

#12. The New York Times and the Washington Post each contain roughly 100,000 words a day - about as many as this book. A typical NBC Nightly News broadcast contains 3,600 words.

Leonard Downie Jr.

#13. The rain dripping off the roof is bigger than literature, bigger than art. No word or image can contain it.

Marty Rubin

#14. They used a hard vocabulary to contain the terrible softness.

Tim O'Brien

#15. There is no reason to contain your positive thoughts, words and emotions and many reasons to control your negative ones. Are you making the right choices?

Tom Cunningham

#16. This is the difficulty with learning a language: not always knowing if words contain more than they say.

Joan Barfoot

#17. Many Spirit-filled authors have exhausted the thesaurus in order to describe God with the glory He deserves. His perfect holiness, by definition, assures us that our words can't contain Him. Isn't it a comfort to worship a God we cannot exaggerate?

Francis Chan

#18. Words are like food. They contain information that either releases and liberates and creates possibilities and development or locks you into unhealthy patterns you can't change.

Thorbjorg Hafsteinsdottir

#19. These are fountains of salvation that they who thirst may be satisfied with the living words they contain. In these alone is proclaimed the doctrine of godliness. Let no man add to these, neither let him take out from these.

Athanasius

#20. Then she had been a fiancee, a young wife, and a mother, and she had discovered that these words were far too small ever to contain the experience.

Kim Edwards

#21. The so-called language of Barbara Kruger is vernacular language. Obviously, I pick through bits and pieces of it and figure out to some degree how to objectify my experience of the world, using pictures and words that construct and contain me.

Barbara Kruger

#22. 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

#23. I always run away from the simplest phrases because they never contain all of the truth. To me the truth is something which cannot be told in a few words, and those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

Anais Nin

#24. I believe that words uttered in passion contain a greater living truth than do those words which express thoughts rationally conceived. It is blood that moves the body. Words are not meant to stir the air only: they are capable of moving greater things.

Soseki Natsume

#25. 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

#26. No words could possibly contain all he has to say. He manages to utter, at last, I'm okay, and this is enough for now.

Lauren Groff

#27. Love is the only emotion so unexplainable and unique, that not even the greatest of writers could hope to contain it within their meagre words.

Ross Turner

#28. 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

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. It is interesting to note that the words silent and listen contain all of the same letters, just rearranged.

Suzanne Marsh

#32. There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.

Sophie Swetchine

#33. I like the sounds of words. Words are very enjoyable. I like words because they are ... seductive. And I like words because they can contain ... fantasies.

James Lusarde

#34. The words "I love you" could contain all the bloodthirsty despair of the abattoir, all the hopelessness of the most isolated, frozen gulag, all the lurid sadness of death row.

Pat Conroy

#35. The secret is not to think, we think in words. And what lies beyond the reality we see is a truth that words can't contain, the secret is to feel.

Dean Koontz

#36. Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, they contain pure truths, before we cluttered our languages with so many useless words.

Cassandra Clare

#37. I love words because you can only live one life, but in a novel, you can live a thousand: you contain multitudes.

Richard Flanagan

#38. Sometimes words are not big enough to contain all the feelings you are trying to pour into them.

Jodi Picoult

#39. Before you speak, my friend, remember, a spiritual man contain his anger. Angry words are like slap in de face.

Chris Abani

#40. Whenever you see, in an official lectionary, the command to omit two or three verses, you can normally be sure that they contain words of judgment. Unless, of course, they are about sex. But

N. T. Wright

#41. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.

William Strunk Jr.

#42. Since there is no real silence,
Silence will contain all the sounds,
All the words, all the languages,
All knowledge, all memory.

Dejan Stojanovic

#43. If we hear a joke so awful that we laugh at how bad it is, we are taking part in the irony; in other words, the joke did not contain irony; irony was provided by our response. Why is it ironic? Because the intent of the joke was to get laughter, and it did - but for the wrong reason.

Dan O'Shannon

#44. The Highest Thought is always that thought which contains joy. The Clearest Words are those words which contain truth. The Grandest Feeling is that feeling which you call love.

Neale Donald Walsch

#45. You own your own words, unless they contain information. In which case they belong to no one.

Stewart Brand

#46. Marriage vows contain the words "to have and to hold," not "to have and to scold.

Tracy Kunzler

#47. Charles Wesley's hymns are forceful because they contain so many words which are physical: for him the life of a Christian was to be experienced in the body as well as in the soul.

J.R. Watson

#48. When we see Reality, we are completely beyond the world of words and concepts. We experience what words cannot express, what ideas cannot contain, what speech cannot communicate.

Steve Hagen

#49. Books contain a special magic. Letters and words - side by side - able to speak and sing to us.
This allows the reader to enter the story.

Jason Ellis

#50. 'Charlotte's Web,' which I read sitting on my mother's lap, was the most emotional experience: that was when I made the leap from seeing how to untangle words to realizing how books both contain and convey strong feelings.

Meg Wolitzer