Containers Quotes

• When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.

  Idries Shah

  Differences, Realizing

  Idries Shah (2016). “The Book of the Book”, p.15, ISF Publishing

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• I cannot be contained because I am the container.

  Jim Carrey

  "Jim Carrey Delivers Emotional Commencement Speech, Receives Honorary Doctorate Degree". Jim Carrey's commencement speech at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, www.eonline.com. May 26, 2014.

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• A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.

  Angela Carter

  Book, Writing, What Matters

  Angela Carter (1997). “Shaking a Leg: Journalism and Writings”, Vintage

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• Human nature is like water. It takes the shape of its container.

  Wallace Stevens

  People, Water, Shapes

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• Your words are containers for power, and by the words you speak you frame your world!

  Paula White

  Words You Speak, World, Speak

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• A brand is essentially a container for a customer’s complete experience with the product or company.

  Sergio Zyman

  Company, Brands, Customers

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• Environments are not just containers, but are processes that change the content totally.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Media, Environment, Process

  American scholar, Volume 35, (p. 200), 1965.

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• When the masses begin to vibrate with an energy of love, the world will no longer be a container for war, violence, and lies.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  War, Lying, Energy

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• 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

  Eye, Trying, Camels

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• Student is not a container you have to fill but a torch you have to light up.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Light

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• 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

  Cities, Unexpected Gifts, Tree

  Truman Capote (2012). “Music For Chameleons”, p.205, Vintage

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• Abortion restrictions 'reduce pregnant women to no more than fetal containers.'

  Dawn Johnsen

  Abortion, Restriction, Pregnant Women

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• Information can't be put in any container that isn't leaky.

  Spider Robinson

  Teaching, Assessment, Information

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• Barnacles on the container ship of consciousness.

  John Green

  Ships, Consciousness, Barnacles

  John Green (2013). “The John Green Collection”, p.689, Penguin

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• 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

  Writing, Creativity, Lines

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• 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

  Lonely, Eye, Hands

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• I picked up Pandora's jar. The spirit of Hope fluttered inside, trying to warm the cold container. "Hestia," I said, "I give this to you as an offering." The goddess tilted her head. "I am the least of the gods. Why would you trust me with this?" "You're the last Olympian," I said. "And the most important." "And why is that, Percy Jackson?" "Because Hope survives best at the hearth," I said. "Guard it for me, and I won't be tempted to give up again."

  Rick Riordan

  Giving Up, Offering, Important

  "Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian". Book by Rick Riordan, May 5, 2009.

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• A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into.

  Helen Dunmore

  Writing, Trying, Stories

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• Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.

  Yoshio Taniguchi

  Hope, Badass, Bad Ass

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• For the Persian poet Rumi, each human life is analogous to a bowl floating on the surface of an infinite ocean.  As it moves along, it is slowly filling with the water around it.  That's a metaphor for the acquisition of knowledge.  When the water in the bowl finally reaches the same level as the water outside, there is no longer any need for the container, and it drops away as the inner water merges with the outside water.  We call this the moment of death.  That analogy returns to me over and over as a metaphor for ourselves.

  Bill Viola

  Ocean, Moving, Water

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• I made lasagna for dinner," Tamsyn called out. "That work for you?" He continued to look at her, as if he'd drink her up with his eyes. "Anything is fine." "Maybe I shouldn't waste my lasagna on you, then." Tamsyn grabbed a container from the cooling unit. "How about some cardboard instead?" Brenna found herself amused in spite of the blood that continued to scent the air and the taut expectation that stretched between her and Judd. Lips twitching, she waited for his response. "Cardboard has no nutritional value." Utterly toneless. "Lasagna would be a better choice.

  Nalini Singh

  Eye, Air, Blood

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Nalini Singh: The Psy-Changeling Series”, p.852, Penguin

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• Im mad keen on recycling because Im worried about the next generation and where all this waste were producing is going. It has to stop. I wash out my plastic containers and recycle envelopes, everything I possibly can.

  Cherie Lunghi

  Mad, Generations, Envelopes

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• Just as a mirror, which reflects all things, is set in its own container, so too the rational soul is placed in the fragile container of the body. In this way, the body is governed in its earthly life by the soul, and the soul contemplates heavenly things through faith.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Mirrors, Soul, Body

  Hildegard of Bingen (1998). “The Letters of Hildegard of Bingen : Volume II”, p.22, Oxford University Press, USA

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• 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

  Artist, Simple, Ideas

  Andy Goldsworthy (2001). “Midsummer Snowballs”, Harry N. Abrams

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• 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

  Body, Pondering, Defined

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