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A farm is an irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didn't know enough to stay in the city. — S.J Perelman

Once again, we shall have to operate not only outside the box, but outside the room containing the box. — Douglas Preston

The human mind is not capable of comprehending or containing this world's agony.' Sidney Grice said, 'or we should all go mad. — M.R.C. Kasasian

CHAPTER IX CONTAINING FURTHER PARTICULARS CONCERNING THE PLEASANT OLD GENTLEMAN, AND HIS HOPEFUL PUPILS — Charles Dickens

You can now buy a pack of beer containing 99 cans. A 99-can pack of beer. Who says America has lost its competitive edge? — David Letterman

I don't answer questions containing two or more unsupported assumptions. — Rex Stout

But a cluster containing night's darkness and blood-dripping wounds, And psalms of the dead. — Walt Whitman

a black granite cube containing only the character mu — Patti Smith

He's not a rough diamond - a pearl-containing oyster of a rustic; he's a fierce, pitiless, wolfish man. — Emily Bronte

Adso of Melk: The Koran, the Bible of the infidels, a perverse book ...
William of Baskerville: A book containing a wisdom different from ours. — Umberto Eco

there is nothing restrictive or self-limiting about the Indian identity it reasserts: it is large, eclectic and flexible, containing multitudes. I — Shashi Tharoor

Six feet directly beneath his seat is a suitcase in the baggage hold containing enough C-4 to turn an airplane into a meteor. — David Mitchell

The world is a holographic universe, with every piece containing the whole. — Marianne Williamson

I started my scientific work by putting forward a hypothesis on the arrangement of atoms in nitrogen-containing molecules. — Alfred Werner

Getting married is like putting one's hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel. — Thomas More

Was ever book containing such vile matter so fairly bound? O that deceit should dwell in such a gorgeous place! — William Shakespeare

Aam AAM, noun [Chaldee for a cubit, a measure containing 5 or 6 palms.] A measure of liquids among the Dutch equal to 288 English pints. — Noah Webster

The rector wondered if the joy that people seemed so expert at containing somehow transferred to their dogs, who had nothing at all to hide. — Jan Karon

Chess is a game sufficiently rich in meaning that it is easily capable of containing elements of both tragedy and comedy. — Luke McShane

I put artistic values above all others. Because writing, for me, is an expanded world, a limitless world, containing all. — Anais Nin

The dark outside world of Paris under German occupation exerted a strong containing pressure. — Gerard Debreu

A bit beyond perceptions reach I sometimes believe I see that life is two locked boxes each containing the other's key — Piet Hein

That is his head, containing a brain of a different brand than that of the synthetic jellies preserved in the skulls around him — Vladimir Nabokov

NEED seemed like a really powerful word - - a powerful word containing a lot of powerlessness. — Katie Alender

She ate ramen noodles from the vending machine, their texture just a few molecular recombinations from the Styrofoam cup containing them. — Amy Waldman

As a race car driver, driving is the easy part. The hard part is containing the emotions on the race track. — Kevin Harvick

There is no such thing as a rational world and a separate irrational world, but only one world containing both. — Robert Musil

For $425 you can buy pills containing real gold that make your poop sparkle. How have I lived this long without sparkly poop? — Michael Makai

I have a trunk containing continents. — Beryl Markham

Only idiots get bored when we've all got handheld devices containing infinite knowledge at our fingertips. — Ziad K. Abdelnour

How idle is this prating about natural rights as though still containing all that had been forfeited. — Jefferson Davis

CHAPTER XXXV CONTAINING THE UNSATISFACTORY RESULT OF OLIVER'S ADVENTURE; AND A CONVERSATION OF SOME IMPORTANCE BETWEEN HARRY MAYLIE AND ROSE — Charles Dickens

Podesta clicked on the folder containing the digital photos he'd taken of Candace Martin in a car with — James Patterson

Shadowed beneath his brow bone were cold dark eyes containing secrets and sadness, bitterness and grief. — T.L. Parker

The spiritual quality of earth: eternally pregnant and containing in its fertility the unwritten cipher of cosmic lore. — Lady Frieda Harris

I'm having a difficult time containing my disordered self. — Bret Easton Ellis

Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of Himself. — Mother Teresa

It's better to have a million small religions with each one containing a great truth. Than one great religion containing a million small truths. — Carla VanKoughnett

To some extent a life of celibacy is a picture of how all of us are to live, containing our passions for God's purposes. — Eric Metaxas

In right-angled triangles the square on the side subtending the right angle is equal to the squares on the sides containing the right angle. — Euclid

You can't teach biology with a bottle containing dead animals and organisms. — Roman Vishniac

Demagogue
a vessel containing beer and other liquids. — Mark Twain

Global consciousness is that thing responsible for deciding that pots containing decaffeinated coffee should be orange. — Danny Hillis

I believe the life of every person is worthy of scrutiny, containing its own secrets and dramas. — Krzysztof Kieslowski

Scholars have long dreamed of a universal library containing everything that has ever been written. — Peter Singer

She kept leaning farther and farther forward, and I became concerned her bodice wasn't up to the task of containing her bounty. — Jordan L. Hawk

It's better to work with a nice category containing some nasty objects, than a nasty category containing only nice objects. — John C. Baez

CHAPTER XXXVIII CONTAINING AN ACCOUNT OF WHAT PASSED BETWEEN MR. AND MRS. BUMBLE, AND MONKS, AT THEIR NOCTURNAL INTERVIEW — Charles Dickens

There shall be a National Anthem containing incomprehensible words and a high note that normal humans cannot hit without risk of hernia. — Dave Barry

A man never feels more important than when he receives a telegram containing more than ten words. — George Ade

She hadn't expected to have such an immediate opportunity to practice containing her temper. — Kristin Cashore

Diamonds were everything I hoped to be; beautiful, yet containing unimaginable strength. — Kerri Maniscalco

Well, either you have a compartment under this floor, containing a living person, or the property is infested by giant moles — Kelley Armstrong

All vinyl polymers may be regarded as built from monomeric units containing a tertiary carbon atom. — Giulio Natta

It is not you as the ego who moves through life, but that life flows before you, and you are the immutable awareness containing it all. — Enza Vita

Harboring anger, hatred and resentment within you, is containing the venom within you. You are the only one affected ... — Jacqueline Ripstein

Book I. Containing a General View of the Subjects Treated in Holy Scripture. — Augustine Of Hippo

History, it is easily perceived, is a picture-gallery containing a host of copies and very few originals. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Firefighter is one of the few jobs kind enough to warn me away by containing two words I'm not interested in, unlike the deceptive bookkeeper. — Joel Stein

Our enemy in Syria is Daesh: it's not about containing but destroying this organisation. — Francois Hollande

Any proposition containing the word "is" creates a linguistic structural confusion which will eventually give birth to serious fallacies. — Alfred Korzybski

She removed my empty plate, replaced it with a bowl containing a steaming slice of spotted dick with thick yellow custard drizzled all over it. — Neil Gaiman

I have no accurate knowledge of my age, never having seen any authentic record containing it. — Frederick Douglass

It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas. — Edward Bond