When a big change occurs in your life it forces you to change direction. Sometimes the new path may not be easy, but you can be absolutely certain that there is magnificence for you on the new path. You can be absolutely certain that the new path contains things that you could not have experienced otherwise. When we look back at a negative event that occurred in the past, we often see how in fact it transformed our life. We see how that event directed us toward a life that we would not change for anything.
It is right for you, young men, to enrich yourselves with the spoils of all pure literature; but he who would make a favorite of a bad book, simply because it contains a few beautiful passages, might as well caress the hand of an assassin because of the jewelry which sparkles on his fingers.
A society like the Church, which claims to be Divine is perhaps more dangerous on account of the ersatz good which it contains then on account of the evil which sullies it. Something of the social labelled divine: an intoxicating mixture which carries with it every sort of license. Devil disguised.
Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted.
They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains the hottest blood of all, and the wildest, the most urgent.
This sausage roll only contains 2% of your daily intake of calories. . . if you lick it.
An effective apology contains within it the answer to the question, "How am I to be held accountable?"
John Berger once defined music by saying that it began as a howl, became a prayer, then a lament, and still contains the elements of all three. I think that's pretty wise. That's about the only way I know how to explain what music is.
A great library contains the diary of the human race.
Each of us, helplessly and forever, contains the other-male in female, female in male, white in black, and black in white. We are part of each other. Many of my countrymen appear to find this fact exceedingly inconvenient and even unfair, and so, very often, do I. But none of us can do anything about it.
I really don't know whether any place contains more pianists than Paris, or whether you can find more asses and virtuosos anywhere.
Fiction is most powerful when it contains most truth; and there is little truth we get so true as that which we find in fiction.
I like money. That is, it is my preferred means of completing pecuniary transactions. I'm not particularly keen on handing over wads of currency of the realm, but at least one knows where one is, whereas the chequebook is a snare and a delusion, containing misleading numbers of blank cheques when none of the money that the bank contains is rightfully one's own. . . . I think banks owe their customers a lot by way of compensation for the aggravation they cause them.
A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.
Who contains himself goes seldom wrong.