Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Wycliffe

Christ's fishermen should not meddle with men's law, for men' s law contains sharp stones and trees by which the net of God is broken, and the fish wend out of the world.

Jim Jones

This proposed rule contains some of the strongest protections for human subjects ever proposed by the federal government.

Like gods, we have created a new universe called cyberspace that contains great good and ominous evil. We do not know yet if this new dimension will produce more monsters than marvels, but it is too late to go back.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

A wise man's question contains half the answer.

Ben Carson

Every time I am looking into the depths of somebody's brain, I'm thinking, 'This is what makes a person who they are. That structure contains memories. Everything that they've ever experienced is right in there.'

Kate Christensen

A relative of poison ivy and poison sumac, the cashew contains the same rash-inducing chemicals, known as urushiols, as its kin.

Every cell in your body contains the same genetic information.

Wherever chocolate is made, chocolate is chocolate. And any month that contains the letter a, e, i, o, or u is the proper time to share it with others.

Louis E. Boone

Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.

Vikram Seth

As for what I listen to after writing, it could be anything - but I've noticed that if the current book contains music from one tradition, it is music from another tradition that most relaxes me.

Michael Sheen

I always say if I'm not good at something it's just because I've not had time to focus on it... it's just uncrafted, like a slab of rock that contains the statue of David within it.

John Jenkins

Mayan cosmology contains within it the explanation for our current global transformation, and possibilities for how we can survive it.

The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision.

The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.

Apollonius of Tyana

Multicolored stones and paintings, walkways, and theaters are useless in a city unless it also contains wisdom and law. Such things are the subject of wisdom and law, not equivalent to them.

Rudolf Scharping

If a planned force contains around 3,000 men, then our contribution would be two or three companies,

Iain McGilchrist

The human genome contains so much data that, it has been calculated, it would fill 43 volumes of Webster's International Dictionary.

Today at the supermarket, one dozen large eggs can cost as little as $1. One egg contains the protein equivalent of 1 ounce of meat -- that's a great value for the money.

It contains most of the revenues and most of the expenses for government actions.

Let's start at the very end: The postscript of Stephen King's 'On Writing' contains some of the most harrowing pages he has ever written. It's here that King describes the traffic accident that nearly killed him in June 1999.

Eric Schmidt

YouTube's traffic continues to grow very quickly. Video is something that we think is going to be embedded everywhere. And it makes sense, from Google's perspective, to be the operator of the largest site that contains all that video.

Bernie Sanders

If you want to know if your food contains gluten, aspartame, high fructose corn syrup, trans-fats or MSG, you simply read the ingredients listed on the label.

Bernie Sanders

In 49 countries around the world, including all of Europe, people have the opportunity of knowing whether or not they are eating food which contains genetically engineered ingredients. In the United States, we don't.

Jose Saramago

I think the novel is not so much a literary genre, but a literary space, like a sea that is filled by many rivers. The novel receives streams of science, philosophy, poetry and contains all of these; it's not simply telling a story.

Amy Tan

My writing often contains souvenirs of the day - a song I heard, a bird I saw - which I then put into the novel.

Otherwise, the facility and all that it contains will be destroyed.

Our contract contains a no-strike provision. If the contract is gone, the no-strike provision is gone.

Mythology contains a rich history of legendary weapons, most famously 'Excalibur,' weapons that could only be used by the pure of heart.

Janet Frame

My memory of myself contains now myself looking outward and myself looking within from without, developing the view that others might have of me.

Peter Thiel

Spiraling demand for resources of which our world contains a finite supply is the great long-term threat posed by globalisation. That is why we need new technology to relieve it.

Using the term multi grain or seven grain doesn't necessarily mean that a product contains whole grains.

Ben Bernanke

Economics has many substantive areas of knowledge where there is agreement, but also contains areas of controversy. That's inescapable.

Rising unemployment, ironically, contains good news. It signals people who had given up and dropped out of the work force are back looking for jobs. Clearly, they have hope there are jobs to be found.