Uncontained Container Quotes & Sayings

To be able to do art, it was a luxury to me. — Anchee Min

But it's believed the soul can stay on earth for three to forty days after death. It eventually recieves temporary judgment that sends it on from this world to heaven or hell-although no one will truly experience either until the actual Judgment Day, when the soul and body are reunited to live out eternity as one. — Richelle Mead

A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness. — Edith Wharton

It must now atone in blood for its complicity in wickedness. — Abraham Lincoln

Hark ye yet again,--the little lower layer. All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event--in the living act, the undoubted deed - there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask. If man will strike, strike through the mask! How can the prisoner reach outside except by thrusting through the wall? To me, the white whale is that wall, shoved near to me. Sometimes I think there's naught beyond. But 'tis enough. — Herman Melville

Love has sold more songs than you've had hot dinners. — Keith Richards

It is time that beats in the breast and it is time
That batters against the mind, silent and proud,
The mind that knows it is destroyed by time. — Wallace Stevens

All things are possible if you are willing to put yourself on the line. You cannot stand back and hope for the best. You have to act. — Elizabeth Edwards

Your life can be horrible or it can be incredibly beautiful. It can be boring or exciting. It's seldom in between. Your active use of will determines what will happen to you in this and other lives. — Frederick Lenz

Writers are the ones who figure out how to put their observations into words. — Meghan Daum

Everyone has a talent. It's simply a question of good discipline, of the good fortune to have an education that meshes with that talent, and a lot of luck. — Twyla Tharp

I am awful. I am heartless. I am scared that these things are actually true. — John Green

The patience is in the living. Time opens out to you. — Claudia Rankine