Container Quotes

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

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Student
  • Fill
  • Torch

• Forgiveness is a selective remembering. It is a conscious choice to focus on someone's innocence instead of his or her mistakes...This serves *you*...Your body was not created to bear the burden of your overattachment to it, but was created as a container for the light of your spirit. It will more easily remember how to function perfectly when you remember the perfection in everyone.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Remember
  • Light
  • Focus

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

  

  Idries Shah
  • Knowledge
  • Difference
  • Content

• The right tends to posit that the market fuels social good. The left tends to posit that the government fuels social good. At bottom, democracy claims that citizens drive social good, but there is currently no container for a political force-field that stakes claim to the unbelievable resources now virtually untapped in every man, woman, and child in our society.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Good
  • Society
  • Political

• The world as we know it is falling apart at the seams, because it's an inadequate container for the truth of who we are.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • World
  • Truth
  • Container

• All these years there had been a Tupperware container of bad language in her head, and now she opened it and all those crisp, crunchy words were fresh and lovely, ready to be used.

  

  Liane Moriarty
  • She
  • Bad
  • Words

• 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
  • Eyes
  • Body
  • Wondered

• People eat more when you give them a bigger container. Period.

  

  Brian Wansink
  • People
  • Eat
  • Container

• Having the equivalent of 150,000 Hiroshima-sized bombs at the ready does nothing to protect us from terrorists planning to sneak in a bomb through a cargo container.

  

  Ben Cohen
  • Protect
  • Terrorists
  • Bombs

• But the condition of wife had enclosed her in a sort of glass container, like a sailboat sailing with sails unfurled in an inaccessible place, without the sea.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Condition
  • Sailing
  • Container