Quotation Explorer - 'Box'

Happiness is individualized. Don't box it in. Let it fly. - A.D. Posey
God uses broken things. It takes broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give strength. It is the broken alabaster box that gives forth perfume. It is Peter, weeping bitterly, who returns to greater power than ever. - Vance Havner
When I was a kid we had a sandbox. It was a quicksand box. I was an only child...eventually. - Steven Wright
After the game, the king and pawn go into the same box. - Italian Proverb
A person is worth to be called the functional head who does not mind giving credit to the right brain for an organisational growth; otherwise there are innumerable top-hierarchical people roaming all around by keeping an empty or junk box above on their shoulders. - Anuj Somany
If you’re struggling to think outside the box remember the box is self-imposed. Who says it has to be a box? Why not a bowl of petunias? - Ryan Lilly
Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift. - Mary Oliver
I'm writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles. - Shannon Hale
I always fill the chat box, almost every day, and end up deleting my heart. - Esteban Urayoán
Frankly, Pedro Almodóvar's recent box office hit, Volver, is the first movie I've seen in which a young woman's retaliation against sexual violence doesn't ultimately boomerang around to destroy her - Sarah Stillman
Education is not filling up a box but seeing what you can create with one and don't you ever forget that! - Jill Telford
I was Pandora, bound and determined to open that box. - Margaret Peterson Haddix
Life is like a box of chocolates... you never know what you're gonna get. - Tom Hanks
The tipping custom originated in England when small sums were dropped into a box marked T.I.P.S. --TO INSURE PROMPT SERVICE.
Thinking outside of the box is unnecessary when there are no boxes in your imagination. - Matshona Dhliwayo
I past another telkhine, who was so startled he dropped his Lil' Demons lunch box. I left him alive - partly because he had a cool lunch box... - Rick Riordan
I sat in a boxWith walls on each side.Not too tall.Not too wide.To think.To ponder.To pray.To hide.I sat in a box and cried. - Richelle E. Goodrich
If I had a box full of all the evils of the world, I'd open it just a little way and push you inside. Then I'd close it again for always. - Mike Carey
When I finally find that one willing agent, I'll have found my prize in the Cracker Jack box. - Richelle E. Goodrich
God will bring you a gift. However, it is up to you to stop shaking the same box and expecting something wonderful will fall out of it again. After a while, you are going to break that box and it won't remind you of that moment when it meant everything to you. - Shannon L. Alder
When you try to forget, you will never be able to do it. It will only create a stronger memory. You can’t erase an event or memory from your memory box or hippocampus. The memory will only get stronger. - Debasish Mridha
In life, think outside the box, chase your dreams, then follow your own path undeterred by those naysayers. - Aaron Lauritsen
Don't just think out of the box, stand on the box to see new possibilities and opportunities in becoming distinguished. - Onyi Anyado
On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away. - Tom Lehrer
I don't know why they call them Cheerios, I ate an entire box and didn't feel any happier!! - Neil Leckman
I am afraid of the future; it seems to be a big box waiting for me. - Audrey Niffenegger
Nudge threw her arms around my neck. 'I love you Max! I love all of us too!'Yeah, me too,' Said the Gasman. 'I don't care if we have our house, or a cliff ledge, or a cardboard box. Home is wherever we all are, together. - James Patterson
As a writer, my job is to change your perspective, and make you think outside the box. - Mary Sage Nguyen
Our ability to discover new experiences exists outside of who we are in the Box. - Heidi Reagan
In life be your own person, think outside the box, chase your dreams, then follow your own path undeterred by the naysayers who follow the herd. - Aaron Lauritsen
Upstairs, in the cupboard, he had a box of things he had saved as a boy and a young man. He hadn't looked into it in twenty years or more. Nothing fancy or valuable, but things that had meant something to him at one time. He found it, and found the key, and carried it downstairs without opening it. - Jane Smiley
Your heart plays a song like a broken music box, but nothing ever sounded quite so beautiful to me. Together, in the dance of wounded-wing swans we’ll rise above the ruins, melting into the golden light. - John Mark Green
Your whole life and the story of your journey is the landscape picture on the front of the box of a 1,000 piece puzzle. The pieces are each a small sticky note that ends in mid-sentence. You simply need to figure out where each one starts and ends. - Ashly Lorenzana
The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box (their home), then travel the same road every day to another box (their office). - Faith Popcorn
A box of crayons and a big sheet of paper provides a more expressive medium for kids than computerized paint programs. - Clifford Stoll
I tried to think outside the box but couldn't open the lid. - Alan Dapre
All writers should be put in a box and thrown in the sea. - Gordon B. Hinckley
Think different does not mean to think out of the box. It means to question what the significance of a box is? - priyavrat gupta
I will Construct thyself in a box & challenge thyself to jump out of it...... - Wilson M Rubaihayo
Create your own out of the box thinking, create your own box. - Stephen Richards
Despite the restrictions, we are safe within (the Box). But and here is the problem once we identify something more, that awareness irrevocably changes our perceptions of the Box. - Heidi Reagan
...as we mature, we begin to realize that life in the Box remains the same, with few deviations from this norm. - Heidi Reagan
I look at this life as a puzzle without all the pieces in the box. - Jonathan Anthony Burkett
If you don't fit into a box you can always try to fit into a circle. - Matshona Dhliwayo
If you keep your emotions locked in a box, then when you want to open it one day you'll find that they're gone. - M.D. Arnold
a book is a box of words until you open it. - Ursula K. Le Guin
It's funny how love can fit inside a brown cardboard box. With relationships, people often think that things pile up. But when it ends, they're surprised how few these things turn out to be. Or at least, how few things they are willing to let go of. - Juan Miguel Sevilla
Don't let others box you into their idea of what they think you should be. A confined identity is a miserable way to exist. Be you and live free. Trust that in living true to yourself, you will attract people that support and love you, just as you are. - Jaeda DeWalt
To procure solutions that will marvel you and the world, just think outside the box. - Auliq-Ice
You can flip a coin but Schrodinger's pet cat will still be in that box. - Scott Edward Shjefte
I have a picture of the Pont Neuf on a wall in my apartment, but i know that Paris is really on the closet shelf, in the box next to the sleeping bag, with the rest of my diaries. - Thomas Mallon
Thinking outside of the box keeps you from suffocating inside of one. - Matshona Dhliwayo
I am sick of the dern box! I have not only stepped out of the hateful piece of cardboard, I have burned it and scattered the ashes over my past. - Tanya R. Simon
Being different will always threaten the institution of understanding of a closed mind. However, evolution is built on difference, changing and the concept of thinking outside the box. Live to be your own unique brand, without apology. - Shannon L. Alder
You control your own destiny. Never let anyone put you in a box and say 'This is your space'; You have the whole world to choose from. If you have something to say, say it. Live your life as you want to live it, not how others perceive your life to be lived. Take control. Today. - Michelle Geaney
all his prayers of the past had been simple concrete requests: God, give me a bicycle, a knife with seven blades, a box of oil paints. Only how, how, could you say something so indefinite, so meaningless as this: God, let me be loved. - Truman Capote
You can't force creatives into a box. If you try, they'll no longer be creative. And no one will want your box. - Ryan Lilly
Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box. - Italian proverb
Once the game is over, the king and the pawn go back into the same box. - Italian Proverb
With your lunch box, do not forget to carry courtesy, respect, and gratitude from home! - Rupali Desai
I am bigger than the box I'm in. - Rachel Cohn
Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up. - Allen Klein
MIND is not a dustbin to keep anger, hatred and jealousy. But it is the treasure box to keep, love happiness and sweet memories. - Swami Vivekananda
I have always pictured accupuncture like falling into a box of sewing needles, and then standing up refreshed and free of pain. - Neil Leckman
By handling each sentimental item and deciding what to discard, you process your past. If you just stow these things away in a drawer or cardboard box, before you realise it, your past will become a weight that holds you back and keeps you from living in the here and now. Pg.116-117 - Marie Kondō
It really should be a criminal offense for an electrician to mount a breaker box on a bedroom wall. Unfortunately, I see the solar industry mounting inverters on bedroom walls also! - Steven Magee
Everyone is born with an instinct of success, and ability to make it, but only the ones who think out of the box succeed. - Unarine Ramaru
In a time when I need a little hope I look at a photo of where I call home and think of the moment I'll have when I go back with my trials and struggles carried in a box able to be let free and turn into achievements and happiness. - Cassandra Shea
Travel empties out everything you’ve into the box called your life, all the things you accumulate to tell you who you are - Claire Fontaine
He must not laugh at his own wheeze. A snuff box has no right to sneeze.
My momma always said life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get. - Winston Groom
My arms are too short to box with God. - Johnny Cash
Life without faith, is like an empty beautiful chocolate box! - Zybejta "Beta" Metani' Marashi
Democracy is a suggestion box for slaves. - Stefan Molyneux
Life is like a box of chocolates: You get through what little actual good stuff there is right away, then you constantly fool yourself into believing there's still something good in whatever's left. - James Rozoff
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it. - Terry Pratchett
From the moment I held the box of colors in my hands, I knew this was my life. I threw myself into it like a beast that plunges towards the thing it loves. - Henri Matisse
I refuse to put God into a little box I can handle, for that would insult us both. - L.M. Fields
Transferring my anger and pain onto paper turns it into something tangible, something that can be shredded or burned, or at the very least, sealed shut in a box. ~Call Me Tuesday - Leigh Byrne
Every thought we process in our minds represents two things to the subconscious; A question that will open a Pandora's box is being asked & A request is being made. - Auliq-Ice
Learning is not filling up a box but seeing and imagining what we can create with it. - Jill Telford
I wonder if she’s infatuated enough to let me lock her in a box with me on a cool fall day and make love like America depends on us. - Darnell Lamont Walker
I don't care if we have our house, or a cliff ledge, or a cardboard box. Home is wherever we all are, together, - James Patterson
Like the sundial, my paint box counts no hours but sunny ones. - Arthur Rackham
Virtue has its own reward, but no box office. - Mae West
BLACKGUARD, n. A man whose qualities, prepared for display like a box of berries in a market -- the fine ones on top -- have been opened on the wrong side. An inverted gentleman. - Ambrose Bierce
Every person is a living treasure box. Listening holds the key. - Mollie Marti
Don’t box your children in and tell them that everything is a sin. You’ll produce either rebels, or very boring people. - C. JoyBell C.
Imagination doesn't always mean looking outside of the box, but taking a closed box and seeing a different world from within it. - Lionel Suggs
Chris says that Creativity, is the most crucial for the leader to think out of the box and provide the best way of getting things done. - Chris Salamone
f you don't think outside of the box, you may just get stuck inside of a cubicle. - Eric Vance Walton
No one would have guessed that the jagged pieces of our soul fit the puzzle in this box. We were considered the left over remnants that had no place, except the picture we wanted to create together. - Shannon L. Alder
Teaching kids is like a 5 year old box of chocolates: You never know what you're gonna get, but you can bet your ass it ain't gonna be good. - Zany Madcap
Positioning in pursuit of your purpose is critical to your success in life. Remember, great strikers are found in the proximity of the penalty box. That is strategic positioning. - Oscar Bimpong
I've decided to trust him, but like somebody once said, you can't force yourself to trust. So you put all your doubts in a little box and bury it deep and then try to forget where you buried it. My problem is that buried box is like a scab I can't stop picking at. - Rick Yancey
Memories are like a box full of chocolates, you can't have them all at once. - Sarvani Rajdeep
The irony of sensory deprivation tanks is that in order to think outside the box, you must first go inside one. - Ryan Lilly
The collaboration between secretaries of state, election officials and the voting system manufacturers on the matter of enforcing this black box proprietary code secrecy with election systems, is nothing less than the commoditization and monetization of American Democracy - James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology
Kids are real artists. They’d rather paint the outside of the box than being stuck inside. - Shawn Lukas
Artists think along the edges of the box, because that's where things get done. That's where the audience is, that's where the means of production are available, and that's where you can make an impact. - Seth Godin
I have a theory about pink pastry boxes. So much joy comes from those boxes. When someone walks into a room with a pink pastry box, joy immediately fills the room. World peace? Three words. Pink pastry box. I get a big cup of coffee and finalize my plans for world domination. - Liza Palmer
I root through your remains,looking for the black box. Nothing leftbut glossy chunks, a pimp’s platinumtooth clanking inside the urn. I play youover and over, my beloved conspiracy,my personal Zapruder film - Erin Belieu
It's a choice, it’s a bold move - disassembling the Box - and one that requires assertion, but the rewards are remarkable!! - Heidi Reagan
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