Quotes About Contagious

Everyone would like to believe that anyone possibly exposed to a serious contagious disease would comply with self-quarantine requirements. But history teaches a different lesson.

Their souls were contagious. ... Bloodsuckers, spiders and vampires: that was what Lenin called them.

The kulaks were contagious. Their souls were contagious. They carried the spores of counter-revolution.

Negative interactions (and the bad apples who provoke them) pack such a wallop in close relationships because they are so distracting, emotionally draining, and deflating. When a group does interdependent work, rotten apples drag down and infect everyone else. Unfortunately, grumpiness, nastiness, laziness, and stupidity are remarkably contagious.

she knew that showing nerves could infect others with them.

But I was naturally suspicious; it comes from working too closely with the police for too long. Cynicism is so contagious.

Going viral isn't random, magic, or luck. It's a science.

A smile is the only infectious affliction everyone is encouraged to spread.

So, if you feel a smile begin, don't leave it undetected, let's start an epidemic quick, and get the world infected!

Peter glanced up at the stars and a wicked smile lit his face. "Time to play," he whispered to the stars and winked. And the stars winked back, for Peter's smile is a most contagious thing.

For Peter's smile is a most contagious thing.

One smile heals the planet because it spreads like a virus from one to the next without care for the perfect environment.

A sense of rights can be contagious

Now vampirism is contagious; the person who is vampirised, being depleted of vitality, is a psychic vacuum, himself absorbing form anyone he comes across in order to refill his depleted resources of vitality.

Secrets and silences make life more real: the individual, self-absorbed and inwardly musing, taking himself very seriously, radiates a contagious aura: the tacit communication that the serious and the meaningful exist.

Clarified states of consciousness are contagious.

The biggest lesson I've learned is that hurt people hurt people, and kindness is just as contagious. So if you can focus your efforts on engineering kindness, it will prevail.

Anthrax is a deadly inhalational disease.

I always find Bach to be an expression of a love of life. There's an enthusiasm that's absolutely contagious.

It's contagious to do great. But once that one bad apple falls, everybody else will fall, and that's how it is.

When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high hope to convert people to country music. It is wonderful and contagious!

If I had my way, I'd make health catching instead of disease.

two elements: (1) the word-of-mouth contagion of ideas in the form of stories and (2) the efforts that people make to generate new contagious stories or to make stories more contagious.

It has been difficult for scholars to research popular narratives, focusing on the core elements that make them contagious, without being accused of taking sides in political, or sometimes religious, controversies.