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Quotes About Contagious

We are told, that the subjection of Americans may tend to the diminution of our own liberties; an event, which none but very perspicacious politicians are able to foresee. If slavery be thus fatally contagious, how is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?
~ Samuel Johnson
She just looked at me, and I wondered what on earth it was about her that made me be so honest. Like she was sick with truth, and really contagious.
~ Sarah Dessen
multibacillary and paucibacillary
~ John Connolly
The influence of a beautiful, helpful, hopeful character is contagious and may revolutionize a whole town.
~ Eleanor H. Porter
Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.
~ David Seabury
The laugh came then, a marvelous honking hoorah so infectious that Dill felt it should be quarantined.
~ Ross Thomas
Do I make you nervous, Madame Lambert?" "No. I just prefer to keep my distance." "Evil isn't contagious." "I thought you said you weren't the most evil man in the world?" "I'm not. But that doesn't mean I'm a good man." "I don't think anyone would argue with that.
~ Anne Stuart
For treason he knew to be the most contagious of afflictions and innocence no guarantee of immunity.
~ Sharon Kay Penman
I can't touch him. (Jared) Well, don't you suck. (Stryker) Oh, believe me, I couldn't agree more. Just be grateful it's not contagious. (Jared)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
The tought that some people might be so ignorant as to think someone can be "turned" gay had just never crossed my mind. Who thinks this crap? Like homosexuality is a contagious disease. And if it was contagious, wouldn't a group of us have left packages of infected plaid shirts and jock straps lying around to turn the guys we wanted?
~ John Goode
She didn't know if Evie had always been emotionally promiscuous or if it was the grief talking. It was like she was infected by sadness, and as a carrier she made everyone around her sad. Which seemed reckless and a little selfish to Paige. When you're contagious you quarantine yourself. Evie should stay inside until the grief ran its course. Stay away from other people, children, anyone whose psychological immune system might be compromised.
~ Elissa Schappell
You think whatever is wrong with you is contagious, then?' She laughed again. 'Yes, but you have it already. You caught it from your mother. Death.
~ Gene Wolfe
You think whatever is wrong with you is contagious, then?' ... 'Yes, but you hae it already. You caught it from your mother. Death.
~ Gene Wolfe
Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of Orpheus; it moves stones, and charms brutes. It is the genius of sincerity, and truth accomplishes no victories without it.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Our energy is contagious, take care that you are radiating the high frequency, you want to come back to you.
~ Sanita Belgrave
There is no cholera, no yellow-fever, no small-pox more contagious than debt.
~ Anthony Trollope
If I were to share Jaques' existence I would find it hard to hold my own against him, for already I found his nihilism contagious.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
I thought how when a person is really excited about something, it can be contagious.
~ Elizabeth Strout
Oh dear! how unamiable I am when I am with my uncle and aunt," thought Rachel, "thoroughly detestable I may say, and yet when I am with those girls, or little Charlie, I can be as good as gold, and so tame that that baby can lead me; I do believe evil qualities are more catching than measles.
~ Emily Eden
That a sublime genius like the divine Plato could have been absolutely convinced of the reality of the divine idea shows us how contagious, how omnipotent, is the tradition of the religious mania even on the greatest minds.
~ bakunin mikhail v
Cultivate positive, active people with enthusiastic natures who regard life as a gift whether one is partnered or single. Remember, attitudes are contagious.
~ Barbara Feldon
Uncertainty is more contagious than the plague. Cesare
~ Sarah Dunant
Ego must be so all-pervading that the personality of the organizer is contagious, that it converts the people from despair to defiance, creating a mass ego. CONFLICT
~ Saul D. Alinsky
After all, poison is only contagious at dinner parties.
~ Scott Lynch