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Quotes About Containment

I'm not particularly good at page layouts. I make an effort to stay out of the way of the artist. What I'll try to express instead is, 'What we're going for here on this page is the idea of the containment of these women's bodies. So I want them framed as though they're bursting out of the panel borders.'
~ Kelly Sue DeConnick
The spaces that humans allow to contain them have their own history - albeit a history that has never been told, and whose heroes are eo ipso not humans themselves, but rather the topoi and spheres as whose function humans flourish, and from which they fall if their unfolding fails.
~ Peter Sloterdijk
I'm in this state of one-way desire. I feel this desire swarming in my belly and running up my spine. But I have to constantly contain and compress it so that it doesn't betray me in front of others. Because I've already understood that desire is visible.
~ Philippe Besson
I have a very busy head. I have inside voices that I have learned to contain.
~ Tom Hardy
My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.
~ Mason Cooley
There is a limit on how much information you can keep bottled up.
~ Dick Gregory
The Italian word 'stanza' means 'a room', and a room is a good way to conceive of a stanza. A room, generally speaking, is sufficient for its own purposes, but it does not constitute a house. A stanza has the same sense of containment, without being complete or independent.
~ James Fenton
I do not believe that grief is ever so great that it can not be contained within.
~ Judith McNaught
We could've stopped the spread of the disease a lot better than we've been able to cure the disease.
~ James Dashner
Benim mutluluk kapasitemi bir kibrit kutusuna s??d?rabilirsin. Hem de içindeki kibritleri bile ç?karmadan.
~ Douglas Adams
Benim mutluluk kapasitemi, diye ekledi, bir kibrit kutusuna s??d?rabilirsin, hem de içindeki kibritleri bile ç?karmadan.
~ Douglas Adams
There are four biosafety levels, BSL-1 to BSL-4.)
~ Douglas Preston
In all cases love was a strong emotion, not easily contained once it was unleashed. I realized now that love was like a blossoming flower that continually added more and more petals. But there was no end point. There was no full bloom. It went on forever. Growing, strengthening.
~ Rachel Hawthorne
Although the possibility of an even more virulent return of SARS remains uncertain as of the writing of this book, it appears that containment measures have been relatively successful and have prevented this tragic outbreak from becoming a true catastrophe. Part of the response involved ancient, low-tech tools such as quarantine and face masks.
~ Ray Kurzweil
I barely leave my cage, my house.
~ Kim Coates
There's a lot of guys in this league you're not going to stop. You can contain them, so the best bet, especially in the playoffs is try to contain most teams' All-Stars or their superstars and limit their role players.
~ Danny Green
A refuge is supposed to prevent what? The genes from flowing out of sight? This refuge idea won't stop insects from moving across boundaries. That's absurd.
~ Jeremy Rifkin
about sixty-six thousand women are killed by men annually, worldwide, in the specific circumstances they began to call "femicide." Most of them are killed by lovers, husbands, former partners, seeking the most extreme form of containment, the ultimate form of erasure, silencing, disappearance. Such deaths often come after years or decades of being silenced and erased in the home, in daily life, by threat and violence. Some women get erased a little at a time, some all at once.
~ Rebecca Solnit
confidence. He contained worlds.
~ Julie Anne Long
Painting is about the beauty of space and the power of containment.
~ Sam Francis
Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
...we hope to stop the transmission in six to nine months
~ Margaret Chan
If global warming is not contained, the West will face a choice of a refugee crisis of unimaginable proportions, or direct complicity in crimes against humanity.
~ George Monbiot
This shed does not contain me.
~ Bill Bailey