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Quotes About Containment

Three other vectors for infection. That's what this was, wasn't it? It's not contained at all.
~ Chuck Wendig
could barely contain his
~ Vince Flynn
Body can't contain the inside hurricane. (Corps ne peut contenir L'ouragan intérieur)
~ Charles de Leusse
We want to assure the public that this threat is contained." Only an elected official would dare to declare a thing safe and finished when he or she didn't even know yet what it was.
~ Guillermo del Toro
A woman waits for me, she contains all, nothing lacking.
~ Walt Whitman
We have every interest in seeing that the military use of nuclear power will be contained.
~ Joschka Fischer
More than 30 of America's 100 nuclear power reactors have the same brand of General Electric reactors or containment system used in Fukushima.
~ Bill Dedman
I'm not saying anyone should go to nuclear war with Russia. What we should do is contain them and show them that there are consequences if they do terrible things, which is what sanctions are all about.
~ Bill Browder
Bean also saw how the man's body moved inside his clothes, with a kind of contained strength that made his clothes seem like Kleenex, he could rip through the fabric just by tugging at it a little, because nothing could hold him in except his own self-control.
~ Orson Scott Card
Two glaserlike devices connected to each other like a bola that can be placed on opposite sides of an asteroid. Like earmuffs. They operate under the same principle, but their gravity fields counter each other, so the asteroid is still ripped to shreds by tidal forces, but the gravity field doesn't grow to unstable levels. It's far more contained. The rock is still ground to powder, but nobody dies.
~ Orson Scott Card
They're saying it's some sort of biological weapon," Colin said. "They're saying it escaped from a laboratory.
~ Connie Willis
You know what a blivet is? What. A blivet is ten pounds of shit in a five pound sack.
~ Cormac McCarthy
I've believed women to be pure, and men possessed by evil jinn —Shayateen. But I'm not a man, I bottled the ifrit, cemented a wall. Now the jinn can only strike internally, and the clearest way to exorcise them is to shatter this container.
~ Craig Thompson
Possente mi sovrasta la vita che non si esibisce, ma che contiene tutto il resto
~ Walt Whitman
Should you want to contain something, you must deliberately let it expand. Should you want to weaken something, you must deliberately let it grow strong. Should you want to eliminate something, you must deliberately allow it to flourish. Should you want to take something away, you must deliberately grant it access.
~ Wayne W. Dyer
For all my life, I had stored my love in a a place down inside me that had no outlet. I contained it there. Kept it to myself. Afraid to let it out. Thought if I did, it'd seep out and I'd be left with none. I didn't have much to start with.
~ Charles Martin
If he stays inside himself, if he is contained within his nature as he is participant in the larger force, he will be able to listen, and his hearing through himself will give him secrets objects share.
~ Charles Olson
Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to get it back in
~ H.R. Haldeman
Only the infinite shape of a vase could contain the flower from your heart.
~ Heather Lydia Thornhill
The only good cage is an empty cage.
~ Lawrence Anthony
Although Truman and his advisers still hoped to ameliorate gathering tensions, they made only half-hearted efforts to accommodate the Soviets, or even to negotiate seriously with them. In the third phase, clear by February 1947, the administration hit on a more consistent, clearly articulated policy: containment. The essential stance of the United States for the next forty years, the quest for containment entailed high expectations. It was the most important legacy of the Truman administration.
~ James T. Patterson
Our difficulty is no longer how to contain people densely in metropolitan areas and avoid the ravages of disease, bad sanitation and child labor. To go on thinking in these terms is anachronistic. Our difficulty today is rather how to contain people in metropolitan areas and avoid the ravages of apathetic and helpless neighborhoods.
~ Jane Jacobs
I can't squeeze to keep the breezers in.
~ Janet Evanovich
He blew himself up." "Get out! You mean like guts all over the place?" "Not all over the place," I said. "He was pretty well contained, all things considered.
~ Janet Evanovich