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Quotes About Containment

The anniversary of the tragic attacks on September 11, 2001, and September 11, 2012, is a day to remember those who died and suffered. It is also an opportunity to open a new dialogue on the tactics and strategies that have been successful - and unsuccessful - in confronting, containing, and defeating the threat from radical Islam.
~ Pete Hoekstra
As with all great players, there is no real stopping them. It's trying to contain them.
~ Danny Green
In addition to not stopping the spread of Ebola, isolating countries will make it harder to respond to Ebola, creating an even greater humanitarian and health care emergency. Importantly, isolating countries won't keep Ebola contained and away from American shores.
~ Tom Frieden
Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
~ M. Stanton Evans
Theoretically, I knew, Sholokov's design for the hawking mat allowed it to fly vertically, the incipient containment field keeping the passenger—theoretically, his beloved niece—from tumbling off backward.
~ Dan Simmons
The cistern contains: the fountain overflows.
~ William Blake
One could only trudge away from the place to which one had hurried in such hope at the start. One could only begin again, a year older, and resolve to carry oneself in such a way that the pressure wave of the tragedy was contained within one's own body, and could not spread one inch further.
~ Chris Cleave
I lie on my side I wonder how much pain and horror can be contained In one human mind I turn on the light All I can think about is going somewhere
~ Henry Rollins
Looping" was a slang term for Closed Loop Temporal Field Containment. They popped the criminal in an eight-minute repetitive time loop for five, ten, twenty years. Usually it was a Laundromat, doctor's waiting room or bus stop, and your presence often caused time to slow down for others near the loop. Your body aged but never needed sustenance. It was cruel and unnatural—yet cheap and required no bars, guards or food.
~ Jasper Fforde
This policy of containment is not a winning strategy. We need a policy to defeat and destroy ISIS once and for all.
~ Michael McCaul
Setting aside a risk reserve with a 50 percent or better confidence level is called risk containment. When risks are paid for out of this reserve, they are said to be contained.
~ Tom DeMarco
Containment of your opinion is a must if you are going to nurture an artist's development
~ Tori Amos
True peace cannot be obtained through force, it can only be contained. Peace requires understanding, defeat can create bitter hearts and minds wanting to seek revenge.
~ Unknown
I swallow the howl clawing up my throat.
~ Holly Black
Stupidity cannot be controlled, only contained.
~ Jo-Wilfried Tsonga
Depression has been likened to both a black cloud and a black dog. For someone like Kelsea, the black cloud is the right metaphor. She is surrounded by it, immersed within it, and there is no obvious way out. What she needs to do is try to contain it, get it into the form of the black dog. It will still follow her around wherever she goes; it will always be there. But at least it will be separate, and will follow her lead.
~ David Levithan
While the builders worked on the cottage, Hugh lived in what used to be the stable but was later converted into a guesthouse, the kind you'd have if you wanted to either discourage guests or contain them in one spot while slowly depressing them to death.
~ David Sedaris
She suppressed a grin.
~ Unknown
I had discovered that the plainest house can crown a fantasy or daydream. An open window can be tolerated. So can an open door. But I discovered the value of four walls and a roof. Something about containment that at the same time offers escape.
~ Lloyd Jones
A woman isn't all that different from a bonfire. A fire's a beautiful thing, right? Something you can't take your eyes off, when it's burning. If you can keep it contained, it'll throw light and heat for you. It's only when it gets out of control that you have to go on the offensive.
~ Jodi Picoult
'Early stages' is when the cancer is completely contained within the prostate. If it is detected when the cancer is entirely in the gland, the chance for full recovery is at its highest.
~ Len Dawson
Licht holt uit. Een mens zit ook zo vol gaten. Een mens zou geslotener moeten zijn. Op den duur kan men niets meer binnenhouden.
~ Unknown
But unless carefully managed and contained, self-criticism can become a form of inner-directed virtue signaling. It projects toughness and ambition, but often leads to rumination and hopelessness instead of productive action.[
~ Daniel H. Pink
As is often the case when things are complicated, extreme views have superficial appeal. On the one extreme, some see China as an inevitable enemy that must be contained; on the other hand, there are those who see China as a slowly developing democracy that can be embraced.
~ Dennis C. Blair