Quotes About Containment

It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas.

Containment doesn't work. Containment does buy time. It could slow. It very well could slow the spread. But while you're slowing the spread, you better be doing something in parallel to be prepared for when that virus breaks out.

If we can contain and monitor animal viruses at an earlier stage - when they're first entering human populations, preferably before they've had a chance to become human-adapted, certainly before they've had a chance to spread - we can head off pandemics altogether.

Where health care has failed is in designing a cost containment mechanism that works.

Terminado el entierro, por fin podría llorar. Pero no pude. Mi lágrimas, contenidas durante demasiado tiempo, se habían secado. Tendrían que quedarse dentro para siempre.

Is cyberspace a thing within the world or is it the other way around? Which contains the other, and how can you tell for sure?

I think a lot of the shame-based religious and political methodology has more to do with keeping people contained than with setting them free. And I'm no fan of it.

Missy shoved the thoughts and feelings down into their prison of the glass jar. Only once the lid was sealed tight did she release her breath.

Could you just gather your shock and confusion into a little handkerchief-size and save it for later.

But when Christopher mentioned that he and Talbott had been trying to package post-Cold War policy in a single phrase, Kennan said they shouldn't. Containment had been a misleading oversimplification; strategy could not be made to fit a bumper sticker. The president laughed when Talbott told him what had happened: that's why Kennan's a great diplomat and scholar but not a politician.

Influenza could not have been contained as SARS was—influenza is far more contagious.

It's just like any relationship, the more contained the environment, the more the good stuff appears and the more the bad stuff will reveal itself.

In place of an exhausting autonomy, there is the blunt admittance of dependence, and its subsequent relief. I will always aspire to contain my shit as best I can, but I am no longer interested in hiding my dependencies in an effort to appear superior to those who are more visibly undone or aching.

Colonization is the key to our race's survival. It's as simple as that. We must colonize or be closed off and contained by other races.

We think that boxes take everything that's bad and they lock all that nasty stuff out, when in reality they take everything that we are and they lock all of those great things in.

Life offers us this great gift of self-organization, how we can be held in the basin of shared meaning and, within that, exercise individual freedom. It is such a shame to waste it on fear and doubt. Or to seek to contain and control it.

Hay sociedades donde los más ricos necesitan que los más pobres sean menos pobres, donde los precisan para crear o consumir las riquezas que los enriquecen. Nuestras economías, basadas en la extracción y exportación de materias primas, pueden funcionar más allá de esos millones de personas que no son necesarias ni para producir ni para consumir. Solo se necesita contenerlas:

If water could talk, there'd be some trace of all these years. It would tell of all it had taught him. How the lightest, most transparent things are heavy. How much effort it takes to contain what cannot be held; water runs through your fingers, so you find yourself empty-handed and still thirsty. But as water has no memory, no trace of his rage and loneliness will remain. He has lost those years forever.

The only way to truly stop a pandemic, it has been suggested, is to stamp it out at its source.2380 Once it starts, as noted the editorial board of the journal of the Canadian Medical Association, "School closure, quarantine, travel restrictions and so on are unlikely to be more effective than a garden hose in a forest fire.

History has proven that Truman deserves credit for containing Soviet expansion on several fronts, including Korea, despite his missteps during the crisis.

I can change myself, but it's an effort. And it doesn't last. It's easier to do as water does: allow myself to be contained, and take on the shape of my containers.

My world has always been so small, hidden behind walls.

I was looking for a place to put my blood," I said. "Most people keep that inside, she said. "It's easier.

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.