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Quotes About Containment

The rector wondered if the joy that people seemed so expert at containing somehow transferred to their dogs, who had nothing at all to hide.
~ Jan Karon
The ability to contain excitation or feeling is self-possession. It is the third stage in the therapeutic program. The first two are self-awareness and self-expression. Self-possession is the stage in which the ego functions as the standard-bearer of a self that knows who it is and what it has to do. The self possesses an ego. It is the stage in which the self experiences its being as a fully mature man or woman.
~ Alexander Lowen
We tried burying the waste at sea and the concrete cannisters that held it cracked open.
~ David R. Brower
I just think I've always been sensitive and had difficulty containing my feelings, and I've always searched for outlets for that, because otherwise those feelings come out in chaotic ways that aren't always great.
~ Andrew Garfield
AIDS was allowed to happen. It is a plague that need not have happened. It is a plague that could have been contained from the very beginning.
~ Larry Kramer
Truman is now seen as a near-great president because he put in place the containment doctrine boosted by the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan and NATO, which historians now see as having been at the center of American success in the cold war.
~ Robert Dallek
If you're in a confined aircraft; when one person sneezes, it goes all the way through the aircraft.
~ Joe Biden
I know you have this idea that a surgical mask and gown are all you need to handle an Ebola patient, but I think you need to use a higher level of containment," and he offered to pick up the sick man in an Army ambulance—put him in an Army biocontainment pod—and carry the pod to the Army's facilities at the Institute.
~ Richard Preston
It could be said that without sticky tape there would be no such thing as biocontainment
~ Richard Preston
The Americans encircle us. They have troops in Japan, South Korea, Guam, Singapore, and Australia. As well as that, the Philippines and Vietnam are friends of the US. The Americans did the same thing to the Soviet Union—they called it 'containment.' And in the end the Russian Revolution was strangled. We have to avoid the fate of the Soviets, but we won't do it at the UN. Sooner or later we will have to smash the ring.
~ Ken Follett
Feelings sometimes grow too big to be kept within walls.
~ David Patneaude
Then there was a new epidemic—of fear," said Dr. Sam Okware, Commissioner of Health Services, when I visited him in Kampala a month later. Among Dr. Okware's other duties, he served as chairman of the national Ebola virus task force. "That was the most difficult to contain," he said. "There was a new epidemic—of panic.
~ David Quammen
Migration is always a choice to live. The opposite of migration is not citizenship. It is containment, the condition of being unfree shared with all who are considered less than citizens. The migrant reminds the citizen of the rights that they should be guaranteed.
~ Jeff Chang
But the trick of the world was to contain all things.
~ Jeff Vandermeer
I wanted to keep it as small as possible, so that it would go away sooner. I needed to keep it to myself.
~ Elizabeth Berg
Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain. It was that day that I knew I wanted to tell the story of my family. Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.
~ Alice Sebold
I believe if Mr. Obama is reelected, and Israel somehow is unable to interdict the Iranian nation from gaining nuclear weapons themselves, this administration unfortunately, I'm afraid, will allow Iran to gain a nuclear weapon and then pursue what they believe would be the traditional policy of containment.
~ Trent Franks
One of the problems I have with the administration is that they're not tough enough. They are waiting for BP to say, 'Oh, we've got a new plan to stop the oil leak.' They need to stop it, contain it, clean it up.
~ Valerie Jarrett
No, I don't spend a lot of time in the studio, man. I truly don't. I'll be in there when I have to. I hate the containment, I can't stand the schedule crap.
~ Ivan Moody
People generally prefer problem-avoidance and problem-containment to problem-solving.
~ Richard Susskind
Mills paced to the door, but didn't leave, as if he had needed motion to contain himself. "I
~ Robert Crais
All my life, I have lived like an aquarium fish in the safety of a glass tank, behind a barrier as impenetrable as it has been transparent. I have been free to observe the glimmering world on the other side, to picture myself in it, if I like. But I have always been contained, hemmed in, by the hard, unyielding confines of the existence
~ Khaled Hosseini
During the Cold War era, the issue was the containment of Soviet influence, and we tolerated many an authoritarian regime as long as they were useful to us in this respect.
~ Zalmay Khalilzad
Glasses hold liquor, but they never get drunk. Their
~ Jeff Vandermeer