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Quotes About Containment

las medidas de contención en la raíz, llevan consigo el concepto de "esto y, aun así, esto otro"».
~ Jeffrey K. Liker
Do you mind my madness? Even if you're right that I can contain the rages, I will always be mad. I won't get better." "I know." Beth snuggled against his chest. "It's part of the very intriguing package that is Ian Mackenzie.
~ Jennifer Ashley
I have: the sea could be as readily contained in that horse-trough as her whole affection be monopolised by him.
~ Emily Bronte
The human mind needs boundaries. Without them it would fall in on itself, like a crushed honeycomb.
~ Emma Donoghue
It stayed like that: a rosy ring of jailed blood that came to the barred window and never left.
~ Amber Tamblyn
The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars.
~ Andre Gide
The dark outside world of Paris under German occupation exerted a strong containing pressure.
~ Gerard Debreu
As we grow up and we're developing, our ego needs to be contained, otherwise we'd all be selfish two- and three-year-olds, screaming every time we didn't get our way.
~ J. J. Redick
One might say that science itself, and civilization and art, are all about different orderings of the world - to contain it, and to make it in some sense intelligible, communicable. And bearable.
~ Oliver Sacks
A vacuum can only exist, I imagine, by the things which enclose it.
~ Zelda Fitzgerald
The only way to contain catastrophe is to cordon it off with dates, but the numbers mean nothing. If I think instead of how much dust would have settled on Rich's bureau, then I can feel it. There is nothing like dust.
~ Abigail Thomas
Well now, look at this, they keep winter in a box. That's clever," she congratulated me. Then she shut the fridge door...
~ Andrew M. Greeley
It fell to President Harry Truman to contain Soviet expansionism. He built America's first peacetime alliances, starting in Western Europe, then in Asia.
~ Antony Blinken
My movies were the kind they show in prisons and airplanes, because nobody can leave.
~ Burt Reynolds
It is a huge asset to law and order that serious or persistent criminals should be taken out of the society on which they prey. It makes life safer for the law-abiding and on the whole prisons are pretty good at containing those who have been committed to them.
~ Ann Widdecombe
Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.
~ Arthur Erickson
My capacity for happiness ... you could fit into a matchbox without taking out the matches first.
~ Douglas Adams
See, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life.
~ Sylvia Plath
You build a wall to keep something unwanted out … or to hold something precious in.
~ Jodi Picoult
How do we take the bad out of fracking? How do you contain the water? How do we make a profit out of that? Get there early.
~ Mario Gabelli
Business people do two things with their time fundamentally. The first is that they try to create sales, right? Revenue, key to business. But the other thing they devote their time to equally is cost containment. That is to say, how to not create jobs. Because the fewer jobs you can create for the revenue you create, the more profit you make.
~ Nick Hanauer
Outbreaks are inevitable but pandemics are optional," says Larry Brilliant
~ Fareed Zakaria
There is a paradoxical feature of pandemics: even though they have come to be named for specific locations, they are decidedly not contained by borders.
~ Fareed Zakaria
Where can one think of fleeing, if the cell is everything? And
~ Fernando Pessoa