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Quotes About Containment

tucked his hands under his thighs as if they had to be contained, as if they would lash out otherwise, or fly away.
~ Anne Lamott
The two constitutions—one for expansion, the other for containment—form the two sides of inverted totalitarianism.
~ Sheldon S. Wolin
Can you keep a secret?" "Me and Tupperware, baby. We seal tight. Ain't nothing going to get out.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
You have no idea. I had them contained here for a while. Unfortunately, they escaped." – Sin 'That figured, and it was just like he feared. Suck City Limits was looming in the headlights. He should have known better than to take a detour from Normality.' – Sundown
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
All the gold in the world would fit in a cube roughly twenty meters on each side.
~ John Lanchester
La tristeza no desaparece, pero la desesperación debe ser contenida, pues no honra al que ha partido.
~ Augusto Cury
Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence.
~ Saul Williams
The United States would be a more willing container of China, but in the mid-1990s it is unclear how far it will go to contest an assertion of Chinese control over the South China Sea.
~ Samuel P. Huntington
My time inside there was very short compared to the amount of time it took to take on and take off this suit and to test me for how much radioactivity I have.
~ William Scranton
I believe it is only prudent to make a very high estimate of human nature, first of all in order to contain the worst impulses of human nature, and then to liberate its best impulses.
~ Marilynne Robinson
Dudaba a veces de la trascendencia, de Dios, pero nunca de la función irremplazable del catolicismo como instrumento de contención social de las pasiones y apetitos desquiciadores de la bestia humana.
~ Mario Vargas Llosa
Life is like a cigarette and the world is a cigarette packet...!!!
~ M.Rehan Behleem
So the little girl collected feeling like a cistern collects the rain, and when she held too much, she pulled it out and sealed it in beautiful vessels.
~ Ellen Datlow
Today is not the 1930s. By acknowledging differences and considering instances where a populist reaction was contained as well as those where populist leaders and movements usurped power, I hope to avoid the worst pitfalls.
~ Barry Eichengreen
We blocked them inside the city. Their rear is blocked.
~ Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
Power can be safely exercised only in the service of that which is ostensibly good. Power is like gasoline. Spread aimlessly over the landscape, it can result in an inferno, causing untold harm. Correctly contained, it can cook supper or transport us to Boston.
~ Gerry Spence
I left 'Containment' for the first time understanding the exhaustion some people have after they've done a really demanding emotional and physical project. I wanted a break, to be honest with you, and I needed to recover.
~ Chris Wood
Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence.
~ Saul Williams
It worked remarkably well. Even though just 15 percent of the population had been vaccinated, within six weeks, the outbreak had been stymied, and no further cases occurred. Their success encouraged Foege's team to extend the strategy throughout eastern Nigeria, where they were able to contain every outbreak while vaccinating far fewer people than mass vaccination would have required.
~ Sean B Carroll
The job of the skin is to keep it all in. -The Gigantic Beard That Was Evil
~ Stephen Collins
Containment in the uroboros and its supremacy over the ego mean, on the bodily level, that ego and consciousness are at the outset continually at the mercy of the instincts, impulses, sensations, and reactions deriving from the world of the body.
~ Erich Neumann
Seawoll's people would provide containment in case things went pear-shaped, while Dr Walid stood by with a mobile trauma team to help any poor bastard who had the bad luck to have their face fall off.
~ Ben Aaronovitch
parapets…I felt the battlements close in, enfolding
~ Ben Macintyre
They would prove crucial in containing global contagion.
~ Ben S. Bernanke