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Quotes About Containment

Ice contains no future, just the past, sealed away. As if they're alive, everything in the world is sealed up inside, clear and distinct. Ice can preserve all kinds of things that way - cleanly, clearly. That's the essence of ice, the role it plays.
~ Haruki Murakami
There are certain thoughts that, no matter what, you have to keep inside.
~ Haruki Murakami
I'm safe inside this container called me.
~ Haruki Murakami
I'm safe inside this container called me. With a little click, the outlines of this being—me—fit right inside and are locked neatly away. Just the way I like it. I'm where I belong.
~ Haruki Murakami
Early notice makes possible all kinds of more efficient containment and mitigation. We could prevent some epidemics and more effectively prepare to withstand others. But even if such a global surveillance system can be built, it will work only if it translates into people actually using the information to do something about it.
~ Sonia Shah
Frozen or weak structures have problems feeling inner motility or support; their loss of bone integrity leads to feelings of inner fragmentation. Parents who do not hold their children or give enough early containment may force them to rigidify their muscles in order to gain a sense of support. If, as adults, these people try to relax their muscular contractions they will experience anxiety because they lack feelings of inner support from their bones and joints.
~ Stanley Keleman
Within silence all things are contained. What appears to our eyes to be life is but a thin curtain, a gauze penumbra, which stultifies our vision, which prevents us from seeing the truth.
~ Frederick Lenz
They can only live here in Jurassic Park. They are not free at all. They are essentially our prisoners.
~ Michael Crichton
The greatest trick the CDC ever pulled was convincing the world containment wasn't possible," she said. "Our dignity was lost in not even trying to contain it.
~ Michael Lewis
scale. The American institutions built to manage risk and respond to a virus had been engaged in a weird simulation of crisis response that did not involve actually trying to stop the virus. "The greatest trick the CDC ever pulled was convincing the world containment wasn't possible
~ Michael Lewis
The first SARS outbreak had ended because those infected had been isolated quickly and prevented from infecting others. Those capable of infecting others were easy to identify because they were so obviously ill. There were few, if any, asymptomatic spreaders.
~ Michael Lewis
That's what you do in TB control," Charity said. "The nurses take them to a hotel room and the sheriff watches them. If you think you have a shot at containing it, that's what you do. You have to do it by health officer authority. People say you can't do it, but we do it every day for TB.
~ Michael Lewis
earlier the restrictions imposed in any given outbreak, the fewer the deaths.
~ Michael Lewis
The American institutions built to manage risk and respond to a virus had been engaged in a weird simulation of crisis response that did not involve actually trying to stop the virus. "The greatest trick the CDC ever pulled was convincing the world containment wasn't possible," she said.
~ Michael Lewis
But a man dancing close to her? I imagine a response of claustrophobia in her. She thrilled to open space and weather nights, as if she could never be contained or fully revealed there.
~ Michael Ondaatje
All it takes is a single person coming into or going out of the jail or prison with COVID-19, and the entire jail will likely be infected. Most jails have people living in very close quarters.
~ Chesa Boudin
I always go back to how people behave. If you watch how people actually behave in a situation, it's very simple and honest and contained. You don't need to use as much expression, as much feeling. Some characters will boil over, and that's another thing, but a lot of times I think you can just do very, very little.
~ Robert De Niro
After spending the 1980s building up Saddam's Iraq as a counterweight to Iran, U.S. policy abruptly reversed course with his invasion of Kuwait and has since tried to cut him down to size. The policy is called 'containment,' but the question is, containment of what?
~ Michael Ignatieff
stasis field
~ Bob Mayer
The box is only temporary.
~ Sylvia Plath
I shall move north. I shall move into a long blackness. I see myself as a shadow, neither man nor woman, Neither woman, happy to be like a man, nor a man Blunt and flat enough to feel no lack. I feel a lack. I hold my fingers up, ten white pickets. See, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life.
~ Sylvia Plath
Out of sight, out of mind. My philosophy of life in a test tube.
~ Julie Anne Peters
Ocurre que el tiempo se me huye entre los dedos, no porque lo este perdiendo sino todo lo contrario, porque le pongo tantas cosas adentro que al final se me rompe como la red de Naylon cuando la sobrecargo de naranjas, y me quedo con un monton de piolincitos en la mano y docenas de planetas corriendo por el suelo.
~ Julio Cortazar
Vacuum is all potent because all containing.
~ Kakuz? Okakura