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Quotes About Containment

If you really want to isolate a disease, then you have to isolate the people who carry it.
~ Bruce Beutler
Progress was taking nature and putting a box around it.
~ Brandon Sanderson
I suppose I've always done my share of crying, especially when there's no other way to contain my feelings. I know that men ain't supposed to cry, but I think that's wrong. Crying's always been a way for me to get things out which are buried deep, deep down. When I sing, I often cry. Crying is feeling, and feeling is being human. Oh yes, I cry.
~ Ray Charles
We know how to stop Ebola: by isolating and treating patients, tracing and monitoring their contacts, and breaking the chains of transmission.
~ Tom Frieden
In other words, the Germans were continuing to place a large bet on Bolshevism, while at the same time containing it and extracting advantage.
~ Stephen Kotkin
What stood in one corner of the cell was disgusting: two empty disinfectant canisters and one well used and well stained piss pot, the sort of chamber pot that people would train their babies to be potty trained on before they would learn to use the toilet.
~ Stephen Richards
Pack all of your desires away, lock them up, and throw out the key.
~ Brandon Mull
For evil left to itself, Valeman, does not simply perish; it thrives. Evil contained is not evil destroyed.
~ Terry Brooks
He was annoyed at his anger. He had failed to contain himself.
~ Gardner R. Dozois
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.
~ Bruce Greenwood
bio-safety rules were ten times as strict, or supposed to be. Maybe plutonium was bad, but it couldn't jump out of a tank and grow by itself.
~ Bruce Sterling
The reality is: By the time swine flu got on the radar screen of global public health, it had already spread. It was already in the States, it was in Mexico, it was in New Zealand. By the time it reaches that point, you've lost the ability to contain it.
~ Nathan Wolfe
There is no Escape
~ Steven James
Put simply, pandemics of infectious disease are not just events in which some infectious "bug" spreads throughout the world. Pandemics are events in which the population's psychological reactions to infection play an essential role in both the spreading and containment of the disease, and influence the extent to which widespread emotional distress and social disorder occur.
~ Steven Taylor
Since femininity in all respects is a matter of containment, a woman whose hair exceeds the esthetic limits of her culture probably will employ some depilatory procedure to bring her body into line.
~ Susan Brownmiller
I feel that so many problems in my life may have been prevented had I been more contained.
~ Miriam Toews
Enough small empty boxes thrown into a big empty box fill it full.
~ Carl Sandburg
we are safely contained within a small
~ Caroline Myss
The home of the deer is the countryside, the home of the birds is the sky, the home of all phenomena is the mind; the mind contains everything that is.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
the ultimate purpose of the treaties was not fairness and equity but control and containment that enabled white settlement to continue unrestricted and unabated, all legal and extralegal measures necessary to ensure this had to be taken. If bribes had to be offered, lies told, or conditions abrogated in order to meet changing circumstances or to overcome Indian obstinacy, so be it. If
~ Kent Nerburn
God has fallen out of containment in religion and into human hearts—God is incarnating. Our whole unconscious is in an uproar from the God Who wants to know and to be known.
~ C. G. Jung
The main element of any United States policy toward the Soviet Union must be that of a long-term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies.
~ George F. Kennan
The history of the twenty-first century, therefore, particularly the first half, will revolve around two opposing struggles. One will be secondary powers forming coalitions to try to contain and control the United States. The second will be the United States acting preemptively to prevent an effective coalition from forming.
~ George Friedman
In my experience, people's sorrows are always in danger of bursting out; it's only through careful inattention that they can be contained.
~ Suzanne Berne