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Quotes About Spread

What's the use of being given a load of manure if you don't spread it around?
~ Nevada Barr
But a lie is halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.
~ Nicholas A. Christakis
When a disease is very deadly, it kills its victims so rapidly that the pathogen does not have much time to spread. This is why the super-deadly Ebola epidemics that kindle in Africa every few years tend to burn out.
~ Nicholas A. Christakis
Alla har upplevt känslomässig överföring... . Men en ofta förbisedd aspekt av all denna överföring av känslor är att de inte bara sprider sig till våra vänner utan också till våra vänners vänner och ännu längre - även om vi inte ens är närvarande.
~ Nicholas A. Christakis
A dead host cannot easily spread the germ to others, so causing milder illness is "better" for the pathogen from a Darwinian point of view. People who are very sick stay home in bed or die, and those who are only mildly sick continue with their lives, preferentially spreading milder strains of the pathogen.
~ Nicholas A. Christakis
Ensamhet sprider sig också mellan grannar, så att tio extra dagar med ensamhetskänslor leder till två extra dagar för personen på andra sidan staketet. Grannar och vänner som bor mer än en och en halv kilometer bort överför däremot inte ensamhetskänslor till varandra.
~ Nicholas A. Christakis
The CDC defined a close contact of a person with coronavirus as someone who was "within 6 feet of an infected person for at least 15 minutes starting from 48 hours before illness onset until the time the patient is isolated." This is a somewhat arbitrary criterion, given that the virus can spread much farther than six feet.57
~ Nicholas A. Christakis
False news spreads farther, faster, deeper, and more broadly than the truth because humans, not robots, are more likely to spread it."31
~ Unknown
Without the spread of oriental cults and without the Germanic invasions, Hellenistic civilization would have initiated, with Rome as its starting-point, the Americanization of the world.
~ Nicolás Gómez Dávila
More Phase Transitions This principle applies just as much to the spread of infectious diseases or magnetic polarity as to forest fires. It is essentially the same process unfolding.
~ Unknown
Korku vebadan da tehlikelidir ve göz aç?p kapayana kadar yay?l?r.
~ Nikolai Gogol
Fear is more contagious than the plague and is instantly communicated.
~ Nikolai Gogol
True religion is like the smallpox. If you get it, you give it to others and it spreads.
~ Unknown
Once an idea is out and about, it can't be called back, silenced or erased. You can't contain it, any more than you could put the head of a dandelion back together after the wind has scattered its seeds.
~ Unknown
Life is exponential. Two becomes four, becomes ten thousand, becomes a plague.
~ Paolo Bacigalupi
In the book Social Intelligence, Daniel Goleman suggests that "a mood can spread through a group with great rapidity." How we show up is contagious; the mood "infects" others and spreads throughout the group. If the energy is negative, negativity will spread. If the energy is positive, creativity and optimism will spread.
~ Unknown
only a fool claims there is no such thing as love. When you see two young ones staring at each other with dewy eyes, there it is. So thick you can spread it on your bread and eat it.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
It had the look of an ambitious architectural breed of lichen that was trying to cover as many acres as it could.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
And now fear spread over the countryside. People no longer knew against whom to direct their impotent rage.
~ Patrick Süskind
Gdziekolwiek spojrze?, szerzy si? zaraza. Ludzie czytaj? ksi??ki, nawet kobiety.
~ Patrick Süskind
If any country was a mine-shaft canary for the reintroduction of cholera, it was Haiti - and we knew it. And in retrospect, more should have been done to prepare for cholera... which can spread like wildfire in Haiti... This was a big rebuke to all of us working in public health and health care in Haiti.
~ Paul Farmer
Rumours began with the whispered gossip of native servants and spread quickly to the rest of the population.
~ Paul Scott
Rumour has a hundred mouths.
~ Paul Verlaine
the cancer was in my lymph nodes and my doctor was afraid it had already spread.
~ Unknown