Containment Quotes

“He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares!”
― Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights

“We set our own limits on love. Some of us bind our hearts like Chinese women bind their feet. The binding is painful at first but eventually you get used to it and the pain goes away. The saddest part of all is that by binding yourself to the choices you make, you forget that there was ever another way to live.”
― Kate McGahan

“Money is like fire. It is only good when there's just the right amount of it, when it's properly contained and under your control.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“If love and friendship makes you unhappy, try solitude.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Infinity Sign

“Let your passion and courage swell in you until you can no longer be contained by fear.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“One does not have to be without sin to castigate someone else for being a rapist or murderer" (386).”
― Kenneth Pollack, Unthinkable: Iran, the Bomb, and American Strategy

“And perhaps there is none, no morrow anymore, for one who has waited so long for it in vain. And perhaps he has come to that stage of his instant when to live is to wander the last of the living in the depths of an instant without bounds, where the light never changes and the wrecks all look alike. Bluer scarcely than white of egg the eyes stare into the space before them, namely the fullness of the great deep and unchanging calm. But at long intervals they close, with the gentle suddenness of flesh that tightens, often without anger, and closes on itself.”
― Samuel Beckett, Malone Dies

“Despite 4,000 years of proven usefulness, quarantines seem to be to modern international public health experts as garlic is to a vampire.”
― T.K. Naliaka

“I have been driven to desperation more times than I can count. But it is here that I have been driven to the greatest inspiration that I can contain.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Your attitudes contain your future.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“Arik believed that one of the most fundamental laws of human psychology was that force caused resistance. Make people feel trapped, and they will never stop attempting to escape. But obscure the trap well enough, and it was possible to stop the idea of escape from even forming in your prisoners' minds.”
― Christian Cantrell, Containment

“Most events people referred to as tragedies happened suddenly and spectacularly: earthquakes shaking entire cities to the ground, spacecrafts breaking up in the heat of reentry, nuclear reactors melting down during routine tests. These were the things we worried about, guarded against, spent countless hours training for. But Arik was realizing now that disaster could be dissembled into small unidentifiable components and smuggled past even our best defences. It could be allowed to accumulate right in front of us without tripping an alarm or registering on a sensor. Misfortune knew how to use our egos and our pride against us to lure us into vulnerable and defenceless positions. The more obstacles you placed in death's path, the more it was compelled to slip in through the cracks.”
― Christian Cantrell, Containment

“Also astonishing,” replied Anatole, “is the realization that civilizational threats are now multiplying quickly. And they’re becoming more powerful and dangerous. So far, our containment strategies have only been temporary fixes to what appear to be permanent, wicked problems. I ask you all to look closely at the graphic. Stare at it. Can you see it? Can you see that those thirty circles are actually one thing?”
― J.J. Wisdom, G.A.I.A.: A World on the Brink in the Age of A.I.