As long as there is one upright man, as long as there is one compassionate woman, the contagion may spread and the scene is not desolate. Hope is the thing that is left us in a bad time.
— E. B. White
Delightful Contagion quotations
Tranquillity is contagious, peace is contagious.
One only thinks of the contagiousness of illness, but there is the contagion of serenity and joy.
The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed.
The contagion of crime is like that of the plague.
Criminals collected together corrupt each other. They are worse than ever when, at the termination of their punishment, they return to society.
What, then, shall a Catholic Christian do .
.. if some novel contagion attempt to infect no longer a small part of the Church alone but the whole Church alike? He shall then see to it that he cleave unto antiquity, which is now utterly incapable of being seduced by any craft or novelty.
It feels like a rash. It suddenly seems like I've got a contagion of diseases, I mean awards. But it's nice, it's a nice feeling. It's so weird, because I'm only 46. A lifetime Achievement award... it feels like 'I'm not over yet'. I hope they're not trying to say it's time to stop. I'm only just getting the gist of it.
To demonstrate experimentally that a microscopic organism actually is the cause of a disease and the agent of contagion, I know no other way, in the present state of Science, than to subject the microbe (the new and happy term introduced by M. Sédillot) to the method of cultivation out of the body.
Fear and euphoria are dominant forces, and fear is many multiples the size of euphoria. Bubbles go up very slowly as euphoria builds. Then fear hits, and it comes down very sharply. When I started to look at that, I was sort of intellectually shocked. Contagion is the critical phenomenon which causes the thing to fall apart.
He has outsoared the shadow of our night;
envy and calumny and hate and pain, and that unrest which men miscall delight, can touch him not and torture not again; from the contagion of the world's slow stain, he is secure.
I have often noticed how primate groups in their entirety enter a similar mood.
All of a sudden, all of them are playful, hopping around. Or all of them are grumpy. Or all of them are sleepy and settle down. In such cases, the mood contagion serves the function of synchronizing activities.
Only one form of contagion travels faster than a virus. And that's fear.
The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies.
The sociological evidence of the contagion of happiness and sadness suggests something quite remarkable: of all your relationships, of all the people capable of making you happiest or irritating you the most, those who have the greatest effect on your mood and even your state of health are those closest to hand.
He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.
Tis now the very witching time of night, when churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world.
Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
But when Lust By unchaste looks, loose gestures, and foul talk, But most by lewd and lavish arts of sin, Lets in defilement to the inward parts, The soul grows clotted by contagion, Imbodies and imbrutes, till she quite lose The divine property of her first being.
As contagion of sickness makes sickness, contagion of trust can make trust.
Unresolved emotional pain is the great contagion of our time — of all time.
Now I know what loneliness is, I think.
Momentary loneliness, anyway. It comes from a vague core of the self - - like a disease of the blood, dispersed throughout the body so that one cannot locate the matrix, the spot of contagion.
Pure truth cannot be assimilated by the crowd; it must be communicated by contagion.
The deadliest contagion is majority opinion.
If kind parents love their children and delight in their happiness, then he who is perfect goodness in sending abroad mortal contagions doth assuredly direct their use.
Sure there's contagion in the tears of friends.
The original form is the contagion of fear and alarm.
You're in a flock of birds. One bird suddenly takes off. You have no time to wait and see what's going on. You take off, too. Otherwise, you're lunch.
Contagion has become very much a phenomenon, and it's a phenomenon of globalization.
War is a contagion.
Even papists could not see that a moral evil was detained in the soul through its physical connection with the body; and that it required the dissolution of this physical connection before the moral contagion could be removed.
There's something known as "memory conformity," also known as "social contagion of memory," which refers to a situation where one person's telling of a memory influences another person's account of that same experience.
The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged... and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion.
The eloquent voice of our century uttered, shortly before leaving the world, a warning cry against the "Anglo- Saxon contagion.
Of all the problems which were open to me for study, typhus was the most urgent and the most unexplored. We knew nothing of the way in which contagion spread
Prayer, in one phase of its operation, is a disinfectant and a preventive.
It purifies the air; it destroys the contagion of evil.
If only people would realize that moral principles are like measles.
... They have to be caught. And only the people who've got them can pass on the contagion.
It is difficult to spread the contagion of excitement without having a sense of purpose and direction.