Sars Quotes:

We saw in 2003 the beginnings of an outbreak of an illness called SARS. SARS ended up killing 800 people which is a significant number of deaths, but nowhere near as high as it could have been.

- Michael C. Burgess

topic: Numbers, People, Saws, Outbreaks, Sars

This syndrome, SARS, is now a worldwide health threat... The world needs to work together to find its cause, cure the sick and stop its spread.

- Gro Harlem Brundtland

topic: Sick, Together, Causes, Syndromes, Sars

I got back from Toronto, where they had a severe outbreak of SARS - you know, Severe Asian Racism Syndrome.

- Margaret Cho

source: "Margaret Cho: CHO Revolution". Video, June 12, 2004.

topic: Racism, Toronto, Asian, Sars

Since 2001, people have been scared. There's been some really scary stuff that's been happening - 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, Katrina, anthrax letters, D.C. sniper, global warming, global financial meltdown, bird flu, swine flu, SARS. I think people really feel like the system's breaking down.

- Max Brooks

topic: Thinking, Iraq, People, Really Scary, Swine

The Big Bang, the formation of sars and planets, the origin and evolution of life on this planet, the advent of human consciousness and the resultant evolution of cultures - this is the story, the one story, that has the potential to unite us, because it happens to be true.

- Ursula Goodenough

topic: Culture, Stories, Bangs, Evolution Of Life, Sars

One of the things that I realized when I left office was that in the 1990's citizens across the world applied more power than they had ever had, as compared with the government, because of more people living under democracies than dictatorships for the first time, the power of the internet, which the young Chinese used to basically change China's policy on the SARS epidemic, and shut it down, and because of the rise in non-governmental organizations like my foundation.

- William J. Clinton

topic: Epidemics, Government, Organization, Sars

We know there are certain types of viruses that are nasty - influenza, for instance, is an area that is not a blindside. But a lot of viruses have come out of nowhere, like H.I.V., or to a certain extent SARS. Because we know we have the potential to be blindsided, we really have to investigate the unknowns.

- Nathan Wolfe

topic: Viruses, Nasty, Type, Sars, Influenza

The true clerc is Vauvenargues, Lamarck, Fresnel, ... Spinoza, Schiller, Baudelaire, César Franck, who were never diverted from single-hearted adoration of the beautiful and the divine by the necessity of earning their daily bread. But such clercs are inevitably rare. ... The rule is that the living creature condemned to struggle for life turns to practical passions, and thence to the sanctifying of those passions.

- Julien Benda

source: "Treason of the Intellectuals". Book by Julien Benda, p. 159, 1927.

topic: Beautiful, Struggle, Passion, Baudelaire, Living Creatures

New diseases like SARS and bird flu cause anxiety in the community. People get worried, some to the extent that it even affects their health. You feel very sad, and yet you must carry on and maintain your cool in very trying and difficult moments. You have to tough it out.

- Margaret Chan

topic: People, Community, Bird, Difficult Moments, Bird Flu

SARS is just made up by the Government of the United States!

- Bif Naked

topic: Government, United States, Made, Sars

I'm really an alarmist when it comes to epidemics. Swine flu now; when SARS was big, I was all freaked out about that, bird flu. That terrifies me.

- Chuck Klosterman

source: "Chuck Klosterman's greatest fears". Interview with Josh Modell, www.avclub.com. October 27, 2009.

topic: Epidemics, Bird, Flu, Swine, Swine Flu

I'm the perfect candidate to be affected by SARS. I'm highly susceptible to infections.

- Ron Santo

topic: Perfect, Infection, Candidates, Sars

Chashkin Sar was virgin, and we climbed it for the first time, and afterwards, the people renamed it as Samina Baig.

- Samina Baig

topic: People, Firsts, First Time, Sars

A lot of issues need to be swept under the carpet---and poof, along comes SARS. Whether or not its appearance was coordinated, up front, to coincide with these scandals and tragedies in Iraq, one thing is for sure. SARS has been used as a smokescreen to keep the global public diverted and in fear.

- Jon Rappoport

topic: Iraq, Issues, Tragedy, Sars

Kaka beat Fletcher to the ball, and headed it past Heinze as the Argentine sought to close him down. Heinze could still have dealt with the problem, but, inexplicably, Patrice Evra came flying in like a runaway TGV. Heinze was flattened, Fletcher was so shocked that he stopped to rubber-neck, and Kaka strolled on and rolled the ball past Van der Sar. Evra's nightmare of a half continued when he crazily got himself cautioned for dissent, so removing Ferguson's one remaining first-choice defender from the away leg. Madness.

- Henry Winter

topic: Soccer, Football, Past, Sars, Runaway

No age or condition is without its heroes . The least incapable general in a nation is its Cæsar, the least imbecile statesman its Solon , the least confused thinker its Socrates , the least commonplace poet its Shakespeare .

- George Bernard Shaw

source: George Bernard Shaw (1968). “Four Plays by Bernard Shaw”, Pocket Books

topic: Confused, Hero, Age, Sars

No legislative, administrative or judicial activity in the Hong Kong SAR is allowed to contradict the Basic Law, let alone to go against the Basic Law.

- Wu Bangguo

topic: Law, Hong Kong, Contradiction, Sars

Behold me waiting—waiting for the knife.... The thick, sweet mystery of chloroform, The drunken dark, the little death-in-life.... [F]ace to face with chance, I shrink a little: My hopes are strong, my will is something weak. ...I am ready But, gentlemen my porters, life is brittle: You carry Cæsar and his fortunes—steady!

- William Ernest Henley

source: William Ernest Henley, “Before”

topic: Sweet, Strong, Dark, Chloroform, Sars

Thy steady temper, Portius, Can look on guilt, rebellion, fraud, and Cæsar, In the calm lights of mild philosophy.

- Joseph Addison

source: Joseph Addison, Inchbald (1816). “Cato: a tragedy in five acts”, p.13

topic: Philosophy, Light, Guilt, Sars

No department or locality may, or will be allowed to, interfere in the affairs which should be administered by [the SAR] on its own,

- Jiang Zemin

source: "Hong Kong's new leaders offer reassuring words". www.cnn.com. July 1, 1997.

topic: May, Affair, Should, Locality, Sars

Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart. One self-approving hour whole years outweighs Of stupid starers and of loud huzzas; And more true joy Marcellus exil'd feels Than Cæsar with a senate at his heels. In parts superior what advantage lies? Tell (for you can) what is it to be wise? 'T is but to know how little can be known; To see all others' faults, and feel our own.

- Alexander Pope

source: Alexander Pope (1815). “Poetical works”, p.247

topic: Wise, Lying, Stupid, Whole Year, Approving

I swam across the rocks and compared myself favorably with the sars. To swim fishlike, horizontally, was the logical method in a medium eight hundred times denser than air. To halt and hang attached to nothing, no lines or air pipe to the surface, was a dream. At night I had often had visions of flying by extending my arms as wings. Now I flew without wings. (Since that first aqualung flight, I have never had a dream of flying.)

- Jacques Yves Cousteau

topic: Dream, Night, Air, Sars

Gore is nature's way of saying, "There are too many human beings on the planet, and I'm trying to rectify this any way I can. SARS didn't work, but trust me, I'm cooking up something better. In the interim, please kill lots of yourselves.

- Douglas Coupland

source: "JPod". Book by Douglas Coupland, 2006.

topic: Cooking, Trying, Way, Interim, Rectify

I was in Toronto when they had a severe outbreak of SARS - you know, Severe Asian Racism Syndrome. I was in the airport and there were these big snowboarder guys and they had white masks around their necks, and as soon as they saw me, they put their masks on. So I went "cough, cough, cough... You wanna egg rorr?

- Margaret Cho

topic: Airports, Eggs, White, Outbreaks, Sars