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
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
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
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
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